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Field Genealogy
BBING THE
RECORD OF ALL THE FIELD FAMILY IN AMERICA, WHOSE
ANCESTORS WERE IN THIS COUNTRY
PRIOR TO 1700.
EMIGRANT ANCESTORS LOCATED IN MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE
ISLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, NEW
HAMPSHIRE, VIRGINIA.
ALL DESCENDANTS OF THE FIELDS OF ENGLAND, WHOSE
ANCESTOR, HURBUTUS De la FIELD, WAS
FROM ALSACE-LORRAINE.
VOLUME L
BY
FREDERICK CLIFTON PIERCE,
chicago, illinois,
Historian and Genealogist,
Member of the Society of American Authors, American Historical
Association, Illinois Historical Society, and author of
Batchelder, Fiske, Gibson, Pearce, Whitney,
Peirce, Foster, Pierce and Forbes
Genealogies.
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1901
HAMMOND PRESS
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, CHICAGO
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THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY
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Copyright, 1901
Bv FREDERICK CLIFTON PIERCE
All rights reserved
**San9 H)ieu IRten"
" Without God Nothing"
[FIELD MOTTO]
O wise and reverent legend traced
The old armorial signs among,
Fit motto for a noble race —
Sans Dieu Rien, Sans Dieti Rien!
No idle vaunt of brave deeds done,
No boast of wealth, or rank, or fame;
No haughty menace to a foe,
No arrogant imperial claim.
But simply true and simply grand.
And couched in language briefly strong,
They wrote the story of their faith —
Sans Dieu Rien, Sans Dieu Rien.
Whate'er their lordly heritage
Of house and land, of form and mien,
The lofty rank, the high estate,
A loving Father's gifts are seen.
And forward with calm trust they look
The unknown future years along;
Whate'er may come of good or ill,
Serene in this — Sans Dieu Rien!
O favored ones who trace your blood,
Adown this good ancestral line,
Claim the escutcheon's pictured scroll,
Of knightly deeds the honored sign;
But, best inheritance of all.
High, pure as Eden's matin song.
From sire to son hand down the faith,
Sans Dieu Rien, Sans Dieu Rien!
San Jose, Cal., July 30. 1899.
—Mary H. Field.
Table of Contents*
PAGE
Early History of Field Family 9
Origin of the Field Name 12
Arms of the Field Family 14
English Homes of the Field's 15
The Field's of Other Places in Wakefield 26
horsmondon branch 28
Fields of Heaton 30
The Yorkshire Branch 31
Prominent Members of the English Branch 33
College Graduates by the Name of Field 39
Revolutionary Soldiers from Various States 44
Pensioners in the Revolutionary War 65
The Field Family in England and America 66
The New Hampshire, Maine and Boston Branches 949
One Virginia Branch 1056
The Virginia and Kentucky Branches 1101
List of Illustrations*
PAGE.
Frederick C. Pierce Frontispiece
The Imperial City of Colmar, Alsace-Lor-
raine 10
Another View of Colmar 11
Halifax, England 14
Crown Street, Halifax, England 15
Halifax Church 16
Chantrv on the Bridge at Wakefield, Eng-
land 17
Old Church at Bradford, England 18
Grammar School at Bradford, England. . 19
Bridge at Wakefield, England 20
Infirmary at Huddersfield, England 22
The Assembly and Trinity Church, Hali-
fax, England 23
Wakefield Manor, England, and Neighbor-
hood, from Map of 1610 26
Wakefield Manor, England, and Neighbor-
hood in 1900 27
Old Field House, Sowerby, near Halifax. .78, 79
Van Vechten and Field Bible, A. D. 1603,
Field Record 186, 187
John George Mostyn Field 192
Philander Winchester 192
Hon. Edward H. Fitch 192
Winchester Fitch 192
Norman Williams 202
Edward H. Williams 20a
Norman Williams 204
Gen. Wesley Merritt 205
The Connecticut River at Hatfield, Mass. . 210
Main Street, Hatfield, Mass 211
Residence of Dr. Simeon Field, Enfield,
Conn 214
Hon. James Dixon 215
The Dixon Place, Enfield, Conn 215
"Enfield Place," Residence of William
Dixon Marsh 216
Old Enfield, Conn., Bridge, built in 1832. .. 217
William Dixon Mar.sh 218
Morven 255
Drawing-room at Morven 256
Stockton Coat of Arms 256
Commodore Robert Field Stockton 256
The Line of Historic Catalpas 257
Bayard Stockton 264
William J. Strong 264
Rev. William Henry Beard 264
The Old Field Place, Dorset, Vt 265
Horace Field Hobart 296
Hon. Lucius G. Fisher 297
Lucius G. Fisher 298
Lucius G. Fisher, Jr 299
Charles B. Merriman 300
Residence of the Family of C.B. Merriman 302
Rev. Augustus Field Beard, D. D 314
Hon. Paul Selby 315
Major Charles H. Hitchcock 325
Dr. Arthur E. Prince 325
Moses Field 325
Henry C. Hardnn 325
Dr. Lucius C. Herrick 326
Dr. S. S Herrick 326
John S. Bussing 326
S. R. Bingham 326
Gen. Martin Field 3;^8
Mrs. Esther G. Field a39
Military Commission of Lieut. John
Field. Tr " 348
Grave of Mrs. John B. Field 388
The Old Warren Mansion .389
Margaret Field .390
Abraham Van Nest, Esq 391
Ann Van Nest 392
John S. Bussing, Jr 392
PAOE.
Clock in Van Nest Residence 393
Rev. David Dudley Field, D. D 410
Mrs. David Dudley Field 410
Alfred Field 410
Spafford Field 410
Hon. Michael Field 411
Town Hall, Haddam, Conn 412
The Old Field Place, Haddam, Conn 412
Congregational Church, Haddam, Conn.. 413
Congregational Church, Higganum,Conn. 413
Justice David J- Brewer 418
Entrance to Field Park, Haddam, Conn.. 419
John Field 437
Mrs. Fidelia (Nash) Field 438
Edwin Par dridge 442
Charles W. Pardridge 443
Judge Charles Field 474
Charles Field, Jr 474
Mrs. Fidelia E. Ives 474
Mrs. Helen P. Bomeisler 474
L. E. Bomeisler 475
Hon. Frederick W. Field 475
Mrs. Pamelia E. Renwick and son 475
Phinehas Field 475
RufusP. Williams 482
Field Home, Belfast, Me 483
Hon. Charles Kellogg Field 506
Hon. Roswell Martin Field 509
William Dwight Field 516
JosephG. Field 516
Dr. George E. Fuller 516
Lieut. Charles H. Field 516
Princess Brancaccio 517
Capt. Putnam Field 517
William P. Field 517
Hon. Joseph Field 532
Hon. Alfred Ely 533
Samuel Augustus Field 560
Oliver Field Place, Somers, N. Y 561
Joseph E. Field 575
Mrs. Georgia L. Carter and child 575
Edwin Wilkins Field 575
John Hampden Field, Sr 575
Old Field House, Fieldville, Bound Brook,
N. J 576
Algernon Sydney Field 592
Blackdon Hill, Leamington, England 593
Lodge and Entrance Gates, Leamington,
England 593
David Dudley Field 608
Summer Residence of David Dudley Field 609
Field Coat of Arms. .Frontispiece to Vol. ii.
Hon. Jonathan E. Field 634
Justice Stephen J. Field 625
Cyrus W. Field 644
Rev. Henry M. Field 645
The Layers of the First Atlantic Cable 646
The Great Eastern under Weigh 647
Paying out Machinery of the Great East-
ern 652
Splicing the Atlantic Cable 652
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland 653
Searching for Fault with the Cable 654
Charlotte Field Coonev 661
Mrs. Charles E. Hill 661
Lorenzo Field 661
Deacon Levi F. Field 661
Frederick Field 662
Fred M. Field 662
George B. Field 662
Spafford C. Field 664
Mrs. Spafford C. Field 665
John S. Field 666
Mrs. Martha A. Field and Familv 667
Hon. Charles Field 672
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
CharlesA. Field 673
Residence of Hon. Charles Field 673
Hon. Benjamin C. Field 674
George M. Pullman 675
First Sleeping Car of Field & Pullman 675
Interior of Sleeping Car of Field & Pull-
man 676, 677
Norman S. Field 687
Hon. William S. Field 687
Dr. Andrew E. Field 687
Samuel G. Field 687
Leonard Hamilton Field 688
Joseph Nash Field 689
Marshall Field 690
Field Columbian Museum 694
Field Columbian Museum Rotunda 695
Field Columbian Museum, South Court,
looking North 696
Field Columbian Museum, North Court,
looking South 697
Field Columbian Museum, West Court,
looking East 698
Field Columbian Museum, Department
of Botany 700
Field Columbian Museum, Department of
Geology 701
Field Columbian Museum, Department of
Zoology 702
Field Columbian Museum, Group of
Wild Asses 703
Field Columbian Museum, Group of
Rocky Mountain Sheep 704
The Field Memorial Library, Conway,
Mass 705
Henry Field 706
Art Institute, Chicago 708
Main Entrance Art Institute, The Field
Lions 709
Main Entrance Hall, Art Institute 710
Henry Field Memorial Room and Art
Collection 711
Field Collection, Mounted Officer 712
Field Collection, Song of the Lark 713
Field Collection, Returning from Market 714
Field Collection, Bringing Home the New-
Born Calf 715
Field Collection, Lazy Spain 716
Field Collection, Landscape 717
Hon. William W. Field 717
Prof. Joseph W. Bashford 717
Ohio Wesleyan L'niversity 718
George W. Field 719
Residence of Prof. Joseph W. Bashford... 719
Richard E. Field 7.35
James E. Field 735
Dr. George Field 735
Burgess P. Field 735
Trinity Church, Rev. Justin Field, Rector 736
Judge Bohan P. Field 754
Rev. George Warren Field, D. D 755
Edward Mann Field, M. D 766
Home of Edward Mann Field, M. D 767
Cornelius R. Field 790
Charles H. B. Field 790
Hon. Lucius Field 790
Bradford M. Field 790
Henry K. Field 791
Eugene Field 792
Roswell M. Field 793
Heman H. Field 805
James C. Truman 806
Hon. Zibeon C. Field 806
Mrs. J. G. Green 806
Mrs. Adelia A. Field Johnston 806
Abner Field 8.36
Hon. Durant J. Boynton 837
Hon. Jeremiah H. Field 842
Dr. Robert Field 842
Hon. Timothy Field 842
Thaddeus C. Field : . 842
Campus Oberlin College 843
Judge Elisha C. Field 854
Edward Field 855
PAGE.
Residence of Edward Field 855
Major Cyril Field 864
John Hampden Field 864
Henry Field 864
Allen B. Field 864
Residence of Henry Field 865
Kirk Hart Field 882
Bray ton A. Field 882
Franklin Field 882
Alfred L. Field 882
Clinton N. Field 883
Marshall Field, Jr 888
Hugh Wentworth Field 894
Charles Reed Field 894
Junius S. (Field) Beal 894
AlvaradoW. Field 894
Dr. James B. Field 895
Cornelius J. Field 895
Frank Harvey Field 895
Cyrus W. Field 895
George Prentice Field 902
Hon. Fred A. Field 903
Hon. Walbridge A. Field 928
Rev. Thomas G. Field 928
Henry W. Field 928
Albert D. Field 928
Hon. Fred G. Field 929
George L. Field 934
Benjamin Prince Field 937
Richard I. Field 937
Elisha Field 937
George Russell Field 937
Hon. Edward Field 946
Charles H. Walden 956
Judge Frederick Lawton 957
Judge George Field Lawton 957
Ebenezer Field 957
Mrs. Kate M. F. Jose 957
The Capture of El Caney 974
The Capture of the Block House on San
Juan Hill 975
Old John Adams House, Quincy 1030
Horatio N. Field 1031
Rev. S. M. Field 1036
John Field 1036
John G. Field 10.36
W. G. Field 1036
Jeremiah S. Field 1037
Hon. N. P. Frye ia37
William Ameficus Field 10.37
H. A. Field 1037
Walter T. Field 1050
Henry M. Field 1051
Edward B. Field 1054
Dr. Henry W. Field 1054
Judge William Hume Field 1055
Mrs. Gilbert Knapp 1055
President Thomas Jefferson 1064
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson 1065
Monticello 1066
Stuart Medallion, of Jefferson 1067
Grave of Thomas Jefferson 1078
Old Blandford Church, Virginia 1079
Field Coat of Arms 11^0
Braddock's Defeat 1114
Edward H. Burnham 1115
H. P. Roberts 1115
Capt John Field 1115
Mrs. Patty Irvin Power 1115
Deed of Chicago Postoffice Site 1127
Judge Curtis Field 1130
Hon. Brutus J. Clay 1130
Hon. Cassius M. Clay, Jr 11.30
William Edward Field 1130
Auvergne, Home of the Clays 1131
Gen. Green B. Raum 1138
Gen. James G. Field 1139
Hon. John Dillard Field 1139
Dr. Hardin W. Bright 11.39
Judge Richard Field 1152
William Warren Field 1152
James G. Field 1152
William O. Field 1152
Author^s Preface
THIS work has been compiled at the instigation of John Spafford
Field, of this city, who for several years has been greatly inter-
ested in the genealogy of his family. While securing the data of his
particular line, much valuable historical information was obtained of
other lines. On this account it was decided to continue the investiga-
tions in England, which had been so carefully pursued by the late
Osgood Field, of Rome, Italy. With his assistance and that of others
whom he employed, very full and careful search was made in Great
Britain.
All the emigrant ancestors were connected, and instead of pub-
lishing the work in one volume, it has been found imperative to make
two of just twice the size originallj'' planned. The individuals in this
work can take pride in the fact that many prominent men belong to
the family, who have occupied high positions in the world, and have
achieved enviable reputations for integrity and ability from the time
of their illustrious ancestor, who computed the Copernican system in
the isle across the sea.
The work is the most complete of the score I have published,
and I take this opportunity to most cordially thank all those who have
so kindly lent their assistance and aid.
A number of abbreviations will be found in the book, of which
the following are explanations: ae. , aged; abt. , about; dau., daughter;
dec'd. , deceased; res., resided, resides, or residence; w. , wife; wid.,
widow or widower; yr., year; n. f. k. , nothing further known; s. p.,
sitie prole (without issue). There are a number of other abbreviations
of such common use that the meaning will be obvious. A name in
parentheses thus, Anna Field, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary
(Pierce) Field, indicates the maiden name of the mother. An inter-
rogation mark implies doubt or want of absolute certainty. The
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birthplace of the children are not always given, but they can be ascer-
tained by reference to the residence of the parents, which is given in
all cases,
I have been greatly aided and assisted in my work of compilation
by the Field manuscript in the library of the Historical Society at
Deerfield,Mass. ; by the pamphlet issued by Mrs. Harriet A. Brownell,
of Providence, relating to the Rhode Island branch; by the pamphlet
on Rev. Timothy Field and his descendants by Rev. Henry
Martyn Field, of Stockbridge, Mass., and last, and by no means
least, the work of the late Osgood Field, of Rome, Italy.
From the Curator's Report of the Deerfield Historical Society for
February, 1883, I quote: "We have received a volume which no
library in the land can match. It is from Rodney Burt Field, of
Guilford, Vt., and contains the results of many years' labor in col-
lecting a genealogy of the descendants of Zechariah Field, who came
to the Connecticut Valley in 1639. This volume is a thick quarto,
elegantl}'' bound, and contains the record of the birth of more than
three thousand members of the family, all in his peculiarly neat hand-
writing. It is presented on the condition that it is not to be taken on
any consideration from Memorial Hall. No one shall be allowed to
copy from it without permission of Hon. George Sheldon, the presi-
dent, or secretary of the association. Should this work be the means
of stimulating some one to collect and publish a more full history and
genealogy of the family, they are permitted to make such use of the
whole as may be necessary for them to use, under the foregoing reg-
ulations. ' '
It is under the last clause of the above that I was allowed to
make a copy of the work under conditions agreed upon.
The publication of the book has been delayed somewhat by its
magnitude. I trust the family will take as much pleasure in perusing
its pages as I have'enjoyed in compiling the same.
Very truly.
Chicago, March i, igoi
EARLY HISTORY OF THE FIELD FAMILY.
THE name of Field is an ancient and honorable one in England, and can be
traced far back of the Conquest. Probably not a dozen families in England
can prove so high an antiquity. The family name of Field is one of sev-
eral, such as Wood, Hill, etc., derived from locality. Persons with corres-
ponding patronymics may be found in every civilized country. The word originally
signified land on which the timber had been felled, as distinguished from woodland.
It is evident from the nature of its origin that there are many families of that name,
related to each other, from having two common ancestors. It was anciently written
De la Feld, or De la Felde, as was also the noun from which the name was
derived ; but about the middle of the fourteenth century the spelling of both was
changed to Field, or, in some cases, Feild. We find, for instance, in the early edi-
tions of the Bible the well known words printed thus, "consider the lilies of the
feld." The fact of the name being hereditary in the family to which this book
relates as early as the middle of the tenth century, and probably at a still more
remote period, indicates a so-called Norman origin.
Freeman says in his history of the Norman Conquest that there is no well ascer-
tained case of a strictly hereditary surname in England before the Conquest, and
that they were a novelty at that time in Normandy, where the custom was taking
root. After the Conquest there were instances of hereditary names in England,
among the Norman families especially, if not confined to them. With these few
exceptions, hereditary surnames did not come into use here till about the middle
of the fourteenth century.
Burke states in one edition of his "Landed Gentry," under the head of De la
Field, that this family was originally in Alsace, near the Vosges Mountains, where
it was seated at the Chateau de la Feld, near Colmar, from the darkest period of the
middle ages; that the Counts de la Feld were the once powerful proprietors of
the demesnes and castles near Colmar, of which the latter still bears their name.
These Lords had large possessions in Alsace and Lorraine, and are frequently men-
tioned in the wars of those countries. The Croix d'Or of La Feld, their ancient badge,
is still the coat armor of the Delafields. Hubertus de la Feld was the first of his race
that emigrated to England. He went over with the crowd of foreigners who
attended the Conqueror hither, his name appearing enrolled as the owner of lands
in the County of Lancaster in 1069, the 3rd of William I.
Burke also states that others of the name were proprietors of land in the same
county in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and were descendants of Sir Hurbert-
us. We have no authentic record of the companions of the Conqueror, and it is
generally admitted by competent genealogists that the "roll of Battle Abbey" is
imperfect, and has been tampered with. I It does not, therefore, help us in this
matter. Burke is not always reliable, and when the writer* wrote to him for his
authority for the statements in his book, he replied that he had forgotten where he
found them, or from whom he had received them. The writer has not often met
with the name in England prior to the middle of the thirteenth century. In the
great roll of the Pipe there is mention of a Hugo de la Felde under the head of the
tAnother account says the names of the Knights who came over with William to England are
engraved on a tablet in a church at Falaise in France, the birthplace of William.
•Osgood Field.
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10 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Counties of Bucks and Beds, in the ist of Richard I. (1189). A little later in the 3rd
of John (1201), the following entry occurs in the "Rotuli de Oblatis" :
"York \ '^^® King to all, etc. Know ye that Hugh de Stueton to whom at first we
( wrote for his daughter for Richard de la Felda, and afterwards for Robert
de Carduel, has offered us 100 marks of silver that his daughter may freely marry
whom she pleases, and also offers to give us more if we are not contented with this,
and, therefore, we command you if the same Robert would give us only so much as
we can have from others, we will that he may have that marriage and that you
cause him to have the aforesaid daughter of the same Hugh without delay."
This extract affords a curious picture of the manner in which the hands of high-
born ladies were disposed of by the sovereign at that time.
As stated previously, the ancestor of the Field family, the first of whom there
is any record, was Hubertus de la Feld, who went to England with William the
Conqueror in the year 1066 from near Colmar in Alsace, on the German border of
France. He was of the family of the Counts de la Feld, who trace back to the
darkest period of the middle ages, about the sixth century. In Alsace the De la
Felds entertained in the eleventh century Pope Leo IX. and his Court on the way
to consecrate the Cathedral of Strasburgh. The edifice received many benefactions
at their hands, and several of them are interred there in the chanteries they
founded.
Hubertus de la Feld received of William the Conqueror large grants of land
for military service. In the fourteenth century, in consequence o€ wars between
England and France, the English De la Fields dropped their French prefix De La and
ever after wrote their name Field. As previously stated. Sir Hubertus, the first in
England, settled in Lancaster, near the city of Chester, and from him descended
the family in this volume.
Colmar, or Kolmar, Germany, formerly in France, where the Field family is
said to have had its origin, is the capital of the imperial German district Ober-Elsass,
situated on the Lauch River, and not far from the 111 River, connected with Rhine-
Rhone Canal by a small auxiliary canal, one hundred and ninety-three metres above
sea level. It is an old town with narrow and winding streets. The ancient fortifi-
cations have been made into beautiful promenades. A new portion has grown up
around the railway station, where also are located the beautiful district hall or pre-
fecture (official residence), the water tower, the Field of Mars, and statues of Gen-
eral Rapp and Admiral Bruat, both natives of Colmar. Besides these are to be
mentioned: The Minster or Catholic parish-church of St. Martin (thirteenth or
fourteenth century), with its two steeples, one unfinished, its magnificent portals
and the famous picture Maria in Rosenhag by M. Schongauer, who was a resident
of Colmar; the Protestant church, the old Dominican monastery, built A. D. 1232-
1289, containing excellent collections, i. e., public library, artistic, archaeological,
ethnographic, and natural history museums. Also a statue of Schongauer and one
of the poet Pfeffel, the old Dominican church, the ancient market house, the impe-
rial and district court-houses, the synagogue, etc. The population in 1899, includ-
ing garrison of one regiment and three battalions, was over 30,399. The industries
are varied and considerable wool and cotton weaving and spinning, silk cloth,
twine, jute, thread, starch, sugar, breadstuffs, wagons and machinery, iron work,
dyeing, brewing, etc. Commerce is regulated and supported by a bourse and a
branch of the imperial bank. Colmar is the center point of numerous railway lines.
Educational institutions: one lyceum, two normal seminaries, a theological semi-
nary, a rabbinical school, an institute for midwives, and a society for preserving art
collections of the city. Colmar is the seat of the district government, the circuit
and supreme court of Alsace-Lorraine, a local court, the staff of the twenty-ninth
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cavalry brigade, and a district of forestry inspection. Municipal government
comprise three magistrates and twenty-four councilmen. The manufacturing town
Logelbach, with its great spinning and weaving mills belongs to the city of Colmar.
The judicial district of Colmar comprises fifteen local jurisdictions.
The origin of the city of Colmar is not known. Some say it derived its name
from Collis Martes, hill of the war-god Mars, and on that eminence where now
stands St. Peter's church was a temple sacred to that god. Other authorities state
it derived its name from Collis Marii.
ORIGIN OF THE FIELD NAME.
PROF. JOHN FISKE, the most eminent historian in the country to-day, in
writing to the author in relation to the origin of names, says : The origin of
surnames is not perfectly clear. The largest and most familiar groups of sur-
names are either (i) patronymics, such as Johnson, Jones, Wilson, etc. ; or (2)
names of villages and estates, such as Washington, Frothingham (a corruption of
Fotheringham), Greenough (green field), Holmes (meadow), Etherston (Adde's
Stone), Stanley (stony pasture), etc. ; or (3) names descriptive ot occupation or social
position, such as Mason, Carpenter, Franklin (country squire), Baker and its
feminine Baxter, Thatcher and Thaxter, Weaver and Webster, Draper, Smith,
Fletcher (arrow-maker). Chapman (merchant), Cooper, Butler, Cartwright, Sargent,
Waterman, Sawyer, Chandler, Bishop, Abbot, Clark, Constable, Spencer (steward),
Grosvenor (chief huntsman), Woodward (forest-keeper), Youmans (yeoman), etc.
The earliest use of family names in England was about the beginning of the
eleventh century. Long before that time, indeed, clan names were common, and
such were always patronymics, e. g., Fotherings, the descendants of Fother; Beor-
mings, the descendants of Beorm ; Icklings, the descendants of Ickel. At the time
ot the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain (fifth and sixth centuries) it was customary
for a clan to settle in a stockaded village by itself, and all English towns whose
names end in ham or ton, preceded by ing, were originally the abodes of single
clans; e. g., Birmingham, home ot the children of Beorm; Icklington, town ot the
children of Ickel. Besides these general clan names no others were in use except
individual names, such as Alfred or Edith.
The use of family names, beginning in the eleventh century, increased slowly.
It was not until the fifteenth century that such names became nearly universal, and
also stationary. At first they were shifting in usage. Thus, the same man might
be called Henry Wilson, because his father was named William, or Henry Froth-
ingham, because he lived at the village of Fotheringham, or Henry Draper, because
of his occupation. If the son ot this Henry were named Robert, and were any kind
of a worker in metals, from an armourer to a blacksmith, he might be known as
Robert Harrison or Robert Smith. Surnames had not ceased to fluctuate in this
way until the fifteenth century, and it was not until late in the sixteenth that more
importance began to be attached to the family surname than to the individual
baptismal name. It appears, therefore, that m tracing back the Field genealogy
into the ninth century, we are approaching the time at which difficulty must arise
from fluctuations of surname. In the thirteenth century we should be quite likely
to encounter such confusion and to find the helpfulness of surnames in tracing
genealogies vastly diminished.
Surnames derived from estates or localities seem to have been the first to be-
come stationary, and next after them the surnames derived from trade or oflBce,
since sons have so commonly followed their fathers in business.
We are at first struck with the tact that barbarians commonly use such names,
both for individuals and for clans. Such individual names as Grey Wolf or Yellow
Raccoon often owe their origin to some personal peculiarity or to some irrecover-
able incident. Among American Indians, and in general among barbarians all
over the world, the clans are apt to have such names as Wolf, Eagle, Salmon,
Turtle, etc. ; the totem, or symbol of the Wolf clan, the idol or image of its tutelar
deity, is likely to be a rude image of a wolf or wolf's head ; and in many cases the
clan is supposed to have had a wolf for its first ancestor.
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Shall we say, then, that animal surnames in modern English are survivals of
ancient heathen clan-names. To this view there seems to be a serious objection.
The conversion of our English forefathers from heathenism to Christianity was
completed in the seventh century, at least four hundred years before the earliest
use of surnames in England. The old clan system, moreover, had crumbled to
pieces long before the Norman Conquest. It is not likely, therefore, that habits of
naming characteristic of the old heathen clans could have persisted long enough to
give rise to a whole class of surnames so late as the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Between the ancient systems of totem devices and the heraldry of the Middle
Ages there were many analogies and doubtless some points of connection; though,
on the whole, the former must be regarded as the predecessor of the latter, not as
its ancestor. The mediaeval heraldry was growing up in England during the
eleventh and twelfth centuries, and it made an extensive use of conventionalized
heads of tamiliar animals, not merely lions, wolves, and bulls, but many kinds of
bird and fish, as well as such imaginary creatures as dragons, griffins, and cocka-
trices. For example, Lucy is the heraldic name for pike, and the shield ot the De
Lucy family bears on a field gules three lucies or. From this emblem the family
surname is likely to have arisen, just as Geoffrey Plantagenet was so called from
the sprig ot broom or genesta plant worn m his helmet. The familiar name ot
Pike, as well as that of the Puritan magistrate. Sir Thomas Lucy, who arrested
Shakespeare for poaching, has probably come from the heraldic use of pikes or lucies.
The explanation which serves for one of this class ot animal surnames might
perhaps serve for all ; but there is another point to be considered. Heraldic de-
vices were used not only upon banners and coat s-of -arms, but also upon sign-
boards, not merely of inns but of other places of business. In days when reading
and writing were not common accomplishments, such devices were in general use,
and they survived down to a recent time. For tavern signs they are not yet ex-
tinct. In old times, as often at the present day in Europe, the shop and the home-
stead were usually contained in the same building. Thus in the seventeenth cen-
tury the father of John Milton, who was a solicitor, notary public, and law-stationer,
had his office and his home in a certain house known as the Spread Eagle, in Bread
Street, Cheapside. Over the front door was the figure of an eagle with outstretched
wings. For four or five centuries before Milton's time, in going through any town,
you would have passed by a succession of such signs of hawks, cranes, dolphins,
salmon, lambs, and bulls, thus finding your way to the particular shop and home-
stead of which you were in quest The principle upon which the signs were chosen
is not always obvious. Sometimes a family name may have suggested the sign,
as if a man named Crow were to paint a black crow over his door; but in early
times the signs undoubtedly preceded and suggested the name. The family which
dwelt at the sign of the crow came to be called Crow, in the same way that a family
which dwelt at a country house called Greenough or Greenhalge (green field) came
to be called by the name of the house.
Field is derived from De la Field. Here are a few of the compound names
derived from Field. Arkenfeldt (German tor cornfield), Banfield, Barnfield, Bay-
field, Bidfield, Binfield. Blackfield, Bloomfield, Bradfield (i. e.. Broad Field),
Bromfield, Butterfield, By field, Cawfield. Drewfield, Deerfield, Fifield, Fairfield,
Gaffield, Garfield, Greenfield, Hubberfield, Handfield, Hartfield, Hatchfield, Hat-
field, Heathfield. Kenfield. Kitfield, Layfield, Linsfield, Littlefield, Mansfield,
Marshfield. Maxfield, Mirrifield, Merryfield, Moorfield, Redfield, Readfield, North-
field, Schinfield, Scholefield, Scolfield, Schofield, Spokesfield, Stanfield, Southfield,
Tuckfield, Wakefield, Whitfield (white field), Widdefield (wide fielri), Winefield,
Winfield, Westfield,
FIELD COAT OF ARMS.
THE arms borne by the Field family of which the author is writing are what is
termed in heraldry, "canting," or "armes parlantes," because of their allusion
to the name — the garbs or wheatsheaves on the shield being the chief production ot
the fields. Their simplicity is an evidence ot their antiquity, apart from the state-
ment in Symonds' diary that he saw them on monuments of knights of the name of
Field in Madeley church, which were of the thirteenth century. It was only during
the first half of it that coat armour came into use in England. The most
ancient roll ot arms there, of which any copy exists, is that of the reign of Henry
III., and is supposed by competent authorities to have been made in 1240 to 1245.
In this the arms of the Barons de Segrave are given as "sable, three garbs or."
A little later, in the same century, the Earls of Chester assumed as their arms,
"azure, three garbs or." Probably the Fields bad adopted their coat before these
two had been used, and others therefore were obliged by the laws of heraldry to
choose one differing in some respect from those described ; they had selected for
theirs the arms on the monuments in Madeley church, "sable, three garbs argent."
These arms, differenced by a chevron, were confirmed to John Field, of East
Ardsley, in the manor ot Wakefield, in 1558, and it has been stated that they were
used by Matthew Field, of Wakefield and London, at about the same time, and
are now on an old house at Crofton, at which place several members of this same
family resided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It was a serious matter at this time for any one to assume a coat to which he
was not entitled by right of descent, or of a grant from the College of Arms. The
Earl Marshal's Court imposed heavy fines, and sometimes personal confinement
on those who violated the laws of heraldry. The author would remark that the
arms assigned to the Fields of Weston in the Hertfordshire Visitation of 1664, are
identical with those confirmed to John Field of East Ardsley, and with the crest
granted to him in 1558, except that the chevron is "engrailed." The inference from
this great resemblance of the two coats is, that the Hertfordshire family claimed
relationship with that of Wakefield manor, and that, being of the same stock, they
wished to found a separate branch.
FROM YORK'S PEDIGREES,
Arms granted March 9, 1653.
Field, of Stanstedbury, County Hertford.
Field, of Oxford.
Field or Feld, Ardestow, County York, Sept. 4, 1558.
Field, Ulceby Grange, near Hull.
Field, Horton Shipley and Ardsley, County York, and Bayside and Flushing,
N. Y., confirmed to John Field, of East Ardsley, Sept. 4, 1558.
It is a singular fact that the City of Chester coat ot arms has three garbs ot
wheat like that of the Field family. Sir Hubertus de la Feld resided near that
city and it may be that this part of the Chester arms was copied from those he bore.
U
ENGLISH HOMES OF THE FIELD FAMILY.
IN I220 a Robert Feld was bailiff ot the city of Exeter. During the next hundred
years the name — somewhat varied in the spelling — occurs more and more fre-
quently, and is found in the counties of Lancaster, Hereford, York, Hertford, Kent,
Gloucester, Somerset, Oxford, and Surry ; but, for the reason already given, in all
probability the persons named in these different localities bore no close relationship
to each other, except when residing in the same neighborhood.
About the middle of the thirteenth century we first meet with persons of the
name, who may be considered on fair and reasonable grounds to have belonged to
the family to which this book relates. They are mentioned in the Coucher Book,
or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey, concerning Spotland. It appears from an entry in
this register that Adam, son of Henry del Feld, sold his house and land at Falenge
in Spotland, and that Robert del Feld, son of the former, executed a quit claim.
There is no date to these documents; but from surrounding circumstances they
may be assigned to the middle of the thirteenth century, or shortly after. Spotland
is a suburb of Rochdale, from which town a high road runs to Halifax, passing by
Sowerby.* This last named place is only some ten miles from Rochdale, and we
find that the Fields were seated there as early as 1306, and probably before that date.
We may fairly suppose that those of the name residing at these two places were
related, inasmuch as they were living at about the same date in the same neighbor-
hood. Not improbably Adam del Feld removed to Sowerby after selling his estate
at Falenge. This is more probable, inasmuch as we find one ot the family at Sow-
erby in 1333 with the uncommon name of Adam, and as he had a house and land
there in 1336, and was dead in 1350, he was probably born as early as 1300. This
Adam is described in the manor rolls as "son of Richard del Feld," while another
Adam is mentioned as at Sowerby in 1349, who is called in them "son of Thomas
del Feld."
Rochdale is in Lancashire, in which county Hubertus de la Feld held lands in
1069, and others of the name (his descendants) had similar possessions there in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Before leaving this remote period, the author would call attention to a branch
then seated in Herefordshire, who, judging from the similarity of the arms borne
respectively by them, were related to the Sowerby family.
Among the officers in the army of Charles I. was a certain Richard Symonds, a
man ot good family, and possessing antiquarian tastes. In the course of his wan-
derings with the army, he availed himself ot every opportunity of visiting sudh ob-
jects of interest in that way as might happen to be in the neighborhood where he
was stationed. He recorded his observations in a diary written in the years 1644
and 1645, which has been published by the Camden Society. Among other ancient
edifices, he visited Madeley Church, about five miles from Hereford, and he de-
scribed, as follows, some ancient monuments which he saw there :
"Madeley Church, com. Hereford. North window church. Kneeling figure ot
a knight in complete armor of the thirteenth century, with hands upraised in the
attitude of prayer ; his sword suspended from a highly enriched belt, and his sur-
coat embroidered with Sable, three garbs, argent (Feld or Field), under written
Walt'us et Joh'es Felde, sword between his legs;" also, "Outline of an effigy of a
♦Pronounced Sorby.
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knight, upon which is written 'broken, the same garbes. ' Some of this family of
De la field built a part of this faire churche, and a house is so called now."
The vicar of Madeley wrote that nothing remains of these monuments, and that
the oldest existing ones m the church only date from the reign ot Elizabeth, 1558-
1603. The name, however, survives in a house called "Fielde Place," and a mill
adjoining styled "Fielde mill," pleasantly situated on the "Wye, about a mile from
the church, and in the parish. He adds that the house has been modernized, and
exceeds the requirements ot a farmer, though now occupied by one.
In 1558 the same coat which was on the monuments in Madley church, "differ-
enced" by a chevron, was confirmed to John Field ot Ardsley. This place is but a
few miles from Sowerby, and both are in the manor ot Wakefield, which is the
cradle of the race in England to which this work refers. It will be seen hereafter
that these arms were used by other members of the family residing in this manor,
and at an early date.
The celebrated commercial town of Halifax, where the Fields resided, is situ-
ated in the liberty of the manor of Wakefield, eight miles from Bradford, and twelve
from Keighley. Seated on the western declivity ot a gently rising eminence, but
surrounded with hills of considerable height, it seems, on approaching it, to stand
in a deep valley. The town is about three-quarters of a mile in length, from east
to west, but the breadth is narrow and exceedingly irregular ; it is in general well
built, partly of stone, partly of brick. The use of the latter material has been
brought into fashion only since about the middle ot the last century; and it is said
that it was introduced because the nice dressing of stone is attended with great ex-
pense. It is difficult to conceive, however, how brick can be the cheaper material,
on account of the numerous quarries in the neighborhood. It seems that the in-
habitants of Settle, Skipton, Keighley, Bradford, etc., make a different calculation.
These towns are almost entirely built of stone, and in the villages scarcely any brick
is seen, either in the most elegant mansions or the humblest cottages. Whatever
may be their reason, however, the people of Halifax, though living in a land of
stone, seem to have a strong predilection for brick.* The mixture of brick and stone
buildings in this town forms a variegated picture, and the great number of small
enclosures in the neighborhood, surrounded with stone walls, in the valleys and on
the declivities of the hills, resemble an assemblage of gardens, but the landscape is
almost entirely destitute of hedges and wood.
Halifax has a good market on Saturday f where, beside provisions, etc., consid-
erable quantities ot woolen cloths of different sorts are sold. Fairs are held on
June the 4th, and the first Saturday in November, tor horses, horned cattle, sheep,
and swine.
In 1453 there were but thirteen houses in this town, which, in one hundred and
twenty years, increased to five hundred and twenty. Camden, when he traveled in
these parts, about the year 1580, was informed that the number of inhabitants in
this parish was about twelve thousand. Archbishop Grindall, in his letter to Queen
Elizabeth, during the northern rebellion, also says, that the parish of Halifax was
ready to bring into the field, for her service, three or four hundred able men. In
the year 1801, there were one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three houses, oc-
cupied by eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-six inhabitants; and in 1821 the
town contained twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-eight, personsj inhabiting
two thousand seven hundred and thirty-four houses. In 1828 the gross total of the
*Beauties of England and Wales.— Yorkshire, p. 743.
tThe market is held by prescription, which, through length of time, is now equivalent to a
charter.
JThe entire parish contained ninety-two thousand eight hundred and fifty persons.
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inhabitants of this extensive parish amounted to one hundred and tour thousand
two hundred and sixty- nine, an increase of eleven thousand two hundred and nine-
teen since the official census taken in 1821.
The town of Halifax can not boast of great antiquity ; its name is not found in
Domesday book, nor is it mentioned in any ancient record before a grant of its
church was made by Earl Warren to the priory ot Lewes, in Sussex. The origin of
its name has been variously given: Dr. Whitaker supposes it to be half Saxon, half
Norman; and that formerly, in the 'deep valley where the church now stands, was
a hermitage, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the image in the sanctity of which at-
tracted a great concourse of persons in every direction, and that there were tour
roads by which the pilgrims entered, and hence the name Halifax, or Holyways, for
fax, in Norman French, is an old plural noun, denoting highways.
The church stands near the east end ot the town, the chancel directly fronting
the entrance from Wakefield. It is a large structure of pointed architecture, one
hundred and ninety-two feet in length, and above sixty in breadth within the walls.
The precise era of its erection can not be ascertained. It is evident that there was
no church here at the time of the Conqueror's survey; for the Domesday book in-
forms us that in the manor of Wakefield, of which Halifax was a part, there were
only two churches, and it is clear that these were at Wakefield and Sandal. Inter-
nal as well as external evidence fixes the erection of it in the reign of Henry VI.
Since that time it has been frequently re-edified, and the chancel seems to have
been an addition to the original fabric. The steeple, which was built by the munifi-
cence ot the families of Lacy and Saville, the founders ot the parish of Halifax, was
begun in the year 1450; and this tower, which is well proportioned, is said to be one
hundred and seventeen feet in height from the ground to the summit of the pin-
nacles.
Within the church are two chapels, one on the north side, the other on the
south; the former of these, called Rokeby's chapel which is eleven yards and a
quarter in length, and five yards and a quarter in breadth, was erected in conse-
quence of the will of Dr. Rokeby.
The parish town of Thurnscoe is situated eight miles trom Doncaster, and has
a population of two hundred and five persons.
The benefice is a rectory, dedicated to St. Helen, and valued in the Liber
Regis, at 11. 7s. 8 i-2d. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is a neat edifice.
The township of Ardsley is in Staincross wapentake ; it contains nine hundred
and ninety-two persons. Here are two considerable seats — Park House, the resi-
dence of B. Taylor, Esq., and Ardsley Hall, the seat of J. Micklethwaite, Esq.
The parish ot Crotton, three miles and a half east ot Wakefield, has a population
of four hundred and fitty-nine persons. The benefice is a rectory, dedicated to All
Saints, and valued in the Liber regis at 10. os. 2 i-2d. It is in the patronage ot the
crown. The church, a neat edifice, of the fifteenth century, has a good tower in the
center.
The parish of East Ardsley is situated on the high road from Wakefield to Brad-
ford, being distant from the former town three miles and a half. It has a population
ot eight hundred and thirty-two persons. The benefice, a perpetual curacy, valued
in the Liber regis at £11, is in the patronage ot the Earl of Cardigan. The church
is a small but neat edifice, and contains tew objects worthy of notice. West Ards-
ley, near the last village, has a population of one thousand five hundred and fifteen
persons. The church is a perpetual curacy, of the clear value of ^31. 5s. It is in
the patronage of the Earl of Cardigan.
Another branch of the Fields located at Wakefield, which is a large and opu-
lent town, delightfully situated on the left bank of the Calder, in the center of the
18 FIELD GENEALOGY.
parish and liberty to which it gives name ; it is nine miles from Leeds, ten from
Barnsley, and one hundred and eighty-seven from London. The streets are, for the
most part, regular, handsome, and spacious, and the houses, which are principally
of brick, are well built, large, and lofty. The market place, however, is very small
and incommodious, and before the corn market was removed into Westgate, it was
totally inadequate to the accommodation of a town of its present magnitude. In
the center of the market, there is a small cross, of the Doric order of architecture,
with an open colonnade supporting a dome, with an ascent by an open staircase to
a spacious room, which is lighted by a lantern in the dome and in which room the
commissioners of the streets hold their meetings, and other public business is trans-
acted. Friday is the market day at Wakefield, and a great deal of business is done,
in corn and wool, the latter of which is sent here from various parts of the kingdom,
to be disposed of by the factors to the manufacturers m the adjacent districts. The
fortnight fairs for cattle, held here every alternate Wednesday, are much resorted
to, and contribute to supply an extensive and populous country to the west with fat
cattle, brought from the north, the south, and the east.
The manor ot Wakefield is very extensive, including the parish of Halifax, and
stretching from Normanton westward to the verge of Lancashire. It is more than
thirty miles in length from east to west, and [comprises upward ot one hundred
and fitty towns, villages, and hamlets, of which Wakefield and Halifax are the
chief; and upward ot one hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants (about one-
eighth ot the whole population ot Yorkshire). It appears from Domesday Book to
have been part of the royal demesnes of Edward the Confessor, and at the time ot
the survey it belonged to the crown. How long it continued in the hands of the
king is uncertain; some assert that William I., who settled most of the lands in the
kingdom on his Norman followers, gave it as a portion with his daughter Gundred
to William, Earl of Warren. Others, with greater probability, say that it remained
annexed to the crown till the reign of Henry 1., who granted it to William, Earl of
Warren and Surrey, in 1116.
At the time of the Domesday survey, Wakefield, with its dependencies, was in
the hands of the crown. In this extensive manor there were two churches and
three priests. "The churches may," says Dr. Whittaker, "without the slightest
hesitation, be assigned to Wakefield and Sandal; and as we know that a chapel ex-
isted at Horbury within fifty years from this time, and as chapels are never men-
tioned in Domesday, the presumption is, that the third priest ministered at that
place. I am further persuaded, that although the church of Wakefield was in exist-
ence in the Conqueror's reign, it was not one ot the original Saxon churches, of
which, in the hundred of Morley, there were only two.
Huddersfield is one of the five principal market-towns in the central part of the
West Riding ; it is in the liberty of the honor of Pontef ract, eight miles from Hali-
fax, sixteen from Leeds, twenty-four from Manchester, and one hundred and
eighty-eight from London. The town, which derives its name from Oder, or Hud-
der, the first Saxon colonist in the place, stands on the river Colne, which, rising
near the source of the Don above Holmfirth, tails into the Calder near Nunbrook.
The valley formed by this stream, with a small quantity of level ground upon its
banks, comprehends the parish of Huddersfield.
Horton is a large chapelry, with a population of seven thousand one hundred
and ninety-two persons. The chapel, a small edifice (consecrated about twenty-four
years ago) is a perpetual curacy, valued at ^44; patron, the Vicar of Bradford.
fcisiiliilii*.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 19
The commercial and populous town of Bradford,* where the Fields resided, is
situate in the liberty of the honor of Pontefract, is eight miles and a half from Hali-
fax, ten miles from Leeds, and about the same distance northwest from Dewsbury.
It is pleasantly situated at the junction of three beautiful and extensive valleys.
It also possesses the advantage of a navigable canal, which is cut from the Leeds
and Liverpool canal, near the village of Shipley, about three miles to the north of
Bradford, and penetrates into the heart of the town, affording excellent convenience
for the loading and unloading ot boats. There is a market on Thursday, and fairs
on the 1 8th and igth of June, and on the gth and loth of December, for horses,
horned cattle, pigs, etc.
The town of Bradford has thirteen thousand and sixty-four inhabitants, occupy-
ing two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine houses. f
Bradford is pleasantly situated on one of the tributary streams of the river Aire,
formerly belonging to the great family of Lacy, Earls of Lincoln, who had here a
manor house, where previously had been a castle, the site of which is not at this
time exactly known. Like many other manufacturing towns, Bradford, having
espoused the cause of Parliament, in the great contest between that body and
Charles I., was garrisoned, and maintained a siege against the royalists. Sir
Thomas Fairfax came to the assistance of the garrison with eight hundred foot,
and sixty horse, which brought down upon them the powerful army commanded by
the Duke of Newcastle, who invested the town, and attempted to storm it in several
places. Sir Thomas Fairfax made a vigorous defense.
The parish church, which stands on the site of an edifice much more ancient, is
a structure of pointed architecture of considerable antiquity; it was built in the
reign of Henry VI., and, after fifteen years' labor, finished in the thirty-sixth year
of that reign in 1458. It comprises a nave and chancel, with aisles, and a tower at
the west end. The interior is near, and crowded with monuments and tablets ;
among them is one to Abraham Sharpe, the celebrated mathematician, who died
Aug. 15, 1742. The tower is of later date, and was not completed till the twenty-
third of Henry VII. in 1508.
The chapelry of Sowerby is very extensive, containing six thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety inhabitants. The chapel, a neat edifice, built in 1763, is a perpet-
ual curacy, dedicated to St. Peter, and valued in the parliamentary returns at ;^78.
Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The chapel has a chancel ; within it is a statue of
Archbishop Tillotson, erected in compliance with the will of his surviving grand-
niece, upward of thirty years ago. The archbishop was born at Haugh-end, in this
township. At Sowerby was once a castle, the foundation of which may yet be seen
in a field near the top of the town, adjoining to which is a piece of ground, called
the Hell Croft, where, no doubt, the dead were buried. It is not known at what
time it was built, but it is clear, however, that during the possessions of the Earls
of Warren there was a castle there.
North Ouram has six thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and South Ouram
four thousand two hundred and fifty-six inhabitants. The hall at the former village
is the residence of J. F. Dyson, Esq. A near chapel was built and consecrated in
1819 at South Ouram.
♦According to the conjectures of antiquaries the name of Bradford is derived from the ford
at the bottom of the church brow; yet it is diflScult to imagine how a water so insignificant
could have acquired the epithet of "broad." The term broad is, however, in Yorkshire fre-
quently applied to rivers which have no peculiar title to that designation, and hence the river
Aire, where it passes Leeds, is by many called the Broad Aire.
tThe entire parish contains a population of fifty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-four
persons.
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William, Duke of Normandy, commonly called the Conqueror, landed in Eng-
land Sept. 29, 1066, and on Oct. 14, 1066, fought the battle of Hastings, where Har-
old the King of England was defeated and slain. As early as the third year of
William the Conqueror, 1068, Hubertus de la Feld held lands in the County of Lan-
caster, near Chester, granted him for military services. From official records in the
various counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, Lancaster, Middlesex, Suffolk,
Surry, Yorkshire, and other parts of England, the name of De la Fell, De la Feld,
De la Felde, is found changed to Feld, Felde, Feild, Fielde and Field are found
down to the present time. Therefore, the derivation ot the family name of Field is
self-evident. The substantive from which it is taken is feld, or as it was written in
old English, field, and is so written by all the old English authors. It is also found
fheld down to 1700; this latter was probably used by those who were refugees from
England to Holland, Wales, and Sweden, who came to America. John Horn Tooke
in his diversions of Purley suggests that Field in old English was written Feld,
Field land as open land, and was so used to designate land where trees had been
felled from forest or wood land.
In the twelfth year of Henry II., mi, John de la Feld appears as the owner ot
land in the County of Gloucester. The estate of Robertus de la Felde or Fielde
who appears in Parliamentary writs as early as 13 16 as one of the lords of the
township of Hardwick, County of Gloucester, is said to have descended to the
Fields and remained in the family tor many generations. The place is still called
Fields Court. There are the ruins of a Castle Field on the river Calve in Glouces-
tershire, near the town of Calve, which is said to be very ancient. The same year
John de la Feld appears as one of the lords of Chelsham, County of Surry. In
proof of the identity of the two families, it is ascertained that the two names are
found in the same parts of England; for instance, in the County of Hereford, a
county very rich in ancient names of families, frequent mention is made of the
de la Felds and de la Feldes in the reign ot Edward II., 1280, and were common
before the reign of Richard IV. The prefix de la was dropped by many families in
the fourteenth century on account of the wars with France having made it unpopu-
lar. The first without the prefix is found in Halifax and Sowerby as early as 1360,
and about 1445 it entirely disappears. In those localities where the de la Felds
were the most numerous between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries in the
counties of Lancaster, Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, and others, we find the Felds or
Fields settled between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sometimes the two
names are met with in the same locality, but at different periods. The name also
appears at a very early period without the prefix de la in Ardsley and Bradford in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, which borders on Lancashire, migrating from west
to east and came from the latter county. One of the earliest probate records is in
1480, when letters of administration of the estate of "William Feld of Bradford"
were granted April 21, 1480, to his widow Katherine.
As the family is found seated at Horton, about two miles from Bradford, a few
years later, it is probable that this was the residence of William Feld, and the
description (of Bradford) refers to the parish rather than the town, as the registers
of Bradford church only go back to 1596. Beside the branch at Horton, the Felds
or Fields are found seated between the years 1500 and 1600 at several places within
a radius of ten miles of Bradford, and were descendants of William Feld who died
in 1480. They are also found at Cropton, in the parish of Stansfield and close to
Lancashire; at Sharleston, near Wakefield; at Ardenton or Ardsley, between the
latter place and Bradford; at Beiston, near Leeds; at Halifax and the contiguous
parishes of Kirkheaton and Almondbury. In Lyson's "Environs of London," Vol.
4, page 258, is found Edward Field of Marden, and afterward of Stanstead Burg
FIELD GENEALOGY. 21
County of Herts, Esq., died the 3d, buried the -yth June, 1676, aged 56, at Sheeps-
hall. He married Frances, third daughter of William Pert, Esq., of Arnoldo,
County of Essex, and widow of Charles Nodus of Sheepshall, Esq., who died Oct.
15, 1656, aged 48; she died, buried at Sheepshall, Sept. 18, 1690, aged 80. The
adowson of the vicarage of Stanstead Abbott in the time of Henry II. was given by
Roger de Wancy to the Prior and Canons of Merton in the County of Surry, in
whom it continued until their dissolution, when it came into the possession ot the
crown, and in 1550 and 1552 was in the gift ot Lady Mary, sister of Edward VI.,
afterward Queen of England. But the next vacancy was in Edward Baesh, Esq.,
lord of the manor of Stanstead, in whose family and name it continued until it was
sold with the manor to Edmund Field, Esq., A. D. 1676, and is at present vested in
Wm. Henry Field, Esq., lord of that manor. Edmund Field, Esq., died in February,
1719, aged 43, buried at Stanstead, and was a relative of John Field, the astrono-
mer, as their coat of arms is identical.
The name of John De la Feld occurs m 11 12, the twelfth of Henry I., as a pro-
prietor in the counties of Lancaster (where Sir Hubertus settled) and Bucks; of
Robert De la Feld without a date, and of John De la Feld in the thirty-eighth and
forty-third of Henry III., 1254-59. John De la Feld witnessed two deeds in the
same years on the marriages of his son and daughter, viz., John, and Elizabeth who
married Norman D'Arcy.
John, the son, espoused in 1254, the thirty-eighth of Henry III., Elizabeth Fitz-
warine, daughter of the Lord Warden ot the marches in the north. Their children
were John, Hubert, and Nichols.
Elizabeth, daughter of John, married 1259, forty-third of Henry III., Norman
D'Arcy, of Norton, in the County of Lincoln, and had Philip, afterward Lord
D'Arcy, in Parliament in 1299; Sir John D'Arcy, a very distinguished personage,
was justice of Ireland and was in Parliament as baron in 1332, and Robert D'Arcy,
of Starlingburgh, Lincoln County.
John De la Feld (John, John) married in 1289, in the fifteenth of Edward L,
Maude, daughter and heir ot Montacute, and had two sons, Hubert and John, can-
rvon of the abbey church at Hereford.
Hubert De la Feld (John, John, John) married in 1318, the eleventh of Edward
II., his cousin, the daughter and heir of Falke Fitzwarine, and had John.
John De la Feld (J"ijin, John, John, John) married in 1350, in the twenty-third
of Edward III, Margaret de Tyringham, and had three sons, Robert, Thomas, and
Nicholas.
Thomas De la Feld (John, John, John, John, John) married in 1372, the forty-fifth
of Edward III., Elizabeth, his kinswoman, daughter of Thomas Butler, second son of
Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, and great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth De la
Feld, wife of Norman D'Arcy. Thomas fell soon after his marriage in the French
wars, and leaving no issue, his estate was given to his brother Robert.
Robert De la Feld (John, John, John, John, John) married in 1378, in the fifty-
first of Edward III., Elinor Butler, sister of his brother's wife and co-heir with her
of their father, Hon. Thomas Butler. By her Robert had a daughter, Anne, abbess
ot a convent at Lancaster, and a son, Robert.
Robert De la Feld (Robert, John, John, John, John, John) married in 141 1 in
the twelfth of Henry IV., Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Reginald de Grey, and
had a son, Thomas.
Sir Thomas De la Feld (Robert, Robert, John, John, John, John, John) wrote
himself of Ailesbury or Ardsley, in England, and of the lordships of Fieldstone and
Culdufife in the County of Kildare in Ireland. This, Sir Thomas married in 1438,
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in the sixteenth of Henry VI., Katherine, only daughter of Sir Thomas de Roch-
fort, and had a son, Sir John.
In the year 1454, in the thirty-third year of the reign of Henry VI., a John
Field was sheriff of London. There is no question but that the present name of
Field is a contraction of De la Feld, and in the account of Delafield of Fieldston,
previously referred to, De la Field is indeed changed to Delafield, which shows a
common origin with the Fields, and the name is continued to the time Burke's work
was published in 1833.
It is evident that Feild, Fielde, and Field is an ancient name in England, with-
out the prefix, certainly as far back as 1392. It is said that Dr. Richard Field, a
distinguished divine, who was chaplain to both Queen Elizabeth and James li , was
a native of the County of Hertford, bom in 1561, about six miles from St. Albans,
"of a family very ancient and of good repute in the countrie." He was the author
of the "Book of the Church," a work of note in its day, and which still keeps its
place in the literature of the Church of England, as it was re-published at Oxford in
1843 in tour volumes, 8 vo. His biographer relates that he was born on an estate
which had been in the family for some generations, as he used to say that out of
the house in which he was born there had died but three housekeepers in 160 years;
so much were his ancestors blessed with length of days. This was said while his
father was living, and, of course, referred to his grandfather and two generations
before him, which would carry the family back into the fourteenth century.
In Wood's Athange, John Field or Feld is mentioned as a citizen of London,
who figured as a zealous protestant and was a great enemy to Sir Thomas More,
who was beheaded July 6, 1555. In Philip Morant's "History and Antiquities of
Essex," occurs the name of another John Field, who died in 1477, who held the
manor of Stypyll, or Stepyl Hall, and later appears in the same county one William
Field, Esq., who married Arabella, daughter of Earl Rivers, by whom he had Rich-
ard, an officer in the army; William of the Inner Temple, Esq., and Elizabeth, wife
of Sir Richard Lloyd, Knight of the "Barons of the Exchequer." Walter Field,
clerk, is set down at Provost of Ryngges College, Cambridge, in the reign of Ed-
ward IV., about 1450. Another Walter of Radley, County of Gloucester, died in
the reign of Richard III. These connections might be traced to any extent from
wills proved in the Doctors Commons. The name was and still is a familiar one
both in England and the provinces. Many of the names appear in the clergy list,
and some have been raised to a bishopric. In a book called "Patterson's Roads"
(eighteen edition) are designated a number of country seats belonging to gentle-
men by the name of Field in different parts of England. John Wilmer Field, a de-
scendant of William Feld (which see), has estates in the three Ridings of Yorkshire,
and seats at Helmsley Lodge and Heaton Hall. To further sustain the descent of
the Fields from the Counts De la Fell, or Feld, the visitation in the Heralds College
show families of the name at that time entitled to wear the coat of arms, in the
counties of Gloucester, Hertford, and Somerset, and the century before in York-
shire. The arms of the De la Felds, or Delafields, of Maddy, County of Hereford
(sable, three garbs argent) are the same as those borne by any branch of the Field
family, which goes to show they are of the same origin with that of Yorkshire, ex-
cept the arms of the latter bear a chevron which was often used as a "difference,"
i. e., to distinguish different branches of the same family. The arms are of the
most simple character, of the most ancient ones, and were doubtless used by the
family before grants originated. The garb or wheat sheaf is one of those plays on
the name so frequently met with in heraldry, it being the chief production of the
fields, and therefore a proper emblem for a family of that name. The arms are
found with the sole difference that the chevron is "or" (gold) on a roll in the Her-
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aids College of London which is one of a collection made in 1580 and styled at that
date "an ancient roll." The officials of the office attribute it to the reign ot Edward
IL, about 1200. They are called the arms of Feld.
In the sixteenth century the name is illustrated by a distinguished astronomer,
John Field, who was the first to introduce the Copemican system into England.
Copernicus died in 1543, leaving as a legacy to the world his great work on "The
Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, " in which he overthrew the system of Ptolemy
which had ruled the world for two thousand years. It embodied the labor of his
life, and the first copy ot his work was brought to him on his death-bed. Attacking
so boldly the general belief of mankind, the new system made its way very slowly
among the scientific men of Europe, and is proof at once of the clearness of mind
of this English mathematician and of his intellectual intrepidity, that he so quickly
saw its truth and at once stood forth in its defense. In the year 1556, thirteen
years after the death of Copernicus, John Field published the first astronomical
tables that ever appeared m England, calculated on the basis of the new discover-
ies, and thus made the true system of the universe familiar to the dawning science
of Great Britain. In the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1834, first part, page 491,
is a biographical sketch of this eminent man, who is styled the Proto Copernican of
England, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, keeper of one of the record offices, and a well
known antiquarian of London. It was in recognition of this great service that he
received a patent which was confirmed in the Archers Court of Heraldry, Sept. 4,
1558, in the fifth to sixth of Philip and Mary, to wear the family arms, also at the
same time in addition, the following crest was granted him, which, in the language
of Heraldry, would be a dexter arm issuing out of clouds proper fessways, habited
gules holding an armillary sphere by its axis. The Heralds visitation of Yorkshire
in 1584-5 records the name of himself, wife, and children. His biographer, speaking
of the addition, says there was meaning if not poetry in this; a red right arm issu-
ing from the clouds and presenting a golden sphere, intimating the splendor of the
Copemican discovery, a light from the heavens above.
In March, 1653, Edmund Field of Weston, Herts, of a family long seated in
that county, obtained a grant of the same arms, except that the chevron was en-
grailed. The date of John Field's marriage is not known. He probably married
about 1560, Jane, daughter of John Amyas, Esq., of Kent County, England. From
the time of his marriage to 1584, Hunter in his sketch says, "Little if anything was
heard of him," but in 1584-5, he answered the summons of the Heralds who visited
the County ot York in those years, when he gave an account of his right to arms
and crest, of his marriage and of his issue, which were eight sons and one daughter,
and his residence at Ardsley, or Ardslow, a village ot the Wapentake of Morley,
situated about four miles north of the town ot Wakefield on the public road to
Bradford. He died in 1587, for his will is dated Dec. 28, 1586, and probated May 3,
1587. In his will he describes himself thus: "John Field of Ardslow, former some-
tymes studente in the mathematical sciences." His biographer says: "The ap-
pointments respecting his property show that he was a man of substance and of a
generous and liberal mind. To his wife he gave all his interest in the farmhold
and a corn mill appurtenant thereto. He was not without his trials, for to his eldest
son whom he describes as his 'disloyal and loose-lived son Richard,' he gave one
silver spoon in full payment and satisfaction ot his child's part, and if not satisfied
with it that he lose the benefit of it. To his two sons, James and Martin Field, he
gave "all his plate and jewels of gold and silver." The rest and residue of his
estate he gave to his eight youngest children to be equally divided between them.
He gave in his will a penny-dole to 500 poor folks, and a dming to all bis poor
neighbors. Referring back to the early authentic records in England to William
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Feld of Bradtord, whose will is dated in 1480, and letters of administration granted
to his widow, Kalherine, April 21, 1480; he left two sons whose names 1 have not
been able to ascertain. Richard Felde, grandson of William and Katherine, ot
East Ardsley, whose will is dated 19th of August, and proved Dec. 9, 1542, his
widow, Elizabeth, co-executor with his son John and brother Thomas, supervisor.
There is no mention of any other children in his will, but his son John the Astron-
omer, who was born about 1520.
The will ot Jane, widow ot John Field, is dated July 17, 1609, and she was bur-
ied at East Ardsley, Aug. 3, 1609. They had nine children — Richard, born in 1562;
Matthew, born in 1563; Christopher, born in 1565; John, born in 1568; William,
born in 1570; Thomas, born in 1572; James, born in 1574; Martin, born in 1577;
Ann, born in 1580. The oldest. Richard, was disinherited by his father. Matthew,
lord of the manor of Thumscoe, named in his mother's will, died June 2, 1631.
Letters ot administration granted to his son, Matthew, Aug. 4, 1631. Christopher
not named in his mother's will. John not named in his mother's will. William ot
Thumscoe. executor of his mother's will. Thomas named in his mother's will, in
which she calls him her third son. James, Martin, or Ann are not named in their
mother's will. By their not being named, Mr. Osgood Field thinks they were not
living, which is a matter of doubt, as they may have espoused the Puritan cause
and left England. Ffosi [papers belonging to the late RJr. Richard Field of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., who died Nov. 23, 1875. now in the possession of his son, Mr. Charles
M. Field, ot Brooklyn, say that Matbew Field, sqn of John and Jane (Am} as), had
a son, James, born in 1587, who had a son, Robert, born in 1610, who emigrated in
1636, to Boston, and in 1645 to Flushing, L. I. They also have a tradition in their
families that Zechariah was related to Robert, but not so near as first cousin, but
that they were descended from the same stock within a few generations he had no
doubt. From various sources and from a tradition handed down in the different
tamilies, that Zechariah Field had two brothers, who came over with him or a few
years later. I find Darby Field, who was a refugee and escaped from England to
Sweden, and came from there to Boston in 1636, and in 1638 removed to Exeter,
N. H., in 1648, to Dover, N. H., where he died in 1649. The probability is that the
other brother was Richard or Henry, as both of those came over in 1635, and one of
them settled in Virginia, and was probably an adherent of the Church ot England.
The Virginia families say their ancestor had a brother who settled in Massachu-
setts. William and John Field came to Boston in the ship Lion, which sailed about
the middle of August, 1631, and arrived in Boston, Nov. 4, 1631. They settled in
1638 in Providence, R. I. There has also been a tradition handed down in the fam-
ilies of Zechariah Field that his brothers had to leave England on account ot polit-
ical and religious troubles, and lost their property by confiscation, which may ac-
count for John Field disinheriting his son Richard, and the others not being named
in their mother's will and leaving her property to her sons Mathew and William,
and apparently none to any of the others. The theory ot Mr. Osgood Field may be
incorrect in thinking Christopher, John, and Ann were not living at the date of their
mother's will, because of their not being mentioned in it. Those were troublous
times in England when households were divided by strong political and religious
feuds, and it is not improbable that they might have fled to Holland, Sweden, or
Wales. In Shakespeare's comedies is found a Nathaniel or Nat. Field, as he was
usually called, son of a Puritan preacher, born in London in 1587. His name first
appears in our dramatic literature as one ot the children ot Queens Chapel. In
1607 he played in Bussy De Ambois, in George Chapman's tragedy of that name.
He attained great eminence in his profession. He was not only an actor, but an
author, and a recognized wit. One ot his jokes was: A nobleman connected with
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him, but whose branch ot the family spelled their name Feild. asked him how this
difference in spelling the name came about. "1 do not know," said Nat, "unless it
was because my branch ot the family was the first that learned to spell." He was
a fellow ot Dulwich College, where a portrait of him still exists, which shows him to
have been a f?ne-looking man.
In 161Q the name of Field occurs as the seventh in a patent granted by King
James II. There was a Francis Field, rector of Middleton Stoney, County ot Ox-
ford. In his will, dated Oct. 14, 1616, he bequeaths a legacy toward bringing up
"Francis, son of brother Zachary Field, deceased." Apparently, the testator had
no children, as none are named in the will. He names his wife Frances, his father
Henry Field, the elder of Barkhamstead, County Hertford, his mother Margaret,
his brother Henry, and William Silmett, son ot his sister, and Robert G., ot St.
Albans. The will of Henry Field, Sr., is dated Aug. lo, 1620, in which he describes
himself of Barkhampstead, manufacturer of cloth ; he appoints his wife Margaret
and son Henry executors, and names his son-in-law Robert Silmett.
There was a numerous family ot Fields seated in Hertfordshire from an early
date, and in the neighborhood ot St. Albans. Mr. William Field descended
through his grandson William (cousin of John), through his son William, and his son
Robert baptized at Halifax March 9, 1605-6, who is named in his father's and moth-
er's wills, and it is claimed this Robert Field is the same person that is found at
Newport, R. I., Aug. 23, 1638; that is found in Flushing, L. I., in 1645, which does
not agree with Mr. Josiah Field's records, or those of the late Mr. Richard Field,
whose account ot the Flushing family he says has many inaccuracies, but does not
point them out. If he is not descended from John Field, the astronorner, what
right has he to use the crest granted him in 1558 ot a sphere, in addition to his
family coat ot arms?
THE FIELDS OF OTHER PLACES IN WAKEFIELD
MANOR AND NEIGHBORHOOD.
IN the subsidy roll of 6th Henry VIII. (1514-15), John Feyld is assessed under the
head of Sharleston, a place in the parish of Warnfield. two or three miles south-
east of Wakefield. Among the wills at York is that of this same person, "John
Feld, of Sharleston," dated June 28th, 1522, in which he desires "my bodie to be
beried in the chirche garthe of Warmfeld." and names in it his sons, Henry,
Lionell, and "Umfray," and his brother, Henry Feld. Among the witnesses are
Richard Feld and "John Jobe (or Jube), senior." It was proved July 8th of the
same year. In the subsidy roll of 15th Henry VIII. (1523-24), Humfrey Feyld,
Robert Feyld, and Richard Feyld are assessed under the head of "Sharleston."
On April 18, 158B, Robert Field, "of Sharleston in the parish of Warmfeld," made
his will, in which he mentions his wife Margaret, Sister Janet, and daughters Eliza-
beth, Agnes, Dorothy, Anne, and Jane. The will of "Robert Feld ofCroston*
(Cross-stone) in the parish of Stansfield, husbandman," is dated May 7, 1525. He
divides his property among his children, whom he does not name. He mentions
his brother, i. e,, brother-in-law, John Job, or Jub. It is witnessed by Brian Feld
and Robert Feld, and was proved by his widow, Joan, and Thomas Feld, chaplain.
The occurrence of the name of John Job, or Jub, in this last will, and in that of
John Feld of Sharleston, would seem to indicate a relationship between the testa-
tors, although the parishes of Stansfield and Warmfield are as far apart as any ot
the places named where the Fields were seated in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies. The author would mention that the name "Jubbe" occurs in the visitation
of Yorkshire of 1563-64. In 1604 John Field, of Cross-stone, husbandman, names in
his will his son Edmund, and daughters Frances Bourke, Jesabel, Anne, Susan, and
Hester.
We find in the parish registers of Halifax, the burials of Richard Feylde in
1540, Elizabeth Feyld in 1547, and of Edward Feld in 1551, all of that town. The
will of another Richard Field of Halifax, dated December 8, 1557, and proved
22nd ot same month, names his wife Ellen, and children Christopher, Robert, and
Elizabeth ; also a child unborn. The Halifax registers record the baptisms of
Robert in 1552, Elizabeth in 1555, and Richard in 1558, all described as children of
"Richard Feld," of Halifax.
In 1555 the marriage of Gilbert Feld and Isabella Harpur is recorded, and in the
baptismal entries of their children, as below, he is described as of Halifax, viz., in
1556, "Sibil," 1557, Annis, 1560, Gilbert, and 1564, Johanna. Probably this last
Gilbert is the person of that name mentioned in the Wakefield rolls in 1583 and
1592. In 1584 Frances, daughter ot Richard Feld of Halifax, was baptized, and in
1630 "Jonas, son of John Field, of Halifax," buried.
In the Wakefield Manor rolls, under Alverthorpe, there is mention of land
there in possession of John Feld in 1532 and of Roger Feild in 1607. 1° 1610
Roger and William Feild were tenants there, and in the following j^ear ' ' Roger
Feild de Wakefield, chapman," took of the waste at Alverthorpe.
He is doubtless the Riger Feeld, against whom, in conjunction with Robert
Smythe, a certain Leonard Foster brought an action, March 20, 1559-60, as appears
by the Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings ; wishing to have these two removed from the
• Crosstone, near Todmorden, and about half a dozen miles west of Halifax.
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custody of the daughters and lands of Roger Pollard, of Wakefield, deceased, on the
ground that they were the next heirs, Feeld and Smythe reply that they are acting
under Pollard's will, and that they are not the next heirs. In 1617 Roger Feild de
Wakefield and Grace, his wife, are referred to under Alverthorpe, as ceding lands
to John Maude, gent., of Wakefield, and in 1622 this Roger's lands there are
spoken of.
Among the wills at York is that ot Henry Feilde, "of Lexton, in the parish of
Kirkheaton." He names his wife Isabel, his son-in-law John Beaumonte, and his
"sister Thomas Naler's wife. " It is dated February 28, 1577-78, and was proved
in the same year. His widow, Isabel, made hers on June 10, 1583, and it was
proved August 2nd of same year. She bequeaths all to her daughter Rosamond
Beaumond.
William Feild of Newsome, in the parish of Almondbury, made his will Novem-
ber I, 161 7. He mentions in it his sons William and George and daughter Rosa-
mond, wife of Godfrey Kay,* also his grandson William, whose father was of same
name.
It will be noticed that Henry and Isabel Feilde had a daughter Rosamond
named in the will of latter in 1583 ; and as we find that William of Newsome had also
a daughter Rosamond, we may infer that the families were nearly related, more
especially as they were residing in the same neighborhood.
There are a few other notices of Fields in or near Wakefield Manor but the
names mostly occur singly and possess no special interest.
* Some members of the ancient family of Key, or Kay, of Woodsome Hall, Almondbury,
have claimed descent from Sir Kay, the knight of King Arthur's Round Table.
HORSMONDEN BRANCH.
JANE FIELD, or Fylde, as the parish records have it, was born in Horsmonden
England, about 1585. She was married there to Henry Sharpe, Sept. 24, 1610.
Their daughter Mary was baptized there Oct. 16, 1614. She was united in marriage
in England to Major Simon Willard, who was a native of Horsmonden, where he
was born in 1605. They came to America in 1634, and settled in Concord, where he
was one of the most prominent men in the Colony, Major of the Provincial militia,
and held the most important ofl&ces which he discharged with^ great ability. He
was married three times and had seventeen children by his first wife, nine sons and
A
eight daughters ; all were married and left issue as follows :
1. MARY, b.4n England; m. 1649, Joshua Edmunds; shed, before 1653;
he m. again, had issue, and died Nov. 5, 1683.
2. ELIZABETH, b. in England; d. in infancy.
3. ELIZABETH, m. April 8, 1653, Robert Blood, of Concord; she d. Aug.
29, 1690; he m. again and d. Oct. 27, 1701.
4. DOROTHY, d. in infancy.
5. JOSIAH, b. in Massachusetts; m. Hannah Hosmer, March 20, 1657; he d.
July, 1674. Res. Hartford and Wethersfield, Conn.
6. SAMUEL, b. Concord, Jan. 31. 1639; gr. Harvard, 1659; m. Abigail Sher-
man, dau. of Rev. John and Mary Launce, Aug. 8, 1664, and 2nd, in.
1679, Eunice Tyng. She survived her husband and d. Jan. 14, 1720.
He first settled at Groton and remained there until driven out by the
Indians in King Philip's war in 1676. Was installed pastor of the old
South Church m Boston, Sept. 12, 1707. He was also president of Har-
vard College with the title of vice-president.
7. SARAH, b. Concord, Jan. 27, 1642; m. July 2, 1666, Nathaniel Howard of
Chelmsford. She d. in Charlestown, Jan. 22, 1677. He m. second, 1678,
Sarah Parker.
8. ABOVEHOPE, b. Oct. 30, 1646; d. unm. Dec. 3, 1663.
9. SIMON, b. Nov. 23, 1649; m. 1679, Martha Jacob. Resided in Salem
where he was deacon of the First Church ; was marshal of Essex Co. ; in
June, 1689, was commander of a military company, in the expedition
against the Eastern Indians, 1689-90; m. 2nd, July 25, 1722, Priscilla But-
tolph; he d. June 23, 1731.
10. MARY, b. Sept. 7, 1653; m. Jan. 22, 1671-2, Cyprian Stevens of Lancaster.
11. HENRY, b. Jan. 4, 1655; m. July 16, 1674, Mary Lakin; m. 2nd, 1689, Dor-
cas Cutler. Res. Groton and Lancaster.
12. JOHN, b. Feb. 12. 1656; m. Oct. 31, 1698, Mary Hayward. Res. Concord,
where he d. Aug. 27, 1726.
13. DANIEL, b. Dec. 29, 1658; m. Dec. 6, 1683, Hannah Cutler; b. 1660; d.
Feb. 22, 1690; m. 2nd, Jan. 4, 1692, Mary Mills. Res. Sudbury, Charles-
ton, Braintree, and Boston, at which latter place he was jailer. He d.
Aug. 23, 1708.
14. JOSEPH, b. Jan. 4, 1660 ; m. ; res. London ; was a sea captain in the London
trade; he d. before 1721.
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15. BENJAMIN, b. 1665; m. Sarah Lakin. Res. Groton and Hassanamisco,
later incorporated as Grafton. See History of Grafton, by Fred'k C.
Pierce.
16. HANNAH, b. Oct. 6, 1666; m. May 23, 1693, Capt. Thomas Brintnall, of
Sudbury.
17. JONATHAN, b. Dec. 14, 1669; m. Jan. 8, 1690, Mary Browne. Res. Rox-
bury and Sudbury; and d. 1706.
THE FIELDS OF HEATON, SHIPLEY, AND BRADFORD.
ABOUT eight miles northeast of Halifax, and six miles from North Ouram, is
the flourishing and populous town of Bradford. A branch of the Fields was
residing in its environs in the earlier part of the fifteenth century. The author has
not made as thorough search into the history of this branch as in the case of that
residing in Wakefield Manor, and further investigations may bring new facts to
light concerning it. The parish registers of Bradford do not commence till 1596,
and therefore afford no very early information of the family. From the time of
Edward Feild of Horton, 1595, and his five brothers and same number of sisters,
down to the birth of the two daughters of John Wilmer Feild (which see), he has
followed the pedigree recorded in the College of Arms, London, where proofs of its
authenticity would have been required before entering it.
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THE YORKSHIRE BRANCH.
REV. JOHN FIELD, M. A. (Thomas of Richmond, Yorkshire), b. Richmond,
Yorkshire, England, in 1789; m. in Harpole, Northampton, England, 1818,
Louisa Bonoquet; b. 1798; d. in 1835. in Braybrooke, England. He was Rector of
Braybrooke. He d. March, 1867. Res. Braybrooke, England.
i. JAMES WILLIAM, M. A., Rector of Braybrooke, Northamptonshire.
ii. THOMAS, M. A., Rector of Bigby, Lincolnshire, Canon and Prebend of
Lincoln Cathedral, Public Orator of Cambridge University. Civil
Service Examiner, Justice of the Peace for Lincolnshire, Fellow and
Orator of St. John's, Cambridge.
iii. JOHN BONOQUET, b. Nov. 20, 1819; m. Cecilia Mostyn and Charlotte
Eliza Lenard.
iv. GEORGE THOMAS, Royal Artillery, Lieutenant General, served
through Siege of Sebastapol, D. A. Q. M. G. of R. A. in Crimea -on
the staff ; Commandt. R. Academy and Superintendent R. Arsenal in
Wales.
V. MARY, b. 1824; m. Rev. William Hughes, M. A., Rector of Kislingbury,
Northampton. Res. 12 Frederick Place, Clifton, England.
CAPT. JOHN BONOQUET FIELD, R. N. (John, Thomas), b. Wootton Hall,
Northamptonshire, England, Nov. 20, 1819; m. in .Malta, Jan., 1849, Cecilia Mos-
tyn; b. Sterling Castle, Scotland, Mar., 1828; d. Lymington, Hants, England, Jan.
4, 1867; m. 2nd, Charlotte Eliza Lenard. Captain Field's life was that of an ordi-
nary naval officer who did his duty in all seas for thirty-five years ; became a cap-
tain and died worn out and broken down and crippled from exposure and hard work,
chiefly from the effects of the Russian War and slave cruising on the coast of
Africa. He was Senior Executive officer of H. M. S. "Cossack" throughout the
Russian War. He was wounded in boardmg a slaver and saw much hard service.
He d. Jan. 10, 1869. Res. Lymington, England.
1. JOHN GEORGE MOSTYN, b. Oct. 11, 1849; m. Sarah Louisa Har-
rison,
ii. ARTHUR MOSTYN, b, Jan. 27, 1855; m. Laura Mary Hale,
iii. MARY LOUISA, b. Dec. 11, 1852; m. Dec, 1874, Lieut. George A. Grant,
R. N. ; she d. June 20. 1887, leavmg 5 ch., at Clifton, Bristol, England.
CAPT. JOHN GEORGE MOSTYN FIELD (John B., John. Thomas), b.
Malta. Oct. 11, 1849; m. Dec. 27. 1877, at Harrow, England, Sarah Louisa Harrison,
of Oxendon. Northamptonshire; b. May 20, 1858. Captain Field has been at sea all
his life and eight years ago also became a Post Captain. Dates are : Joined H. M.
service, June 10, 1863; became midshipman, Sept., 1864; Sub-Lieut., March 29, 1869;
Lieutenant, April, 1873; Commander, June, 188S; Captain, 1895; served on Foreign
Intelligence Committee (now called Intelligence Department) during Russian War
scare in 1885, being the first naval officer called in to start it under its head Cap-
tain Hall, R. N. ; was Cruising Lieutenant of H. M. S. Sultan at Alexandria, and
through the Egyptian War of 1882, being part of the time with the naval brigade on
the staff. Second Lieutenant ot H. M. S. "Sultan" in the Channel and Mediter-
ranean Fleet, 1883 to 1885. Foreign Intelligence Committee, 1885-6. Second
Lieutenant H. M. S. Opal Thalia in Australia, 1886-88. Commander Devonport,
18B8-1892. Commanded H. M. Cruiser "Scout" in Mediterranean Stations, 1892 to
1895. Commanded H. M. Cruiser "Andromache" at the Spithead Jubilee, Russia,
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32 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1897, and received Jubilee medal from Queen's Secretary of Education Committee
at Admiralty, 1897 to 1S98, also Captain and Vice-President of R. N. College,
Greenwich, 1898. Commanding H. M. S. Marathon (cruiser), an East India Station,
from June, 1898; and is at present Senior Naval Officer of the Order Division.
He was mentioned in dispatches for Alexandria, and was recommended for the
Albert medal for saving life in Aug., 1881. Was 1900 on H. M. S. "Marathon."
i. HENRY MOSTYN, b. Sept. 20, 1879; d. June, 1883.
ii. KENNETT ALEXANDER PERROTT, b. Aug., 1882; now, 1900, at
St. Helen's College, South Sea, Hants.
CAPT. ARTHUR MOSTYN FIELD (John B., John, Thomas), b. Braybrooke,
Northamptonshire, England, June 27, 1855; m. Feb. 5, 1894, Laura May Hale ; b.
Aug. 17, 1865. He joined H. M. Navy in 1869, and has been employed in the survey-
ing branch ot the Navy, commanding Greenwich Line, 1885, H. M. Ships Dart,
Egem, Perquin, and Research. Then he was specially promoted to Lieutenant in
1875 for meritorious examinations, and received the Beaufort Testamonial for that
year. Promoted Commander, 1889, and Captain, 1895, and a Fellow of Royal
Astronomical Society and Fellow Royal Geographical Society. Res. Bronteville,
Southsea, England.
i. MARIE LAURA, b. June 21, 1895; d. Jan. 9, 1899.
ii. CECILIA MOSTYN, b. Sept. 28, 1896.
iii. THOMAS MOSTYN, b. Feb. 19, 1900.
PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH BRANCH.
RICHARD FIELD (A. 15 79- 1624), printer and stationer, was the son of "Henry
Feilde of Stratford uppon Avon, in the countye of Warwick, tanner" (Arber,
Transcript, ii.93), whose goods and chattels John Shakespeare, the father of the
poet, was employed with two others to value on 21 Aug., 1592 (Shakespeare, ed.
J. P. Collier, 1858, i. 112-15). Field was apprenticed to George Bishop, stationer
and printer, for seven years from 29 Sept., 1579. The first six years were to be
served with Thomas VautroUier, and the seventh with Bishop (Transcript ii. 93).
The term of apprenticeship expired in 1586. He was made free of the Stationers'
Company on 6 Feb., 1586-7, and in 1588 married, says Ames, "Jakin (Jacqueline), the
daughter of VautroUier," whom he succeeded "in his house m the Black Friars, near
Ludgate," using the same devices and sometimes printing the same copies. Collier
quotes the marriage register as "R. Field to Jacklin Vautrillian," 12 Jan., 1588
VENVS
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coitnt injfelfc hiehlj praifid, and vc^e tctr,ks jJitvttigf efjS
idle hearts, til! Ihtute hcxcuredycu ■withfimegritur labour. But
if the firU hei/e of tnjfimCKtionproaedefortr.ed/ police forieit
hidfonohU acod-f other : iuiit:eiitr aftireire fobarrtnaliJli,
forfeare it yecldmefiillfi badah/rueft, lUaue ittojotr Hsnoa-
riblefurucj find jour Honor to jcarbeart;content,'-<mbichlvci[h
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William Sbaksfpsaic.
(Memoirs of Actors in Shakespeare's Plavs, 1846, p. 223). It is stated, however, in
a list of master printers included in the "Stationer's Registers" (Transcript, iii. 702),
that Field married the widow of VautroUier and succeeded him in 1590. He took
his first apprentice on 3 Nov., 1589, followed by others, among them his younger
brother, Jasper. The first entry to him in the "Registers" is for ''a booke in French,
intitled: 'Le politique reforme' " (sic) (ib. ii. 511), on 24 Dec, 1588, of which he also
issued an English translation. In 1589 he printed Puttenhams "Arte of English
Poesie" and a handsome edition in a "neat brevier Italic", of "P. Ovidii Nasonis
Metamorphoseon libri xv. " "impensis Johannis Harrisoni," a bookseller with whom
he had many subsequent transactions. He was fined los. on 12 May for printing a
book contrary to order, and on 3 Nov., 1589 for keeping an apprentice unpresented
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34 FIELD GENEALOGY.
(ib. ii. 860-1). Sole license for the first edition of Harrington's translations of "Orlando
Furioso" was granted to him on 6 Feb., 1592 (Cal. State Papers, Eliz. 1591-4. p. 179).
In 1895 he produced his fine edition of North's "Plutarch," reprinted by him in 1603
and 1610-13. He came on the livery of the Stationers' Company on i July, 1598.
From an entry in the ' 'Register" on 4 June, 1599 he seems to have been at that time
among the unprivileged printers (Transcript iii. 678). He was chosen renter on 26
March. 1604, and on 17 June, 1605 paid 40 pounds instead of serving the office. On
II June, 1604, he was called to be assistant (ib. ii. 837, 840, iv. 29). He was several
times warden and master in 1620. Two presses were worked by him on 9 May, 161 5
(ib. iii. 699).
The last book known to bear his imprint is Camden's "Annales, traduites en
langue francoise par P. de Bellegent," 1624, 4to. On some Spanish books his name
appears as Ricardo del Campo. During thirty-six years Field printed many impor-
tant books, but he is chiefly interesting as the fellow-townsman and most probably
the personal friend of Shakespeare. He was the printer of the first (i593). the
second (1594), and the third (1596) editions of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," as
well as of the first (1594) edition of his ''Lucrece," all for John Harrison. Not one
of his quarto plays, however, came from Field's press. "In the production of
'Venus and Adonis,'" says Mr. Halliwell-Phillips, "it is only reasonable to infer
that the author had a control over the typographical arrangements. The purity of
the text and the nature of the dedication may be thought to strengthen 1 his opinion,
and, although poems were not then generally introduced to the public in the same
glowing terms usually accorded to dramatic pieces, the singularly brief and
anonymous title-page does not bear the appearance of a publisher's handi-
work" (Outlines of Life of Shakespeare, 7th ed. 1887, i. 101-4). Mr. Blades
suggests that when Shakespeare first came to London he visited his friend Field
and was introduced to VautroUier, in whose employment as press reader or shopman
he may have acquired that practical knowledge of the art ot printing shown in his
writings (Shakespeare and Typography, 1872, p. 26, etc). Collier was unable to
trace ' 'any relationship between Nathan Field, the actor, and Richard Field, the
printer, but they were neighbors, living in the same liberty of the Black Friars"
(Memoirs of Actors, 1S46, p. 223).
RICHARD FIELD, D. D. (i5bi-i6ib), divine, was born Oct. 15, 1561, at Hemel
Hempstead in Hertfordshire, of an old and reputable family. "His ancestors," says
his son and biographer, "were blessed with length ot days." The estate which he
inherited from his father and grandfather had been in the hands ot only three
owners in 160 years. He was educated at Berkhamstead School, and matriculated
at the age of sixteen (1577) as of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he remained till
he took his B. A. degree, 18 Nov., 1581, when he removed to Magdalen Hall. Here
he took his master's degree, 2 June, 1584, and was appointed to the "Catechism
Lecture," which, though in reality a private lecture for that house, was made by
him so interesting that it drew hearers from the whole university, among whom, it
is said, was Dr. Rainolds (or Reynolds), the well-known president ot Corpus Christi
College. He was now famous for his knowledge of school divinity, and esteemed
one of the best disputants in the university. His father, it would appear, had at
this time provided a match tor him as his eldest son, but his not taking orders was
made an indispensable condition ; upon which he returned to Oxford, and after a
residence of seven years, till he took his degree of B. D. 14 Jan., 1592, he was made
divinity reader in Winchester Cathedral. He appears then to have left Oxford,
but his character as an indefatigable student lived in the University long after his
departure, and "Dr. Field's rooms" were shown as an object of interest. In 1594
he was chosen divinity lecturer to the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, and soon
FIELD GENEALOGY. 35
after presented by Mr. Richard Kingsmill, a ben her of the Inn, to the rectory
of Burghclere, Hampshire. Mr. Kingsmill resided at Highclere, close by, and
brother. Sir William Kingsmill, at Sydmonton Court, not far off, and both families
were constant attendants at Burghclere church. Field was offered the more valuable
living of St. Andrew's, Holborn, which he declined, preferring the leisure and
quiet of Burghclere, where he passed the greater part of his time till his death. On
9 April, 1594 he married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Richard Harris,
sometime fellow of New College and rector of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire. On
7 Dec. 1596 he proceeded to the degree of D. D., being at that time of Queen's
College and described as "sometimes of Magdalen Hall." In September, 1598 he
received a letter from Lord Hunsdon, dated "from the court at Greenwich," desiring
him to come and preach before the queen (Elizabeth) on the 23rd of that month a
probationary sermon, upon which he was appointed one of her majesty's chaplains
in ordinary, and received a grant of the next vacant prebend at Windsor. This
grant is dated 30 March, 1602, and he succeeded to the vacancy and was installed 3
Aug., 1604. He was joined in a special commission with William, marquis of
Winchester, Thomas Bilson, bishop of Winton and others, for ecclesiastical causes
within the diocese of Winchester, and in another to exercise all spiritual jurisdic-
tion in the said diocese with Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas, bishop
of Winton, and others, by James I., 1603, to whom he was also chaplain, and by
whom he was sent to the Hampton Court conference, 14 Jan., 1603.
When King James came to Oxford in 1605, Field was sent for to take part in
the Divinity Act. Sir Nathaniel Brunt, then one of the proctors, and afterward
vicar-general and warden of Merton, declared that the disputation between Doctors
Field and Aglionby before the king, on the question "Whether saints and angels
know the hearts of men," was the best he ever heard. In 1610 he was made dean
of Gloucester, but never resided much, preaching rarely above four or five times a
year, but always commanding a great audience. He chiefly resided at Burghclere
and Windsor, and when in residence in the cloisters at the latter place during the
winter months his house was the resort of many eminent men, who came to enjoy
his learned conversation. He was on intimate terms with Sir Henry Saville.the
provost of Eton, and Sir Henry Nevill, who had been Queen Elizabeth's ambas-
sador to France, and lived near to Windsor. He often preached before the king
who, upon the first occasion that he heard him, exclaimed, "Is his name Field?
This is a field for God to dwell in." Similarly Fuller, years afterward, styled
him "that learned divine, whose memory smelleth like a field which the Lord hath
blessed." The king took singular pleasure in discussing with him nice and curious
points of divinity, and had designed to send him to Germany to compose the differ-
ences between the Lutherans and Calvinists, but for some reason not known the
project was dropped. His majesty also wished to bestow on him the bishopric of
Salisbury, but it seems the solicitations of his courtiers were powerful enough to
procure it for another person. It is certain, however, from a letter from Sir George
Villiers, afterward Duke of Buckingham, dated "from the court at Wansted 11 July,
ibi6" that the revision of the see of Oxford, upon its next avoidance, was proposed
to him. Bishop Hall who became dean of Worcester the month after Field's death
mentions that that deanery was designed for him, and laments that so learned a
man did not live to fill it. On 14 Oct., 1614 he lost his wife, who left him six sons
and a daughter. "He continued a widower about two years, when he was per-
suaded by his friends to marry again, and they recommended to him, for a religious,
wise, understanding woman, the widow of Dr. John Spencer, some time president
of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of whose birth and education Mr. Izaak Walton
gives us a very good character in the life of Mr. Hooker." Doctor Spencer's widow
36 FIELD GENEALOGY.
was Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop's nephew, and Izaak
Walton's aunt. Field, however, survived his second marriage a little more than a
month. On 15 Nov., 1616 he was seized with a fit of apoplexy and suddenly carried
off. He was buried in the outer chapel of St. George's, Windsor, below the choir.
A black marble slab with his figure in brass, was laid over his grave, and an inscrip-
tion, also in brass, recording his death and that of his first wife, Elizabeth Harris.
His great work was first published in 1606." The title is "Of the Church Five
Books, by Richard Field, Doctor of Divinity; at London imprinted by Humfrey
Lownes for Simon Waterson, 1606." This is a 4th volume. There are in reality
only four books. In ibio was printed "Tne Fifth Book of the Church, together
with an appendix contaming a defense of such passages of the former books that
have been excepted against, or wrested to the maintenance of Romish errors, by
Richard Field. Doctor of Divinity, London, printed by Nicholas Okes for Simon
Waterson," ibio, 4to. It has been discovered that there was another impression of
the volume of 1606, in which the errata were corrected. Both have the same date
and the same number of pages, but no two pages in the two books agree in all par-
ticulars, and Lowne's name does not appear in the title of the second impression.
These are Field's own editions, and are dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury
(Bancroft). A second edition of the whole ' Of the Church Five Books, by Richard
Field, D. D., and sometimes Dean of Gloucester. The second edition, very much
enlarged in the third book, and the appendix to the same; at Oxford imprinted by
William Turner, printer to the famous University, 1628." folio, was edited by
Nathaniel Field, the author's son, and dedicated to William ViUiers, Duke of Buck-
ingham. This edition is charged by the Scots in their "Canterburian's Self-convic-
tion," 1641, 4 to, with additions made by Archbishop Laud. The third edition was
printed "by William Turner, printer to the famous Universitie, 1635," folio. Modern
editions are those by the Ecclesiastical History Society, Cambridge, 1847-52, 4
vols. 8vo, reissued with new title, London, 1853, and an edition edited by the Rev.
J. S. Brewer, London, 1843, of which the first volume only was published. It
is needless to speak of a work which has long taken its stand by the
side of Hooker among the grandest monuments of polemical divinity in the
language. Anthony Wood's description of Field's personal character, his vast
learning and astonishing memory, his peaceable disposition and amiable qualities,
will be found in the "Athenai." It is well known tdat Field and Hooker were on
terms of the greatest friendship, which was probably brought about by Doctor
Spencer, their common friend, for Hooker was older than Field by eight years, and
had left the University before Field came there. Di-. Spencer was the dear friend
and fellow-pupil of Hooker, and edited his works.
In 1604 Field published a sermon on St. Jude v. 3, preached before the king at
Windsor, and shortly before his death had written a great part of a work entitled
"A View of the Controversies in Religion, which in these last times have caused the
Lamentable Divisions in the Christian World." This was never completed but the
preface is printed in his "Life," by his son, Nathaniel Field, Rector of Stourton,
Wiltshire, and published by John Le Neve, author ot the "Fasti Ecclesia Angli-
canae," in 1716. From a copy ot this life, interleaved with manuscript additions
from the author's rough draft by the editor (Le Neve), and some notes by Bishop
White Kennett (which copy is now in the British Museum), Gough drew up "The
Life of Field," which was printed in vol. vi. pt. i. ot the new edition of the "Bio-
graphia Britannica." Of that volume a manuscript note in the Bodleain copy says,
"Of this part I know ot but one copy existing." Chalmers, in his "Biographical
Dictionary," transcribed the article.
We have little to add but that King James, with his own hand, inserted Field's
FIELD GENEALOGY. 37
name as one of the tellows of Chelsea College, and on hearing of his death, ex-
pressed his regret in the words, "I should have done more for that man." Of Field's
sons, Nathaniel was prebendary ot Chichester and rector ot Stourton. Richard
was M. D. and died single, and was buried in St. Bride's Church, 1696. Giles died
in 1629, aged 21, and is buried in New College Chapel.
GEORGE FIELD (i777?-i854), chemist, was born in or about 1777 at Barkham-
stead, Hertfordshire, of a family long settled in that town, and was educated at St.
Peter's school there. When about eighteen years of age he came to London to seek
a profession. He thought he saw an opening in the careful application of chemistry
to pigments and dyes. War on the continent, by stopping the supply of madder
from Holland, threatened to impede his progress. This obstacle, however, led him
to consider the nature of its cultivation, and with a well-devised project he waited
on Sir Joseph Banks tor his advice, and, as he hoped, his co-operation. Sir Joseph
after unsuccessfully attempting to cultivate madder in Essex, had made up his mind
that it could not be done in England. Field then commenced the cultivation in his
own garden, and from roots ot his own growth produced beautiful specimens of
coloring matter. A contrivance, both mechanical and chemical, was still wanted
to reduce the liquid to its finest consistence. His invention of the "physeter" or
percolator by atmospheric pressure admirably accomplished this purpose. He ex-
hibited his percolator, together with an improved drying stove and press, before the
Society of Arts, and was awarded their gold Isis medal in 1816 "for his apparatus
of preparing colored lakes." Both apparatus are figured and described by him in
the society's "Transactions," xxxiv. 87-94. Oddly enough the percolator was
patented by others several years after, and applied to the clearing of sugar. Field
continued his application of science to the purposes of the artist with good effect;
his dexterity and care in the preparation of delicate color set all competition at
defiance. Among his other inventions may be mentioned his metrochrome and
his conical lenses, which produced a continuous rainbow with varied effects of
refractions. Field died at Syon Hill Park Cottage, Osleworth, Middlesex, on 28
September, 1854, aged 77. He bequeathed to the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects six architectural drawings by J. L. Bond; to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum
"The Maniac" by R. Dawes, R. A. ; while to the library of London University he
gave a portrait of Sir William Harvey, by Mirevelt (Gent. Mag. new ser. xlii. 596).
Field's reputation as an author rests on his "Chromatography; or, a Treatise
on Colors and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting," etc., 4to, London, 1835,
of which a new edition, "revised, rewritten., and brought down to the present time,"
by T.W. Salter, appeared in 1869, and a third, "modernized" by J. S. Taylor on the
basis of Salter's revision, in 1885. Another valuable professional treatise, his "Rudi-
ments ot the Painter's Art; or, A Grammar of Coloring," 12 mo, London, 1850,
was "revised and in part rewritten," by R. Mallet in 1870, and again in 1875 by E.
A. Davidson, who has added sections on painting in sepia, water-colors, and oils.
Field's other writings are: i. "A Brief Outline of the Universal System," in vol.
ix. of "The Pamphleteer," 8vo, London, 1813-26; 3rd edit,, 8vo. , London, 1846.
2. "The Third Organon attempted; or. Elements of Logic and Subjective Philoso-
phy," in vol. xii. of the same. 3. "The Analogy of the Physical Sciences indi-
cated," in vol. XV. of the same. 4. "Esthetics; or, the Analogy of the Sensible
Sciences indicated, with an appendix on light and colors," in vol. xxii. of the same.
5. "Ethics; or, the Analogy of the Moral Sciences indicated," in vol. xxiii. of the
same. 6. "Outlines of Analogical Philosophy, being a primary view of the prin-
ciples, relations, and purposes of nature, science, and art," 2 vols. 8vo, London,
1839.
FREDERICK FIELD (1826 1885), chemist, born in Lambeth on August 2, 1826,
38 FIELD GENEALOGY.
was the second son, by his second wife, of Charles Field of the firm of J. C. & J.
Field, candle-manufacturers, etc. Educated at Denmark Hill grammar school and
at Mr. Long's school at Stockwell (where he was a schoolfellow of Professor Od-
ling). Field showed so strong a liking for chemistry that on leaving school in 1843
he was placed in the laboratory of the Polytechnic Institution, then conducted by
Dr. Ryan. On leaving the Polytechnic, Field entered into partnership with a
chemist named Mitchell as an assayer and consulting chemist, but finding the need
of further training spent some time as a student under Dr. Hoffman in the Royal
College ot Chemistry in Oxford Street.
Field was one of the original members of the Chemical Society of London,
started in 1846, and he read his first paper to that society in the following year
(Memoirs Chem. Soc. iii. 404-n). In 1848 he accepted the post ot chemist to some
copper-smelting works at Coquimbo in Chili. Some account of his work there is
contained in his papers in the "Journal of the Chemical Society" for 1850, "On the
Examination of some Slags trom Copper-Smelting Furnaces," and "On the Ashes
ot the Cactus-plant," from which large quantities of carbonate of soda were obtained.
In 1 85 1 Field described a natural alloy ot silver and copper, which had the appear-
ance of nearly pure silver, and also discovered that a certain ore which occurred in
large quantities near Coquimbo was in reality pure lapis lazuli, the first found in
South America.
In 1852 Field was appointed manager of his company's works at Caldera, a new
port to the north of Coquimbo. Before assuming this position he visited England
and married a sister of (Sir) Frederick Abel, returning to Caldera in 1853, oi which
he was now appointed vice-consul. The post involved many responsibilities in a
land subject to revolutions. During the Russian war Field also acted as the repre-
sentative ot France in that district.
In 1856 Field became chemist and sub- manager to the smelting works then
established by Senor Urmeneta at Guayacan, which have since become one of the
largest copper-smelting works in the world. In 1859 a revolution broke out in
Chili. Field sent his wife and family to England, but himself remained and suc-
ceeded in preserving the establishment from injury. In September, 1859, he finally
quitted Chili for England. Soon after his arrival in London he was appointed
lecturer on chemistry to St. Mary's Hospital (i860), and in 1862 became professor of
chemistry in the London Institution. In the same year he was appointed chemist
to the aniline color works of Simpson, Maule & Nicholson, a post which he held
until 1866, when he became a partner in the old firm of his family — Messrs. J. C. & J.
Field— in which he remained and of which he was senior partner at the time of his
death. In 1876 Field's health began to fail, and after a long illness he died on
April 3, 1885.
Field wrote forty-three papers on scientific subjects for various periodicals, in
addition to one written in conjunction with his brother-in-law. Sir F. A. Abel.
Among them are: "On the Solvent Power exercised by Hyposulphite ot Soda on
many Salts insoluble in Water" ("Jour. Chem. Soc," 1863); "On the Solubility ot
the Halogen Salts of Silver in certain Solutions" (Chemical News, 1861); "On the
Existence ot Silver in Sea-water" ("Proc. ot the Royal Soc." vol. viii., 1856-7);
"Artificial Formation of Atacamite" ("Revue Universelle," 1850); on "Ludlamite,
a New Mineral;" and on "The General Distribution of Bismuth in Copper Minerals"
(Jour. Chem. Soc, 1S62).
COLLEGE GRADUATES BY THE NAME OF FIELD.
AMHERST COLLEGE. AMHERST, MASS.— Amherst graduates by the name
of Field have been:
1822, Pindar.
1833, Caleb C. Caleb Clesson Field, the son of George and Phila (Hol-
ton) Field, was bom at Northfield, Mass., May 27, 18 10. He prepared forcollege
at the New Salem (Mass.), Chesterfield (N. H.), and Amherst (Mass.) Academies.
After his graduation, he taught for two years in the Academy at Concord, Mass.
In 1835, he went to Boston and studied at a private medical school until June, 1836,
and continued his studies with Dr. James Deane, of Greenfield, Mass., till March,
1837, with Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene, N. H., for five months, and attended a
course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, from which institution he received
the degree of M. D. in December, 1837. He settled immediately as a physician at
Leominster, Mass., and practiced his profession there till his death, from pleuro-
pneumonia, May 6, 188 1. Dr. Field served as a member of the School Committee
of Leominster for forty-three years, and represented Leominster in the Massachu-
setts Legislature, 1873-74. He was married to Hannah Crosby, daughter of Tim-
othy Danforth, of Amherst, N. H., May 27, 1839. She died May 14, 1857, and two
of their six children are still living. Jan. 7, 1858, he was married to Mrs. Anne
Sophia Carter, daughter of Ephraim Warner, of Lunenburg, Mass., who died Jan.
16, i860. He was married to Martha, daughter of Luke Joslyn, of Leominster,
March 28, 1861, and she survives him.
1834, Thos. P. Born in Northfield, Mass., Jan., 12, 1814. He graduated at
Amherst College in 1834, studied theology at Andover, Mass., and graduated in
1840. He was a teacher in Amherst College in 1837 and 1838. He was settled
over the Congregational church in Peabody, Mass., in 1840, and was dismissed
in October, 1850, and was settled in November over the Second Presbyterian
church in Troy, N. Y., and was dismissed from that church in June, 1854,
and became professor of rhetoric and English literature in Amherst College,
which he filled until 1856, when he was installed over the First Congregational
church in New London, Conn., where he remained until 1876. In June, 1878, he
was again appointed a professor in Amherst College.
1835, Justin. Justin Field, the son of Justin and Harriet (Power) Field, and
brother of Rev. Thomas P. Field, D. D., of the class of 1834, was born in North-
field, Mass., April 10, 18 16, and was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School
and in Northfield Academy. He studied theology at Union Seminary, 1838-39, and
at Andover Seminary 1839-40. He was ordained priest in the Episcopal church by
Bishop Griswold, at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Sept. 7, 1842. From 1843 to 1845 he was
without charge, residing in Roxbury, now Boston Highlands. He was rector of
St. Paul's church, Stockbridge, Mass., from 1846 to 1850; of St. James' church.
Great Barrington, from 1850 to 1852; of Grace church, Medford, from 1852
to 1862, and of Trinity church, Lenox, in the same state, from 1862 to 1890.
A part of that year and the next he spent in travel in Great Britain and
Europe. In 1892 he was employed in preaching during January in Columbus, Ga.,
and for about three months afterward in Brooksville, Fla. Returning to the north,
he resided in West Newton, Mass., until his death from cystitis, March 5, 1893.
Mr. Field was married (i) 'June 26, 1862 to Caroline C, daughter of George C.
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Wilde, of Boston, who died March 23, 1887; (2) April 26, 1890, to Louise H. Irene,
daughter of Hon. Wellesley H. Hylton-Joliffe, of Somerset, Hants, England, who
with two of his three children survives him.
1846. Levi Alpheus son of Alpheus and Caroline (Adams) Field, born in Lev-
erett, Sept. 17, 1821; fitted for college at Shelburne Fails and Monson Academies;
Andover Seminary, 1846-49; preached at Mitteneague (West Springfield); ordained
at Marlboro, Mass., Aug. 31, 1853; pastor there till his death, Oct. 22, 1859; married
Nancy, daughter of Cyrus W. Holmes, of Monson; one child.
1869, Henry K., address Mills Building, San Francisco, Cal.
1880, Clifton L., address Greenfield, Mass.
1880, Henry P. (Hon.), address Northampton, Mass.
1883, Walter T., address 378 Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.
1896, Leonard Hamilton, Jr. (in Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1896-99).
Non-graduate students: Class of 1825, Constant; 1867, Edward A.; 1874, Ed-
wm F. ; 1892, Arthur E.
YALE COLLEGE. NEW HAVEN, CONN.— 1732. Seth Field; 1745, Samuel;
1762, Samuel; 17S5, Simeon; 1795, Joseph; 1797, Timothy; 1802, Daniel D. ; 1807,
Henry; 1831, Junius L. ; 1S33, Samuel; 1841, David I.; 1S41, Maunsell B. ; 1877,
Burr K. ; 18S8, John E. ; 1S89, Theron P. ; 1893, John H. ; 1896, Wm. P.
Josephus Field, Mr., S.T.D., 1840; class 1809; died 1869.
Curtis Field, LL.D., class ot 1844.
George Paisley Field, LL. B., 1855, class of 1851; died 1859.
George Washington Field, class ot 1851, lawyer.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.— 1809. Joseph Field,
d. 1869; 1S44, Curtis Field; 1851, George Paisley, d. 1859; 1851, George Washing-
ton; 1859, Henry Martyn ; 1863, George Gibson; 1872, Alfred Withington ; 1878,
Charles Elmer; 1880, Jacob Brainard; 1884. Charles Merritt.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICH:— Albert Field, 1866-
67, Lit., M.D. (Long Island) 1867. East Hampton, Conn. ; Charles Fred Field, A.B.,
1875, 292 Kirby avenue, Detroit, Mich.
Clifton Lamson Field, 1882-83, Law, A. B. (Amherst College) 1880, clerk ot
court, Greenfield, Mass.
Edward Clem Field. 1883, Ph.C, 453 Main street, Buffalo. N. Y.
Elisha Chapman Field. 1865, LL.B..Monon Building, Chicago, 111.
Ferdinand Thomas Field, 1884, M.D., Elroy, Wis.
Freeman Field, 1893-95, Lit., 1897, LL. B., 679 Jefferson avenue, Detroit. Mich.
George Samuel Field, 1895, LL. B., 30 Buhl Block, Detroit, Mich.
George Washington Field, 1868, LL.B.,A.A. (Ohio Wesleyan University) 1864,
A.M. (Ohio Wesleyan University) 1867, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb.
Henry George Field, B. S. (Eng. ) 1893. 1203 Majestic Building. Detroit, Mich.
Henry Power Field. 1882, LL.B., A.B. (Amherst College) 1880.
Jane Estelle Field. 1896. A.B.. Stillwater. Minn.
Kirke Hart Field. 18S0. LL.B., Redlands, Cal.
Nelson Curtis Field, 1890, A. B., Glenwood, Iowa.
S. Graham Field, 1873-74, Law, registered trom Kalamazoo. Mich.
William Davis Field, 1889-90. M.D., West Stockbridge. Mass.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA.— The following
is a list of all the Fields who have been students of the University of Virginia since
its foundation. The first line to each name gives his record here, viz., date of
birth, home address, last year of attendance. The second line gives the subsequent
FIELD GENEALOGY. 41
record when known. Those not stated to be dead are presumed to be still living,
at the address given.
John, Charlottesville, Va., 1831 ; no record since.
John C, 1815, Gloucester C. H. , Va., 1837; died August, i86r.
Eldon C, 1831, Columbus, Miss., 1852; captain Confederate States Army;
planter, Floreyville, Miss.
Thomas G., 1836, Columbus, Miss., 1855; captain Confederate States Army;
fell at Harrisburg, Miss.
Wm. Thomas, 1836, Glassy Mountain, S. C, 1857: M.D. ; lieutenant Confeder-
ate States Army; member South Carolina Legislature, 1868; farmer, Pickens
C.H.,S. C.
W. Gibson, 1838, Culpeper C. H., Va., 1861; captain Confederate States Army;
fell July I, 1862, Malvern Hill.
JohnWm., 1836, Accomac county, Va., i85g; M.D. ; member Virginia Legisla-
ture; physician, Missouri.
David M., 1841, Sussex county, Va., i860; farmer; died 187-.
Scott, 1847, Canton, Miss., 1868; lawyer, Calvert, Tex.
Willis W., 1850, Woodford county, Ky., 1872; farmer, county surveyor, Ver-
sailles, Ky.
Joseph, Jr., 1853, Cambridge, Mo., 1875; no record since.
Charles W., Jr., 1858, Comorn, Va., 1878; lawyer, Baltimore, Md., 44 South
street.
Wm. W., 1857, Culpeper, Va. , 1879; lawyer, Denver, Col.
Samuels., 1865, Virginia, 1884; lawyer, Baltimore, Md., 301 St. Paul street.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, R. L— The persons by the name of
Field graduated trom Brown are the following. The ages I cannot give, but they
average about twenty -two :
Barnum, 1821; Charles Elmer, 1875; Evan Dale, 1899; George Wilton, 1887;
Harold Crivs, 1894; James Peirson, 1865; Thomas Gardner, 1870; William Goodell,
1808.
For further information, I reter you to the Historical Catalogue of Brown Uni-
versity, 1764-1894.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y.— Arthur Carpenter Field, M.E..
1891; born June 24, 1870; 250 Dearborn avenue, Chicago, 111. Father, Richard I.
Field, 250 Dearborn avenue, Chicago, 111.
Frederick William Field, B.S. in Arch., 1894, Aug. 4, 1871, 1915 West Genesee
street, Syracuse, N. Y. Father, Wm. R. Field, 88 Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Henry John Field. LL.B., 1896, May 11, 1870, Greenfield, Mass. Father not
known.
Rosamond Almeda Field, A.M., 1890 (Mrs. C. H. Estey), Jan. 16, 1867, Adding-
ton Road, Brookline, Mass. Father, T. B. Field, Wellsboro, Pa.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, N. H.— Andrew Emerson Field,
Barre, Vt., class 1846; Bohan Prentice Field, Bangor, Me., 1795, died 1843, aged 68;
Brayton Allen Field, Watertown, N. Y., 1878; Caleb Clesson Field, Leominster,
Mass., class of 1838, medical department, A.B., Amherst College, 1833, A.M. ;
Edwin Dewey Field, Hanover, N. H., class of 1880, medical department; Joseph
Field, class of 1792, died 1866, aged 94; Joseph Root Field, class of 1822, died 1828,
aged 33, see History of Northfield. Mass. ; Martin Field, honorary degree 1805,
lawyer, A.M., A.B. Williams 1798, died 1833, aged 60; Seth Field, class of 1824,
medical department, died 1851, aged 53; Walbridge Abner Field, lawyer, Boston,
Mass. ; tutor, 1855-58, assistant attorney-general of the United States, 1869-70, M. C,
1879; <iied 1899; Warren Asa Field, lawyer, died 1856, aged 74.
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Frederick C. Pierce, Historian and Genealogist, Chicago. Dear Sir: I have the
honor to inform you that there are no graduates of Beloit College by the name of
Field or Fields. In reply to yours of Jan. 3, 1900. Yours very truly, Chas. A.
Bacon, Librarian.
UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY, N. Y.— Jeremiah Field, class of 1816,
lawyer, Chester, Vt., removed to Ellsburg, N. Y., died 1861; George W. Field,
class of 1836, M.D., Geneva, N. Y., died Geneva, 1875; Thomas W. Field, class of
1849, teacher, died Williamsburg, N. Y. ; William H. Field, class of 1863, lawyer,
died New York City.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.— Martin Field, gradu-
ated 1798, M.A., Dartmouth, 1805, died 1833, aged 60; Levi Field, graduated 1799,
died 1820, aged 40; John Field, graduated 1807, died 1S27, aged 48; Lucius Field,
graduated 1821, M.A., Amherst, 1826, died 1839, aged 48, tutor Amherst; Constant
Field, graduated 1825, M.D., Berkshire Medical, 1829, died 1833, aged 29; David
Dudley Field, graduated 1825, M.A., 1838, LL.D., 1855, also Univ. Bologna and
Univ. Edinburgh; Jonathan Edwards Field, graduated 1832, president Massachu-
setts Senate, died 1868, aged 56; David. Dudley Field, graduated 1837; Stephen
Johnson Field, graduated 1837, M. A., LL.D., 1864, professor of law, Univ. of Calif,
judge and chief justice supreme court of California and justice supreme court of
the United States; Henry Martyn Field, graduated 1838, M.A., D.D., 1862; Samuel
Tobey Field, graduated 1848; Dudley Field, graduated 1850, died 1880, aged 50;
Henry Martyn Field, graduated 1854; Cyrus West Field, graduated 1859; Aaron
Wesley Field, graduated 1865; Matthew Dickinson Field, graduated 1875, M.D.,
1880, Bellevue Medical College, 1879, Edward Morse Field, graduated 1876, M.A. ;
Cyrus William Field, graduated 1879; Charles Field, graduated 1881; William
Davis Field, graduated 1886.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, N. Y.—Archelaus G., medicine,
1864; Chauncey M., medicine, 1875; Cortlandt de P., arts, 1859; Edward P., law,
1880; Edward S., arts, 1881, law,. 1883; Edwin, medicine, 1873; Frank H., law,
1888; Henry M., medicine, 1862; Jacob T., medicine, 1863; Joseph K., law, 1879;
Otis, arts, 1873; William H., law, 1865; Peter Conover, medicine, 1895.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VT.— Henry Francis Field,
of Rutland, Vt., in 1894 received the honorary degree of A.M. He is now cashier
of Rutland County National Bank ; superintendent Sunday-school, Congregational.
PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER. MASS.— Artemas Clinton Field, San-
bomton, N. H., 1853-55; Barnum W. Field, Boston, Mass., 1842; Charles Arm-
strong Field, Dorset, Vt., 1871; Henry Martyn Field, West Cambridge, Mass., 1855;
John Worcester Field, West Cambridge, Mass., 1853-55; William Evarts Field,
West Cambridge, Mass., 1865; Charles Field, Jr., Athol, Mass., graduated trom
Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1877, from Williams College in 1881; Charles Kings-
ley Field, 23 Park street. Park Lane, London, W., England, here in 1897, did not
graduate; Edward Davenport Field, 41 Prospect street, Rutland, Vt., here in 1895-96,
did not graduate; John Howe Field, 27 North Main street, Rutland, Vt., graduated
in 1889, Yale 1892; Charles Clesson Field, 598 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
here in 1890, did not graduate; Tracy Cameron Field, 23 Park street. Park Lane,
London, W., England, here in 1897, did not graduate; William Henry Field, Rut-
land, Vt. graduated in 1895; William Joslin Field, 53 Spring street, Keene, N, H.,
here in 1896-97, did not graduate.
THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY, EXETER, N. H.— 1851, Artemas
Clinton Field, Lempster, H. H., clergyman, Hinesburg, Vt. ; 1866. Roswell Martin
Field, St. Louis, Mo., journalist, Kansas City, Mo.; 1876, George Walker Field,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 43
Ferrisburg, Vt., farmer, Burlington, Vt. ; 1886, James William Field, Berwick,
Me., business, Exeter, N. H.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON, ILL.— Elizabeth Field,
nee Edwards, class ot 1889, bom 1867, Syracuse, N. Y. ; married Howard Field,
June 12, 1890; address 1562 Maple avenue, Evanston.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, WIS.— George Wm. Field,
graduated 1870, A.B., A.M., M.D., Chicago Medical College, 1875, residence Eagle
Grove, Iowa; Jennie, graduated 1874, Mrs. James W. Bashford, Delaware, Iowa;
Walter Scott, graduated 1878, B.S., LL.B., 1880, assistant attorney Vernon county.
Wis.. 1886-90, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Jesse Southwick, graduated 1886, city attor-
ney, district attorney. Pierce county, Wis., residence Prescott, Wis.; Samuel M.,
graduated 1895, LL.B., attorney, 207 Sixth street, Racine, Wis.
OBERLIN COLLEGE, OBERLIN, OHIO.— Mrs. Abby Manchester Field-
Goodsell, 1876, born Jan. 8, 1856, Byron, Cal. ; Adelia Antoinette Field- Johnston,
1856, born Feb. 5, 1837, dean Woman's Department, Oberlin College; Anna Louise
Hine-Field, 1882, born March 7, 1855, 80 Kentucky street, Cleveland, Ohio; May
Baldwin Fairfield-Field, 1883; 1828 North street, Lincoln, Neb.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, N. J.— Robert Field, graduated
1793, no details; James Ten Eyck Field, graduated 1806; born Oct. 31, 1787, died
1866, married Rachel Depuy, had daughter who died an infant, and son Depui
(Princeton, 1830), see later; Richard Stockton Field, graduated 1821; born Dec.
31, 1803, died May 25, 1870; Depui Field, graduated 1830, see above, died 1835;
George G. Field, graduated 1839, no details, still living; Roscoe Field, graduated
1848, no details, still living; Alexander Shaw Field, graduated 1852, no details, still
living; Edward Field, graduated 1861, born May 18, 1841, still living; Chauncey
Mitchell Field, graduated 1871, born March 27, 1850, died July 12, 1895, third son of
Richard R. and Margaretta Field; Richard Edgar Field, graduated 1874, no
details, died 1891 ; William Pierson Field, graduated 1883, no details, still living.
THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.— Daniel Webster Field, non-graduate,
born in 1814 in Providence, R. I., lett college in 1835 at close ot sophomore
year; engaged in dry goods business in Providence, R. I., several years; became a
portrait painter for several years; atterward devoted himself to jewelry, study ot
mechanics, and landscape painting; married in 1835 Nancy Curtis, of Springfield,
Mass. Children— Daniel C, Elizabeth S. married E. S. Leavitt, Helen S. married
W. H. Green, Zipporah C. married Frank Jones.
Leon Chester Field, A.B., 1870; born in Southbridge, Mass., Feb. 7, 1847; was
a teacher and Methodist minister; married Aug. 22, 1870, Clara Elizabeth Crowell,
ot Ware, Mass. Children — Leona Minor, born '1875; Grace Josephine, born 1878,
died 1879. He died in 1885.
FIELDS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
FIELDS FROM MASSACHUSETTS,
The tollowmg is a complete, correct, and ofl&cial list of persons by the name of
Field, however spelled, who served in the Revolutionary army from the state
of Massachusetts. It is compiled from the publications recently issued by the State,
under the direction of the Secretary of State. This name also appears under the
form of Feaild, Feald, Fealds, Feeald, Feild, Feildes, Feilds, Feld, Fiealds, Fields.
FEAILD, PETER. Seaman, schooner "Franklin," Samuel Green, master;
engaged March 14, 1777; discharged May 13, 1777; service, 2 mos. 29 days (?).
FEALD, JAMES. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co., Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regt., commanded by Lieut. Col. James Williams, Brig. Gen. Godfrey's (Bristol co.)
brigade; service, 6 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiverton, R. I., on
the alarm of Aug. i, 1780.
FEALDS, BARZILLAL Private. Capt. Zebedee Redding's co., Col. Gamaliel
Bradford's (12th) regt. ; pay roll for December, 1778,
FEEALD, SAMUEL, JR., Andover. Private, Capt. Joshua Holt's (4th An-
dover) co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, i
1-2 days.
FEILD, BENJAMIN. Private, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co., Col. Palmer's
regt. ; service, 4 days at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
FEILD, BAZALEEL. List dated Taunton, May 21, 1778, ot men mustered
by James Leonard, muster master, to serve for the term of 9 mos. from the time of
their arrival at FishkiU; Capt. Samuel Robinson's (ist Attleborough) co., Col.
John Daggett's (4th Bristol co. ) regt. ; age, 16 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complex-
ion, light; hair, black; eyes, dark; engaged for town of Attleborough; arrived at
FishkiU June 19, 1778.
FEILD, EBENEZER. Private. Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co.. Col. Palmer's
regt. ; service, 4 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
BEILD, EBENEZER, JR. Sergeant, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co.. Col.
Palmer's regt.; service, 15 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March
4. 1776.
FEILD, FOBES. Private, Capt. Nathan Packard's co., Col. Edward Mitch-
ell's regt.; service, 5 days; company ordered to Squantum March 4, 1776, on an
alarm.
FEILD, JACKSON. Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co.. Col. Palmer's regt. ; serv-
ice, 15 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
FEILD, JOHN. Private, Capt. Israel Trow's co.. Col. John Daggett's regt. ;
entered service Jan, 19, 1778; discharged March 31, 1778; service, 2 mos. 13 days,
under Maj. Gen. Spencer at Rhode Island; company dratted to serve for 3 months
from Jan. i, 1778. Roll sworn to at Norton.
FEILD, JONATHAN. Private, Capt. Josiah Vose's (Milton) co. ; service,
from April 13 to April 26, 1776, 12 days, in defense of seacoast.
FEILD, JOSEPH. Capt. John Worthley's co.. Col. Edmund Phinney's regt. ;
order tor bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Fort No. 2, 1775.
FEILD, JOSEPH. Private, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co. ; Col. Palmer's
regt. : service, 10 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
FEILD, RICHARD. Corporal, Capt. Nathan Snow's co., Col. Hawes's regt.;
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FIELD GENEALOGY. 45
enlisted Sept. 24, 1777; service i mo. 9 days, on a secret expedition to Rhode
Island. Roll sworn to at Plymouth.
FEILD, RICHARD. Private, Capt. Nathan Packard's co.. Col. Edward
Mitchell's regt. , service, 5 days; company ordered to march to Squantum March 4,
1776, on an alarm.
FEILD. ROBERT. Descriptive list dated West Point, Jan. 20, 1781; Capt.
Ebenezer Smith's co. ; lieut. Col. Smith's (6th) regt.; age, i4yrs; stature, 4 ft. 7
in. ; complexion, light; hair, light; eyes, g^'^y; rank, drummer; enlisted Jan.,
1760, by Maj. Porter; enlistment, during war.
FEILD, SOLOMON. List dated Taunton, May 21, 1778, ot men mustered by
James Leonard, muster master, to serve for the term of 9 mos. from the time of
their arrival at Fishkill; Capt. Samuel Robinson's ist (Attleborough) co., Col. John
Daggett's (4th Bristol co.) regt. ; age, 17 yrs. ; statue, 5 ft. 8 in. ; complexion, dark;
hair, black; eyes, black; engaged tor town of Attleborough; arrived at Fishkill
June 19, 1778.
FEILD, THOMAS. Receipt dated Boston, May 3, 1782, tor bounty paid said
Feild by Alexander Hodgdon, in behalf of a committee of the town of Boston, to
serve in the Continental Army for the term ot 3 yrs.
FEILD, TIMOTHY. Private, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co. ; Col. Palmer's
regt, ; service, 7 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
FEILD, WILLIAM. Corporal, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s (ist) co.. Col. Palmer's
regt. ; service, 15 days, at Rhode Island; company assembled March 4, 1776.
FEILD, ZEBULON, Taunton. Drummer, Capt. Ichabod Leonard's co., Col.
John Hathaway 's regt.; service, 20 days; company marched from Taunton to
Tiverton, R. I., in April, 1777.
FEILDES, JOHN. Power of attorney, dated Feb. 22, 1785, given to Mason
Wattles, by said Feildes, a laborer of New Rochelle, N. Y., to collect the wages, etc.,
due him for service in the army.
FEILDING, JOHN. Private. loth Mass. regt. ; list of men belonging to the
Mass. line reported as not having been mustered or who were omitted from pay
rolls to whom wages and depreciation were allowed; reported omitted July, 1777.
FEILDS, JOSEPH. Descriptive list of men raised to serve in the Continental
army for the term of 9 mos. from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, returned as
mustered in from Gen. Thompson's brigade May 19, 1778, by Daniel Ilsley, muster
master, for Cumberland co., and delivered to Maj. James Johnston, superintendent
for said co. ; age, 29 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 93^ in. ; complexion, light.
FELD, PETER. Capt. Micajah Gleason's co., Col. Nixon's regt.; company
receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 10, 1775.
FELD, ZEBULON, 3d. List of men mustered for 6 mos. service at Rhode
Island by James Leonard, muster master for Bristol co., dated July 7, 1778; Col.
George William's regt.
FIEALDS, SAMUEL, Andover. Private, Capt Joshua Holt's (4th Andover)
CO., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, i day;
reported as among men who were aged or unable to bear arms who carried provis-
ions to Cambridge for those in need.
FIELD, AARON, Springfield. Surgeon's mate, Lieut. Col. Barnabas Sear's
regt.; marched Aug. i. 1781; discharged Nov. 15, 1781; service, 3 mos. 21 days,
travel included; regiment raised for 3 mos. Roll sworn to at Greenwich.
FIELD, ABIEZER, Taunton. Private, Capt. Ichabod Leonard's co.. Col.
John Hathaway's regt. ; service, 20 days ; company marched from Taunton to
Tiverton, R. I., in April, 1777, by order of Brig. Gen. Godfrey.
FIELD, ABIEZER, Taunton. Private, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's co., Col. Josiah
46 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Whitney's regt. ; service, i mo. 23 days; company marched from Taunton to Prov-
idence, R. 1. Roll made up for wages and travel, agreeable to resolve of April,
1777, and sworn to at Taunton, Sept. 23, 1777.
FIELD, ABIEZER. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co., Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regt., commanded by Lieut. Col. James Williams, Brig. Gen. Godfrey's (Bristol
CO.) brigade; service, 8 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiverton, R. 1.,
on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780.
FIELD, ASA. Private, Capt. Samuel Merriman's (2d) co., Col. Israel Chap-
en's (3d) regt; enlisted Oct. 15, 1779; discharged Nov. 21, 1779; service, i mo. 14
days, travel included; roll endorsed "service at Claverack."
FIELD, BARZILLIA, Bridgewater. Private, Capt. Abiel Peirce's co., Col.
Nicholas Dike's regt. ; pay abstract for mileage to and from camp, etc. ; warrant
allowed in Council, Nov. 30, 1776; also, Capt. Edward Cobb's co. ; service, 2 mos.
4% days; company marched from Bridgewater and Abington April 21, 1777, to
Bristol, R. 1.; roll endorsed "Col. Titcomb's regt.;" also, Capt. John Ames's co. ;
enlisted June 26, 1778; discharged July 20, 1778; service, 24 days; company march-
ed to Rhode Island June 26, 1778, and joined Col. Wade's regt. June 27, 1778, tor 24
(also given 21) days' service; also, Capt. Jacob Pool's co.. Col. Jacob's (Plymouth
CO.) regt. ; enlisted July 21, 1780; discharged Oct. 21, 1780; service, 3 mos. 13 days,
travel included ; company raised to reinforce the Continental Army for 3 mos. ; roll
sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, BENJAMIN, Falmouth. Capt. Samuel Noyes's co.. Col. Edmund
Phinnie's (31st) regt; billeting allowed from date ot enlistment July 10, 1775, to
date ot marching irom Falmouth, July 13, 1775; credited with 3 days' allowance;
also, private, same co. and regt.; company return (probably Oct., 1775); also, order
for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Fort No. 2, Cambridge, Oct. 27,
1775.
FIELD, BENJAMIN, Greenwich. Private, Capt Joseph Hooker's co. of
Minute-men, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's regt, which marched April 20, 1775, in
response to the alarm ot April 19, 1775; service 18 days; also, Capt. John Thomp-
son's CO.; Col. Leonard's (Hampshire co.) regt, enlisted May 7, 1777; discharged
July 8, 1777; service, 2 mos. 10 days, travel included; company marched to rein-
force Northern army for 2 mos.
FIELD, BEZALEEL. Private, Capt Elisha May's co. ; enlisted Sept,
1776; discharged Nov., 1776; company served on a 2 mos.' campaign at New
York.
FIELD, DANIEL, Buxton. Capt John Rice's co. ; billeting allowed from date
of enlistment, July 3, 1775, to date of marching from Scarborough, to headquarters,
July 4, 1775; credited with allowance for i day; also, private, Capt. John Rice's
CO., Col. Edmund Phinney's (31st) regt ; company return dated Sept. 29, 1775.
FIELD, DANIEL, Pepperell. Enlistment agreement signed by said Field and
others, engaging themselves to serve tor 3 yrs., unless sooner discharged; enlisted
Dec. 23, 1776; also, list of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, Muster Master for
Suffolk CO., dated Boston, Jan. 8, 1777: Capt Thomas's co.. Col. Thomas Marshall's
regt; also, private. Colonel's co.. Col. Marshall's regt; Continental army pay ac-
counts for service from Jan. i, 1777, to Jan. 22, 1778; reported died Jan. 22, 1778;
also, 2d sergeant, Capt. Philip Thomas's co.. Col. Thomas Marshall's regt. ; rations
allowed from date of enlistment, Dec. 23, 1776, to Feb. 6, 1777; credited with 46
days' allowance; subsistence also allowed tor 11 days' travel on march from Boston
to Bennington; also, Capt Philip Thomas's (5th) co.. Col. Thomas Marshall's (loth)
regt ; return of men in camp on or before Aug. 15, 1777.
FIELD, DANIEL, Pepperellborough. Private, Capt John Elden's co.. Col.
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Lemuel Robinson's regt. ; company return dated Roxbury, Feb. 26, 1776; also,
company receipt dated Dorchester, April i, 1776, given to Capt. John Elden, tor
travel allowance to camp and home.
FIELD, DANIEL (also given Jr.),Pownalborough (also given Pepperellborough,
Walla, and Sanford). List of men raised to serve in the Continental army from
Capt. Larkin Thorndike's, Capt. John Woodbury's, and Capt. Joseph Rae's ist, 2d,
and 3d COS. in Beverly, dated Beverly, Feb. 13, 1778; residence, Pownalborough ;
engaged for town ot Beverly; joined Capt. William Peter's (Porter's) co., Col.
Francis's regt. ; term, 3 years; said Field reported as belonging to ist Beverly co. ;
also, list of men mustered by Nathaniel Wells, muster master for York co., dated
Wells, March 12, 1777; residence Pepperellborough; Capt. Porter's co.. Col. Ebene-
zer Francis's regt. ; reported received state bounty ; also, private, Capt. Billy Por-
ter's CO., Col. Benjamin Tupper's regt. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service
from Feb. 27, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; residence. Wells; also, detachment from Capt.
Porter's co.. Col. Francis's regt. ; rations allowed from date of enlistment, Feb. 27,
1777, to time oi marching; credited with 47 days' allowance; residence, Sanford;
also, Capt. Billy Porter's co.. Col. Benjamin Tupper's regt; muster roll for Jan.
1779, dated West Point; reported furloughed by Gen. Paterson, Nov. 19, 1777, for
60 days.
FIELD, DANIEL. Capt. Nathan Alden's co. ; Col. Jeremiah Hall's regt. ;
company order, payable to Capt. Alden, tor wages for 3 mos.' service at Bristol,
R. I , dated Bristol, March 7, 1777.
FIELD, DANIEL. List of men in Capt. J. Sprague's division in service in
Oct. 1777.
FIELD, DANIEL, JR., Buxton. Private, Capt. John Elden's co.. Col. Lemuel
Robinson's regt; company return dated Roxbury, Feb. 26, 1776; also, company
receipt dated Dorchester, April i, 1776, given to Capt. John Elden, tor travel allow-
ance to camp and home.
FIELD, DARIUS. Private, Capt. Rufus Barney's co.. Col. Carpenter's regt. ;
service, 4 days, on an alarm at Rhode Island; company detached to march to
Tiverton, R. I., for 6 days; roll dated July 28, 1780; also, Capt John Shaw's co..
Col. Abiel Mitchel's regt.; service, 4 days; company marched to Rhode Island
March 6, 1781, by order of His Excellency John Hancock, on a 40 days' expedition.
FIELD, DAVID. Official record of a ballot by the House of Representatives
dated Jan. 31, 1776; said Field chosen Colonel of 5th Hampshire co., regt. ot Mass.
militia; appointment concurred in by Council Feb. 8, 1776; reported commissioned
Feb. 8, 1776; also, colonel; return dated Boston, April 8, 1777; signed by Brig.
Gen. Timothy Danielson, of companies of militia from Hampshire co.. which
turned out as volunteer under Col. David Leonard and Lieut. Col. May to reinforce
the army at Ticonderoga, agreeable to order of Council of Feb., 1777; two com-
panies raised from said Field's regt. ; also, resignation dated Deerfield. Feb. 14, 1778,
signed by said Field, stating that he had been appointed to the "first commission"
in 5th Hampshire co. regt., that he had served in that capacity to the best of his
ability, but owing to old age was no longer able to fulfill the duties ot his office, and
asking that his resignation be accepted; resignation accepted by General Court,
Feb. 20, 1778.
FIELD, EBENEZER, Amherst Capt Noadiah Leonard's co., Col. Benjamin
Ruggles Woodbridge's (25th) regt. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June
22, 1775; also, private, same co. and regt. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted
May 2, 1775; service, 3 mos. 7 days; also, company return (probably Oct., 1775);
also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Prospect Hill, Oct.
25. 1775-
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FIELD, EBENEZER, Brookfield. Matross, Capt. William Todd's (8th) co..
Col. Thomas Craft's (artillery) regt. ; service from Feb. i, 1776, to date of discharge,
May 8, 1776, 3 mos. 7 days. Roll sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, EBENEZER, Western. Corporal, Capt. Reuben Read's co. of Minute-
men Col. Jonathan Warner's regt. ; which marched April 20, 1775, m response to
the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Roxbury; service, 8 days; also, sergeant, Capt. John
Grainger's CO., Col. Ebenezer Learned's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; en-
listed April 28, 1775; service, 3 mos. i week 4 days; also company return dated
Oct. 7, 1775; also, lieutenant. Col. William Shepard's (4th) regt. ; Continental army
pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779; also, Capt. Thomas
Fish's CO., Col. William Shepard's (3d) regt.; muster roll for Oct. and Aug., 1778;
also, Lieut. Col. Ebenezer Sprout's co., Col. Shepard's regt. ; muster roll for March
and April, 1779, dated Providence; appointed Jan. i, 1777; reported furloughed May
4, also given May 5 (year not given), for 10 (also given 8) days by Col. Shepard;
also, captain lieutenant. Col. Shepard's regt. ; return of officers for clothing dated
Salem, Aug. 28, 1779; also, lieutenant, Col. Shepard's regt.; Continental army pay
accounts for service from Jan. i, 1780, to April 14, 1780.
FIELD, EBENEZER, Wrentham. Private, Capt. Benjamin Haws's co., Col.
John Smith's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6 days;
also, Capt. Oliver Pond's co.. Col. Joseph Read's (29th) regt.; muster roll dated
Aug. I, 1775; enlisted May 1, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company return
dated Sept. 25, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated
Roxbury, Dec. 27, 1775.
FIELD, EBENEZER (also given Eben.), Jr., Braintree. Corporal, Capt. John
Hall, Jr.'s CO. of Minute-men of North Parish in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's
regt., which assembled April 19, 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service, 7 days;
also, private, Capt. Edmund Billing's co. ot North Precinct in Braintree, Col. Jona-
than Bass's regt. ; service, 2 days; company assembled June 13, 1776, to drive Brit-
ish ships from Boston harbor ; roll sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, ELIHU. Private, Capt. Amasa Sheldon's co.. Col. Elisha Porter's
regt.; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged July 18, 1777; service, 15 days, travel in-
cluded, on expedition to Northern department. Roll sworn to at Deerfield.
FIELD, ELIJAH, Sunderland. Private, Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col.
Ruggles Woodbridge's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; service,
7 days ; also, list of men returned as serving on picket guard under Maj. Loammi
Baldwin dated May 11, 1775; also, Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Benjamin
Ruggles Woodbridge's (25th) regt. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge,
June 24, 1775; also, private, same co. and regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775;
enlisted April 27, 1775; service, 3 mos. 12 days; also, company return (probably
Oct., 1775); also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge,
Oct 31, 1775.
FIELD, ELIJAH. Corporal, Capt. Reuben Petty's co.. Lieut. Col. Samuel
William's regt. ; engaged Dec. 16, 1776; discharged March 19, i777; service, 3 mos.
15 days, travel included.
FIELD, ELIJAH. Sergeant, Capt. Moses Harvey's co., Col. David Wells's
regt; engaged May 10, 1777; discharged July 10, 1777; service, 2 mos. 10 days,
travel included, in Northern department. Roll dated Montague.
FIELD, ELIJAH. Private, Capt Moses Harvey's co.. Col. Woodbridge's
regt; enlisted Aug. 22, 1777; 'discharged Nov. 29, 1777; service, 3 mos. 17 days,
travel included; company raised to reinforce Northern army; roll endorsed "service
at Saratoga."
FIELD, ELIJAH. Assistant at the scale, under Timothy Leonard, assistant
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commissary of issues, N. D., in Brig. Gen. Warner's brigade; enlisted Oct. 9, I777;
discharged Nov. 30, 1777; service, i mo. 29 days, 6 days' travel included.
FIELD, ELIJAH. Private, Capt. Samuel Merriman's (2d) co., Col. Israel
Chapen's (3d) regt. ; enlisted Oct. 15, 1779; discharged Nov. 21, 1779; service, i
mo. 14 days, travel included; roll endorsed "service at Claverack. "
FIELD, EPHRAIM, Braintree. Private, Capt. John Vinton's (Braintree) co.
of Minute-men, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt, which assembled April 29, i775:
service, 3 days.
FIELD, EPHRAIM. Private, in a company commanded by Capt. Thomas
Nash of Weymouth, Col. Solomon Lovell's regt ; service, 4 days; company marched
to take possession of Dorchester Heights March 4, 1776; roll endorsed "minute
roll."
FIELD, EPHRAIM. Descriptive list of men raised in Plymouth co, in 1779,
to serve in the Continental army ; age, 23 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 9 in. ; complexion,
light; engaged for town of Bridgewater; delivered to Capt. L. Bailey; also. Major's
CO., Col. Wesson's (gth) regt.; entered service July 24, 1779; discharged April 24,
1780; term, 9 mos.
FIELD, EPHRAIM. Private, Capt. David Packard's co., Col. Gary's regt.;
service, 11 days; company marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of July 22, 1780.
FIELD, FOBES, Bridgewater. Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co. of Minute-
men, Col. Bailey's regt, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 4
days; also, Capt Snell's co.. Col. Mitchel's regt.; marched Dec. 8, 1776; service,
2 weeks, 2 days; company marched to Providence, R. I., on the alarm of Dec. 8,
1776; also, Capt. David Packard's co., Col. Cary's regt. ; service, 11 days; company
marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of July 22, 1780.
FIELD, GEORGE. Private, Capt. Timothy Paige's co., Col. James Conver's
regt.; enlisted Aug. 21, 1777; discharged Aug. 31, 1777; service, 10 days-; company
marched to Bennington on an alarm.
FIELD, GEORGE. Sergeant, Capt. Samuel Merriman's co., 6th Hampshire
CO. regt.; engaged Sept. 22, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service i mo. 3 days,
travel included, on an expedition to the northward.
FIELD, HENRY. Private, Capt. Elihu Lyman's co.. Col. Elisha Porter's
(Hampshire CO.) regt. ; enlisted July 25, 1779; discharged Aug. 31, 1779; service, i
mo. 13 days, travel included, at New London, Conn.
FIELD, HENRY. Private, Capt. Eliphalet Sawen's co.. Col. William Mcin-
tosh's regt.; enlisted March 25, 1778; discharged April 7, 1778; service, 13 days,
with guards at Roxbury; also, corporal, Capt. Thomas Newcomb's co., Col. Eben-
ezer Thayer's regt.; enlisted July 22, 1780; discharged Oct. 10, 1780; service, 3
mos., travel included; reported discharged 220 miles from home; company raised
to reinforce Continental army for 3 mos. ; part of company stationed at West Point
and part at Rhode Island ; list of men raised for Continental service agreeable to re-
solve of Dec. 2, 1780; engaged Dec. 30, 1780; engaged for town of Braintree; term,
3 yrs.
FIELD, JACKSON, Braintree. Private, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s co. of Minute-
men of North Parish in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt., which assembled
April 19. 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service, 7 days; also, Capt. Edmund Billing's
CO. of North Precinct in Braintree, Col. Jonathan Bass's regt. ; service, 5 days; com-
pany assembled June 13, 1776, to drive British ships from Boston harbor; roll sworn
to at Boston.
FIELD, JAMES. Private, Capt. Micah Hamblin's co. ; enlisted July 13, 1775;
service to Dec. 31, 1775, in defense of seacoast. Roll sworn to in Barnstable Co.
FIELD, JOHN, Marblehead. List ot men raised to serve in the Continental
y
50 FIELD GENEALOGY.
army from Col. Jonathan Glover's {5th Essex co.) regt., as returned agreeable to
order of Council of Nov. 7, 1777; residence, Marblehead; engaged for town of Mar-
blehead; term, 3 yrs.
FIELD, JOB, Rhode Island. Volunteer, ship "Dean." commanded by Capt.
Elisha Hinman; descriptive list of oflScers and crew dated Boston, Nov., 1780;
age, 10 yrs. ; complexion, dark ; residence, Rhode Island.
FIELD, JOB, Swanzey. List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army
from Col. Jonathan Glover's (5th Essex Co.) regt., as returned agreeable to order ot
Council of Nov. 7, 1777; residence, Swanzey; engaged for town of Marblehead;
joined Col. William Lee's regt. ; term, 3 yrs.
FIELD, JOB. Marine, brig "Hazard," commanded by Capt. John Foster
Williams; engaged May 14, 1779; service to Sept. 6, 1779, 3 mos. 24 days; national-
ity, American; stature, 5 ft. s% iii- Roll sworn to in Suffolk Co.
FIELD. JOB. Private, Capt. Eliphalet Sawen's co.. Col. William Mcintosh's
regt.; enlisted March 25, 1778; discharged April 7, 1778; service, 13 days, with
guards at Roxbury; also, Capt. Joseph Baxter's co.. Col. Mcintosh's regt.. Gen.
Lovell's brigade; enlisted Aug. 5, 1778; discharged Sept, 14, 1778; service, i mo. 13
days, travel included ; company detached trom militia for service on an expedition
to Rhode Island ; roll dated Braintree and sworn to at Boston ; also, descriptive list
of men raised to reinforce Continental army for the term of 6 mos., agreeable to
resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by Brig.
Gen. John Glover, at Springfield, July 9, 1780; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 6 in.;
complexion, light; engaged for town of Braintree; arrived at Springfield July 8,
1780; marched to camp July 9, 1780. under command of Lieut. Jackson of the artil-
lery; also, pay roll for 6 mos.' men raised by the town of Braintree for service in the
Continental army during 1780; marched July 4, 1780; discharged Dec. 22, 1780;
service, 6 mos.
FIELD, JOHN, Greenwich. Descriptive list of men raised to reinforce Conti-
nental army for the term of 6 mos., agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as
received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by Brig. Gen. John Glover, at Springfield,
July 18, 1780; age, 19 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 10 in. ; complexion, dark; engaged for town
ot Greenwich; marched to camp July 18, 1780, under command of Capt. Joseph
Brown; also, list of men raised tor the 6 mos.' service and returned by Brig.
Gen. Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, Oct. 25,
1780; also, pay roll tor 6 mos. raised by the town of Greenwich for service in the
Continental army during 1780; marched July 17, 1780; discharged Dec. 30, 1780;
service, 5 mos. 21 days.
FIELD, JOHN, Milton. Private, Capt. John Bradley's (Milton) co., Col. Lem-
uel Robinson's regt. ; service, n days, subsequent to Concord fight and before com-
pletion of standing army. Roll dated Milton, Dec. 21, 1775.
FIELD, JOHN, Milton. Private, Capt. Elijah Vose's co., 36th regt. ; company
return dated Fort No. 2 (probably Oct., 1775); also, Capt. Elijah Vose's co.. Col.
John Greaton's regt. ; order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cam-
bridge, Dec. 2, 1775.
FIELD, JOHN, Milton. Matross. Capt. John Gill's (6th) co., Col. Thomas
Craft's (artillery) regt. ; service from Feb. i, 1777, to May 8, 1777, 3 mos. 7 days.
FIELD, JOHN, Milton. List of men raised to serve in the Continental army
trom Capt. Bradley's co., Col. Benjamm Gill's regt., dated Stoughton, June 27,
1777; residence, Milton; engaged tor town of Milton; joined Capt. Williams's co.,
Col. Greaton's regt. ; term, 3 yrs. ; also, list of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber,
muster master for Suffolk Co., dated Boston, May 11, 1778; Capt. Colton's co.. Col.
Greaton's regt.; also, sergeant, Capt. Robert Oliver's co.. Col. John Greaton's
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regt. ; Continental army pay accounts for service from May i, 1777, to Dec. 31,
1779; also, Capt. Edward Cumpston's co., Col. Greaton's (2d) regt. ; return of men
in camp on or before Aug. 15, 1777; also, recommendation signed by John Greaton,
colonel of 3d Mass. regt., stating that there were a number of vacancies for ensigns
in his regiment, and recommending said Field and four others as qualified for the
positions; ordered in Council March 4, 1780, that said officers be commissioned;
said Field's commission to date from April 12, 1778; also, sergeant, Capt. Oliver's
CO., Col. Greaton's regt. ; Continental army pay accounts for service from Jan. i,
1780 to May I, 1780.
FIELD, JOHN, Taunton. Private, Capt. Marcey Williams's co.. Col. Timothy
"Walker's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; service, 3
mos. 7 days; also, company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat
or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, Dec. 12, i775; also, private, Capt. Elisha
Barney's (loth) co.. Col. George Williams's (3d Bristol co.) regt. ; service, 25 days;
company marched to Warren, via Rehoboth, on the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec.
8, 1776; roll dated Taunton; also, corporal, Capt. Jonathan Shaw's co., Col. George
Williams's regt. ; service, i mo. i day; company marched from Raynbam, Taunton,
and Easton, in Sept., 1777, on a secret expedition; also, private, Capt. John Hask-
ins's CO., in a regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Samuel Pierce; enlisted May 28,
1779; discharged July i, 1779; service, i mo. 6 days, travel included, at Tiverton;
company raised to serve at Rhode Island until July i, 1779.
FIELD, JOHN. Private, Capt. Peter Procter's co., Lieut. Col. Williams's
regt. ; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged Aug. 12, 1777; service, i mo. 6 days, travel
included ; company marched to reinforce northern army.
FIELD, JOHN. Private, Capt. Enoch Robinson's co. ; enlisted Aug. 12, 1779;
discharged Sept 11, 1779; service, i mo. i day; company ordered to serve at
Rhode Island tor 4 weeks under Capt. Commandant Samuel Fisher; roll sworn to
at Attleborough. (See Thomas Field.)
FIELD, JOHN. Return of men raised tor Continental service, agreeable to re-
solve of Dec. 2, 1780; engaged April 23, 1781; engaged for town of Boston; term, 3
yrs. ; also, private, Capt. William Moore's co., Col. William Shepard's (4th) regt.;
muster roll for May, 1781, dated West Pomt; reported on command at the lines;
also, muster roll for June, 1781, sworn to in Camp at Phillipsborough ; reported de-
serted June 12, 1781.
FIELD, JOHN. 6th Mass. regt. ; return of men entitled to $80 gratuity for
serving during war, endorsed "to 1782;" also, Capt. Daniel Pilsbury's co., Lieut.
Col. Calvin Smith's (6th) regt. ; wages allowed from Jan. to Dec, 1782. 12 months.
FIELD, JOHN, JR., Braintree. Private, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s co. of Minute-
men ot North Parish in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt., which assembled
April 19, 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service, 7 days; also, Capt. Edmund Bil-
lings' CO. ot North Precinct in Braintree, Col. Jonathan Bass's regt. ; service, 2 days;
company assembled June 13, 1776, to drive British ships from Boston harbor; roll
sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, JONATHAN. Private, Capt. Oliver Vose's co.. Col. Robertson's
regt. ; service, 15 days; company marched to Roxbury subsequent to Concord fight
and there served before completion of the standing army; roll sworn to Feb. 12,
1776; also, Capt. John Bradley's (Milton) co.. Col. Benjamin Gill's regt.; service, 5
days; company marched to Dorchester Neck, March 4, 1776, when the forts were
erected on the Heights.
FIELD, JONATHAN. Private, Capt. Edward Fuller's co , Col. Brooks's regt. ;
company return endorsed "Oct., 1776;" reported wounded and in hospital.
FIELD. JONATHAN. Private, Capt. Joseph Slarrow'sco., Col. David Wells's
62 FIELD GENEALOGY.
regt. ; enlisted Sept. 23, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, i mo. i day, travel
included, on expedition to the northwest. Roll dated Leverett.
FIELD, JOSEPH (also given Jos., 2d), Braintree. Private, Capt. John Hall,
Jr. 's CO. of Minute-men of North Parish in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt.,
which assembled April 19, 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service, 214. days; also, cor-
poral, Capt. Edmund Billings's co. ot North Precinct in Braintree, Col. Jonathan
Bass's regt.; service, 5 days; company assembled June 13, 1776, to drive British
ships from Boston harbor; roll sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, JOSEPH, Greenwich. Private, Capt. Joseph Hooker's co. ot Minute-
men, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's regt.,^which marched April 20, 1775, in response
to the alarm ot April 19, 1775; service, 11 days; also, Capt. Isaac Gray's co.. Col.
Jonathan Brewer's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted May i, 1775;
service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company return dated Prospect Hill, Oct. 6, 1775.
FIELD, JOSEPH, North Yarmouth. Capt. John Worthley's co.. Col. John
Phinney's regt. ; billeting allowed from date of enlistment, May 12, 1775, to date of
marching to headquarters, July 6, 1776; credited with 55 days' allowance; also, cor-
poral, same co. and regt.; company return (probably Oct., 1775), dated Camp at
Cambridge; also, company receipt given to Lieut. Cnspus Graves for wages for
Nov. and Dec, 1775; dated Cambridge, Feb. 20, 1776; also, list ot men raised in
Cumberland co. for the term of 9 mos. from the time ot their arrival at Fishkill ;
Capt. Gray's co., Col. Mitchell's regt. ; age, 29 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 9 in.; complexion,
light; residence, North Yarmouth; arrived at Fishkill, June 11, 1778; also, list of
men returned as received of Maj. James Johnson, by Jonathan Warner, commis-
sioner, at Fishkill, June 25, 1778; also, list of men returned by Brig. Lemuel Thomp-
son, dated Brunswick, July i, 177S; also, list of men returned as received of Jona-
than Warner, Commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam, July 20, 1778.
FIELD, JOSEPH, Wrentham. Private, Capt. Oliver Pond's co. of Minute-
men, which marched on the alarm ot April 19, 1775; service, 11 days; also, list of
men drafted from the militia to march to Horse Neck under command of Col.
Mcintosh (year not given), but who failed to join regiment; reported drafted trom
Wrentham ; dratted into Capt. Fisher's co.
FIELD, JOSEPH. Private, Capt Phineas Stearns's co. ; service, 5 days; com-
pany marched trom Watertown by order of Gen. Washington to reintorce army at
the taking of Dorchester Heights in March, 1776.
FIELD, JOSEPH. Private, Capt. Ezekiel Plimpton's co.. Col. Hawes's regt. ;
enlisted Sept. 25, 1777; discharged Oct. 28, 1777; service, i mo. 7 days, travel in-
cluded, at Rhode Island ; roll dated Medfield.
FIELD, JOSEPH. List of prisoners sent from Newport, R. I., in the prison
ship "Lord Sandwich" and landed at Bristol, March 7, 1778.
FIELD, JOSEPH (also given Jr.). ist lieutenant. Capt. William Spinney's
(nth) CO., Col. John Frost's (2d York co.) regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers
chosen by respective companies in said regiment, as returned by Col. Frost and
others, field officers, dated Kittery, Sept. 3, 1776; said Field chosen in room of
Lieut. William Spinney, promoted; ordered m Council, Nov. 14, 1776, that said
officers be commissioned; reported commissioned Nov. 14, 1776; also, ist lieutenant,
Capt. Thomas Cutt's co., Maj. Daniel Littlefield's detachment of York co. militia;
detached July 10, 1779; discharged Sept. 10, 1779; service, 2 mos. on Penobscot
expedition.
FIELD, JOSEPH. Sergeant major, Capt. Job Alvord's co.. Col. S. Murray's
(Hampshire co.) regt.; engaged July 13, 1780; discharged Oct. 10, 1780; service. 3
mos. 6 days, travel included; company raised to reinforce Continental army tor 3
mos.
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FIELD, LEMUEL, Braintree. Private. Capt. John Hall. Jr.'s co. of Minute-
men ot North Parish, in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt., which assembled
April 19, 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service. 2/% days; also, Capt. Seth Turner's
(Independent) co. ; enlisted May 9, 1775; service, 9 mos. 12 days; enlistment,
9 mos.
FIELD. LEMUEL. Private, Capt. Lieut. William Burbeck's co. ; enlisted
Jan. 17. 1780; service to Oct. 24. 1781, 21 mos. g days, under His Excellency John
Hancock ; company raised for defense of Castle and Governor's Islands ; roll sworn
to at Boston; also, Capt. Thomas Cushing's co. ; service from Oct. 25, 1781. to date
of discharge. May 16, 1782, 6 mos. 22 days; company raised for defense ot Castle
and Governor's Islands; roll sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, LEVI. Private. Capt. Peter Procter's co.. Lieut. Col. Williams's regt. ;
enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged Aug. 12, 1777; service, i mo. 9 days, travel in-
cluded ; company marched to reinforce northern army ; also, sergeant, Capt. Samuel
Merriman's (2d) co.. Col. Israel Chapen's (3d) regt.; enlisted Oct. 15, 1779; dis-
charged Nov. 21, 1779; service, i mo. 14 days, travel included; roll endorsed "serv-
ice at Claverack."
FIELD, LIMAS. Seaman, frigate "Deane," commanded by Capt. Samuel
Nicholson; engaged May i, 1781; service, S mos. ; engagement, 12 mos. ; reported a
servant to Capt. Nicholson; also, reported died Dec. 31, 1781.
FIELD. LUKE, East Guilford, Conn. Col. John Paterson's (15th) regt.; list
of deserters ; age, 26 yrs. ; stature, 5 tt. 10 in. ; complexion, light ; deserted May 10
(year not given).
FIELD, MEDAD. Private, Capt. Salmon White's co., Col. Woodbridge's
regt.; enlisted Aug. 17, 1777; discharged Aug. 19, 1777; service, 4 days, at the
northward by order ot Gen. Horatio Gates.
FIELD, MOSES. Private, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co.. Col. David Leonard's
regt.; enlisted Feb. 25, 1777; discharged April 10, 1777; service on expedition to
Ticonderoga; also, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co.. Col. David Wells's regt.; enlisted
Sept. 23, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service i mo. i day, travel included, on
expedition to the northward; roll dated Leverett.
FIELD, NATHAN, Lincoln. List of men raised to serve in the Continental
army (year not given) ; residence, Lincoln ; engaged for town of Lincoln.
FIELD, NATHAN, Rhode Island. Cooper, ship "Deane," commanded by
Capt. Elisha Hinman; descriptive list of officers and crew dated Boston, Nov.,
1780; age, 25 yrs. ; complexion, light; residence, Rhode Island.
FIELD, NATHAN. List of men raised to serve in the Continental army as
returned by Capt. Elisha Hunt, sworn to in Hampshire co., April 14, 1779; engaged
for town of Northfield; joined Col. Lam's (Lamb's) artillery regt. ; term, i year.
FIELD, NATHANIEL. Corporal. Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) co.. Col. George
Williams's (3d Bristol co.) regt. ; service, 19 days; company marched to Warren, via
Rehoboth, on the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec. 8, 1776; roll dated Taunton; also.
Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co.. Col. Abiel Mitchell's regt., commanded by Lieut. Col.
James Williams. Brig. Gen. Godfrey's (Bristol co.) brigade; service. 8 days; com-
pany marched from Taunton to Tiverton. R. I., on the alarm of Aug. i. 1780.
FIELD. NOAH. Whately. Private. Capt. Israel Chapin's co., Col. John Fel-
low's regt.. which marched April 20, 1775. in response to the alarm ot April 19. 1775;
service to April 26. 1775. 7 days; also. Capt. Israel Chapin's (2d) co., Col. John Fel-
low's (8th) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted April 27, 1775; service, 3
mos. 12 days; also, company return dated Oct. 8. 1775; also, order for bounty coat
or its equivalent in money, dated Dorchester. Nov. 25, 1775; also, sergeant. Capt
Seth Murray's CO., Maj. Jonathan Clap's regt.; engaged July 9. 1777; discharged
54 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Aug. 12, 1777; service, i mo. 10 days, travel included, on an expedition to Fort
Edward and Mosses Creek.
FIELD, OLIVER, Springfield. Private, Maj. Andrew Colton's co. of Minute-
men, which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the alarm ot April 19, 1775; serv-
ice to May 4, 1775, 2 weeks, i day; also, descriptive list of 9 mos.' men raised m
Hampshire co., agreeable to resolve of June g, 1779, ^s returned by Noah Good-
man, superintendent; Capt. Burt's co.. Col. Bliss's regt. ; age, 26 yrs. ; stature, 5 it.
10 in. ; complexion, dark; hair, dark; engaged for town of Springfield; delivered
to Lieut. William Storey; also, list of men returned as received of Noah Goodman,
superintendent for Hampshire co., by Justin Ely, commissioner, at Springfield,
Oct. ig, 1779; also, Capt. Flower's co. ; entered service July 13 (also given July 10
and July 15), 1779; discharged April 13, 1780; term, 9 mos.; also, private, Capt.
Samuel Flower's co., Col. John Greaton's (3d) regt. ; muster roll for Aug., 1779,
dated Camp Highlands; also, muster roll for Sept., 1779, dated Camp Bedford;
also, muster roll for Oct., 1779, dated Camp Bedford; also, muster roll for Oct.,
1779, dated Camp near Peekskill; also, muster roll tor Nov. and Dec, 1779, dated
Continental Village; also (late), Capt. Flower's co., Col. Greaton's regt.; muster
roll for Jan. -June, 1780, sworn to at "Orange Town;" reported discharged; also,
descriptive list of men raised to reinforce Continental army for the term of 6 mos.,
agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as received of Justin Ely, commis-
sioner, by Maj. Peter Harwood of 6th Mass. regt.. at Springfield, July 6, 1780; age,
20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in. ; complexion, light; engaged for town of Springfield;
arrived at Springfield July 5, 1780; marched to camp July 6, 1780, under command
of Lieut. Taylor of 2d Mass. regt. ; also, list of men raised for the 6 mos.' service
and returned by Brig. Gen. Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated
Camp Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780; also, pay roll for 6 mos.' men raised by the town of
Springfield for service in the Continental army during 1780; marched July 5, 1780;
discharged Dec. 13, 1780; service, 5 mos. 15 days; also, private (late), Capt. Samuel
Flower's co.. Col. John Greaton's (3d) regt. ; muster roll for July, 1780; also, same
CO. and regt.; muster roll for Aug. and Sept., 1780, dated Camp Orringtown; en-
listed "July 6, 1780; also, Capt. Joseph Crocker's co., Col. Greaton's regt; muster
roll tor Oct., 1780, dated Camp Totoway; also, same co. and regt. ; muster roll for
Nov. and Dec, 1780, dated Camp at West Point.
FIELD, PETER, Salem (also given Marblehead). Private, Capt. Micajah
Gleason's CO., Col. John Nixon's (5th) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; en-
listed May I, 1775; service, 3 mos. 8 days; also, company return dated Sept. 30,
1775; reported "absent, Quebec."
FIELD, PETER. Seaman, ship "Pliarne," Samuel Green, master; engaged
June 12; discharged Sept. 17 (year not given); service, 3 mos. 5 days.
FIELD, PHILIP. List of men raised for Continental service, agreeable to
resolve of Dec. 2, 1780; engaged Jan. 6, 1781 ; engaged for town of Boston.
FIELD, PHINEAS, Northfield. Private, Capt. Elihu Lyman's co.. Col. Elisha
Porter's (Hampshire co. ) regt. ; enlisted July 25, i77g; discharged Aug. 31, 1779; serv-
ice, I mo. 13 days, travel included, at New London, Conn. ; also, descriptive list
dated Warwick, Aug. 4, 1780, of men detached from 6th Hampshire co. regt., agree-
able to order of court of June 22, 1780, to serve for the term of 3 mos. from time ot
arrival at Claverack; Capt. Seth Pierce's co.. Col. Seth Murray's regt.; enlisted
July 15, 1780; discharged Oct. 10, 1780; service, 3 mos. 6 days, travel included; com-
pany raised to reinforce Continental army for 3 mos. ; roll dated Leverett.
FIELD, RICHARD, Bridgewater. Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co. of
Minute-men, Col. Bailey's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775;
service, 12 days; also, corporal, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co., Brig. Gen. John
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Thomas's regt. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, i775; enlisted May i, i775; service, 3
mos. I week i day; also, company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, muster roll
made up from Sept. i, 1775, to Oct. 30, 1775, 61 days, dated Camp at Roxbury; also,
sergeant, Capt. Daniel Lathrop's (7th) co., Col. Thomas Craft's (artillery) regt;
abstract tor advance pay, travel allowance, etc., dated Boston, June 3, 1776; also,
same co. and regt; enlisted May 13, 1776; service to Aug. i, 1776, 62 days, travel
included; also, same company and regt,; service from Aug. i, 1776, to Nov. i, 1776,
3 mos.; also, same co. and regt.; service from Nov. i, 1776, to Feb. i, 1777, 3
mos.; reported as serving i mo. in colony service, 2 mos. in Continental service;
also, same co. and regt.; service trom Feb. i, 1777, to date ot discharge. May 7,
1777, 3 mos. 7 days.
FIELD, RICHARD, Mansfield. Private, Capt. Abiel Clap's co. of Minute-
men, Col. John Dagget's regt. ; service between April 19 and April 29, 1775, 9
days.
FIELD, RICHARD. Private, Capt. David Packard's co.. Col. Cary's regt;
service, 11 days; company marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of July 22, 1780.
FIELD, RICHARD. Private, Capt John Dean's co.. Col. Isaac Dean's (4th
Bristol CO.) regt. ; enlisted Aug. i, 1780; discharged Aug. 7, 1780; service, 9 days,
on the alarm at Rhode Island of Aug. i, 1780; roll dated Mansfield.
FIELD, ROBERT, Greenwich. Corporal, Capt Joseph Hooker's co. of
Minute-men, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's regt, which marched April 20, 1775, in
response to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 18 days.
FIELD, ROBERT. Private, in a company commanded by Capt Isaac Powers
of Greenwich, Col. Elisha Porter's regt; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged Aug.
12, 1777; service, i mo. 9 days, travel included; company marched to join northern
army under Gen. Schyl, or Schuyler, on an alarm.
FIELD, ROBERT. 2d lieutenant Capt Joseph Hooker's (nth) co., Col. E.
Porter's (4th Hampshire co.) regt of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned
June 29, 1780.
FIELD, ROBERT. Fifer, Lieut Cols.' co.. Col. Smith's regt ; Continental
army pay accounts for service from Jan. i, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; term, during war;
also, 3d CO., Col. Thomas Nixon's (6th) regt ; return of men entitled to $80 gratuity
for serving during war, endorsed "to 1782;" also, drummer, Capt Ebenezer Smith's
CO., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's (6th) regt; wages allowed tor Jan., 1781, Dec, 1782,
24 mos.
FIELD, SAMUEL, Amherst. Private, Capt Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Rug-
gles Woodbridge's regt., which marched to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service 7
days; also, Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's
(25th) regt.; company receipt for advance pay for i month dated Cambridge, June
24, 1775; also, corporal, same co. and regt ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted
April 27, 1775; service 3 mos. 12 days; also, company return (probably Oct., i775);
also, corporal, Capt. Moses Harvey's co., Col. David Well's regt. ; engaged May
loth, 1777; discharged July loth, 1777; service, 2 mos. 10 days, travel included, in
Northern department; roll dated Montague.
FIELD, SAMUEL. 2d lieutenant, Capt Robert Foster's (7th) co.. Col.
Timothy Pickering Jr. 's (ist Essex Co.) regt of Mass. militia; return dated Salem,
May 15, 1776, signed by Col. Timothy Pickering, Jr., and Joseph Sprague, of officers
chosen by several companies of militia in Salem, and returned to be commissioned;
said officers accepting appointments, however, only upon the condition that the
General Court will compel a more equal distribution as to the persons required to
undergo military training and be subject to service calls, and also in order that the
present existing companies may be kept fully trained and equipped ; ordered in
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Council June 6, 1776, that said oflBcers be commissioned; reported commissioned
June 6, 1776.
FIELD, SAMUEL. Private, Capt, Thomas Newcomb's co., Col. Joseph
Webb's regt. ; enlisted Sept. 6, 1781; discharged Dec. 5, 1781; service, 3 mos. 10
days, travel included, at Peekskill, N. Y.
FIELD, SETH, Northfield. Descriptive list dated Warwick, Aug. 4, 1780, ot
men detached from 6th Hampshire Co. regt. ; agreeable to order ot General^Court ot
June 22, 1780, to serve for the term ot 3 months from the time of their arrival at
Claverack;' Capt. Seth Pierce's co.. Col. Seth Murray's (Hampshire Co.) regt.;
age, 18 yrs. ; stature, 5 ft. 7 in.; complexion, dark; residence, Northfield; rank,
private; mustered July 20, 17S0; also, corporal, Capt. Seth Pierce's co.. Col. Seth
Murray's (Hampshire Co.) regt. ; enlisted July 15, 1780; discharged Oct. 10, 1780;
service, 3 mos. 6 days, travel included ; company raised to reinforce Continental
Army for 3 months ; roll dated Leverett.
FIELD, SETH. Private, Capt. Enoch Chapin's co.. Col. Jacob Garrish's
regt.; enlisted Aug. 7, 1778; discharged Dec. 14, 1778; service, 4 mos. todays,
travel included ; company detached from militia of Hampshire Co. to guard stores
at Springfield and Brookfield for 6 months from July i, 1778.
FIELD, SPENCER, Rutland. Official record of a ballot by the House of
Representatives dated Jan. 23, 1776, of officers chosen to command the 6 regiments
raised to serve before Boston until April i, 1776; said Field chosen Surgeon's Mate,
Col. Josiah Whitney's Worcester Co. regt. ; appointment concurred in by Council
Jan. 23, 1776.
FIELD, THOMAS. Private, Capt. Enoch Robinson's co. ; enlisted Aug. 12,
1779; discharged Sept. 12, 1779; service, i ijio. 2 days, in a regiment under Capt.
Commandant Samuel Fisher at Rhode Island, Roll sworn to at Attleborougb.
(See John Field.)
FIELD, THOMAS. List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army (year
not given) ; engaged for town of Waltham.
FIELD, WILLIAM, Braintree. Corporal, Capt. John Hall, Jr.'s co. of
Minute-men of North Parish in Braintree, Col. Benjamin Lincoln's regt. which
assembled April 19, 1775, and also April 29, 1775; service, 7 days; also, Capt. Ed-
mund Billing's CO. of North Precinct in Braintree, Col. Jonathan Bass's regt. ; ser-
vice, 5 days; company assembled June 13, 1776, to drive British ships from Boston
harbor; roll sworn to at Boston.
FIELD, WILLIAM, Leverett. Private, Capt. Reuben Dickenson's co. of
Minute-men, Col. R. Woodbridge's regt. ; which marched on the alarm of April 19,
1775; service, 16 days; also, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co., Col. David Well's regt.;
enlisted Sept. 23, 1777; discharged Oct. 13, 1777; service, 26 days, travel included,
on an expedition to the Northward.
FIELD, WILLIAM. Private, Capt. Eliphalet Sawen's co.. Col. William
Mcintosh's regt.; enlisted March 25, 1778; discharged April 8, 1778; service, 13
days, with guards at Roxbury.
FIELD, ZACHARIAH, Amherst, Return of men drafted from Hampshire
Co. militia to march to Horse Neck under command of Colonel Samuel How
(year not given), but who failed to join regiment; drafted to Amherst; drafted
into Capt. Brakenridge's co.
FIELD, ZACHARIAH. Private, Capt. Seth Murray's co.. Col. Ezra May's
regt.; enlisted Sept. 20, 1777; discharged Oct. 14, 1777; service, i mo., travel in-
cluded, on an expedition to Saratoga.
FIELD, ZEB., Dighton. Private, Capt. Jacob Fuller's co,. Col, John Jacob's
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regt. ; enlisted July 7, 1778; service, 5 mos. 26 days, at Rhode Island; enlistment to
expire Jan. i, 1779.
FIELD, ZEBULON. Taunton. Drummer, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's co., Col.
Ebenezer Francis's regt. ; pay abstract tor mileage, etc., to camp and home; credited
with two days' allowance; company drafted from Taunton, Raynham, Easton,
Dartmouth, Freetown, Berkley, and Dighton ; warrant for pay allowed in Council
Nov. 29, 1776; also, Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) co., Col. George William's (3d
Bristol Co.) regt.; service, 25 days; company marched to Warren, via Rehoboth,
on the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec. 8, 1776; also, Capt. Jonathan Shaw's co.. Col.
George William's regt.; service, i mo. i day; company marched from Raynham,
Taunton, and Easton, in September, 1777, on a secret expedition.
FIELD, ZEBULON (also given Jr.), Taunton, ist lieutenant, Capt. Israel
Trow's CO., Col. Jacob French's regt. ; list ot officers chosen to command companies
in regiment raised in Bristol and Cumberland counties and stationed at Winter
Hill, Feb. 27, 1776; company raised in Norton, Taunton, Freetown, Dartmouth,
Mansfield, Raynham, and Middleborough ; ordered in Council March 26, 1776, that
said officers be commissioned ; reported commissioned March 13 (?), 1776; also, ist
lieutenant, Capt. Elisha Barney's loth (Taunton) co., 3d Bristol Co., regt. of Mass.
militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned
by George Williams, and James Williams, Jr., field officers; ordered in Council
April 13, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported commissioned April 5
(?), 1776; also, lieutenant, Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) co.. Col. George Williams's
(3d Bristol Co.) regt. ; service, 25 days; company marched to Warren via Rehoboth,
on the alarm of Rhode Island, ot Dec. 8, 1776; also, lieutenant, Capt. Ichabod
Leonard's co.. Col. John Hathaway 's regt; service, 22 days; company marched
from Taunton to Tiverton, R. I., in April, 1777, by order of Brig.-Gen. Godtrey;
also, ist lieutenant. Capt. Jonathan Shaw's co.. Col. George Williams's regt.;
service i mo. i day; company marched from Raynham, Taunton, and Easton, in
Sept., 1777, on a secret expedition.
FIELD, ZEBULON. Private, Capt. Ebenezer Deane's co.. Col. Thomas
Carpenter's regt.; service i mo. 4 days; company marched from Taunton, via
Rehoboth and Bristol, to Providence, R. I., and thence home. Roll dated Nov. 5,
1777-
FIELD, ZEBULON. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co.. Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regt., commanded by Lieut. -Col. James Williams, Brig.-Gen. Godfrey's (Bristol Co.)
brigade; service, 8 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiverton, R. I., on
the alarm ot Aug. i, 1780.
FIELD, ZEBULON. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co.. Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regt. commanded by Lieut. -Col. James Williams, Brig.-Gen. Godfrey's (Bristol
Co.) brigade; service, 8 days; company marched trom Taunton to Tiverton, R. I.,
on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780. (This name appears twice on roll.)
FIELD, ZEBULON, JR.. Taunton. Private, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's co.. Col.
Josiah Whitney's regt. ; service i mo. 23 days; company marched from Taunton to
Providence, R. I. ; roll made up tor wages and travel, agreeable to resolve ot
April — , 1777, and sworn to at Taunton, Sept. 23, 1777.
FIELD, ZENAS (also given Ezenous), Hatfield. Capt. Israel Chapin's co. of
Minute-men, Col. John Fellows's regt, which marched April 20, 1775, in response
to the alarm ot April 19, 1775; service to April 26, 1775. 7 days; also, Capt Israel
Chapin's (2d) co., Col. John Fellows's (8th) regt; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775;
enlisted April 27, 1775; also, order tor bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated
Dorchester, Dec. 6, 1775; also. Private, Capt. Salmon White's co.. Col. David
Wells's regt.; marched May 10, 1777; discharged July 10, 1777; service, 2 mos. to
5
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days, travel included, on expedition to Ticonderoga; also, Capt. Seth Murray's cc,
Col. Ezra May's regt. ; enlisted Sept. 20, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service,
I mo. , travel included, on expedition to Saratoga.
FIELDS, ABIEZER. Taunton. Private, Capt, Jacob Kaskins's co., Col. John
Jacob's regt; enlisted June i, 1778; service, 11 days; company detached to guard
the shore at Freetown tor 10 days by order of Brig-Gen. George Godfrey.
FIELDS, ABISHAL. Private, Capt. Simeon Cobb's co., 3d regt.. Gen. God-
frey's brigade; enlisted Aug. 14, 1779; service, i mo. 2 days; company detached
from militia and ordered to serve under Capt. Samuel Fisher at Rhode Island for
4 weeks.
FIELDS. BEZALEEL. List ot men raised in Bristol Co. for the term of
9 months from the time ot their arrival at Fishkill, agreeable to resolve ot April
20, 1778, returned as received of Jonathan Warner, Commissioner, by Col. R.
Putnam, July 20, 1778; engaged for town of Attleborough ; arrived at Fishkill June
17, 1778.
FIELDS, DANIEL, Buxton. List sworn to at Buxton, Aug. 26, 1777, ot men
enlisted into the Continental Army, as returned to Col. Tristam Jordon, by the
Selectmen of the town of Buxton ; residence, Buxton ; also. Private, Capt. Porter's
CO., Col. Tupper's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. i,
1780 to Feb. 27, 1780.
FIELDS, JOHN, Andover. Fifer, Capt. Stephen Abbot's co., Col. Benjamin
Tupper's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service trom Feb. 19, 1777 to
Dec. 31, 1779; reported as serving 8 mos. 12 days as private, 26 mos. as fifer; pro-
moted to fifer Nov. 1,1777; also, private, Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co.. Col. Eben-
ezer Francis's regt. ; rations allowed from date of enlistment, Feb. 19, 1777, to time
of arrival at Bennington; credited with allowance to March 28, 1777, 49 days, in-
cluding II days for 220 miles travel; also, Capt. Farnum's co.. Col. Benjamin Tup-
per's regt.; return dated Jan. 24, 1778; residence, Andover; enlisted for town of
Andover; reported sick at Albany; also, fifer, Capt. Stephen Abbot's co.. Col.
Tupper's (15th) regt.; muster roll for March, 1779; dated West Pomt; term, 3
years ; also, same co. and regt. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from
Jan. I, 1780 to Feb. 19, 1780; reported discharged.
FIELDS, JONATHAN, Buxton (also given Scarborough). Private, Capt.
Jeremiah Hill's co., Col. James Scammon's {30th) regt. ; muster roll dated Aug. i,
1775; enlisted May 3, 1775; service 12 weeks, 6 days; also, company return dated
Sept. 27, 1775; also, Garrison at Fort George, Dec. 8, 1776; enlisted Jan. i, 1776;
reported discharged Sept. 26, 1776; also, Capt. Burbank's co., Col, Sprout's regt;
Continental Army pay accounts for service trom Jan. i, 1777 to Jan. 17, 1778; resi-
dence, Buxton; reported died Jan. 17, 1778; also, Capt. Silas Burbank's co., Col.
Samuel Brewer's regt; return dated Camp near Valley Forge, Jan, 23, 1778; resi-
dence, Scarborough ; enlisted tor town ot Scarborough ; mustered by Daniel Insley,
Muster Master ; term, during war ; reported sick and absent,
FIELDS, JOSEPH, Private, Capt Samuel Fisher's co,, Col, Ephraim Wheel-
ock's regt. ; service, 23 days; company ordered to march to Warwick, R. I., on the
alarm of Dec. 8, 1778,
FIELDS, ROBERT, Power of attorney dated Feb. i3, 1785, given to Mason
Wattles by said Fields, a laborer of New York city, to collect the wages, etc., due
him for service in the Continental Army.
FIELDS. SOLOMON. List of men raised in Bristol Co. tor the term of 9
months from the time ot their arrival at Fishkill, agreeable to resolve ot April 20,
1778, returned as received of Jonathan Warner, Commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam,
July 20, 1778; engaged for town of Attleborough ; arrived at Fishkill, June 17, 1778.
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FIELDS, THOMAS. Private. Capt. Nathan Dix's co., Col. James Wesson's
regt. ; muster return made up for 1777; mustered by Col. Barett, State Muster Mas-
ter ; reported a transient ; also reported deserted.
FIELDER, JOHN. Private, Capt. Joseph Rea's co. ; enlisted July 25, 1776;
discharged Oct. 28, 1776; service, 3 mos. 3 days, in defence ot seacoast ; company
ordered to serve at the Lines in Beverly by order of Council of July 20, 1776.
FIELDING, JOHN, Newburyport. List of men raised to serve in the Conti-
nental Army from 2d Essex Co. regt., as returned by Maj. Ralph Cross, sworn to in
Essex Co., Feb. 16, 1778; residence, Newburyport; engaged for town of Newbury-
port; joined Capt. Moses Greenleaf's co., Col. Ebenezer Francis's regt.; term, 3
years; also, private, Capt. Greenleaf's co.. Col. Benjamin Tupper's (loth) regt.;
Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 18, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779;
reported taken prisoner July 7, 1777; also, same co. and regt. ; return dated Jan. 25.
1778; mustered by Continental and County Muster Masters; reported a foreigner;
also reported taken prisoner at Hubelton.
FIELDING, JOHN. Private, Capt. Abram Washburn's co.. Col. Theophilus
Cotton's regt. ; marched March 10, 1781 ; discharged April i, 1781 ; service, 22 days
company marched to Newport, R. I., March 10, 1781, for 40 days' service.
FROM NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTION.
BENJ, FIELD. JR. Westchester co. militia. 3d regt., Col. Pierre Van Cort-
land t and Col. Sam'l Drake. (Enlisted men.) Page 211.
CUMFURT FIELD. Same as Benj.
COMFORT FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia (Land Bounty Rights). Third
regt. (Enlisted men.) Page 241.
GILBERT FIELD. ^
JOSEPH " [ Same as Comfort Field. Page 241.
SAMUEL " )
JAMES FIELD. The line, 3d regt., Col. James Clinton and Col. Peter Ganse-
vort. (Enlisted men. ) Page 42.
COL. JOHN FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia, 3d regt., Col. John Field and Col.
Andrew Morehouse. Page 139.
JESSE FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia, 3d regt.. Col. John Field and Col.
Andrew Morehouse. (Enlisted men. ) Page 139.
JESSE FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia, 6th regt., Col. Morris Graham and Col.
Roswell Hopkins. (Enlisted men. ) Page 145.
JOS. FIELD. Westchester Co, militia (Land Bounty Rights) 4th regt.. Adj.
Thomas Hunt. (Enlisted men.) Page 268.
NEMIAH FIELD. Same as Jos. Field. Page 268.
NATHAN FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia, 6th regt.. Col. Morris Graham and
Col. Roswell Hopkins. (Enlisted men.) Page 145.
PATRICK FIELD. The line, ist regt, Col. Goose Van Schaick, Lieut.-Col.
Cornelius Van Dyck. (Enlisted men.) Page 21.
PHILIP FIELDS. The line, 2d regt. Col. Philip Van Cortland, Lieut-Col.
Robt. Cochran. (Enlisted men.) Page 32.
SOLOMON FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia (Land Bounty Rights), 7th regt.,
Major Adams. (Enlisted men.) Page 252.
STEPHEN FIELD. Same as Solomon Field. Page 252.
THOMAS FIELDS. Dutchess Co. militia, 6th regt, Col. Morris Graham,
Col. Roswell Hopkins. (Enlisted.) Page 145.
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NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES.— vol. i.
JESSIE FIELD. Private, Wessenfels' regt, company Hunt. Page 371.
JESSIE FIELD. Private, Hopkins's regt.. company Barnum. Page 371,
JESSIE FIELD. Private, Field regt., company Barnum. Page 371.
JESSIE FIELD. Private, Field regt., company Barnum. Page 371.
COL. JOHN FIELD. Dutchess Co. militia. May 18, 1776. Page.102. Resolved
that Col. John Field be appointed muster master of the company to be raised in
Dutchess Co. Page 135. The council of appointments made the following changes:
John Field, col., to succeed himselt.
JOS. FIELD, is hereby appointed lieut. of the said co. to be raised in the
county of Dutchess, and that the said co. be rendezvous at Fredericksburg and
Southeast precincts of the said county. Page 135.
JOS. FIELD. 3d regt, 2d Lieut. Bar nham' SCO. Page 280. Co. raised under
resolution of Oct. 8, 1776, for the purpose of detecting and defeating conspiracies.
Nath. Scribner, capt. Jos. Field, ist lieut. Page 286.
PHILIPP FIELD. 2d co., April 15, 1777, war; died at Valley Forge Aug.,
1778; colored slave of Col. Fields, of S. East, Dutchess Co. Page 188.
REUBEN FIELD. Capt. Kinsdale's co. , Cumberland Co. militia, ist (lower)
regt., Jan. 4th, 1776. Page 277.
STATE PAPERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.— vol. i.
ANDREW FIELD. Corp., entered April 23, 1775; payroll of Capt. Henry
Dearborn's co. in Col. John Starks's regt., to Aug. i, 1775. Page 68.
ELIHU FIELD. Capt. Wm. Humphrey's co., in the Northern army in the
Continental service. Page 355.
HENRY FIELD. Lieut, Capt Philip Putnam's co., Col. Nahum Baldwin's
regt., raised in Sept., 1776. Page 446.
JOHN FIELD. Fifer, Capt. Wm. Barron's co. in Col. Isaac Wyman's regt.
Page 336.
WAITSTIL FIELD. Enlisted May 3, 1775, Capt Jonathan Whitcomb's co.,
Col. Jas. Reed's regt. Page 93.
ZACHARIAH FIELD. Same as Elihu Field. Page 355.
ISRAEL FIELD. Time of engagement July 29., Capt. Oliver Capron's co.,
Col. Sam'l Ashley's regt, which marched to the relief of Ticonderoga. Page 55.
MOSES FIELD. Private, entered July 4, Capt Elisha Mack's co., raised out
of Col. Ashley's regt. of militia, June, 1777. Page 67.
MOSES FIELD. Lieut.-Col. Nichol's regt, N. H. militia, in Gen. Stark's
brigade. Page 197.
MOSES FIELD. 2d lieut time of discharge Sept 23, Capt Elisha Mack's
CO. in Col. Moses Nichol's regt. in Gen. Stark's brigade. Page 226.
WAITSTILL FIELD. Sergt, discharged June 24, Capt Howlefs co., raised
from Col. Ashley's regt. ot militia. Page 3.
WAITSTILL FIELD. Private time ot discharge. Sept 18, Capt Sam'l
"Wright's CO. in Col. Nichol's regt. and Gen. Stark's brigade of militia. Page 205.
VOL. III.
GAIUS FIELD. Capt Ephraim Stone's co., under command ot Maj. Benj.
Whitcomb. Page 167.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 61
GAIUS FIELD. Winchester, private, engagement July 21, Capt. Jonathan
Smith's rangers. Page 298.
JOHN FIELDS. Col. Lovewell's return three months' men, Amherst; marched
Sept. 24. Page 259.
ROBT. FIELD. Enlisted April 15, 178 1. Page 237.
ROBT, FIELD. Recruit Rindge (name of town), April 15, 1871. Page 518.
ROBT. FIELD. Private, 2d regt., 4th co., commanded by Col. Reid, 1781.
Page 273.
JOHN FIELD. Fifer, July 23 (mustered), lived in Merymac, age 19; Capt.
Wm. Barron's co. Page 62.
JOHN FIELDS. Fifer, went for Amherst; engaged Sept. 20; marched Sept.
29; commanded by John Mills in Col. Reynold's regt. ot the N. H. militia, 1781.
Page 436.
MOSES DICK'N FIELD. Lieut., Col. Samuel Ashley's regt, Co. of Cheshire,
to reinforce the army of Ticonderoga. Page 97.
THOS. FIELDS. Private ; same as Moses Dick'n Field. Page 98.
FROM CONNECTICUT IN THE REVOLUTION.
BENJ. FIELD. Private, enlisted May 18; served i mo. ; Col. Canfield's militia
regt., Capt. Peter Vaill's co. of guards, stationed in Guilford for the defense ot the
seacoast, 1781. Page 585.
BENNET FIELD. Private, 3 days' service; from the town of Mansfield; for
relief of Boston in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775. Page 16.
DAVID FIELD. Private, Capt. Hand's co.. Col. Talcott's regt.; these men
were enlisted March 22 for service on the New York expedition, and discharged
April 18, 1776. State reg. Page 388.
EBENEZER FIELD. Private, enlisted July 28; discharged Dec. 18; loth co.
Capt. Eli Leavenworth, 7th regt. New Haven, Col. Chas. Webb, 1775. Page 84.
EDMUND FIELDS. Private, Wallingford-Mansfield co. ; enlisted Feb. 20,
1778; term, war; Corporal July, 1780; Sergeant Jan. i, 1781; Sixth regt., Col, Wm.
Douglas. List of non-commissioned officers and privates. Page 210.
EDMUND FIELDS. Sergeant; paid from Jan. i, 1781 to Dec. 31,1781. List
non-commissioned officers and privates, 4th regt. Conn, line; Col. Zebulon Butler.
Page 339.
EDMUND FIELDS. Private, Trumbull. List of Rev. pensioners. Conn.,
1818. Page 634.
EDWARD FIELDS. Drummer; list of non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates; Capt. St. John's co. of light infantry, 2d Conn, regt., 1781. Page 352.
EDWARD FIELDS. Private; residence Providence; enlisted Feb. 4, 1777;
term, war; Capt. Taylor's light infantry co., Feb., 1783, Col. Herman Swift. Page
366.
EDWARD FIELD. Musician, Aug. 8, 1777; reduced Sept. 30, 1780; drummer
Oct., 1780; list of non-commissioned officers and musicians ; Col. Philip Burr Brad-
ley, 5th regt. Page 195.
EDWARD FIELD. Drummer, Capt. Chapman's co. ; list ot non-commis-
sioned officers and privates; Col. Herman Swift, 2d regt. ; paid from Jan. i, 1781 to
Dec. 31, 1781. Page 328.
EDW. FIELD (Mary). 62 years of age ; town ot Waterbury ; New Haven Co.
census pensioners, 1840. Page 660.
62 FIELD GENEALOGY.
FRANCIS FIELDS. Private; enlisted May 15, 1777; term, 3 years; discharged
May 15, 1780; Col. John Chandler's 8th regt., 1777-81, Stoddards' co. Page 234.
FRANCIS FIELD. Private, 1775; July 13 to Dec. 20; 5th co., 57th regt, Col.
Chas. Webb, Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle. Page 81.
FRANCIS FIELDS. Private, Capt. Bostwick's co., Chas. Webb (col.) regt..
which crossed the River Delaware to Trenton on the evening of Dec. 25, 1776.
(Rev. roll, pension bureau.) Page 105.
ELIJAH FIELDS. Private; May 17 to Dec. 16, 1775; Col. Israel Putnam's 3d
regt., 2d CO. ; Experience Storrs Capt. and also lieut.-col. Page 54.
GEO. FIELD. Private; residence Woodbury; enlisted Jan. i, 1777; term,
war; Col. Zebulon Butler, Capt. Robertson's co., ist Conn. regt. Page 364.
GEO. FIELD. Private; May 31, 1777; term, war; 8th regt. Stoddars' co.. Col.
John Chandlers, 1777-81. Page 234.
GEO. FIELDS. Private; pensioner ot 1 81 8; residence in Vermont. Page 639.
ICHABOD FIELDS. Private, town of Guilford; Col. Canfield's militia regt.,
Sept., 1781. Page 582.
JAMES FIELDS. Private, Col. Herman Swift's regt, 1783; enlisted Dec,
1780 to Dec, 1781. List of non-commissioned officers and privates. Page 369.
JOHN FIELD. Age 81 ; town of Cheshire, New Haven Co. Census of pen-
sioners, 1840. Page 660.
JAMES FIELD. Fifer; paid from Dec. 18. 1780 to Dec. 31, 1781. List ot
non-commissioned officers and privates. Capt. Comstock's co., 5th regt, Lieut.-Col.
Com'dt. Isaac Sherman. Page 345.
JAMES FIELDS. Private; residence Woodbury; Capt Elijah Chapman's
CO., Feb. I, 1783; enlisted Dec, 1781; term, 3 years; Col. Herman Swift. Page 363.
JOSEPH FIELD. Private; town Norfolk; Col. Canfield's militia regt, Sept.,
1781. Page 583.
LUKE FIELD. Private, Capt Hand's co.. Col. Talcott's regt The men were
enlisted March 22 for service in the New York expedition, and discharged April 18,
1776. Page 388.
LUKE FIELD. Private, 2d co., Capt Andrew Ward, also lieut-col.. Col.
David Woosters, 1775; discharged north dep't, Nov. 16, 1775. Page 39.
JOHN FIELDS. Capt. James Peck's co.. Col. (corporal) Roger Enos' bat-
talion, Sept. 17, 1777. Page 615.
JOHN FIELDS. Residing in New Haven county, Conn.; pensioner ot 1832.
Page 654.
OLIVER FIELDS. Private; paid from Dec. 23, 1780 to Dec. 31, 1781.
List of non-commissioned officers and privates. Capt. Comstock's co., 5th
regt, Lieut.-Col. Com'dt. Isaac Sherman. Page 345.
PARDON FIELD. Private; residing in New York. Pensioner of 1818.
Page 642.
PRESERVED FIELD. Private; June 3, 1780; town of Wethersfield; sandy
hair and eyes; by trade tailor; 5 ft. 5 in. in stature; dark complexion; discharged
for Wm. Morrison, April 6, 1779; Col. Sheldon's light dragoons, 1777-83, 4th troop.
Page 278.
NATHANIEL FIELD. Private; 32 days; enlisted from Norfolk (town) for
reliet of Boston in Lexington alarm, 1775. Page 18.
ROBERT FIELD. Private, 5th regt. Col. Philip Burr Bradley, 1780. List ot
levies; enlisted July, 1780 — Dec. 9, 1780. Page 203.
NATHANIEL FIELD. Private, loth co. ; discharged in north dep't Sept 2,
1775; 4th regt, Col. Benj. Hinman, 1775. This co. served at the siege of Boston.
Page 62.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 63
SAMUEL FIELDS. Service 25 days; from town of Mansfield for relief of
Boston in Lexington alarm, April, 1885. Page 16.
SAMUEL FIELDS. Private; May 17 — Dec. 17, 1775; 2dco., Experience Storrs,
capt., also lieut.-col., Col. Israel Putnam, 3d regt. Page 54.
TIMOTHY FIELD. Lieut., 7th regt. of militia, Col. Wm. Worthington, 1780.
Page 561.
TIMOTHY FIELD. Lieut.; town ot Norfolk; Col. Canfield's militia regt.,
Sept., 1 78 1. Page 584.
TIMOTHY FIELD. Sergeant; town of Guilford; 5 days' service, for relief of
Boston in Lexington alarm, 1775. Page 12.
TIMOTHY FIELD. Private, 2d co., Capt. Andrew Ward, also lieut.-col.. Col.
David Wooster's regt., 1775; discharged Nov. 16. 1775. Page 39.
ZACH. FIELD. Private; enlisted June 20, for i mo. ; roll of Capt. Peter Vaill's
CO. of guards stationed in Guilford for defense of seacoast, 1781; Col. Canfield's
militia regt. Page 585.
REVOLUTIONARY DEFENSES IN RHODE ISLAND.
[By Edward Field.]
ABNER FIELD. Private; Pawtuxet rangers, at Cranston Neck or Long
Neck now called Pawtuxet Neck; Oliver Arnold, lieut.-col.; second detachment,
1777. (No. I.) Page 88.
ABNER FIELD. Private; July, 1778; on duty at Pawtuxet. under Col. Benj.
Arnold. (R. I. Historical Society military papers.) Page 89.
JACOB FIELD. Private, under pay abstract of Capt. John Whipple's co., in
Lieut.-Col. Commandant Geo. Peck's regt., doing duty on R. I. in March, 1781.
(Providence town papers, No. 2526.) Page no.
JOHN FIELD. Same as Jacob Field (above). Page no.
JOHN FIELD. Part owner ot land on which stood Fort Sullivan, probably
the first revolutionary defense obliterated, 1784. Page 75.
JEREMIAH FIELD. Private, Pawtuxet rangers ; same asAbner Field (No.
i). Page 88.
NEHEMIAH FIELD. Ensign Capt. Jeremiah Olney's 4th co., in Col. Daniel
Hitchcock's regt. of the Army of Observation, 1775. (Cowell's Spirit of '76 in R. I.,
page 20.) Page 7.
PARDON FIELD. Fifer; July, 1778, on duty at Pawtuxet under Col. Benj.
Arnold, Lieut.-Col. Oliver Arnold. (R. I. Historical Society military papers.)
Page 88.
PETER FIELD. Same as Jacob.
WILLIAM FIELD, of Penngansett. Fortifications made (Fort Independence)
upon the hill southward of his house. Portion of the ancient dwelling is still stand-
ing to mark the spot where Thomas Field builded more than two centuries ago.
The construction of this was superintended by Capt. Bernard Eddy, and his bill to
the town for labor was made up by the following items : Town of Providence to
Bernard Eddy. Nov. 20, 1775, to i^^ days work; Wm. Field and 2 hands and
his team at 12s. per day — i8s, etc. Page 62-64.
NEW JERSEY MEN IN THE REVOLUTION.
THOMAS FIELD. Private, also militia. Official roster of Continental troops.
Page 192.
Official Roster of State Troops and Militia under Lieut's Jeremiah Field, pri-
vate, istregt, Middlesex; sergt., ditto; lieut., ditto. Page 425.
64 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Official Roster State Troops and Militia. Under privates: Field, Benjamin,
-Middlesex; Field, Dennis, Middlesex; Field, Elnathan; Field, Hendrick; Field,
Jeremiah B., Middlesex; Field, John, Middlesex; Field, John B., Middlesex; Field,
Jonathan, Middlesex; Field, Richard, Middlesex; Field, Richard R. ; Field, Seth,
Capt. Maxwell's co., 2d regt., Hunterdon; Field, Thomas, Capt. Fisler's co.,
Gloucester, also Continental army; Field, William Morris. Page 592.
PENNSYLVANIA MEN IN THE REVOLUTION.
Penn. Archives — Second Series.
CHAS. FIELD. Private. Non-commissioned officers and privates in Col.
Stephen Moylan's 4th regt. light dragoons in service of the U. S. Riding master,
Wm. Thompson; trumpet major. Christian Coon ; Pa. 7th regt. of cavalry, 1777-1783.
Page 131, vol. XI.
JOHN FIELD. Scull's co. ; taken Nov. 16, 1776; resided in Botetourt Co. , Va.,
in 1792; 3d Pa. battalion. Col. John Shee. Vol. X., page 114.
JOHN FIELD. Capt. John Davis's co. ; 7 mo. men; 9th Pa.. Continental line.
Vol. X., page 699.
JOHN FIELD. List of soldiers of the Revolution. Vol. XIII., page 69.
JOHN FIELD. Private; Sept. 25, 1778, 8th class; Lieut. Henry Meyer's co.,
Phil, militia, Wm. Bradford, col. Vol. XIII., page 688.
JOHN FIELD. App. Feb. 4, 1781, sergeant, Capt. John Geyer's co., 3d regt.
of foot, Major Richard Salter. Vol. XIII., page 776.
JOHN FIELD. A servant to J. Knight. Non-associators in lower Milford
township. Vol. XIV., page 226.
NATHAN FIELD. Married man. Non-associators in lower Wakefield town-
ship. Vol. XIV., page 237.
NEWBERT FIELD. Non-associators in Bristol borough and township. Vol.
XIV., page 218.
PETER FIELD. Sept. i, 1781; Capt. Geo. Taylor's co., 1st regt. of foot, com-
manded by David Reese. Vol. XIII., page 787.
SAMUEL FIELDS. May 14, 1778; ist lieut, Capt. Philip Matthew's 4th co.,
4th battallion. Col. Samuel Lyon. Vol. XIV., page 413.
THOMAS FIELDS. Sergeant, Darby; taken Nov. 16, 1776; 5th Pa. battalion,
Col. Robert Magaw, Capt. John Richardson's co. Vol. X., page 162.
THOMAS FIELDS. Private. Non-commissioned officers and privates. 6th
Pa., Continental line. Vol. X., page 597.
WM. FIELDS. Act of Feb. 25, 1813. Pension list. Vol. XL, page 761.
WM. FIELDS. Age, 21; 5 ft. 3^ in. tall; farmer; born in England ; enlisted
April 16, 1777; private; roll of 7th co., Capt. Isaac Sweeny, Lieut. Septimus Davis.
Vol. XL, page 265.
WM. FIELD. Non-associators in Buckingham township. Vol. XIV., page 219.
WM. FIELDS. Private; sick; Trenton; a return of Capt. John co. of
6th Pa. regt., commanded by Lieut-Col. Josiah Harmar, Sept. 9, 1778. Vol. XV.,
page 460.
FIELD GENEALOGY.
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FIELD FAMILY IN ENGLAND.
1. ROGER DEL FIELD, b. Sowerby, England, about 1240; m. . He
was descended from Sir Hubertus De la Feld and the head of the family which
settled in Lancaster and Kent counties, England. Res. Sowerby, England.
2. I. RICHARD, b. about 1276; m. .
3. ii. THOMAS, b. about 1278; m. .
2. RICHARD DE FELD (Roger), b. about 1276, in Sowerby, England; m.
. The existing rolls of Wakefield Manor commence in 1284, but are very
imperfect until 1306. A roll endorsed 1272 and called first roll, is a mistake for
first of Edward II., and, therefore, 1307. The first entry in them relating to the
Field family is in 1306, and refers to a suit of Richard del Feld, of Sowerby,
against Robert, son of William de Saltonstall. In 1308 Richard de Feld served as
a juror, being described in the entry as son of Roger del Feld. Throughout the
part of the Wakefield rolls referred to in this book the name is written "flEeld."
These two small letters then stood for the capital one, which we now use. Osgood
Field says, "very probably Richard and Thomas were brothers." Res. Sowerby,
England.
4. i. ADAM, b. 1299; m. .
3. THOMAS DEL FELD (Roger), b. Sowerby, England, about 1278; m.
. He was of Sowerby, a juror in 1307. Named in the Wakefield rolls in 1314,
and also in 1322, when he was at "Halifax Court." Res. Sowerby, England.
5. i. JOHN, b. 1300; m. .
6. ii. ADAM, b. . He was ot Sowerby. Named in the rolls in 1349.
and then called "son of Thomas de Feld." Mentioned again in
1393.
4. ADAM DEL FELD (Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, England, 1299; m.
. In 1333 the name of Adam del Feld appears in the Wakefield Manor rolls,
and in 1336 he is spoken of as holding a house and twelve acres in Sowerby, when
he was called a son of Richard del Feld. This Adam is mentioned in these rolls
several times in the next fourteen years, and in 1349 he was elected greave ot
Sowerby. This was the chief officer of a graveship. He died shortly after, for
the entry in 1350 states that he died 1349-50. Res. Sowerby, England.
7. i. THOMAS, JR., b. 1329; m. Matilda .
5. JOHN DEL FELD (Thomas, Roger), b. Sowerby, England, 1300; m.
He was named in the Wakefield Manor rolls in 1326, 1334 and in 1336, when he had
land at Sowerby. Called "son of Thomas del Feld." Res. Sowerby, England.
8. i. THOMAS, JR., b. 1330; m. Annabelle .
7. THOMAS DEL FELD, JR. (Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, Eng-
land, 1329; m. Matilda . He paid heriot in 1350 on a house and twelve acres
at Sowerby, "after the death of Adam, his father." He had a dispute in 1357 with
Richard de Leighrod. In 1361 he surrendered to the lord a house and sixteen acres
at Sowerby, and took back the same with "Matilda, his wife," paying ingress. In
1370 Isabella, daughter of Richard de Leghrode, deceased, took land from him.
Referred to in the rolls in 1384, and in 1391.
Thomas del Feld paid heriot on a house and twelve acres in Sowerby "after
66
FIELD GENEALOGY. 67
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the death of his father, Adam." Heriot is a fine or tax paid to the lord of a manor
by a person when inheriting property in it.
About the same time there was another Adam del Feld at Sowerby, who is
named in the rolls in 1349, and called then "son of Thomas del Feld." Whether he
is the Adam mentioned in them in 1393 the writer is unable to state. There were
also two Thomas del Felds at Sowerby who were contemporaneous, and often dis-
tinguished in the rolls as senior and junior, but not always so. The land ceded to
Isabella de Leghrode in 1370 was called "Todehoile."
In 1369 Thomas del Feld surrendered, and John, son of William Milner, took
the half of a house and land described as "the Langeroide, in Sowerby in West-
felde. In the following year this same Thomas ceded a piece of land in Ribburns-
dene (Ripponden) to Henry Pigle. He is probably the "Thomas Feld" who
together with his wife is assessed in the Lay subsidy roll for the West Riding of
Yorkshire, under the head of "Sowerby" in the second of Richard III. (1378-79).
Res. Sowerby, England.
JOHN, b. 1359; m. .
RICHARD, b. ; m. .
AGNES, b. ; d. unm. before 1397.
ALICE, b. . She paid heriot on fifteen acres and one-half a
house in Sowerby "after the death of her sister, Agnes," in 1397.
It is supposed that this estate was owned jointly by the two sisters,
and that it is the same one which was in possession of Thomas, Jr.
and his wife, Matilda, in 1361, from whom it passed to their son
John, and was inherited from him in 1393 by his brother Richard,
who was the brother of these ladies. This is all the more probable,
as we find an entry in 1508. that this property had been in posses-
sion of William Felde, who was the nephew of Alice and Agnes,
and the property was then conveyed to the use of his widow.
8. THOMAS DEL FELD (John, Thomas, Roger), b. Sowerby, England,
1330; m. Annabelle . He was named in the rolls in 1364 and was elected this
year to supervise the "agistment and pannage." Constable of Sowerby in 1365,
and greave there in 1370. He hired Sowerby mill in 1380 with Thomas de Helilee,
and was a special juror in 1384. In 1370 he took a piece of land of Thomas Wade,
in "Dedewyf erode," and I think later went to Bradford.
The name of Thomas del Feld occurs frequently in the Wakefield rolls between
1348 and 1391, without the addition of senior or junior, so that it is impossible to
say which one is referred to in these entries. Both senior and junior are mentioned
in 1384, after which date there is but one entry, in 1391, when the name is simply
Thomas del Feld. Probably both senior and junior died about this time. Others
of the family mentioned in the lifetime of the two Thomases who cannot be placed
with certainty, are Elena del Feld, in 1329 and in 1333, and Margaret, who paid
heriot in 1357 on a cottage and land in Sowerby, "after the death of John Tomson,
her uncle." She is called daughter of Thomas del Feld, but ot which I am unable
to state. He d. about 1391. Res. Sowerby and Bradford, England.
13. i. THOMAS, b. 1360; m. Isabel .
9. JOHN DEL FELD (Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, Eng-
land, 1359; m. . He may have been the eldest son — but I think not He
had had possession at one time of the house and sixteen acres at Sowerby, which
belonged to his father. He d. about 1393. Res. Sowerby. England.
14. i. JOHN, b. 1383; m. .
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lo. RICHARD DEL FELD (Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby,
England ; m. . Richard del Feld is referred to in the rolls no less than
twenty-three times between 1393 and 1454 inclusive. He must have lived to a good
old age, and died about the last date. It was during Richard's lifetime that the
prefix "del" was dropped from the family name — the wars with France having made
such adjuncts unpopular. The single name of Feld appears in 1412 in the rolls for the
first time. After that date it is sometimes preceded by "del," and occasionally by
"de" until 1446, which is the latest time at which we meet with either of these in
the records referred to.
Richard Feld was chosen greave of Sowerby in 1423 and 1428. Probably the
deed of 1454 to his sons was executed by him in anticipation of his immediate death.
He d. about 1454. Res. Sowerby, England.
15. i. ROBERT, b. . In 1427 and 1428 the name of Robert Feld occurs
in the rolls, and in the entry of the latter year he is called "son of
Richard." Quite likely he was the same Robert Feld who was
elected constable of Warley in 1433, as this place is only two or
three miles from Sowerby. He had a son Richard, to whom his
grandfather of the same name gave, in 1454, the remainder to a
house and twenty-three acres "between Feldhouseloyne (Fieldhouse
lane) on the highway of Ribbornedeyne on the south," which was
then conveyed to the use of his uncle William for twenty-four
years.
16. ii. JOHN, b. ; m. .
17. iii. THOMAS, b. . Thomas Feld, son of Richard, who is named in
the conveyance of 1440, is not again mentioned in the rolls. It is
supposed from this that he either died young or left the neighbor-
hood.
18. iv. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Mabill .
19. V. GEORGE, b. .
13. THOMAS DEL FELDE (Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. 1360; m.
Isabel . On the 12th of March, 1429 "Thomas del Felde de Bolton" made his
will, leaving to his wife, Isabel, all his lands and tenants "in villa and tertory de
Bynglay" for life, remainder to his heirs. After the death of "Anabelle my
mother" his son Robert is to have his lands "in villa and tertory of Bradford," and
if Robert die without issue, remainder to William, his brother. He d. 1429. Res.
Bradford, England.
20. i. ROBERT, b. .
21. ii. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Katherine .
14. JOHN FELD (John, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, Eng-
land, 1383; m. 1412 ; d. prob. 1423, This branch of the family was seated in
Normanton and East Ardsley, within a short distance of Wakefield, and near the
neighboring town of Bradford. All these were of the same family originally, as
the Fields, of Sowerby. Most of the places referred to were within a radius of ten
or fifteen miles of that place. The first one mentioned in the Wakefield rolls at any
of these localities was John Feld, of Normanton, who is referred to in 141 2, and was
no doubt the progenitor of those of the family who were residing near a little later.
John was a juror in 1420, and he is named tor the last time in 1423. He d. about
1423. Res. Normanton, England.
22. i. RICHARD, b. ; m. .
16. JOHN FELD (Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby,
England ; m. . Besides Robert, Richard had three other sons as appears
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26.
IV.
27.
V.
28.
vi.
2q.
vii.
by an entry in 1440, when he surrendered the house and land above referred to,
which is described as being "between Dedewyfoclogh and Feldhouslone in Sowerby,"
to the use of John, son of said Richard, with remainder to Thomas and William,
brothers ot John. This last immediately re-conveyed the estate to his father Rich-
ard tor lite. John had a son Hugh. John was the first mentioned ot the three
brothers in 1440, and was again mentioned in 1443. He was a juror in 1445. was
constable of Sowerby in 1449 and 1450. He was not living in 1468, as appears by an
entry that year. Res. Sowerby, England.
23. i. CHRISTOPHER, b. ; m. .
24. ii. HUGH, b. . He was granted remainder to the house and sixteen
acres in 150S, when he was called "son of the late John Feld." In
1525 he let Feldhous to William Brig. He is again mentioned in
the rolls in 1521 and 1525. He is not mentioned again and he
probably died about this time without issue.
25. iii. JOHN, b. . In 1468 Christopher Feld surrendered the use of the
house and twenty-three acres to John, his brother, and the four
sisters for twelve years.
ELENA, b. .
ISABELLA, b. .
AGNES, b. .
JOAN, b. .
18. WILLIAM FELD (Richard, Thomas, Adam. Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby,
England; m. Mabill . William Feld was greave of Sowerby in 1476. Under
date of 1508 there is an entry of the surrender of a house and sixteen acres, "for-
merly in tenure of William Felde de Soreby," "to the use of Mabill, widow of the
said William Felde, remainder to Hugh, son of the late John Felde, remainder to
George, brother of the said John." Res. Sowerby, England.
21. WILLIAM FELD (Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. possibly
Bradford, England, ; m. Katherine . Letters of administration granted
his widow April 21, 1480. She was administratrix of the estate. He d. April, 1480.
Res. Parish of Bradford, England.
30. i. WILLIAM, b. ; m. .
31. li. JOHN, b. ; m. .
22. RICHARD FELD (John, John, Thomas, Adam. Richard, Roger), b. near
Normanton, England; ro. . He was constable at Normanton in 1436.
His wife is mentioned in the records in 1446-47-49-50, and as she was not called
widow then it is presumed he was living. He d. April, 1450. Res. Normanton,
England.
32. i. RICHARD, b. ; m. .
23. CHRISTOPHER FELD (John, Richard. Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger),
b. Sowerby, England ; m. . In 1468 Christopher, son of John Felde. gave
heriot on a house and twenty-three acres, between Dedewyfeclogh and Feldehouse-
loyne, after the death of his father, John. He immediately surrendered the same
to the use of John, his brother, and to Elena, Isabella, Agnes and Johne (Joan), their
sisters, for twelve years. In 1471 Margaret de Felde, at the Overfeldhouse, was
fined for encroaching on the waste. The fact of there being a Field House lane in
1440 implies the existence at that time of a Field house, while this last entry shows
that there were at the date of it — 14 71 — two buildings of that name, an upper and
a lower Field house. The latter is referred to in 1500, when there was a conveyance
of land to Christopher Field between Feldhousloyne, the land of Christopher Feld
and Netherfeldhous. Probably one of these is the edifice referred to hereafter,
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which was pulled down in the early part of this century. Christopher Felde. who
paid heriot in 1468, was elected greave of Sowerby in 1487. He is named in the
rolls in 1494 and 1500, and was dead in 1509, when John, described as son of Chris-
topher Felde, Sowerby, paid heriot tor house and twenty-three and one-half acres
between Dedewyfeclough and Feldehousloyne after the death of Christopher, his
father. He was dead in 1509. Res. Sowerby, England.
33. i. JOHN, b. ; m. .
34. ii. THOMAS, b. ; m. Margaret .
30. WILLIAM FELD (William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b.
Bradford, England; m. . Res. East Ardsley, England.
35. i. RICHARD, b. ; m. Elizabeth .
2S'A' ii- THOMAS, b. . Thomas Felde, supervisor of his brother Rich-
ard's will in 1542. In 1545 he is assessed for lands in East Ardsley.
His brother Richard refers to him in his will, "Mr. Thomas Felde,
my brother."
36. iii. JOHN, b. about 1519; m. .
31. JOHN FELD (William, Thomas. Thomas, John. Thomas, Roger), b.
Bradford, England, ; m. . Res. Bradford, England.
37. i. JOHN, b. ; m. .
32. RICHARD FELD (Richard, John, John, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger),
b. Normanton, England; m. . He was constable of "Endeslawe" (Ardsley)
in 1484. Res. Ardsley, England.
33. JOHN FELDE (Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard,
Roger), b. Sowerby, England; m. . John inherited the house and twenty-
three and one-half acres in 1509. He was constable of Sowerby in 151 3 and 1514.
He was dead in 1520. Res. Sowerby, England.
38. i. CHRISTOPHER, b. ; m. Grace Gradeheighe.
39. ii. JOHN. b. ; m. Elizabeth .
40. iii. JAMES, b. ; m. .
41. iv. ROBERT, b. ; m. Agnes .
34. THOMAS FELDE (Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard,
Roger), b. Sowerby, England ; m. Margaret . Thomas, in 1492, took the waste
land lying near a road in Sowerby, called Feldhousloyne, when he is described as
son of Christopher Felde, and in 1494 he again took similar land. At this time there
was much uncultivated land in England, which was called waste. His name does
not occur after this until 1527, when he surrendered a tract ot land "taken from the
waste by the said Thomas," and he made a like surrender in 1530. He was dead
in 1534, as appears by an entry in that year, when George Boethes and others sur-
render a house and land to the use of Margaret widow of Thomas Feld. He was
dead in 1534. Res. Sowerby, England.
35. RICHARD FELDE (William, William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas,
Roger), b. probably East Ardsley, England ; m. Elizabeth . Richard made his will
Aug. 19, 1542, and it was proved Dec. 8, 1542. He describes himself as "husband-
man of the parish of Ardeslowe," and desires his wife, Elizabeth, and John Felde,
my son, have the take of the farmhold, and makes them executors. He adds "also
I will that my children have their portion and that Mr. Thomas Felde, my brother,
and Christopher Nowell be my supervisors." He d. December. 1542. Res. East
Ardsley, England.
__ 42. i. JOHN, b. about 1525; m. Jane Amyas.
43. ii. OTHER children.
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37. JOHN FIELDE (John, William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger),
b. probably in Bradford, England ; m. . He was supervisor of his son
Thomas' will, dated Jan. 14, 1572-3. He was a juror tor Horton in Barnard's sur-
vey, 1577. Res. Bradford, Parish of Horton, England.
44. i. THOMAS, b. ; m. Anne .
45. ii. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Jenet .
38. CHRISTOPHER FELD (John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas,
Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, England; m. there, 1540, Grace Gradeheighe.
In 1520 he paid heriot on four and one-half acres formerly taken from the waste atter
the decease of John, his father. This is a smaller estate than his brother John
inherited, probably because he was the eldest. In 1531 the last named John Feld
gave Christopher half the rent of the house and twenty-three acres, which had been
leased in 1529 to Henry Ferror, describing his brother as his lawful heir. In 1539
Christopher surrendered the reversion, atter his death, of half the rent of this house
and land, to the use of John, son of Jacobus (James) Feld, which two were at this
time Christopher's heirs. In the same year he gave heriot on land after the death
ot Elizabeth, his sister., i. e., sister-in-law. Up to the last date the Wakefield manor
rolls have been almost the exclusive source of information relating to the family.
The wills recorded hitherto have been few and far between, but at this time are
becoming more frequent, and in 1538 parish registers began. Fortunately those of
Halifax church exist from the beginning, which can be said of very few. One of
the earliest entries in the register records the marriage of Christopher Fyld and
Grace Gradeheighe in 1540. In the manor rolls there is an entry in 1554 of the sur-
render by Christopher Feld of two parts ot four and one-half acres to the use of
William, Alice and Elizabeth, his children. The name of the last was not found
among extracts of baptisms from the Halifax registers, but as the entries are some-
times illegible, it may have been overlooked. This conveyance was probably made
by Christopher in anticipation of his death, for in the same year — 1554 — his eldest
son, Edward Felde, paid heriot. Res. Halifax Parish and Sowerby, England.
EDWARD, bap. 1541; m. Isabella Greenwood.
JOHANNA, bap. 1543, at Halifax.
ALICE, bap. 1544, at Halifax.
GRACE, bap. 1545, at Halifax.
ELIZABETH, bap. ; named in her father's deed, 1554.
JOHN, bap. 1547; buried in 1547.
WILLIAM, bap. 1548; m. Susan Midgley.
39. JOHN FELD (John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Rich-
ard, Roger), b. Sowerby. England; m. Elizabeth ; d. s. p. in 1534. In 1529
there was a proclamation concerning John Feld's land, formerly Christopher Feld's,
and in the same year this John leased the house and twenty-three acres in Sowerby,
between Dedewyfeclogh and Feldhousloyne, to Henry Ferror. In 1531 John Feld
gave half the rent from Ferror for this property to Elizabeth, his wife, for life, and
the other half to Christopher Felde, his lawful heir. This same Christopher paid
heriot on land in 1534, after the death of Elizabeth, his sister, i. e., sister-in-law.
From this it will be evident that John Feld must have been the son, and in all
probability the eldest, of the person of the same name who was dead in 1520, and
therefore the brother of Christopher, who paid heriot in this year, after the decease
of John, his father. This is evident not only because we find the John we are
referring to in possession, m 1529 and 1531, of the house and twenty-three acres,
which Richard Feld surrendered to his son John in 1440. and which descended
through him to the first Christopher in 1468, and then to his son John in 1509, but
4b.
47.
1.
ii.
48.
iii.
49.
IV.
50.
v.
51-
VI.
52.
vu,
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also because the John we are speaking of calls Christopher his lawful heir in 1531,
and more than all, because the last named styles John's wife Elizabeth, his sister,
whom he paid heriot in 1534, after her death. The presumption is that her husband
was also dead then and that they died childless. He was dead in 1534. Res., s. p.,
Sowerby, England.
-40. JAMES FELD (John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Rich-
ard, Roger), b. Sowerby, England; m. . A Jacobus (James) Feld took of
the waste in 15 14, and he and Christopher are named together in the rolls in 1530.
In 1534 this James surrendered land to John, Edward and Robert, his sons. Prob-
ably James was a brother of John and Christopher, and this is the more likely inas-
much as an entry in 1539 says that the last named surrendered the reversion to half
the rent of the twenty-three acres leased to Henry Ferror in 1529 to the use of John,
son of Jacobus (James) Feld. Res. Sowerby, England.
53. i. JOHN, b. ; m. .
54. ii. EDWARD, b. . He is not mentioned in the rolls after 1534.
55. iii. ROBERT, b. . He is no doubt the one of that name referred
to in 1561, and also in an entry under 1594, which states that
Robert Wade made a gift to Halifax free schole (school) from lands
formerly Robert Feilde's.
41. ROBERT FELDE (John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam,
Richard, Roger), b. 1460; m. Agnes .
The villages of Crotton and Sandal adjoin. They are both in the manor of
Wakefield, and some two or three miles from the town of that name. About the
same distance northeast of Crofton is Normanton, where John Feld was residing
from 141 2 to 1423. Between these two places lies the parish of Warmfield, in which
another John Feld was living in 15 14-15, at a place called Sharlston, in Warmfield.
A very few years later we find persons of the name at Crofton and Sandal, which
looks as if the descendants of John, of Normanton, had spread themselves to these
two villages through the intervening parish of Warmfield.
Before proceeding further the author would say that at Sandal stood the famous
castle of that name, which was the chief seat of the manor from an early period,
and often the abode of royalty. During the civil wars it was besieged and captured
by the Parliamentary forces in 1645, and destroyed shortly after, so that only its
ruins remain. At the period of which the auther is writing Sandal was a more
important place than Crofton, and it is not improbable that residents of the latter
and neighborhood should be sometimes described as "of Sandal." It is, therefore,
unlikely that the Robert, of the manor rolls, and he of the subsidy roll, were not the
same individual, but father and son. As we get on a difficulty arises in tracing the
relationship of the different members of this branch of the family, from the frequent
occurrence of this name and that of Christopher, and the author would remark
here, that both of these were very common about this time among the Fields of
Sowerby.
In the Wakefield manor rolls, under the head ot Sandal, there is a reference
in 1520 to lands formerly in the tenure of Robert Felde and Agnes, his wife; and in
the subsidy roll of the fifteenth Henry VII. (1523-4) "Robert Feylde" and "William
Feylde" are assessed under the head of Crofton.
He d. before 1520. Res. Sandal, England.
56. i. ROBERT, b. ; m. .
57. ii. WILLIAM, b. ; m. .
58. iii. CHARLES, b. .
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59-
IV.
60.
V.
61.
vi.
ALICE, b. .
CHRISTOPHER, b. ; m. Elizabeth .
NICHOLAS, b. .
__ 42. JOHN FIELD (Richard. William, William, Thomas, Thomas, John,
Thomas, Roger), b. about 1525, East Ardsley, England; m. 1560, Jane Amyas. dau.
of John: d. Aug. 30, 1609. He d. May, 1587. Res. Ardislawe, England.
John Felde has been styled "the proto-Copernican ot England, inasmuch as he
was the first to make known in that country by his writings the discoveries of this
remarkable man, who delayed for a long time the publication of his famous work,
"De Orbium Coelestium Revolutionibus," on account of the opposition and perse-
cution to be feared from persons who considered its teachings opposed to those of
the Bible. Although completed in 1530. it was not printed till 1543, when its author
was on his death-bed. Works based on the new system (which revolutionized the
science of astronomy) by Rheticus and Reinhold had appeared in Germany a few
years earlier, but the "Ephemeris" of John Field for 1557 which was published in
that year, was the first opportunity afforded the people of England of becoming
acquainted with the true motions of the heavenly bodies. In the following year he
issued a similar work, calculated for 1558, 1559, 1560. Probably these were not his
only publications, but no others have come down to us, and only two copies of these
are known to exist, the British Museum and Bodleian Library, at Oxford, each
possessing both works.
John Field was born probably between 1510 and 1520. It could not have been
much after the last date, as he was co-executor of his father's will in 1542. Wood,
the historian of Oxford University, claims that he belonged to that sect of learning,
which is not improbable, as his writings show that he had received a good classical
education. It has been impossible to find anything of him anywhere from the
date of his father's will, 1542, to the publication of his first "Ephemeris," 1557,
when he was residing in London, where he may have and quite likely did pass
the fourteen years intervening. A portion of the time he, not improbably, spent
abroad, and no doubt acquired in Germany his knowledge of, and zeal for, the new
theories, which he promulgated afterward m his native land.
By a patent, dated Sept. 4, 1558, the heralds formerly recognized his right to
the family arms; Sable, a chevron between three garbs argent, and at the same
time they granted to him the following crest: A dexter arm issuing out of clouds
fesseways proper, habited gules, holding in the hand, also proper, a sphere or.
This appropriate crest may be considered a recognition of his services to the cause
of astronom y.
We assume that it was about 1560 that he married Jane, daughter of John
Amyas, ot Kent, as she is described in the Herald's visitation of Yorkshire in
1584-85. Mr. Hunter in an article referred to elsewhere, says that he had searched
in vain for genealogical information in Kent without discovering anything of this
lady, or her family. This failure is easily explained by the fact that the Amyas
was not a Kentish, but a Yorkshire name. The family had been seated in the
immediate neighborhood of Ardsley from a early date. In all probability John
Amyas removed from there to Kent, and possibly his wife's family belonged to that
county. As tar back as the first of Edward I. the tolls ot Wakefield manor were let
to John de Amyas for ;i^ioo a year. His daughter, Matilda, married John Water-
ton, of Walton, whose family has been for centuries one of the most distinguished
of that neighborhood. The Amyas's were seated for generations at Sandal, Har-
bury and Thornhill, all of which are within half a dozen miles of East Ardsley,
where John Field resided. There is no question but he chose a wife among his
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74 FIELD GENEALOGY.
neighbors and friends. On Oct. 29, 1481, the rector of Methley had license to marry
John Amias, of Thornhill, and Margarec Medley. Robert Amyas was instituted
vicar of Peniston, May 24, 1498. Hunter, the historian of South Yorkshire, says
that he was of the Sandal family. There are two shields carved at the end of stalls
in Sandal church — one with the Percy arms impaling first and fourth Frost
and second and third Amyas — the last coat being on a bend three roses. The
other has also the Percy arms impaling Amyas. Above is the inscription "Orate
pro bono statu Joselyng Pyrcy Armegery. "
Joselyn Percy was fourth son of the fourth Earl of Northumberland, and mar-
ried Margaret, only child of William Frost, of Beverly and Featherston. This lady
inherited from her father lands in Sandal and elsewhere. Jocelyn Percy died in
1532, and his father-in-law. Frost, in 1529. We learn by the inquisition post mor-
tem on this Jocelyn, held at Wakefield, the year of his death, that Frost's wife was
Ann Ranson. She was probably the second one, and the first, and mother of Mar-
garet, an Amyas. The parish registers of Roystone, which is some five miles south
of Sandal, began in 1558. There are several entries in the earlier part which relate
to persons by the name of Amyas, as, for instance, the burial of Elizabeth Amyas
in 1569, and the baptism of "Beatris" Amyas m 1585. Probably John Field returned
to East Ardsley not long after his marriage. We find him there at the time of the
Herald's visitation of Yorkshire, in 1584-5, when he recorded the names ot his wife
and children, but for some reason, which the writer cannot explain, did not give the
names of his ancestors, not even that of his father.
John Field, of East Ardsley, co-executor of his father's will, had the family
arms confirmed, and a crest granted to him Sept. 4, 1558. The Herald's visitation
ot Yorkshire, 1585, records the names ot himself, wife and children. His will, dated
Dec. 28, 1586, was proved May 3, 1587.
Jane, daughter ot John Amyas, of Kent, executrix ot her husband's will. Her
own is dated July 17, 1609. Buried at East Ardsley, Aug. 3, 1609.
Although John Field was one ot the most distinguished pioneers in the cause of
science of whom England can boast, his memory has been almost entirely and
unjustly neglected by his countrymen, and even in astronomical circles his is hardly,
or not at all known. For further information in relation to him the reader is
referred to Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1834, to an article by Rev. Joseph Hun-
ter, and November, 1862, to an article by.Osgood Field.
Will of John Field, the Astronomer. — In the name of God Amen the
xxxiith day of december a thousand ty ve hundreth eyghtie sixe Anno Regine Dne
nre Elizabeth Regina viscessimo nono, I John Feld of Ardeslowe in the Countie of
York farmer sometymes studente in the mathy mathicales sciences, beinge weake
and feble in bodie but of good and pfect memorie laud and prayse be unto Al-
myghtie God, do make, ordeyne and declare this my psent testament conteyninge
therein my last will in maner and forme f oUowinge, that is to say :
First and principallie I bequeathe and comende my soule unto Almightie
God my Creator and to his dearlie beloved sonne Jesus Christ my onelie Saviour
and Redemer, in whome and by the merritts of whose most precious deathe and
glorious passion, resurrection and assencon I hope and stedtastlie beleve to have full
and cleare remission, pdone and torgivenes of all my synes and offences. And my
bodie to the earthe to be buried wthin the pshe church porche* of Ardeslowe where
1 am now a prsheoner.
Itm I will that all suche debts and somes of money whatsoever as I shalbe
indetted in, or owe of Right by bound obligatorie, bill or conscience unto any psone
* Jane, widow of John Field, in her will, dated 1609, desire "my bodie to be buried by my
husband,; John Feild, in Ardslaw church porch."
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or psons at the tyme of my decease shalbe well and trulie answered, satisfied and
paid by my executrix hereatter named.
Itm whereas I do stand bound unto John Franklyne of little chart in the
Countie of Kent, esquier, by my deed obligatorie in the some of two, or three
hundrethe pounds wth condicon that yt God do calle me out of the world before my
wyfe Jane Feild, that then I shall leave her the said Jane worthe the some of one
hundrethe poundes at the least in money plait, household stute or other shattalles
as by the condicon of the said obligacon mor at large yet dothe and shall appeare.
In consideracon whereof as well in pformance of the same condicon of the same
obligacon as also for divers other good causes and consideracons me nowe movinge.
I do give unto the said Jane Feild my wife my whole intrest title and farmehold lease
or leases and terme of yeares wch I now have, or shall have hereafter of my farme-
hold wherein I nowe dwell. And the water corne mylne belonginge to the same,
wth all the houses, buyldinges, lands, tenements, pfytts and hereditaments what-
soever wth all and singular their appurtenances to the same belonginge, or in
any wyse appteyninge, as I nowe the said John Feild enjoyeth the same wth the
moytie or one half of all my moveable goodes, as oxen, kyne, yonge beastes,
cattalles, horses, meares, colts and calves and the moytie, or one halte of all
my said moveable goodes, as gucke or dead whatsoever. And also the moytie
or one halfe of all my corne nowe in the barne and growinge on the ground nowe
sowne, wth the moytie of my hay. Also I give unto her all my goodes wthin
my bed Chamber wherein I nowe lye, wth all household stufe and furniture wthin
the same Chamber to her propr use for ever. And the said Jane to have and to hold
the said farmehold her naturall lyfe yff the said lease, or leases so long contynewe.
And yf yt it fortune her to dye before the ende of the same lease, or leases be
expired then my will is that she shall bye her will and testament in writinge, or
otherwise disposse the same her intrest and possession of my said farmehold to
some such one of my child, or children as to her wisdome shall best be licked of.
Itm I do gyve to James Feild and Martyne Feild my two yongest sonnes all
my plate and Jewelles of gould and sylver equallie to be divided betwixt them wth
eyther of them a bedstead wth the furnitur, havinge a fetherbed, blanketts, sheets,
and counterpayntes to the same.
Itm I do gyve unto fyve hundrethe poure folkes peny dole, and dynynge all
my poure neighboures, the day of my burial, as shortlie after as may be.
Itm I do give to all my god children twelve pence apece at my wyfes discrecon.
Itm I do give to my cosine Nowell and Xpofer his Sonne some cott or dublatt
at my wyfes discrecon.
Itm to Willm Medley some hose or cott at her discrecon.
Itm I do give to my gossoppe Willm Shereley and Rowland of the newe pke
my huntinge home wth the rest pteyninge to yt, wth an Inglishe booke at my wyfes
discrecon.
Itm I do give to my maid Alice Butler and to my mam John Hill, yf he please
and be obedient and serviceable to my wyfe, attendinge my svice trulie some such
like consideration and remembrance as shall seame good to my wyfe's dis-
crecon.
Itm I do give to my dislyall and loose lyved sonne Richard Feild one sylver
spoone in full payment and satisfacon of his child's porcon wth wch yf he be not
satisfied 1 will he lose the benefytt of the same.
The Rest and Residue of all my goodes whatsoever, my debts paid and my
funerall expences discharged, I give and bequeath the residue to my eight children,
to be bestowed upon them equalie at the discrecon of my wyfe at such tymes and
sessons as they shalbe thought sufficient by their good mother to order and disposes
76 FIELD GENEALOGY.
the same with the consent of my supervisors of this my last will and testament
hereafter to be named.
Itm I do ordeyne and applynt the said Jane Feild my true and lawfuU wife
to be my sole executrix of this my last will and testament and do nominate for my
supvisoures Roberte Greenwood, gentleman, and Roberte Abbott of Bentley,
tanner, wth Mr. Wm. Dyneley of Swillington to be supervisors of this my last will
and testament, pratinge them and everie of them to pforme the speciall trust I have
reposed in them, to see the same executed accordinge to my conscience and my true
meanynge of the same.
In witnes whereof 1 the said John Feild to this my psent last will and testa-
ment have sett my hand and seale the day and yeare above written.
These beinge witnesses and sealed and delived in the psence of me John
Naler, John Adamsone.
Proved May 3, 1587.
62. i. RICHARD, b. 1563. Richard Field, aged 22, in 1585, disinherited
by his father. He had a daughter, Mary, in 1609; not then 21.
Mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Jane.
JOHN, b. 1568; m. .
MATTHEW, b. 1563; m. Margaret .
CHRISTOPHER,'b. 1565. Christopher Field and John Feild, his
brother, not named in their mother's will; probably went away
from home.
THOMAS, b. 1572; named in his mother's will; called third son.
WILLIAM, b. 1570: m. Mrs. Jane (Sotwell) Burdette.
JAMES, b. 1574; named in both his father's and mother's will.
MARTIN, b. 1577; named in both his father's and mother's wills.
ANNE, b. 1580; prob. d. young, but named in her mother's will.
44. THOMAS FEILDE (John, John, William, Thomas, Thomas, John,
Thomas, Roger), b. probably in Parish ot Horton, Bradford, England; m. Anne
. Shed. October, 1599. He d. April, 1573. Res. Shipley, Parish of Bradford,
county of York, England.
His will is dated Jan. 14, 1572-3, and was proved April 24, 1573. Desires to be
buried in the south side ot Bradford church. His widow was executrix ot his will.
She was buried at Bradford, Oct. 28, 1 599.
Thomas Feilde, of Shipley, in his will, dated Jan. 14, 1572-73, desires to be
buried in the south side of the church of Bradford. He bequeaths to his wife, Anne,
for life, the farmhold where he dwells, also two new mills and a farmhold occupied
by Richard Lillie. After her death these properties and a tenement to go to
daughter, Frances Feilde, or if she die without heirs, to brother William, to whom
he leaves two tenements in Great Horton, one of which is in the occupation of
Percival Feild. His father, John Feilde, is one ot his executors. The writer is
unable with certainty to connect this Thomas with the pedigree, but thinks it is not
impossible that his brother William was the father of the eleven children, of whom
Edward is the first named. The "widow Feilde, ot Shipley," who was buried at
Bradford, Oct. 28, 1599, was, he supposes, wife ot Thomas.
71. i. FRANCES, b. . She was the only child named in her father's.
will, joined by her husband — Thomas Green, of York — conveyed
Shipley to her cousins, George, Edward and Robert Feild.
45. WILLIAM FEILD (John, John, William, Thomas, Thomas, John,
Thomas, Roger), b. probably in Bradford, Parish of Horton, England; m. Jenet
. She d. June 14, 1612. He was named in the will of his brother, Thomas.
63.
u.
64.
111.
65.
IV.
66.
V.
67.
vi.
68.
Vll.
69.
viii.
70.
IX.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 77
Obtained a grant of land in Horton in 1590 from John de Lacy, Lord of Horton.
His will is dated March 3, 1598-9, and was proved July 4, 1599. Buried at Bradford,
May 23, 1599. Jenet was named in her husband's will. She was buried in Brad-
ford church June 14, 161 2.
William Feild, of Great Horton, made his will March 3, 1598-9. a°^ names in
it his wife, Jenet, and "younger children," Frances. Marie, Alice and Thomas,
each of whom was to receive successively the rents of his lands on Bradfordshire
until they had got their respective portions. There was an elder child, John, as
shown hereafter, and perhaps others. His burial is entered as follows in the Brad-
ford church registers: "1599, May 23rd, William Feilde of Horton." There is a
later entry on June 14, 1512, of the burial of "widow Feild of Horton in ths
church," which probably refers to his wife. This William may have been the
brother of that name whom Thomas Feilde refers to in his will in 1572-3 ; although
it is strange, in that case, that the former should have named but three of the eleven
children at the beginning of the pedigree, when he executed a similar document in
1598-9; but it must not be overlooked that these three, Marie, Alice and Thomas,
are mentioned both at the head of the pedigree and in William's will. We find a
reference to the last named a little later. On September 2d, forty-third Elizabeth
(1601), an inquisition post mortem was held at Shipton after the death of William
Feilde, of Great Horton, yeoman, who died May 23d, forty-first Elizabeth (1599)-
It was found that he has houses and lands in Great Horton and in Bradford, and
that his son, John, aged fifty years and more, was his heir. He d. May, 1599.
Res. Great Horton, Parish of Bradford, England.
GEORGE, b. 1543; m. Isabel Mortimer.
JOHN, b. 1551; m. Anne .
ROBERT, b. . He res. in Shipley; was a clothier; d. unm. ;
will dated Nov. 5, 1599; proved Dec. 18, 1599; buried at Bradford,
Nov. 12, 1599. Inquisition post mortem March 27, forty-second
Elizabeth. He names in his will his brothers, George, Edward,
John and William ; and his sisters, Elizabeth, Alice, Anne, Susan,
Sybil, Mary and Isabel; also Jane, daughter of brother William,
and John and Alice, children of brother Thomas. He was a ten-
ant of the Queen in capite.
EDWARD, b. ; m. Jenet Thornton.
WILLIAM, b. .
THOMAS, b. ; m. Sybil Rode, Mary Mortimer and Susan Bair-
stowe.
FRANCES, b. : named in her father's will.
MARY, b. ; named in her brother Robert's will.
ALICE, b. : named in her brother Robert's will.
ANN, b. ; named in pedigree in Herald's College.
ELIZABETH, b. ; named in pedigree in Herald's College.
SUSAN, b. ; named in pedigree in Herald's College.
SYBIL, b. ; named in brother Robert's will.
ISABEL, b. ; named in brother Robert's will.
46. EDWARD FELDE (Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard,
Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Sowerby, England, in 1541; m. 1560, Isabella
Greenwood. Edward Felde paid heriot in 1554 on two parts of the four and one-
half acres after the decease of Grace, his mother, and after the decease of Christo-
pher, his father. In 1597 there is an entry on the rolls of the surrender by Edward
Feld de Sowerby of land there to Michael, his son. Res. Sowerby, England.
72.
73-
ii.
74-
m,
75.
IV.
76.
V.
.77-
VI.
78.
vii.
79-
Vlll.
80.
IX.
81.
X.
82.
xi.
83.
xii.
84.
Xlll.
85.
XIV.
86.
1.
87.
ii.
88.
iii.
89.
iv.
go.
V.
91.
VI.
92.
vii,
78 FIELD GENEALOGY.
EDWARD, bap. 1560; m. .
MICHAEL, bap. ; m. Susan Crabtree.
ALICE, bap. 1566.
SUSAN, bap. 1568.
ABRAHAM, bap. 1572.
ROSAMOND, bap. 1574.
SAMUEL, bap. 1576.
52. WILLIAM FIELD (Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard,
Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Halifax Parish, Sowerby, England. i549;
m. June i, 1591, Susan Midgley, of Northowram. She d. March 6, 1623. He d.
July 24, 1 619. Res. Sowerby and Northowram, England. He was baptized in
Halifax parish, Sowerby, England, and married in Halifax church, as is recorded
in its registers. His wife, Susan Midgley, was baptized there in 1574, when she
is called daughter ot John Midgley, of Northowram. She belonged to an old
family of that neighborhood — the Midgleys, of Midgley — whose arms sable, two
bars gemelle or, on a chief of the second three caltrops of the first, were painted
on the roof ot Halifax church, together with those of the principal families who
attended service there. The residents of Sowerby worshiped at their own chapel.
William Field removed from Sowerby to Southowram within a year or two of
1593, and we find a confirmation of this in the Wakefield rolls which show that
Grace, daughter of Richard Barestow, surrendered in 1594 lands in Northowram
to. William Feild ot Southowram. This deed is also mentioned, under the same
year, in the dockets at Wakefield. Shortly after purchasing this property, in
Northowram, which was the home of his wife's family, he removed there, and
passed the remainder of his days there. There is a survey of this neighborhood
among the Duchy of Lancaster court rolls, made April 20, 1607, in which it is
stated that William Feilde doth hold by copy ot his majesty a message called
Causeye. This was a road or footpath raised above the surrounding land, usually
passing over a morass, or damp ground. A small hamlet in Northowram is called
Causeway End at the present day. Besides this causeway he held three acres of
land whereof half an acre, used as pasture, and one and one-half acres, used as
arable. Also the same William Fielde holdeth of his majesty by deed from my
Lord of Leicester one acre and half a rod. According to the Wakefield rolls
William Field, of Northowram, paid his fine in 1610 for one tenement, called
Cawsey, with all his coppiehold lands, and in the same year he took of the lord
four acres waste at Blackyers. In 1616 he was juror at Brighouse court, and in
161 8 he is referred to as a sub-tenant of William Sympson. In his last year
William Field, Senior de le Cawsey surrenders lands after his decease to William,
his son and heir. In 1619 William Feild. of Northowram, clothier, surrenders
Horwithins to use of Joseph, his son. On July 15, 1619, he made his will,
which is in the registry at York, and died soon af(-er, as it was proved on the loth
of November following:
Will of William Field, of Northowram. — In the name of God amen, I
Willm Feild of Northourome in the Countie of York clothier thoughe sicke and
weake in bodie yet of whole mind and of sound and pfect memorie praysed be God
for the same. Do this fifteenth day of Julie in the yeare of our Lord God 1619 make
ordeyne and declare this my psent Testament conteyninge therein my whole and
last will in mannr and forme followinge towitt.
First and principally I comitt and comend my soul unto the mercif ull goodness
of Almightie God my Creator beseaching his goodness to pardon all my offences in
by and throughe the meritts death and obedience of Jesus Christ his onely sonn my
onely Saviour and Redemer for in and by his meritts is my only hope of Salvacon.
o<:
FIELD GENEALOGY. 79
And my bodie I willingly yield to the Earthe to be buried in such place of
Xstiau burial as it shall please God my endinge to be. And as consigne my worldly
goods whereof I am posessed my wille and minde that the churche have right
duties thereof. And such debts as I owe in right and conscience to any psone or
psons be first answered and paid out of the same.
Also I give and bequeath to Susan my wiffe all such interest right and title
and term of years as I have yet to come and expend in one Tente nowe in the term
of occupation of me the said Wm Feild late of the Lands of one I Bothomley, also
my will and minde is that all the Legacies wch 1 owe to all or any of my children
be paid out of my whole goods to witt to my daughter Jane tenne pounds to Joseph
Feild my s©n tenne pounds to Susan Tenne pounds and to Isabell and Robert
one bond of thirtie pounds already taken to theire use. Item I give and bequeath
to Robert Rawson my sonne in law Five shillings. All the residue of my goods,
cattells, credits and debts not before given or bequeathed I give and bequeath to
George Feild, Jane Feild, Susan, Robt and Isabell Feild equally to be divided
amongst them. Also I comit the custodie and tuicon of Robert Feild and Isabell
Feild and of theire porcons to my brother Edward Feild duringe and until they come
to and accomplishe their several ages of Twentie and one years.
And I name ordeyne and appoint the said Edward Feild my brother Executor
of this my Last will and Testament praying him to be agdinge and assistinge to my
wiffe and childien as my hope and trust is in him.
In witness whereof to this my psent Last will and Testament 1 putt my hand
and seale and publishe and declare it to be my will in the psence of these whose
names are subscribed.
Proved loth Novr 1619
Susan, the widow of William Feild, did not long survive her husband. Her
will is also recorded at York, dated Feb. 24, 1622-3, and was proved 14th of May
following. She describes herself in it as of Black Carre or Carr: this is an old
Yorkshire word, signifying morass or swamp. Blacker, in Northowram, is men-
tioned as far back as 1300.
Will of Susan Feild, of Northowram. — In the name of God Amen. The
four and twentieth day of February in the twentieth year of the Reigne of our Sov-
ereinge Lord James by the grace of God Kinge of England France and Ireland.
Defender of the faith &c.
And of Scotland the six and Fiftieth and in the yeare of or Lord according to
the computation of the Church of England of 1622. I Susan Feild of Black Carre
wthin the Dioces of Yorke widowe late wife of Willm Feild late of Northourome
deceased being sicke in bodie but of good and pfect memory tor wch I praise
Almightie God doe make and ordeigne this my Last will and Testament in manner
and forme followinge. And first I give and comend my soule unto the hands of
Almighty God assuredly believinge to have free remission of all my sinnes and
everlasting life amongst the blessed Sts in the Kingdome of heaven through the
meritts and passion of my alone Savior and Redemer Jesus Christ. And I comitte
my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executrs hereafter named.
And as touchinge the disposition of my worldly goods First my will and minde is
that my debts and funeral expenses beinge discharged) I do hereby give devise and
bequeath unto Willm t eild my oldest sonne the somme of twelve pounds of Lawful
money of England and unto Alice my daughter now wife of Robt Rawson of Wrose
the some of five shillings of Like Lawful money of England and no more nor other
Legacies in regard the said Willm and Alice are already sufficiently p'vided for and
p'ferred by my said late husband deceased their late father.
Item I do hereby give devise and bequeath unto George Feild my sonne the
80 FIELD GENEALOGY.
some ot Twelve pounds of lawful money of England to be paid unto him in twelve
years to witt yearly and evri yeare the some of Twenty shillings duringe the terme
of Twelve years at the feast of St Michaell The arch Angell, and the first paymt
thereof to beginne at the feast of St Michael th' arch Angell wch shall fall next
after that Joseph Feild my sonne shall have accomplished his full age of Twenty
one years and the same paymts to be made by my Executors hereafter named.
Item my further will and mind is and I'do hereby give devise and bequeath all
the residue of my goods chattells and debts unto the said Joseph Feilde my sonne
and unto Robert Feilde my sonne and Jane now wife of John Mitchell, Susan Feild
and Isabell Feild, my three daughters to be equally divided amongst them.
And I do hereby make and ordeyne the said John Mitchell and Joseph Feild
Executors of this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said Susan
Feild the Testatrix have hereunto sett my hand and sealle the day and yeare above
said. These beinge witnesses
J Midgley
Jonas Mitchell
Mathew Mitchell
As is stated in his will, William was a clothier. This word may have two mean-
ings— a manufacturer ot cloth or a cloth merchant. "William Field's calling must
have been the latter. Henry VII. brought Flemish cloth weavers to England and
settled some of them at Wakefield. This industry soon became the chief one of
the neighborhood, and has continued so to the present day, when the adjacent town
of Leeds is the largest cloth market in the world. At the period we are writing
of and even within the recollection of living men, all the cloth was made by hand,
and in the cottages of the weavers. When a piece was finished it was taken to the
merchant, or sold to him at a market where makers and buyers met. The mer-
chant distributed the goods acquired in this way to his customers at home and
abroad, and such was the high reputation of the cloths made in the neighborhood of
Wakefield that they found their way, at this early date, to all parts of the civilized
world. Great changes have taken place at Wakefield, and in that vicinity since
that day. Now large mills dot the banks ot the Calder, the machinery in which is
driven by steam or water power and often both.
The old village of Sowerby and the Field house stand on the hillside, and at
some distance from the river, and are consequently less aflfected by the change than
if they were nearer to it.
i. WILLIAM, bap. Aug. 8, 1591; m. Susanna Longbothome.
ii. ALICE, bap. Aug. 8, 1593; m., Nov. 11, 1611, Robert Rawson, ot
Calverley and Wrose.
iii. JANE, bap. Nov. 23, 1595; m., June 10, 1622. John Mitchell, of
Thornton; named in both father's and mother's wills,
iv. GEORGE, bap. Aug. 20, 1598. He is named in both his father's
and mother's wills.
V. SUSAN, bap. March 15, 1601 ; m. Dec. 4, 1638. Samuel Holdsworth.
vi. JOSEPH, bap. June 19, 1603; m. Oct. 25, 1624, Elizabeth Nichol-
oson, of Northowram.
vii. ROBERT, bap. May 9, 1605 ; m. Ruth Fairbank, Elizabeth Taylor
and Charity .
viii. ISABEL, bap. March 26, 1609; named in both tather's and mother's
wills,
ix. ROBERT, bap. Aug. 29, 1602 ; d. in infancy.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 81
53. JOHN FELD (James. John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam,
Richard, Roger), b. Sowerby, England; m. . As will be seen hereafter
Christophei Feld did not marry until atter the date of his surrender. His brother
John was probably dead at the time, and without issue, and perhaps also his sup-
posed brother James was no longer living, in which care the latter's son John, pre-
sumably the eldest, was then the natural heir of Christopher. This John is again
named in 1532 and 1534, and at the last date, when he is described as the son of
James he cedes a portion ot his rent from the twenty-three and one-halt acres to
the use of Edward Farrow. Res. Sowerby, England.
56. ROBERT FIELD (Robert, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas,
Adam, Richard, Roger), b. . It is uncertain if the Robert Field, who made
his will in 1558. is the one assessed at the same time as William or not. He de-
scribes himself as of Crofton. There are bequests in it to my brother Charles, and
to Robert and Alice Field, and their children, Robert and Alice. As the testator
had a brother Christopher, he may have been a son of William, although, in that
case, not named in his father's will of 1529-30. He d. about 1558. Res. Crofton,
England.
102. i. ROBERT, b. .
103. ii. ALICE, b. .
57. WILLIAM FELD (Robert, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas,
Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. . On the 27th of February,
1529-30, "William Feld, of Crofton" (whom the author takes to be the person
assessed in 1523-4), made his will, in which he speaks of his wife, his daughter,
Margaret, and his son, Christopher, whom he appoints executor. He d. about 1530.
Res. Crofton, England.
104. i. MARGARET, b. .
105. ii. CHRISTOPHER, b. ; m. .
60. CHRISTOPHER FELD (Robert. John. Christopher. John. Richard,
Thomas. Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. Elizabeth . He d. Nov. 30.
1557-8. Res. Wakefield, England.
Two Christopher Fields witnessed this will of ' 'Christopher Rishworthe, of Crof-
ton, gentlemen," in 1538 — one describing himself as "husbandman." and the
other as "wardroper." The wills of these two witnesses — referred to later — can
be identified. The writer supposes that all the following entries in the manor rolls
refer to Christopher, the "wardroper."
In 1 54 1 he surrendered lands in Wakefield graveship and manor to Elizabeth,
his wife.
In 1544 he is spoken of as "Christopher Feld, of Sandall, merchant," and in 1547,
under the head of this place, it is stated that he was elected greave for lands for-
merly Thomas Shey's. This entry occurs in 1552; "Robert Copley redd, lands to
Christopher Feld, Sandall." His will is dated July 8, 1557, and was proved Decem-
ber i8th of the same year. He describes himself as "Christopher Feld, of Wake-
field,* mercer," and desires to be buried in the church of Wakefield, near his wife.
Redirects his executors "to cause a troughe stone with a remembrance of himself
wife and children in pictures of brass to be set upon and laid upon the grave" as
soon after his burial as convenient There are legacies to his brother Nicholas
Feild, if he is living, to his son Christopher Feild, and to Percival Feild. to daugh-
ter Elizabeth, wife of Henry Watkinson, to daughter Katherine, wife of Richard
Atkinson, to Anne Browne, daughter of said Katherine, to every one ot the chil-
♦Probably his place of business was at Wakefield, and his residence at Sandall, or Crofton.
82 FIELD GENEALOGY.
io6.
107.
11.
108.
111.
109.
iv.
dren of the said Elizabeth Watkinson, to Roger and Nicholas Jewett, his sister's
children, to his son Matthew's wite and others. The residue is left to Matthew
Feild, his son and heir, whom he appoints executor, together with testator's
brother William and others. The Rev. J. L. Sisson, in his "Historical Sketch of
Wakefield Church," published in 1824, speaks of the monuments formerly in this
edifice, and gives the following inscription on that of Christopher Feild, which stood
in the north aisle. "Here under this stone lyeth buried the bodies of Christopher
Fylde mercer and Eliz. his wyfe which Christopher deceased the 30th day of
November in the year ot our Lord God* 1558. On whose soul Jesus have mercy."
CHRISTOPHER, b. ; m. .
PERCIVAL, b. .
ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Henry Watkinson.
KATHERINE, b. ; m. Richard Atkinson. Had a dau. Anne.
who m. Browne.
no. V. MATTHEW, b. ; m, Elizabeth Meredith.
63. JOHN FIELD (John, Richard. William. William, Thomas, Thomas, John,
Thomas, Roger), b. Ardsley, England, about 156S; m. . He was born in
Ardsley, but evidently moved away before reaching his majority, for he was not
mentioned in his father's will. Osgood Field is of the opinion that he died young,
as he was not mentioned in the wills of his father or mother. Res. Ardsley,
England.
III. i. JOHN, b. about 1590; m. .
^ 112. ii. ZACHARIAH, b. about 1596; m. Mary .
112;^. iii. OTHER children.
64. LORD MATTHEW FIELD (John, Richard, William, William, Thomas,
Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. East Ardsley, England, 1563; m. Margaret .
She d. June 14, 1632.
Matthew Field was the second son and heir of Sir John, the astronomer. He
married at Ardsley. In the Wakefield manor rolls there is an entry in 1596 of an
indenture by which William Hall, ot Settle, and Elizabeth, his wife, cousin and heir
of Matthew Feilde. of London, deceased, surrender a house in Wakefield and lands
in Wenthrope to Matthew Feilde, of Ardislowe, gentleman, and Matthew Watkin-
son, of same place. This document serves to show the relationship between the
branch of the family seated at Ardsley, and that residing at Sandall or Crofton.
In 1601 William Walkhead, of Woodhouse, bequeathes to Mr. Matthew Field, of
Ardsley, an old angel to make a gold ring. This angel was a gold coin, so called,
because it bore an image of St. Michael and the dragon. His name occurs in the
wills of three inhabitants of Ardsley, dated respectively, 1607, 1608 and 1609. He
bought the manor of Thurnscoe from the co-heirs of Sir John, constable, in, or prior
to 1 6 14, and about the same time — conjointly with his brother William — the fourth
part of the manor of Idle of Sir John Savile. On July 6, 1617, together with James
Field, gentleman, his son and heir apparent, he gave a bond to Richard Water-
house, of Clayton, in Bradford, for the fulfillment of certain covenants. He was
one of the collectors of the subsidy tor the West Riding ot Yorkshire, in 1623. The
marriages and burials in the parish registers in East Ardsley do not commence till
1654, and the baptisms till 1662, but tolerably perfect copies exist of the earlier
years in the Archbishop's registry at York.
On Sept. 9, 163 1, an inquisition post mortem was held at Doncaster, relative to
*The author cannot explain the slight discrepancy in the dates of this monument and of the
will. It may arise from an error in copying from the reg'istry at York, the year when the will
was proved, or be a mistake of the person who wrote the inscription.
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113.
1.
114.
11.
115-
111.
116.
iv.
117.
V.
118.
vi.
119.
vii.
120.
viii,
his estate at Thurnscoe, from which it appears that he died possessed ot the manor
and of a mansion, called Thurnscoe Grange; also, that on April 5, 1631, Henry
Shaw, Gervase Smith and William Forman, who had married the daughters ot the
atoresaid Matthew, relinquished all right they might have to the manor ot Thurns-
coe to James Feild, eldest son and heir ot Matthew Feild, then aged forty years.
1' Matthew Feild, ot East Ardsley, named in his mother's will. Letters of ad-
ministration on his estate granted to his son, Matthew, Aug. 4, 1631 ; died June 2,
1631 ; inquisition post mortem held Sept. 9, 1631. He was Lord of the manor ot
Thurnscoe. He d. June 2. 1631. Res. East Ardsley, England.
JAMES, b. 1591; m. Margaret .
MATTHEW, bap. April 3, 1602; d. Dec. 30, 1602.
MATTHEW, bap. March 12, 1608; m. Margaret Feild.
WILLIAM, b. ; co-executor of his brother Matthew's will.
JOHN, bap. June 27, 1610; co-executor of his brother Matthew's
will.
JUDITH, bap. March 25, 1604; m. Henry Shaw.
JANE. b. ; m. Gervais Smith.
ANNE, b. ; m. Oct. 27, 1627, William Forman, ot East
Ardsley.
67. WILLIAM FEILD (John, Richard. William, William, Thomas, Thomas,
John, Thomas, Roger), b. probably in Ardsley, England; m. Mrs. Jane (Sotwell)
Burdett. William Feild, executor of his mother's will. He married Jane, dau. of
Rev. John Sotwell, and widow of George Burdett, of Carhead, then described of
Thurnscoe. Rev. John was vicar of Peniston. Mrs. Jane Feild was buried Oct.
21, 1623, in the parish of Silkstone. He d. in 1623. Res. Thurnscoe, England.
121. i. JOHN, b. ; m. .
122. ii. WILLIAM, b. : m. Deborah .
123. iii. THOMAS, b. ; m. .
124. iv. JAMES, b. ; m. ; res. St. Albans. Hertfordshire, England.
72. GEORGE FEILD (William, John, John, William, Thomas. Thomas, John,
Thomas, Roger), b. probably in Great Horton, parish of Bradford, England, in 1543;
m., in Bradford, Aug. 7, 1599, Isabel Mortimer. He was co-executor of his brother
Robert's will in 1590, then aged forty-seven and his heir, held lands of the King
in capite. Was buried in Bradford, March 12, 1627 his widow was named in the
will of her brother-in-law, Robert Feild, buried Dec. g, 1641, in Bradford church.
He d. March, 1627. Res. Shiple5% Bradford, England.
124^. i. GEORGE, bap. in Bradford, Nov. 28, 1602. Res. Shipley. Heir
of his father, as per inquisition April 3, 1628; m. 1629, Mary
Akead. He was buried at Bradford, Oct. 23, 1647.
73. JOHN FEILD (William, John, John, William, Thomas, Thomas. John,
Thomas, Roger), b. prob. Great Horton, parish ot Bradford, England, about 1551;
m. Anne . He was named in his brother Robert's will, heir to his father as
per inq. on latter. Sept. 2, 1601, then aged 50 yrs. and more, buried in Bradford
church July 16, 1615. She was named in her brother-in-law Robert's will ; buried
at Bradford Dec. 12, 1613. He d. July, 1615; res. Horton, England.
125. i. He probably left issue.
75. EDWARD FEILD (William, John, John, William, Thomas, Thomas,
John, Thomas, Roger), b. prob. in' Great Horton, parish ot Bradford, England;
m. in Bradtord, Aug. 7, 1599, Janet Thornton. Edward Feild held lands of the
King in capite, of Horton in 1599, ^.nd of Shipley in 1615 ; co-executor of his brother
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Robert's will, and executor ot his brother William. Died April 6, 1641 ; buried at
Bradford, April 15, 1641; inq. p. m. Aug. 23, 1641. She was buried in Bradford
church May 9, 1643. This pedigree is recorded in the Herald's College to which
the writer has occasionally added remarks- It commences with Edward Feild, ot
Horton, 1595 and 1601, after of Shipley, 1615. Died April 6th, seventeenth Charles I.
(1641); buried at Bradtord 15th ot same month; inquisition post mortem Aug. 23d
following. He d. April 6, 1641 ; res. Horton (in 1599) and Shipley (in 1615), England.
126. i. JOSEPH, bap. Aug. 23, 1601 ; m, Mary Rawson.
77. THOMAS FEILD (William, John. John, William, Thomas, Thomas,
John, Thomas, Roger), b. prob. Great Horton, parish of Bradford, England ; m. at
Bradford, Oct. 25, 1596, Sybil Rode, named in the will of her brother-in-law, Robert
Feild. She d., and he m., 2d, in B., Dec. 29, 1612, Mary Mortimer. She
was buried in B., March 10, 1616-7; m., 3d, at B,, Jan. 12, 1618, Susan Bairstowe.
Thomas Feild, the youngest son, was of North Ouram, and afterward of
Horton, named in the wills of his father and brother Robert; d. as per post mor-
tem inquisition in 1623; buried in Bradford church, July 28, 1623. Among
the baptisms at Bradford, are those of the following children of Thomas Feild, of
Horton ; but as there is no mention of them in the pedigree, the writer is not sure
that Thomas and Sybil Feild were their parents. Frances, bap. 1613; William,
1615; Mary, 1616-17; Thomas, 1619; John, 1620-21; and Richard, 1623. Other
brothers and sisters of Edward in the pedigree are William, Anne, Elizabeth,
Susan, Mary, Alice, Robert, George and John. He d. July 16, 1623; res. North
Ouram and Horton, England.
127. i. JOHN, bap. Halifax, Oct. 11, 1597.
ALICE, bap. Halifax, Dec. 27, 1598.
JONAS, bap. Halifax, Oct. 12, 1603.
FRANCES, bap. Bradford, Dec. 5, 1613.
WILLIAM, bap. Bradford, Aug. 27, 1615; heir to his father as per
post mortem inquisition held at Halifax, 1623; then aged eight yrs.
and two mos.
MARY, bap. Bradford, Nov. 2, 1616.
THOMAS, bap. Bradford, Aug. 8, 1619.
viii. JOHN, bap. Bradford, Feb. i, 1620.
RICHARD, bap. Bradtord, June 15, 1623.
86. EDWARD FELDE (Edward, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Rich-
ard. Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Sowerby, England, 1560; m. about
1584 . Res. Sowerby and Wakefield, England.
136. i. WILLIAM, b. about 1585; m. Elizabeth .
87. MICHAEL FEILD (Edward, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Rich-
ard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Sowerby, England; ra. at Halifax,
1600, Susan Crabtree ; she was buried at Halifax church, 1639. His father surren-
dered land to him in 1597 and called him Michael his son. Took up the waste in
Blackwood more in 1617. She was dead in 1650; res. Sowerby, England.
137. i. JOHN, bap. Halifax, 1601; prob. d. young.
138. ii. MICHAEL, bap. Halifax, 1607. He paid heriot in 1650 and was
then called son and heir of Michael Feild of Blackwood.
93. WILLIAM FIELD (William, Christopher, John, Christopher. John, Rich-
ard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Halifax Parish, Sowerby, England,
Aug. 8, 1591; m. 1624, Susanna Longbothome. William Field married at North-
owram. It would appear from an entry in the rolls in 1627 that he married Susanna
128.
ii.
129.
iii.
130-
IV.
131.
V.
132.
vi.
133-
vii.
134.
VUl
135-
ix.
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140.
11.
141.
111.
142.
IV.
143.
V.
Longbothome. It reads as follows: "Thomas Longbothome de Northowram,
yeoman, held lands in Earl of Leicester and Anna, wite of Laurence Whitacres.
Susanna, wife of William Feild, and Sara, wife of George Fearnley, are his three
daughters and co-heiresses. There is an entry in the Wakefield rolls in 1630 under
Northowram that William Feild of Cawsey, surrenders lands, and another in 1632
that William Feild de Blackmires and Susanna his wife execute a quit claim to
Robert NichoUs de Horton for a house in Northowram. The following, in 1636,
under the head of Hipperholme graveship, no doubt, refers to him: "William
Feild died since last court." In 1639 Susanna Feild, widow, of Northowram, sur-
renders Leyclose to use of Matthew Sowden, and she is again mentioned in 1640 as
of Blackmyers, and m 1646 as of Northowram. He was dead in 1636; res. North-
owram, England.
139. i. WILLIAM, bap. May 22, 1625; in 1651 he surrenders four acres in
Blackmire, Northowram, to Jeremy Bairstowe.
ALICE, bap. July 8, 1627.
THOMAS, bap. Nov. 15, 1629.
JOHN, bap. 1631.
SARAH, bap. Sept. 14, 1634.
98. JOSEPH FEILD (William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Richard,
Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Halifax, England, June 19, 1603; m. Oct.
25, 1624, at Halifax, Elizabeth Nicholson of Northowram. He was named in both
his father's and mother's wills. Res. Halifax, England.
99. ROBERT FIELD (William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, Rich-
ard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), bap. Halifax Parish, in Sowerby, Eng-
land; March 9, 1605; m. in Halifax, Nov. 23, 1624. Ruth Fairbank of Hipperholme.
She d. and he m. 2d at Bradford, May 18, 1630, Elizabeth Taylor. She d. and he
m, 3d, Charity , who was living as his widow in 1673. In the reign of Charles L,
in consequence of civil war and the persecutions of Protestants, during the interval
between A. D. 1629 and A. D. 1640, upward of twenty thousand liberty-loving
Englishmen emigrated to, and found homes, in the then new world. Among them
was Robert Field, whose name we find first recorded in America at Newport and
Portsmouth A. D. 1638, then co-operating with Roger Williams (who was banished
A. D. 1635, and who founded an asylum in Rhode Island), in forming society
and establishing civil and religious liberty A. D. 1638-41. Then, during an interval
of three years, his name in public affairs is not mentioned, and does not occur
again until A. D. 1644. Robert Field is at that time reported as having arrived
from England — he with his family probably came in the same ship with Roger
Williams, who, returning the second time to America, landed at Boston in that
year. He then settled at Flushing, Long Island, A. D. 1645, and became the an-
cestor of the Fields of that place. He had a son, Anthony, b. in England, A. D.
1638. He d. before 1673. Res. Halifax, England; Newport, R. I. and Bayside,
Flushing, Long Island.
THE FIELDS OF FLUSHING, NEW YORK.
Osgood Field, Esq.
The difficulty in the majority of American pedigrees, which attempt to trace
back the family beyond the Atlantic, is to connect the emigrant with the mother
country and his ancestors there. In a few cases, an entry in some colonial record,
a reference in an English or American will, a remark of one of the early historians
of the New World, a letter or diary of the time still preserved, or one of the "passen-
ger lists" of vessels sailing from the ports of London, Southampton, etc., for New
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England or Virginia (which often mentioned the old home of the emigrant), estab-
lished this connection beyond question ; but these instances are rare, and in most
cases there is only circumstantial evidence, more or less convincing, to prove it.
It is well known to those who are familiar with the law, that when a number ot
facts all point to one result, without anything contradictory in them, the thing they
indicate is often considered as well established, and many have suffered the penalty
of death, on such evidence alone. The true genealogist, who reads this book, will
probably ask, "What are the grounds for supposing that Robert Field, who was a
patentee of F^lushing, N. Y., in 1645, was the child who was baptized at Halifax,
England, in 1605-6?" These reasons the writer will now give, and he doubts not
that they will satisfy the most critical.
It is well known to all students of our colonial history, that emigration to New
England languished for ten years after the arrival of the "Mayflower," and until
the expedition was gotten up in 1630 by John Winthrop and Sir Richard Salton-
stall. which embraced some 1,500 souls, who were transported to the other side of
the Atlantic in seventeen ships, and arrived there in June or July of that year. All
accounts agree that the friends and neighbors of the two leaders of the expedition
contributed largely to swell its numbers. In the eighth of Elizabeth (1566) the Sal-
tonstalls acquired by purchase a mansion called Rookes and lands at Hipperholme,
which had descended to Sir Richard. He was living at this place, which adjoins
Northowram, in 1630. Coley Chapel was built about 1500, by the united contribu-
tions of Hipperholme, Northowram and Shelf, and the inhabitants of these three
places were under its ministry. It follows that Sir Richard Saltonstall and Robert
Feild were neighbors, attending the same religious services, and probably friends.
The latter had no special ties in England. Both of his parents were dead; he
was a younger son and single. He was twenty-four years old ; an age when the
spirit and love of adventure are strong in us, and nothing is more natural than that
he should have accompanied Sir Richard to New England. They may have been
connected; as Sir Richard's first wife was Grace, daughter of Robert Kay, Esq., of
Woodsome, whom he married about 1609, and we nave seen that William Field of
Newsome, who died in 161 7, had a daughter, Rosamond, wife of Godfrey Key, or
Kay, the names being the same. The writer would mention, as a curious fact, that
the first reference to a Field, who was beyond all question of the same family as
this Robert, occurs in the Wakefield Manor rolls, in 1306, when Richard del Feld
sued Robert de Salstonstall.
The early English settlements on Long Island were largely composed of emi-
grants from Yorkshire. In 1665, the year following the surrender of the colony by
the Dutch to the English, a convention was held at Hempstead, when Long Island
and Staten Island were erected into a shire, and called after that in England, York-
shire. Like that, too, it was divided into a North Riding, East Riding and West
Riding.
Mr. Charles B. Moore says, in an article in "The New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record," when speaking of the sixty-seven proprietors of land at
Hempstead in 1647, that the European ancestry of many of these cannot be ascer-
tained; but that "at least ten of these men can be traced from Yorkshire, England.
A much greater number doubtless came from that large county. So many came
from Yorkshire that the settlement was characterised as a Yorkshire one."
At the time of the Winthrop and Saltonstall expedition the Rev. Richard Den-
ton had been, since 1623, the officiating clergyman of Coley Chapel. In 1644 we
find him among the first settlers of Hempstead, L. I. Thompson says of him, in
his " History of Long Island:" "It is quite probable that many of those who ac-
companied him here had belonged to his church in the mother country, and were
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determined to share his tortunes in a new region. Many of these emigrated with
him to Watertown, Mass.," etc.
Nor was Denton the only one of his old friends and neighbors whom Robert
Field found near him in his new home at Flushing; for Matthew Mitchell, who was
one of the witnesses of the will of his mother Susan in 1623, was also among the
earliest settlers of Hempstead in 1644. Thompson says, in speaking of the first
white inhabitants of this place, that Ward, Coe and Mitchell were commissioners
for Stamford. The Rev. Mr. Alvord wrote of them as follows: "They were among
the earliest inhabitants of New England, coming, as we have seen, through Weath-
ersiield from Watertown in Massachusetts, and from that noted company who ar-
rived with John Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall. " The Fields and Mitchells
were connected "by marriage, as already stated, for Robert's aunt Jane was married
at Halifax, June 10, 1622, to John "Michell,"of Thornton. This couple are men-
tioned in the will of his mother, Susan Field, where the name is correctly spelt
"Mitchell."
Among other early settlers in New England, who were from the neighborhood
of Northowram, and who were connected with the Fields by marriage, were the
Bairstows — sometimes spelt Barstow, Barrsto or Beresto — and Jonathan Fairbanks.
Thomas Feild and Susan Bairstow were married at Bradford on Jan. 12, 1618-19.
Bond says, in his "History of Watertown," that four brothers of the name of Bar-
stow, or Bairstow, came early to this country; viz., Michael John, George and
William. In the passenger list of the "Freelove, " sailing for New England, Sept.
29, 1635, are the names of William Beresto, aged twenty-three, and George Beresto,
aged twenty-one years. Savage says that Michael was the eldest brother, and that
he joined the Church Dec. 5, 1635. He adds: "He was from Shelf, near Halifax,
Co. York, West Riding." Not improbably Michael and John embarked first for
the New World — perhaps in the expedition of 1630 — and George and William
followed a few years later.
On Nov. 23, 1624, Robert Field and Ruth Fairbank, of Hipperholme, were
married at Halifax. She was, without doubt, of the same family as Jonathan Fair-
banks, of Dedham, who. Savage says, came to New England before 1641 with his
wife Grace and probably all of his six children. Savage adds: "He probably was
from the West Riding of Yorkshire, as the will of his uncle George calls him of
Sowerby in that part of England. ' '
The Robert Field who married Ruth Fairbank was baptized at Halifax, Aug.
29, 1602, when he is described as son of John Feelde, of Northowram. He is re-
ferred to in the Wakefield Manor rolls, the year of his marriage (1624), as holding
lands at Hipperholme under Richard Sunderland. He had a son, John, baptized at
Halifax, Dec. 25, 1625, who was buried there Jan. 16, 1625-26, being described on
both occasions as "son of Robert Feild of Hipperholme." There was another per-
son of the same name as the settler at Flushing, who was also a contemporary. His
name occurs in the "Passenger list" of the "James," of London, which vessel
sailed from Southampton for New England, "about the VI. of April, 1635."
He is entered on it as Robert Field, of Yealing (? Pealing, Berks). This Robert
resided at Boston.
What became of the greater portion of those who went over with Winthrop and
Saltonstall during the first few years of their stay in New England it is impossible
to say, for so little documentary evidence exists ot that period. It is known that a
large proportion of the company went to Watertown on, or shortly after, their ar-
rival, and Robert Field was probably one of these. He must have married soon
atter landing in America, for he had ,two sons of age in February, 1653-54. His
wife, who survived him, was named Charity, and very probably she was one of the
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company that crossed the Atlantic with him, perhaps in the same ship. The
author knows nothing of her family, and the only clue to it which he can offer, is
that her second son had the rather unusual name of Anthony, and as this had not
been borne by any of Robert's near relatives, it may have come from her side, and
perhaps been that of her father.
The first notice of Robert Field in our colonial records occurs in the state o£
Rhode Island. It has been said of Roger Williams, who founded this colony, ihat
he was "the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doc-
trine of liberty of conscience." In 1636 he fled from the religious tyranny and per-
secution of the New England Puritans, and founded the town to which he gave the
name of Providence, in recognition of God's mercies. He was soon followed by
others — residents of New England — who are supposed to have shared his opinions,
and among these was Robert Field.
At a general meeting at Newport, R. I., held Aug. 23, 1638, it was agreed "that
13 lots, on the west side ot the spring, shall be granted to Mr. Richard Dummer and
his friends," "to build there at the spring at farthest, or else their lots be disposed
ot by the company." Among the friends of Mr. Dummer we find Robert Field.
A little later the following entry occurs in the records: "Inhabitants admitted
at the town of Newport, since the 20th of (May), 1638." In this list are the names
of Robert Field and John Hicks. On Dec. 19, 1639, Robert Field was made free-
man of this town, and he is mentioned among the proprietors of land there in 1640.
In the court roll of freemen, March 16, 1641, are the names of Robert Field and
John Hicks. This is the last time that the former is referred to in the records of
Newport, except in 1653, when he visited the place, probably as delegate for Long
Island, and he is not mentioned in the list of freemen of the town in 1655.
About the time of the settlement of Hempstead and Flushing, there was an in-
timate connection between the colony of Rhode Island and the English towns ot
Long Island. The inhabitants of both were mainly composed of the same class,
viz., those who had fled from English persecution, and those who had escaped, like
Roger Williams, from the no less mtolerant Puritans of New England. We find
many of the same names in both places at this early period of their history; not
only those of Field and Hicks, but also Townsend, Hazard, Coles, and a number ot
others. We have seen that Robert Field and John Hicks are mentioned together
more than once in the Newport records ; and when we learn that they are again as-
sociated a little later, and are among the sixteen persons to whom the Dutch gov-
ernor granted a patent tor the town ot Flushing, in 1645, we teel no moral doubt that
the two settlers in Long Island were identical with the colonists ot Rhode Island.
A further proof ot this identity occurred a tew years later. Governor Stuyve-
sant and the Dutch authorities at New Amsterdam, looked with a jealous eye on
the inhabitants ot the English towns within their jurisdiction; and, as a result of
this feeling, the latter suffered many tyrannical and unjust acts at the hands ot the
government. The express stipulations ot their charters were violated; illegal fines
and taxes were imposed, and some were imprisoned or banished tor their religious
opinions. In 1653 an idea became prevalent among the inhabitants ot these towns
that the Dutch were inciting the Indians to a general massacre ot the English, and
supplying the savages with arms for that purpose. Probably their tears were exag-
gerated, but there is no doubt that the Dutch had some secret negotiations with the
red men ; with what object is not now known. It was whispered about that there
was to be "a second Amboyna* tragedy;" and so great was the alarm that many
*Amboyna, one of the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, belonging to Holland. In 1623 an Eng-
lish settlement there (Carabello) was destroyed by the Dutch, and 'frightful tortures intlicted
on the inhabitants.
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abandoned their homes and went to the colonies where they were under the protec-
tion ot the English flag.
An application was made to Rhode Island tor assistance, and probably Robert
Field was one ot those sent there to make the request, as he was specially qualified
for this mission from having formerly resided in that colony, and being among old
friends and neighbors there. As we learn by the records, the deputation was suc-
cesstul. At a general assembly held at Newport, May i8, 1653, it was ordered that
a committee be chosen, "for reterring matters that concern Long Island and in the
case concerning the Dutch." Eight members ot this committee were selected, who
were to "act upon presentment," and among these was "Mr. Robert Field." It
was resolved at the same time "that we judge it our duty to aflford our countrymen
on Long Island what help we can," etc. "That they shall have two great guns and
what munitions are with us," etc., etc.
Captain John Underbill, who had resided tor some years on Long Island, was
appointed commander ot the forces by land, and Captain William Dyre ot those
by sea.
Under this commission. Captain Underbill captured the fort ot Good Hope,
near Harttord, from the Dutch in the month ot June following.
How matters were arranged between the Government ot New Amsterdam and
their English subjects, is not exactly known ; probably steps were taken to convince
the latter that their apprehensions ot a general massacre were groundless, for those
who had left Long Island returned to their homes shortly after, and matters re-
sumed their old course.
The patent of the Governor-general ot the New Netherlands, William Kiett,
was dated Oct. 19, 1645, and granted to Robert Field and his associates, their heirs
and assigns, "a certain quantity or parcell, ot land, with all the Havens, Harbours,
Rivers, Creekes, Woodlands, Marshes thereunto belonging and being upon the
north side ot Long Island," after which the boundaries are given.
Robert Field built his house at that part ot Flushing called Bayside. No trace
of it exists, but family tradition says that it stood so near the water, that wild
ducks, while swimming on it, could be shot from the porch.
Unfortunately for the historian ot the first settlers of Flushing, the town rec-
ords were destroyed by fire in the latter halt of the last century;* but a few docu-
ments of their time have come down to us, which have been carefully preserved at
the old Bowne house built by John Bowne in 1661. This ancient mansion is still
standing, and occupied by his descendants. From the time of its erection, it was
used by friends of the family and neighbors as a depository for papers ot value.
Among these is the following:
"February 12th, 1653 (i. e,, 1653-4).
"Flushing. Know all men by these presents that 1 Robert Field doe freely
give and grant unto my two sons Robert Field and Anthony Field each of them a
house lott with the proprietie and priviledge thereunto belonging. I give unto Rob-
ert the Lott wh was formerly John Lake's. Unto Anthony the Lott which was
formerly given unto Thomas Applegate's sones, which two Lotts were purchased
by mee and now freely are given by mee unto them my two sones their heirs or
assigns forever to enjoy.
"ROBERT FIELD."
*These records were kept in the house of John Vanderbuilt, the town clerk. It was set fire
to in October, 1789, and consumed with its contents. Two slaves, Nelly and Sarah, were tried,
condemned and executed for this crime.
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This document is important, as showing that Robert Field's two eldest sons
were ot age at the time it was dated. The Thomas Applegate referred to in ii was
also one of the original patentees of Flushing.
Robert Field, Robert Field, Jr., and "Anthonie" Field signed the petition to
"the Governor-Generall and Counsell of the New Netherlands, " in favour of the
"scoute," or sheriff of Flushing, William Hallett, who was arrested for having
religious meetings at his house. There is no date to this petition, but it must have
been 1656, for William Hallett was banished on Nov. 8th of that year, and allowed
to remain by a decree of Dec. 26th of same, on payment of a fine of £so Flanders,
and at same time deprived of his office.
All three of the Fields signed that bold remonstrance* against the persecution of
Quakers, addressed to the Governor-General, and dated Dec. 27, 1657.
In the examination of Edward Hart, in reply to the question "Who signed at
the meeting and who at their houses?" he said, "Anthony Field, and both of ye
Fields (i. e. , Robert sen. and jun.), at ye housee of ye village blacksmith, Michael
iVlilner," where the meeting was held.
This remonstrance bore the signatures of thirty of the principal inhabitants of
the town, and the whole tenor of it shows that they were in advance of the age in
their views in regard to religious freedom and liberty of conscience. Tobias
Feake,| the sheriff, who presented the paper, was immediately arrested. Hart, who
drew it up, and Farrington and Noble, two of the magistrates who signed it, were
imprisoned.
A patent of confirmation of Flushing, dated Feb. 16, 1666, names but one Rob-
ert Field, who is styled neither "senior" nor "junior." It follows that either the
emigrant was dead, or that his son Robert had left Flushing. The author inclines
to the latter opinion, as we know that the younger Robert was at Newtown in or
before 1670, where he resided for the rest of his life and died.
His father, however, was no longer living in 1673, as shown in the following
document, preserved at the old Bowne house, which also establishes the name of
his wife:
"February ye 6th 1672 (i. e. , 1672-3).
"Know all men by these prents that I Charity Field, widow. Doe own and
Confess that the home Lott that Lyeth betwixt the Lott that was formerly old
Applegate's, and the Lott that was formerly .... Doughty's is my sone
Anthony Field's Lott and proper land, and 1 never intended nor pretended any
right to it. ' 'Witness my hand,
"Testes: "CHARITY FIELD."
"Elias Doughty,
"Robert Field,"
She is also referred to in a letter from John Bowne to his wife, written while he
was abroad, and dated, "Amsterdam this 9th of the 4th mo. called June, 1663."
The passage reads as follows: "Remember my true love to Joan Chatterton
and Charity Field."
We learn by the records of Queens County, Long Island, that Robert Field,
St., of Newtown, on Oct. 9, 1690, gave to his son Nathaniel Field, lands and salt
meadows at the head of the "ffly" at Flushing. If he died without "heires," to go
to his brother Elnathan. Attested before Silas Doughty, Justice, May 26, 1691.
On same day Robert gave to his son Benjamin his homestead at Newtown, and
"in case he has no heirs to go to his brother Ambrose." In the Friends' record.
*This document will be found in Thompson's "History of Long Island," vol. ii., p. 289.
tSon of Robert Feake, of Watertown, Mass.
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under the fourth month, 1699-1700, "Susannah Field of Newtown, daughter of Robert
Field," and Isaac Marit (? Merritt), of Burlington, West Jersey, declared intention
of marriage.
We learn also by the Flushing records of the Society of Friends that Robert
Field, of Newtown, died the 13th day of the second month, 1701. The writer is in-
clined to put the date of his birth as 1631. This accords with what Mr. James
Riker, the historian of Newtown, wrote to him: "Robert, Sr., at his death in 1701.
could not have been less than 65 to 70 years of age." His wife, whose name was
Susannah, survived him.
I have it from another source that Robert was in Boston in 1644, and went
from there to Flushing. [I am of the opinion that the Robert in Boston was another
Robert who married Mary Stanley and died there in 1677.] — F. C. P.
The boundaries of Flushing in the patent of 1645. — "Upon the north
side of Long Island to begin at ye westward part thereof at the mouth of
a creake upon ye East River now commonly called and known by the name of
Flushing Creeke and so to runne Eastward as far as Matthew Garretson's Bay, to-
gether with a neck of land commonly called Tew's neck being bounded on the
Westward part thereof with the land granted to Mr. Francis Doughty and associ-
ates and on the Eastward part thereof with ye land granted to ye plantation and
towne of Hempstede and so to runne in two direct lines unto ye south side of ye
said Island."
144. i. JOHN, bap. Halifax, England, Dec. 25, 1625; m. .
145. ii. ROBERT, b. prob. in 1636, Rhode Island; m. Susannah .
146. iii. ANTHONY, b. prob. Rhode Island, 1638; m. Susannah .
147. iv. BENJAMIN, b. 1640; m. Sarah . Benjamin Field, of
Fbishing, named in patents of that town of 1665-6 and 1685, ap-
pointed ensign by Gov. Nichols, April 22, 1665.
148. v. HANNAH, b. (Savage); m. May 7, 1656, John Bowne. Thomas
Bowne, of Mattock, Derbyshire, England, was b. May, 1595.
John Bowne, his son, was b. at Mattock, March 9, 1627, and came
to America in 1649. He m. Hannah Field, daughter of Robert, at
Flushing, May 7, 1656. In the year 1661 he built the house at
Flushing where for forty years were held the quarterly meeting
for Friends in the Province of New York, and which has even
until the present time been occupied by a descendant in the direct
line. Their daughter Hannah m. Benjamin Field, son of Antho-
ny. John Bowne, a hard shell Quaker — a very hard individual to
handle; he had, however, a rough time ot it, as the annals of
Long Island show. Multitudes of Englishmen left their own loved
islands because they could not there, in peace, worship God ac-
cording to their own convictions of right ; when they placed their
feet on the soil of America they at once practiced the very thing
they so much disliked at home. Roger Williams was a Baptist,
and for calling in question the authority of magistrates in respect
of the rights of the civil power to impose faith and worship, he
insisting that the civil power only extended to the bodies, goods
and outward estate of men, for these principles he could not be
tolerated, and was banished. So also in the case of Mr. Bowne ;
he seemed to have a liking for George Fox, and that was enough
to cost him all the persecution he suffered. Even Mr. Williams
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himself put forth his best efforts to "dig George Fox out of his
burrows."
149. vi. ELIZABETH, b. (Savage); m. the famous John Underhill. Eliza-
beth became the second wife of the noted military commander,
John Underhill. This man occupies a large space in the history
ot Long Island.
105. CHRISTOPHER FEILD (William, Robert, John, Christopher, John,
Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. . Christopher,
the husbandman, made his will Dec. i, 1570, describing himself in it as "Xhristo-
pher Feild, of Crofton." There are legacies in it to his son, Robert Feild, and to
his Robert's wife and children, Christopher, Frances, Elizabeth and Alice, also to
Isabel and Frances, children of his son John, to whom he leaves the residue and
appoints executor. He bequeaths to each of three of the children of his son
Robert "one ewe lamb," which makes its pretty evident that his calling was that of
"husbandman." His will was proved March 13, 1570-1. He d. March, 1570-1.
Res. Crofton, England.
150. i. ROBERT, b. ; m. Rosamond .
151. ii. JOHN, b. ; m. .
152. iii. CHRISTOPHER, b. .
106. CHRISTOPHER FELD (Christopher, Robert, John, Christopher, John,
Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. . Res. Wakefield,
England.
153. i. ELIZABETH, b. ; m. William Hall, of Settle. An entry in
the Kingshold manor rolls of Jan. 19, 1581-2, says, "A presentment
is made that Matthew Feild is dead, and that Elizabeth Feild of
Wakefield, Co. York, is dau. of Christopher Field, brother of the
said Matthew."
We find some notices of Elizabeth Field, niece and heiress of
Matthew, in the Wakefield manor rolls, viz.: 1580, Elizabeth Field,
daughter of Christopher Field, brother of Matthew Field, deceased,
paid V3iiid heriot for "3 shoppes in le mr ketstead de Wakefield,
close of 2 acres in Alverthorpe, 4 closes (8 acres) in Wrenthorpe
and Woodall in Stanley, post dec. of Matthew her uncle:" 1583,
"Elizabeth Field, cousin (i. e., niece) and heir presumptive ot
Matthew Field, deed, redd, Woodside close in Wrenthorpe (6 acres),
to Thomas Cave."
It would appear from the following that Elizabeth Field mar-
ried, first, a Nowell, and secondly, William Hall: 1596. Inden-
ture twenty-ninth Elizabeth, "William Hall of Settle, yeoman and
Eliz. Nowell his wife, cosyn (niece), and heir of Matthew Field of
the Citie of London deed of the one part and Matthew Watkinson
of Ardeslowe, chapman, and Matthew Feilde of Ardislowe, gentle-
man, of the other part, surrender to the two latter, house, shopp,
with chambre over, in Wakefield and 8 acres in Wrenthorpe at
£s per annum rent." This entry shows that there was a connec-
tion between this branch of the family, and that of East Ardsley.
The last Matthew Feild referred to above was the second son and
heir of John Feild, the astronomer, whose will contains a legacy
"to my cosine Nowell and Christopher, his son." This "cosine
Nowell" was perhaps the first husband of Elizabeth Field. Mat-
thew Watkinson may have been a son of her aunt, Elizabeth and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 93
Henry Watkinson, both of whom are named in the will of Eliza-
beth Field's grandfather, Christopher, in 1557.
no. MATTHEW FIELD (Christopher. Robert, John, Christopher, John,
Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. Elizabeth Meredith. He d.
January, 15S0. Res., s. p., London, England.
Matthew, son and heir of Christopher Field, mercer, removed to London, and
apparently carried on the same busmess there that his father had done at Wakefield.
We learn from a pedigree of the Meredith family among the Harleian MSS. at the
British Museum, that he married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Meredith, of Lon-
don, Mercer, and that this Elizabeth was co-heiress of her brother William, who
died childless. Matthew Field resided at Hackney, in a mansion called "the Black
and White House," supposed to have been built by him, and he was a member of
the "Mercers' Company," one of the most ancient and wealthy of London guilds.
We learn by the Wakefield manor rolls that he was elected, in 1569, "greave for
Shay's land, deputy William Sykes." His father, Christopher, was elected to this
same ofl&ce in 1547, as already stated. The manor of Kingshold forms part of the
present suburb of London, called Hackney, and in its rolls we find several references
to Matthew Field. In 1568 William Alman and Elizabeth, his wife (formerly wife
of William White, deceased), made a surrender to "Matthew Feylde, Citizen and
Mercer of London." In 1570 Henry White, son of the above William, in 1575,
Joshua White, one of the heirs of William White, and Elizabeth, his wife, and in
1576 Thomas White, one of the sons of the aforesaid William White, of Hackney,
and Eliz., his wife, all made similar surrenders to Matthew Feild, of London,
Mercer.
Matthew Field seems to have died childless, and left no will. We find an entry
in the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in London, that admiais-
tration was granted to Anthony Marler on the estate of Matthew Field, of St.
Laurence, Old Jewry, Mercer, on April i, 1581. His burial is recorded in the
registers of that church on Jan. 19, 1580* (i. e., 1580-1).
MATTHEW FIELD, OF LONDON, MERCER: HIS FAMILY AND ARMS.
[By Osgood Field, F. S. A., of Italy.]
The following article, I hope, may prove of interest to the readers of the Reg-
ister, and more especially so, to the numerous descendants of Robert Field, the
emigrant. With some trifling exceptions, the facts here stated have never appeared
in print, and have been gathered in the course of my own investigations.
In the Hall of the Mercers' Company, of London, in an old oak carving, consist-
ing of a large shield of the Mercers' arms, and underneath a smaller one with those
of Field (a chevron between three garbs), impaling two coats, one a lion rampant,
the other a chevron between three dolphins ; the latter being the arms of Meredith.
This carving was formerly in an ancient mansion at Hackney, called "the Black
and White House," which was pulled down some years since, and which is said to
have been built by Matthew Field, a member of the Mercers' Company. The carv-
ing was presented to this guild some time ago, by William Tyssen, whose family,
now represented by Lord Amherst, have been lords of the manor in which this
old house stood since 1698. The impalement of the Meredith arms is explained by
the fact that Matthew Field's wife was of that family, as may be seen in the fol-
lowing pedigree, taken from the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, 1096, fol. 20.
Robert Meredith, of London, Mercer, his will proved 28th Janr'y, 1546. Jane,
dau. of Sir Wm. Lake, Knt.
*One of the figures is indistinct in the author's copy, and it may be the 12th of January.
94 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Rich'd Springham, of London, Mercer. Mary, sister and coh'r of Wm.
Wm Meredith, married but died s. p.
Matthew ffield of London, Mercer. Elizabeth, sister and coh'r of Wm. Jeffrey.
Dutchett of London, Mercer. EUyn sister and coh'r of Wm.
The court rolls of the manor of Kingshold, which forms part of Hackney County,
Middx.,* contained the following references to Field:
1568 Wm Alman & Elizth his wife (formerly wife of Wm White deed) made a
surrender to Matthew Feylde, Citizen and Mercer of London.
1570 Henry White (son of the above Wm White) made a surrender to Matthew
Feild of London, Mercer.
1575 Joshua White one of the heirs of the above Wm White & Elizth his wife
surrender to the said Matthew Field.
1576 Thos White one of the sons of the beforementioned Wm White of Hack-
ney & Elizth his wife surrender to the sd Matthew Field.
1581 Henry Rowe is admitted to lands by the surrender of sd Matthew Field
& Elizth his wife, which lands of late belonged to Henry, Joshua & Thomas White
as the sons & heirs of Wm White, deed.
1 581-2 Jan 19. A presentment is made that Matthew is dead and that Eliza-
beth Field of Wakefield, Co. York is dau. of Christopher Field brother of the sd
Matthew.
1583 Elizabeth dau. of sd Christopher Field makes a surrender to Wm That-
cher of London, Draper.
1599 Matthew Springhamf of London, Merchant Taylor, surrenders land late
of. Matthew Field of London, Mercer, to the use of Otho Nicholson of London, Esq.
& Elizth his wife for their lives, remr to sd Springham.
It would appear, therefore, that Matthew Field died childless, and he does not
seem to have left a will, as none can be found among those recorded in the Prerog-
ative Court of Canterbury, London; but there is an entry there that on April i,
1 581, administration was granted to Anthony Marler. on the estate of Matthew
Field, of S. Laurence, Old Jewry, Mercer.
His burial is recorded in the Parish Registers of this church Jan. 12, 1580. We
have seen that Elizabeth Field, of Wakefield, was heir to Matthew, her uncle, and
this is confirmed by the following extracts from the rolls of this manor:
1580 Elizabeth ffield, dau of Christopher ffield, brother of Matthew ffield deed
paid vsiijd heriot for 3 shoppes in le m'ketstead:); de Wakefield, close of 2 acres in
Alverthorpe, 4 closes (8 acres) in Wrenthorpe & Woodall in Stanley, post dec. of
Matthew her uncle.
1583 Elizabeth ffield cousin (i. e. niece) and heir presumptive of Matthew ffield
deed redd Woodside close in Wrenthorp (6 acres) to Thomas Cove.
It would seem from the following entry in the Wakefield rolls that this Eliza-
beth ffield married William Hall, of Settle:
1596 Indenture thirty-ninth Elizth Wm Hall of Settle, yeoman, & Elizth
Nowell, his wife, cosyn (i. e. niece), of Matthew ffield of the Citie of London, deed,
of the one part and Matthew Watkinson of Ardeslowe, shopman, and Matthew
ffield of Ardislowe,§ gentleman, of the other part, surrender to the latter house
shopp with chambre over in Wakefield and 8 acres in Wrenthorpe at ;^5 per annum
rent.
The Matthew ffield, of Ardislow, of the last extract, was the son of John Field,
*One of the earlier rolls is endorsed 1272 by mistake, as it relates to several years later.
fSon of Richard Springham of the preceding pedigree.
JMarketplace.
§East Ardsley, about three miles from Wakefield.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 95
ot Ardsley, the astronomer, who has been styled "the Proto-Copernican of Eng-
land," and to whom the arms ot his family, sa, a chevron between 3 garbs argent,
were confirmed, and a crest granted Sept. 4, 1558. This Matthew is called second
son of John Field in the pedigree recorded at the Herald's visitation ot Yorkshire,
in 1584-5. He is also mentioned in the will of his mother, Jane Field, of Ardsley,
dated July 17, 1609. He was probably heir to his father, as his eldest brother,
Richard, was disinherited for misconduct in the astronomer's will, made in 1587.
To return to Matthew Field, of London, the parish registers of Wakefield do
not commence till 1613, and therefore afforded no help in tracing his ancestry; but
among the wills recorded at York, we find that ot Christopher Feylde, of Wake-
field, mercer, dated July 8, 1557. He names in it his son and heir, Matthew, to whom
he bequeaths the residue of his estate, and to whose wife a legacy is left. The other
children named are Elizabeth, "now wife" of Henry Watkinson*, Katharine, wife
of Richard Atkinson, and Christopher. The testator also speaks of his brothers
Nicholas and William. He desires to be buried in the church of Wakefield, near
his wife, and directs his executors to cause "a troughe stone," with a remembrance
of himself, wife and children in pictures ot brass to be set upon and laid upon the
grave.
The Rev. J. L. Sisson, in his "Historical Sketch of Wakefield Church," pub.
lished in 1824, says that a monument formerly existed in the north aisle of the
edifice with this inscription: "Here under this stone lyeth buried the bodies of
Christopher Fylde, mercer, and Eliz. his wyfe, which Christopher deceased the 30
day of Nov. in the year of our Lord God 1558, on whose soul Jesus have mercy."
The Wakefield manor rolls supply another link tending to show the relationship
between this Christopher and Matthew Field, of London, for we find in them under
the date of 1547, and heading of Sandall, that Christopher ffield was elected proposi-
tus for lands formerly Thomas Shays, and again in 1569, also headed Sandall, that
Matthew ffield, of London, was elected prepositus (greave) for Shay's land, deputy
William Sykes.
In the subsidy roll of the fifteenth Henry VIII. (1524), under Westgate Wake-
field, Christopher Feyld is assessed for ;^20 goods 20s. There are a few other
references to him in the manor rolls. In 1541 he surrendered lands in Wakefield
graveship and manor to Elizabeth, his wife. He is referred to in 1544 as Christo-
pher ffeld, Sandall, merchant. In 1552 Robert Copley "redd lands to Christopher
ifeld, Sandall." I presume that his residence was at or near Sandall, and his
place of business in Wakefield.
There was another Christopher Field living at the same time in this neighbor-
hood. Both Christophers witnessed the will of Christopher Rishworthe, gent, of
Crofton, in 1538 — one describing himself as "wardroper," and the other as "hus-
bandman." The latter made his will in December, 1570, and died shortly after.
He names in it his sons Robert and John, also Christopher, Frances, Elizabeth and
Alice, children of Robert and Israel and Frances, those of John. He describes
himself as ot Crofton, and as he leaves to five of his grandchildren each "one ewe
lamb" we may assume that his calling was that of "husbandman," and that he is
the witness so described in Rishworthe's will.
Crofton and Sandall are about two miles from Wakefield, and adjoin. The
latter was at this period by far the most important of the two, and those residing
in its immediate neighborhood may have been described as of Sandall. Here stood
the famous castle, whose ruins are still shown, which was originally the chief seat
of Wakefield manor, and which was at different epochs the residence of Richard
♦Probably father of Matthew Watkinson, named in indenture, 1596.
96 FIELD GENEALOGY.
IIL, and many other royal and distinguished persons, till its capture in 1645, during
the civil wars, and demolition shortly after. It is not clear, therefore, if Christo
pher Field, the father of Matthew, of London, resided at Crufton, or Sandall. The
Parish Registers do not help us in this matter ; those of the former place not com-
mencing till 1617, and of the latter till 1652.
On the south side of the village of Crofton is an old building, on which are the
arms of this family of Field — chevron between three garbs. It was doubtless the
residence of some members of it; but I cannot say if it was the home of either
Christopher, or dates back to their time. There were members of the family at a
much later period at Crofton. William Field, who made his will Dec. 4, 1623,
describes himself as "of Crofton," and left sons, William, Richard, Henry and
Thomas.
All the persons named were, without doubt, offshoots of the family, which had
been seated at Sowerby* since the commencement of the existing manor rolls.
These begin in 1284!, but are imperfect till 1306. How much earlier they weie
there is not clear; but it would appear from the Coucher book of Whalley Abbey,
which has been published by the Cheltham Society, that there were Fields at
Rochdale about the middle of the thirteenth century. Although this town is in
another county — Lancashire— it is only about a dozen miles from Sowerby.
The earliest mention I have met with of any member of the family in the
immediate neighborhood of the town of Wakefield is in 1413, when John Field, ot
Normanton, is referred to in the manor rolls, who may have been the progenitor of
the branches whom we find later at Crofton, Sandall and Ardsley.
The diary of Richard Symonds, written in 1644 and 1645, which has been pub-
lished by the Camden Society, contains a description of a monument, which he saw
in Madley church, near Hereford, which has since disappeared. It was that of a
knight in complete armor of the thirteenth century— his surcoat embroidered with
his arms— sable, three garbs argent; underneath was the inscription "Walt us et
Joh' esFelde." The name and similarity of the arms would indicate that the
family ot these knights was identical with that of Wakefield manor, but there
exists so little documentary evidence of this early date that I am unable to trace
the connection.
Burke, who is not always reliable, states in one edition of his "Landed Gentry,"
that Hubertus de la Feld held lands in Lancashire, the third year after the con-
quest (presumably granted for military services at the time of the Norman invasion),
and that others of the name were proprietors in this county at various dates during
the next two centuries. I would remark here that the name is always written
"del flfeld" in the earlier part of the Wakefield rolls, and until after 1400. and that
this is a more correct form than "de la ffeld." The simplicity of the family arms,
aside from the early date of the monument in Madley church, show that they were
among the most ancient in the united kingdom. In choosing this "canting" coat
one would suppose that the Fields would have assumed the natural and proper
color for the garbs; but there was a substantial reason for not having done so, as it
would have been identical with one already adopted by another family.
In a roll of arms, attributed to the reign of Henry III., and which is considered
the most ancient one in England, of which any copy exists, the coat of the de
Segraves is given as sable, three garbs or. A little later the Earls of Chesterboro,
Azure, three garbs or.
Although there may be in England, or America, and probably are, other des-
♦Pronounced Sorby.
tOne of the earlier rolls is endorsed 1272 by mistake, as it relat«s to several years later.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 97
cendants of the family which was once numerous in the manor of Wakefield, and
of which Matthew Feild, of London, mercer, was a member, only those who can
trace their ancestry to Robert Field, one of the patentees of Flushing, Long Island,
in 1645, have established a claim to represent it. His father, William,* is described
as of Sowerby, in the parish registers of Halifax, when his two eldest children
were baptized March 9, 1605, and remained here until his death, in 1619. His
removal may be explained by the fact that his wife. Susan, was daughter of John
Midgley, of North Ouram, and not improbably she inherited property there. North
Ouram, as well as Sowerby, is in the extensive and once royal manor ot Wakefield,
which may be considered the cradle of this branch of the Feilds.
To conclude, the connection between the great city companies of London and
the Wakefield manor family did not cease with the death of Matthew Field, for in
the rolls referred to there is this entry, under the date of 1612: "Wm Feilde eives
et Marchantef Tayler de London & Sara up eins, surrender vac. voc. Lawsfield
(Wakefield) to John Lyon of Wakefield, gent., money to be paid at his house in the
psh of St. Faitn, London." This William Field's will, recorded in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, London, is dated Jan. 28, 1621-2, and was proved February
13th of the same year. He describes himself as Citizen and Merchant Taylor of
London, speaks of his wife, Sara, and children not named. Besides other property
he leaves lands in Bedfordshire and Lambeth, and bequeaths to twenty poor people
of this parish of St. Faith each 20s. His widow, Sarah s will was dated July 30,
1653, but not proved till Nov. 10, 1657. She describes herself as "of St. Faith's
under St. Paul's, widow, aged and weak." She names her eldest son Samuel,
deceased, son James, grandchild William Field, and daughters Sarah, wife of
Robert Thornton, Elizabeth, wife of Adam Howes, and Mary, wife of William
Jeston; also granddaughter Mary, wife of Oliver Boteler, of Harrold, County Bed-
ford, Esq. She speaks of her cases in St. Paul's churchyard, and Old Change. Her
burial is thus recorded in the parish registers of St. Faith's, May 4, 1657: "Mrs.
Feild, out of St. John's chancel." In the registers of St. Faith are recorded the
baptisms of William, Elizabeth, Daniel and Nathaniel, between 1656 and 1661,
inclusive, children of "William Field, woolen draper, and Elizabeth, ot St. Paul's
churchyard." The father was, doubtless, the grandchild named in Sarah Field's
will.
111. JOHN FIELD (John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas. Thomas,
John. Thomas. Roger), b. in England about 1590; m. . Descendants of
John, of Cockernhoe, claim that he is a grandson of John, the astronomer. The
same coat of arms and same crest as were used by the latter have been used by the
former's descendants. Res. Cockernhoe, England.
154. i. HENRY, b. about 1620; m. Elizabeth Rudd.
112. ZECHARIAH FIELD (John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas.
Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. East Ardsley, Yorkshire, England, in 1596; m.
about 1641, Mary . She d. about 1670. He d. June 30, 1666. Res. Dorchester,
Mass., in 1629; Hartford, Conn., in 1636; Northampton, in 1659, and Hatfield,
Mass., in 1663.
Zechariah Field, son of John, and grandson of John Field, the astronomer, born
in East Ardsley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. England, about 1600. He prob-
*Piobably the William, son of Christopher Field, of Sowerby, and Grace Gradsheighe, who
was baptized at Halifax in 1543.
tit does not follow that his calling was that of tailor, for many having other occupations
joined this wealthy guild for the great privileges conferred by its membership.
98 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ably came to New England through Wales, and sailed from Bristol, and arrived in
Boston in 1629, and settled in Dorchester.
In 1636 a large number of English emigrants, among whom was Zechariah
Field, removed from Cambridge, Dorchester and Watertown, to Hartford, Windsor
and Wethersfield, Conn. He settled in Hartford; his residence was upon Sentinel
Hill, near the present north end of Main street. At this time he was still in the
vigor of manhood, and was one of the forty-two men furnished by Hartford to take
part in the Pequod war.
In venturing thus far toward the frontier he exposed his family to great dan-
gers from the savages that were lurking near the new settlements. A few years
later King Philips war stirred up the Indians from one end of Massachusetts to the
other. The massacre of Bloody Brook (a part of Deerfield), in which a whole com-
pany o± soldiers were killed, put a thrill of horror through the new settlements, that
were soon deserted, the people fleeing to Northampton for safety. But a few
months later the whites turned the tide in the battle of Turner's Falls, which
gave them rest for some years, till the Indians were stirred up again by the French,
and attacking Deerfield at night, set fire to the town and massacred part ot the
inhabitants, and made prisoners of the rest. In all these terrible scenes few fam-
ilies suffered more than the Field family, of whom some were killed and others,
including women, carried into captivity, to Canada. But in spite ot all these dan-
gers the brave settlers held the frontier and became the ancestors of families who
have kept the name unsullied, honored and revered. Among their descendants
are not only judges, senators, congressmen, clergymen, lawyers and physicians, but
men of business, and one — Marshall Field, ot Chicago — the leading dry goods mer-
chant in the world.
In 1659 Zechariah removed to Northampton, where he was engaged in mercan-
tile business, and had a large trade with the Indians. He was one of the twenty-
five persons who engaged to settle in what is now Hatfield, and was one of the com-
mittee to lay out the lands. They were to have their houses built and occupy them
before Michaelmas (Sept. 29, 1661), but he did not probably go there until the next
year, where he died, June 30, 1666. After his removal to Hatfield he was in busi-
ness. His home lot contained eight acres, and was the first lot north of the North-
ampton road, and is now (1879) owned by William Billings, Esq.
"Zechariah Field was the first of the names to come to America from England,
in 1630, and he is the ancestor of a large proportion of the families of that name,
not only in New England, but in the United States. He was in Boston and Dor-
chester and moved thence to Hartford, Conn., going through the wilderness to the
Connecticut river, where he was one of the first settlers. He owned large tracts of
land there, some of which are now in the heart of the city of Hartford, one of these
is now crossed by Asylum street, and is adorned by some of its most beautiful resi-
dences in that city. In 1644 dissensions arose in the church, which could not be
successfully reconciled. He, with others of the early settlers, bought nine miles
square of land lying north of Mt. Holyoke. Mr. Field settled in the part now
named Northampton. In 1661 a grant was given him in the part now Hatfield, to
which place he moved, and there passed the remainder of his days."
"Zechariah was the first to make his home in New England, and has the most
numerous descendants, being the ancestor not only of a large proportion of the
families of the name of Field in New England, but in the United States. He emi-
grated and landed in Boston in 1629, and settled in Dorchester. In 1636 a number of
English emigrants, among whom was Zechariah Field, removed from Cambridge,
Dorchester and Watertown to Connecticut, and settled in the towns of Hartford,
Wethersfield and Windsor. Zechariah settled in Hartford, and his residence was
FIELD GENEALOGY. 99
upon Sentinel Hill, near the north end of Main street. He also owned
lands upon which is Asylum street. The early historians of Connecticut speak
of these emigrants as among the earliest planters in the state, and were all
well-to-do persons. In 1658. after the death of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the
first minister of the church in Hartford, a serious controversy arose in
that and the neighboring churches of Windsor and Wethersfield, in rela-
tion to the "qualification for baptism, church membership and the rights of
the brotherhood," and all efforts at reconciliation proving unsuccessful, the minor-
ity in the churches of Hartford and vicinity, with the view of extricating them-
selves and their children from these ecclesiastical dissensions, and being attracted
by the beautiful and productive meadows on the Connecticut river above North-
ampton, associated themselves together to the number of sixty, of whom Zechariah
Field was one, purchased of the Nonotuck Indians on the east side of the river a
tract of land nine miles square, extending from Mount Holyoke to Napasoneag
brook, nearly twelve miles up and down the river, which included the town of
Hadley, and parts of the towns of Amherst, Granby, Leverett and Sunderland.
They also purchased the same year of the Northampton proprietors Capawonk,
which included Hatfield meadow and Hockanum, on the east side of the river,
opposite Northampton. In 1659 fifty-nine of these associates came up to Hadley,
where forty-six remained, and thirteen came across the river, and mostly settled in
Hatfield. Mr. Field settled in Northampton, where he was engaged in mercantile
business and had a large trade with the Indians. He was one of the twenty-five
persons who engaged to settle in what is now Hatfield. They were to have their
houses built and occupy them before Michaelmas (Sept. 29, 1661). His home lot
contained eight acres, and was the first lot south of the Northampton road, where
the dwelling of William Billings now (1S80) stands. Referring to the causes which led
these people to leave their newly acquired homes in Connecticut, and go forth into the
wilderness and make for themselves new homes, where dangers were ever present.
True, they bought the lands from the Indians and the title deed signed by Umpan-
chala and his brother, Etowomq, granting the land from Mill river, or Capawonk,
to the north side of the great meadows, and to extend back westerly from the
Connecticut river nine miles. Yet this gave them no immunity from the continual
alarms ot Indian warfare which soon after sprung up, and was nearly continuous
until the capture of the Canada's by the English and colonists which resulted in the
peace of Paris in 1763." — Rodney Field.
The early portion of the history of Hatfield will be found in the history ot
Hadley, of which it originally formed a part. With Hadley, it was settled in 1659,
and, although it was municipally and ecclesiastically a portion of Hadley, it began
at an early day to transact certain kinds of business independently, in what were
denominated "side meetings," the "side" having reference to the opposite side of
the river from the center of jurisdiction. The inconveniences resulting from the
necessity of crossing the river to attend meetings, were felt from the first, and
when the population had been somewhat increased, in the passage of a few years,
they gave rise to a controversy which at last resulted in the establishment of the
town of Hatfield. Petitions and manifestoes, almost without number, were sent to
the General Court from both sides.
The Hartford, Conn., land records have a large number of conveyances, gjrantor
and grantee of Zechariah Field (1639 to 1662). Those old transfers were not much
more than a memorandum.
The most prominent and controlling cause which led to the settling of Hadley
and Hatfield was, without a doubt, the disagreement that arose in the churches,
that had been planted at Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor, Conn.
100 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Hubbard says that the disagreements ended in the removal of one part of the
church to Hadley and Hatfield. The cause of disagreement was simply this:
Quite a minority in these churches held to different views relating to qualifications
tor baptism, church membership and the rights of the brotherhood. As relating
to baptism, the minority held that it parents were respectable and not open to
reproach for bad conduct, on their consenting to the covenant, they should have
their children baptized. A matter of vital importance, as it was supposed and
believed that without this rite having been administered, the child dying would be
forever lost, even before it came to a knowledge of good and evil. And then some
believed that no one should be permitted to enjoy church membership, except those
that gave some evidence of their faith; while the minority wanted all to be admitted
to the Lord's table, who had competent knowledge, and who were not immoral,
though not claiming to have been regenerated. And then the minority were in
favor of congregational form of government rather than a government by the elders
and clergy.
Thus we see the causes which led these people to leave their homes and go
forth into the wilderness, and make for themselves new homes, where dangers
were even present. True, they bought their lands of the Indians, and the title
deed, signed by Umpanchala, and his brother. Etowomq, granting the land from
Mill river, or Capawonk, to the north side of the Great or North Meadows, and to
extend back westerly from the Connecticut river nine miles. Yet this gave them no
immunity from the dangers resulting from the almost constant roar maintained by
the various Indian tribes all along our frontier settlements. Among those who
cared more for free religious thought and action then he did for sitting supinely by
and allowing the minister to do the thinking for him, was the ancestor of our
worthy host, Zechariah Field. Indeed he dared leave his house and lands, and
although then three score years old, to leave all and go out into a new land, and
built tor himself a new home, where Indians roamed the fields, fished in our
brooks, hunted in our woods, and planted corn in our meadows, sold brooms to
our housewives, begged cold victuals, and strong water when they could get it,
from our very religious ancestors in times of peace. But when ere long, strife
was engendered and ruthless savage warfare was waged around our little frontier
settlements; then, indeed, the faith and trust of these noblemen, was equal to
the occasion, and while they bravely defended their wives and little ones from
the savage foe with such skill and power as they possessed they never forgot the
great facts of their faith and calmly trusted in the Lord for that deliverance which
He alone could give.
155. i. MARY, b. about 1643; rn. Oct. 6, 1663, Joshua Carter, Jr., of
Northampton. He was b. in 1638; was son of Joshua, of Dorches-
ter, Windsor and Hartford. Was in Northampton in 1660, and
was one of the first settlers in Deerfield; was constable in 1674,
and was one of the ill-fated ones who tell with Captain Lathrope.
He was killed by Indians with Captain Lathrope, at Bloody brook,
Sept. 18, 1675. He was removing some of his effects to North-
ampton tor safety where his family soon went. Ch. : i. Child, b.
Feb. 27, 1664; d. May 17, 1664. 2. Abigail, b. Feb. 11, 1666. 3.
Joshua, b. June 6, 1668; m. Mary Skinner; removed to Hartford.
4. Jacob Benton, b. Sept. 21, 1698; m. July 6, 1724, Abigail Cas-
tee, dau. of Joshua, third. 5. Timothy Dodd, Sr., bap. Aug. 17,
1724; m. Abigail Benton, dau. of Jacob. 6. Dorus Barnard, b.
Dec. 10, 1758; m. Oct. 12, 1780, Abigail Dodd, dau. of Timothy,
Sr. 7. Lemuel Steele, Jr., b. Aug. 22, 1787; m. Nov. 29, 1810,
y
FIELD GENEALOGY. 101
Tabitha Barnard, dau. of Dorus. 8. John F. Steele, b. March i2,
1822; m. Sept. 2, 1846, Frances Mary, dau. of Oliver Steele. 9.
Frederick Morgan Steele, b. Nov. 27, 1851; m. Nov. 6, 1883, Ella
A., dau. of William H. H. Pratt. Frederick M. Steele is president
of the Chicago Forge and Bolt Co., with works and office at
Fortieth street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, 111. 4. Joseph, prob.
5 ''^156. ii. ZECHARIAH. b. about 1645; m. Sarah Webb.
moV' 157. iii. JOHN, b. about 1648; m. Mary Edwards.
158. iv. SAMUEL, b. about 1651; m. Sarah Gilbert.
— - — 159. v. JOSEPH, b. about 1658; m. Joanna Wyatt and Mary Belding.
113. JAMES FIELD (Matthew. John, Richard, William. William, Thomas,
Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. East Ardsley, England, in 1591 ; m. Margaret ,
named in the parish register of Thurnscoe. James Feild, of Thurnscoe, described
as son and heir in a bond dated July 6, 1617. Called "eldest brother" in Matthew's
will, who bequeathed to his children ;i^2o. Succeeded to the manor of Thurnscoe
on the death of his father in 1631, being then forty years of age. He resided at
Thurnscoe. Some of the parish records in which church his children were baptized
in 1630, are quite obliterated. He d. ; res. Thurnscoe, England.
JAMES, bap. Aug. 17, 1628.
WILLIAM, bap. May 4, 1630.
ROBERT, bap. Jan. 27, 1632.
JUDITH, b. ; m. Nov. 7, 1646, John Sylvester, Gent, of Mans-
field.
ANNE, bap. June 23, 1639; d. April 9, 1640.
MATTHEW FIELD (Matthew, John, Richard, William. William,
Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), bap. March 12, 1608, East Ardsley,
England; m. Margaret Feild, daughter of Robert; buried at East Ardsley, June 14,
1632. Matthew Feild, of East Ardsley, baptized there March 12, 1608-9. Will
dated Jan. 10, 1638-9, proved April 19, 1639. He values his estate at "noe less than
1440 pounds." He leaves ^^400 to his son Matthew, who appears to have been his
only child, and gives him the disposal of ;^ioo when he was sixteen years of age.
There is a legacy of ^20 to his brother James and to his daughter Judith Field,
now with me, Fyve pounds. To my brother William Feild, ;^2o; to my brother
John Feild, ;{J30; to my cozin (nephew) Gervis Smith, who is at Cambridge five
pounds; to my sister Shawe, forty shillings; to my sister Anne Farmer, twenty
pounds; to my brother Gervaise Smith's children, equally ^^lo. He speaks of his
brother James' children. There are other legacies to friends, servants and the poor
of Ardsley. He appoints his father-in-law, Mr. Robert Field, his brother James
Feild, and his brother-in-law Gervis Smith, supervisors. The entry in the parish
register shows his wife died before he did. He d. April, 1639; res. East Ards-
ley, England.
165. i. MATTHEW, b. about 1631. Matthew Feild, only child named in
his father's will in 1638-9; not then 16 years of age.
121. HON. JOHN FIELD (William, John, Richard, William, William*), b.
prob. in Thurnscoe, England; m. ; she d. in 1686. His estate was admr. upon
Mar. 22, 1686.
Aug. 20, 1637 — at this date or a little later, he and twelve others signed the fol-
lowing compact:
"We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Provi-
160.
1.
161.
ii.
162.
iii.
163.
iv.
164.
V.
115-
M/
*For convenience we drop the names of the early ancestors. See former generation.
102 FIELD GENEALOGY.
dence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience, to all such
orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in au orderly
way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters ot families incorpo-
rated together into a town tellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto
them, only in civil things."
July 27, 1640, he and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for form of gov-
ernment; Jan. 27, 1645, he bought twenty-five acres and a share of meadow of
Ezekiel Holiman; in 1655, he was a freeman; Oct. 8, i65g, was on the jury; Feb.
19, 1665, in a division ot lots he drew number five; in 1676, he was a deputy; July
t, 1679, Zachary Field and his father were taxed together; Nov. 22, 1686, his will
was exhibited by son Zachariah for probate, but the executrix not appearing, and
no witnesses cited, and the legatees having already proceeded in division, etc., the
town council refused to probate it. Inventory ^34, 19s, 6d.
Here is a copy of a remarkable paper. Some years ago while collating and
arranging the old papers of the town of Providence, it was necessary to detach
a lot of old papers that had been pasted into scrap books. One of these papers
which had a return ot the property of Joseph Jenks (liable to be taxed) upon being
"soaked off" of the page had upon the other side the writing which is here copied.
It is in the handwriting of Thos. Olny, long the town clerk, and refers to the first
John Field ot Providence without doubt. It was evidently the beginning of some
instrument which he had been commissioned to prepare, and was left unfinished,
for what reason it would now be impossible to tell. It was written in 1686 or 1687.
Yours very truly, EDWARD FIELD.
Providence, January, 1900.
[COPY.]
"Whereas there was by James Field of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, who is
some time since deceased a bequest made of one hundred pounds the which by his
last will and testament he gave and bequeathed unto his brother John Field dwell-
ing in Providence in New Eogland; and if he were dead then ye said moneys to be
divided amongst his children. And whereas ye sayd John Field is deceased and
ye sayd legacye not yet payd. Be it known." — Providence Town Papers, 01 103.
Early records of town of Providence, vol. i, p. 112, is a deed signed by James
Mathewson, badly torn, dated 20th day of , 16—; "the other two akres and
halfe from Father in law John Field of Providence."
B. 1, p. 95, Early Records. 1661, 7 mo., 21 d. From William Field 60 acres of
land on Waubosset Plain on S. E. side of Long Pond.
6, 47. Will of James Mathewson, date Aug. 24, 1682, presented Oct. 10, 1682.
Hannah widow apptd. Administratrix. See copy of Will in 6-59. He speaks of son
Zachariah and of a child unborn— also of daughters.
Early Records of Providence, vol. 6, p. 153. March 22, 16S5-6. Whereas Zach-
ary Field hath this day exhibitted to ye Council a writtemg which he sayth is his
Father (John Field deceased) his last will, proposing to the Councill concerning
probation thereof, but the Executrix not appearing to propegate the same nor to
give in bond, nor no wittnesses appear to give in testimony upon the same. And
upon examination of the said writeing it appeareth dubious in itself. And finding
that the legatees have before proceeded to action as to the Estate therein contained,
the Council do not at present see their way clear to proceed to a probation thereof.
The Inventory of the Estate of the deceased John Field also brought this day
before the Council and hath been by ye Council so far taken notice of as that it is
attested by William Hopkins. It as appears amounts to ;^34 — 19 — 6.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 103
John Field was probably living in May, 1684, as the Town Council were notified
to meet at his house.
Early Records, vol. 8, p. 12. 1676, Aug. 14. John Field was one of twenty-
seven who "staid and went not away." This is an error.
Gorton S. D. 1644, Jan. 30. One of twelve who testified of the cruelties of
the Massachusetts men in relation to Gorton.
He d. in March, 16S6; res. Providence, R. I.
166. i. HANNAH, b. ; m. in Providence. James Mathewson; d. 1682;
m. 2d, Henry Brown, b. 1625, d. Feb. 20, 1703, s. p.; he was
deputy in 16S0. Hannah d. in 1703; res. Providence, R. 1. Chil-
dren: I. Ruth, m. Benjamin Whipple. 2. James, b. Aug. 11,
1666; m. April 5, 1696, Elizabeth Clemence. 3. John, m. Deliver-
ance Malavery. 4. Isabel, m. John Brown. 5. Thomas, b. April
I, 1673; m. Martha Field, daughter of Thomas (see) 6. Lydia.
7. Zachariah, m. Sarah and Joanna Eddy. 8. Daniel, b. Jan.
28, 1682: m. Sarah Inman, Esther , Chanty Truman and
Lydia Montague. Children: Daniel, b. March 5, 1704: m. Oct. 7,
1731, Lydia Edmunds, daughter of Wm. and Alice; m. 2d, Meri-
bah . Children: ix. Noah. 2. Abraham. 3. Daniel. 4.
Lydia. 5. Avis. 6. Keziah. ix. Noah, b. in 1734; m. Judith—.
He d. in 1824, "a patriot of the Revolution," aged 90 yrs. Chil-
dren: I. Charles. 2. Asa. 3. Lucretia. 4x. Dorcas. 5. Rhoda.
6. Joseph. 7. Benjamin. 8. Noah. 9. Judith. 10. Daniel. 4x.
Dorcas, daughter of Noah and Judith Mathewson, b. Dec. 7, 1762;
d. April 5, 1S47; m. Willard Eddy, who had been a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, in the year 1782, Dec. 11. They settled in
Gloucester, R. I., whence they removed to Richfield, Otsego Co.,
N. Y. Children: i. Mathewson. 2. Otis. 3. Rhoda. 4. Han-
nah. 5x. Elizabeth. 6. Nancy. 7- Lydia. 5x. Elizabeth Eddy,
m. Joseph Beardsley, son of Obadiah and Eunice Beardsley, Jan. 4,
1819, at Richfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. Children: i. Dorcas, m.
Stephen H. Lathrop, a banker ot Oswego, N. Y. 2. Joseph, a
physician. 3. Frances, m. Erastus Clark, a lawyer of Utica.
N. Y. 4x. Lydia, m. Floyd Cushman Shepard, a banker, of Ilion,
N. Y. 5. Lewis, m. Charlotte Judah. 6. Mary, m. Maj. Edmund
Underwood, U. S. A. 7. Anna, m. Alexander Seward, a lawyer
of Utica, N, Y. 4x. Lydia Louise Bardsley, m. Floyd Cushman
Shepard, Jan. 12, 1847, at Richfield, N. Y. He was b. Sept. 21,
1824; d, Nov. 2. 1894. Children: ix. Mary Louise, b. April 24,
1848; m. Oct. 8, 1873. 2. Alfred, b. Feb. 6, 1851; m. Oct.. 1875.
3. Fanny, b. 1853: unmarried. 4. Harry, b. 1855; d. 1874. 5-
Elizabeth, b. 1857; m. F. Armstrong, Oct. 5. 1877; d. Sept., 1892.
6. Robert, b. 1859, unmarried. 7. Kate, b. 1862; d. 1875. 8.
Floyd, b. 1864; d. 1864. 9. Grace, b. 1865; unmarried. 10. Alice,
b. 1867; m. A. Richardson. 11. Floy, b. 1870; m. F C. Brooks.
IX. Mary Louise m. Gilbert W.Warren, b. Sept. 5. 1843; res.
Ilion, N. Y. He is a manufacturer. Children: i. Fanny Louise,
b. Dec. 17, 1877, at Saginaw, Mich.; d, at Ilion, N. Y., June 21,
1878. 2. Gilbert Watson, b. Aug. 15. 1883, at Indianapolis, Ind. ;
now lives at Ilion, N. Y. 3. Anna Raymond Beardsley, b. March
22, 1887, at Ilion, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 19, 1894.
167. ii. JOHN, b. about 1645 ; m. Elizabeth Everden.
104 FIELD GENEALOGY.
i68. iii. DANIEL, b. ; d. unm. Aug , 1676. May, 1671, he gave allegi-
ance to King Charles II. Aug., 1679, he was buried. He and
— another buried at about same time— were called "in the flower
of their youth."
169. iv. ZACHARIAH, b. about 1650; m. Sarah Thornton.
170. V. RUTH, b. ; m. Jan. 7, 1669, John Angell, b. 16^6. He d. July
27, 1720; she d. 1727. He was son of Thomas of Salem, who came
over in the ship Lyon for Boston. Went to Salem, returned to
Boston, and with four others went to Providence with Roger
Williams. John remained in Providence during King Philip's
war, and had a share of the captive Indians. In 1686 he was dep-
ut}-. He gave his son John his mansion house and land on both
sides of Woonasquatucket river. His wife Ruth, Sept. 30, 1720,
was administratrix with son Hope. Children: i. Thomas, b.
March 25, 1672. 2, Mercy, b. 1675. 3. John, b, . 4. Daniel,
b. May 2, 1680. 5. James, b, 1684. 6. Hope, b. Dec. 12, 1685.
122. WILLIAM FIELD (William, John, Richard, William, William*), b. in
Thurnscoe, England, prob. m. in England, Deborah ; she d. s. p. in 1679.
On account of religious persecution he fled to Wales and as soon as possible there-
after came to America. From Providence R. I. Records B. 2, p. 140. To Richard
Burden of Portsmouth, May 17, 1658-59.
B. 2, p. 142. Of William Burrows, Nov. 30, 1660.
B. 2, p. 353. Of Edward Harte, March 5, 1641 ; joins with R. Williams.
B. I, p. 66. To Thomas Olney, Sen., Apr. 14, 1645, for good consideration.
B. I, p. 66. To Thomas Olney, Sen., for good consideration.
Complains against Gorton in 1643.
Assistant 1650, 1658, 1660.
Mentioned in Charter of 1663.
Early Records, Prov., B. 2, p. 37. Feb. 2, 1659, John Warner apprenticed to
Wm. Field for 7 years.
B. 8, p. 24. Jan. 28, 1677, Thomas Field, heir of William Field, deceased,
granted privilege of recording his deeds.
B. 8, p. 48. April 28, 1679, Arthur Fenner granted permission to record deeds
of land purchased of William Field in 1657.
Mrs. Brownell. "William was son of William who was born in 1571.
William was son of Sir John who died 1587.
John was son of Richard who died 1542.
Richard was grandson of William who died 1480."
Staples Annals, p. 168. William Field's house was fortified and made a garri-
son house during Philip's war. The house was on South Main street, near Provi-
dence Bank Building.
Will of William Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 1. No. A 16. Early Records,
Vol. 7, p. 225. Lett all men know before whome these presentes shall come; That
l^WiUiam fBeld of providence in Rhoade Jland and providence CoUonie, or planta-
tions in in New-England; being weake in Bodye, but perfect in my Memorie; and
not knoweing how the wise God may disposse of me Either to life or death And
willing to Sett all my Earthly, & worldly Estate in order that there maj' be no dis-
traction therein when 1 am departed this world ; I doe ordaine this as my last will
&_Testament; Jtem, I doe give unto my deare & loving Cousen Thomas fiield now
at providence with me all that Cargo that is now upon Sending to the Barbados,
* For convenience names of early ancestors are dropped. See preceding generation.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 105
as also all my norse kind that I have, Saving those which I Shall hereafter Ex-
presse; Also I doe Give & bequeath unto my Said Cousen Thomas f&eld foure
HeifEers which at preseant are at Neotaconitt at Henry ffowlars; Also I doe Give
unto my forsaid Cousen that Right of my Land which I have at Aquidnessitt.as
also my Right in that land which belongeth to me above pauchassett River, which
is now in Controvercy with Some men of Warwick, I meane that above pauchassett,
as I chalenge in the Right of pautuxett ; Also 1 give unto my said Cousen those my
ffurres which I have in my howse at this presant. Jtem I give & bequeath unto my
Servant John Warner, one young Maare, being that mare which goeth at Warwick,
or that lately there went. Jtem I doe bequeath unto my deare & loveing wife Two
mares and one Coalt, the one mare is the old mare which I bought of Robert Mar-
tin, with that Colt of the Said mare, which is the Coalt Expressed. The other
mare, is that mare which I bought of Abiah Carpenter; Also I doe give unto my
Said wife all the rest of my Cattell which I have not before Expressed, of what
kind soever they be both Small and great, to be her owne proper Goodes ; As also
1 doe give unto her all the rest of my Goodes: and moveables: as well that
which is as Yett coming to me from the Barbados, which is from thence due to me,
as the rest which belongeth to me ; As also all my tackling about Cartagge, as
Cartes yoakes &cr: and all tooles whatso Ever to me belonging; Also I doe be-
queath unto my Saide wife duering her ^life, all my home stall, or dwelling place
that I am at presant possessed with. As howses, and Barne and Barnes, or out
howsen goeing under what name so Ever, & the land with the Said howses : As
also I doe give unto my Said wife duering her said Liffe all my upland in Saxaffrax
neck, as also all my meaddow at pomeconssett or that goeth under that name, as
also I doe give unto my Saide wife all my Land which lieth in the Neck to make
use of duering her life, and all my other Landes whereso Ever not before Ex-
pressed. And after her desease my will is that all the howses, & Landes before
Expressed Shall goe or belong unto the forsaid Thomas ffield, or to his Heirs, or
Assignes ; or so many of the Said howses or Bamnes, as shall be then Standing,
Also I leave my wiflfe my tull & Lawfull Exsecutnx, both to pay my Debtes, as
also to receive my debtes due to me from any, as also to se my Bodye decently
Buried ; Jn wittnesse of this my will I have Sett to my hand & Seale this one &
Thirtieth day of May, and in the Yeare of Christ one Thousand, six hundred, Sixty
flBve,
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered The
in the presence of vs marke X of William
Thomas Oluey Senior fieild
The marke X of Thomas
Angell
Thomas Olney Junior:
Memorandum before these presentes were Sealed, his will is, that his Servant John
Warner Shall Serve his Tyme out with his now Dame.
A True Copie Copied June the third, 1665 P nie Tho:
Olney Junior Clarke of the Towne of providence ;
This is aproved of by me
William Carpenter Asistant.
He d. in May or June, 1665; res., s. p., Providence, R. I.
123. THOMAS FIELD (William, John, Richard, William, William*), b. prob.
in Thumscoe, England; m. . Res., Thurnscoe, England.
171. i. THOMAS, b. about 1648; m. Martha Harris.
_„ • Names of early ancestors are dropped. See former generations.
8
106 FIELD GENEALOGY.
126. LORD JOSEPH FEILD (Edward, William, John, John, William, Thomas.
Thomas, John. Thomas, Roger), bap. m Bradford, England, Aug. 2, 1601 ; settle-
ment Oct. 10, 1625; m. Mary Rawson. Joseph Feild, of Shipley, eldest son and heir
of his father, was Lord of the manor of Heaton Oct. 30, 1635, heir to his father as
per inquisition on the latter Aug. 23, 1641, will dated Aug. 25, 1660, proved Jan. 9,
1661. Mary, his wife, was daughter and co-heir of William Rawson, of Braken
Bank, in the parish of Keighley, an executrix of her husband's will, and was buried
at Bradford May 5, 1663.
Joseph Feild, eldest son and heir of Edward, was baptized at Bradford, Aug.
22d or 23d, 1601. He remained at Shipley, and was lord of the manor of Heaton,
Oct. 30, 1635. His wife was Mary, daughter and co-heiress of William Rawson, ot
Braken Bank, parish ot Keighley. Joseph Feild's will is dated Aug. 25, 1660, and was
proved Jan. g, 1661. He names in it his wife, Mary, sons John and Jeremy, and
daughters Mary and Anne ; the latter, wife ot William Parkinson. Also his grand-
children, Joseph and Mary, children ot his son Jeremy. Mary, widow of Joseph
Feild, was buried at Bradford, May 5, 1663. The following children of Joseph and
Mary are named in the pedigree: Anne, baptized at Bradford, Jan. 18, 1626-7,
married to William Parkinson, both living Aug. 25, 1660; John, eldest son and heir,
baptized March 30, 1628. of Heaton. Will made about Oct. 13, 1712. Buried at
Bradford, October i8th the same year. Administration granted at York, June 16,
1713. Joshua baptized at Bradford March 27, 1631, buried there Nov. 14, 1632.
Jeremiah, second son, baptized at Bradford July 27, 1634, living at Hipperholme
from 1660 to 1672, after of Chellow in Heaton, where he died; buried May 7, 1705.
He married at Bradford, Nov. 2, 1658, Judith, daughter of William Walker, ot
Scoles, in the parish of Birstall. It would appear from the pedigree that John, eld-
est son of Joseph and Mary Feild, was never married. He d. January, 1661. Res.
Shipley, England.
172. i. ANNE, bap. Bradford Jan. 18, 1626; m. William Parkinson, Esq.,
named in her father's will; had several children.
173. ii. JOHN, bap. Bradford, March 25, 1628. John Feild, of Heaton,
eldest son and heir, baptized at Bradford, March 25, 1628; will
made 171 2; buried October iS that year s. p. Administration
granted at York June 16, 1713 ; named in his father's will. Estate
devolved upon his nephew.
174. iii. JOSHUA, bap. Bradford March 26, 1631. He married in Brad-
ford, July 10, 1662, Abigail Feild, daughter of George, of Shipley,
and had a daughter Abigail.
175. iv. JEREMIAH, bap. Bradford, July 27, 1634; m. Judith Walker.
176. V. MARY, bap. March 31, 1640. Named in her father's will as executrix.
136. WILLIAM FEILD (Edward, Edward, Christopher, John, Christopher,
John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. about 1585; m. Elizabeth .
"William Feild de Wakefield" is named in the rolls in 161 1, and in the same year
"Roger Feilde de Wakefield, chapman" took ot waste in Alverthorpe. This Roger
is more fully referred to under Alverthorpe. In 1633, and again in 1634, "William
Feild de Wakefield" grants lands to his wife, Elizabeth, and in the latter year, under
Wakefield, Elizabeth Field surrenders Baseynge to Thomas Bedford, and Mary, his
wife, a daughter of William Field; remainder to Edward, son of said William, who
was probably dead at the time. He d. prob. 1634. Res., Wakefield, England.
177. i. MARY, b. ; m. Thomas Bedford.
178. ii. EDWARD, b. .
179. iii. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Sarah ,
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145. ROBERT FIELD (Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher,
John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. about 1636, in Rhode Island;
m. Susannah . He was probably the eldest son. Land was deeded to him
by his father in 1653-54. He signed public documents in 1656 and 1657. Was
at Newtown on or before 1670. Was named in patent for that town in 1686.
He was constable April 30, 1685. Was a Quaker in religion.
Mrs. Field was named in the entry of the marriage of her son, Nathaniel.
Robert Field, junior, was probably the eldest son, as he is the first named in the
deed of 1653-54. As already stated he removed to the adjoining town of Newtown
in or before 1670. He appears in the records of that place as selling land there in
1671. He was one of the two overseers ot Newtown in 1672, 1674, 1675, 1678 and
1680.
In the valuation of estates there in 1675, Robert Field had "30 acres ot land, i
horse, 2 oxen, 5 cows, 3 three-year-olds, 2 two-year-olds, i one year old, twenty
sheep and 2 swine, one male person." The author inters trom the last sentence
that all his sons were then under age. In 1683 Robert Field and Robert Field, Jr.,
were rate-payers at Newtown, and in 1685 the names of both are in a list of resi-
dents, and probably freeholders there. On Nov. 25, 1686, Governor Dongan
granted a new patent to the inhabitants of Newtown, confirming their rights, which
mentions both Roberts.
Robert Field, of Newtown, L. I., to whom his father granted lands by deed
Feb. 12, 1653. He signed public documents in 1656 and 1657, and is named in
patent of Flushing of 1665-6. He removed to Newtown in or before 1671, and is
named in patent of that town of Nov. 25, 1686; died there April 13, 1701. His wife,
Susannah, was named in the record of the marriage ot her son, Nathaniel; sur-
vived her husband.
A patent of confirmation for the lands in Flushing, dated Feb. 16, 1666, was
obtained from Governor NicoUs by Robert (his father), Robert and his brother
Benjamin. He d. April 13, 1701. Res., Newtown, L. I.
180. i. ROBERT, b. ; m. Mrs. Phebe (Titus) Scudder.
181. ii. NATHANIEL, b. ; m. Patience Bull.
182. iii. ELNATHAN, b. ; m. Elizabeth .
183. iv. BENJAMIN, b. ; m. Experience Allen.
i83>^ v. AMBROSE, b. ; m. .
184. vi. SUSANNAH, b. ; m. Peter Thorne. Susannah declared her
intention of marrying with Isaac Merritt. of Burlington, N. J., in
June, 1699. She married Peter Thorn, for he is mentioned in
Robert Field's will. Dec. 10, 1734.
146. ANTHONY FIELD (Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher,
John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. prob. in Rhode Island, in 1638;
m. Susannah .
Anthony Field, son of the emigrant, and probably the second child, remained
at Flushing. We have seen that his father deeded a house lot to him in 1653-54,
and that he signed public documents of some importance in 1656-57. He is named
in the patent of confirmation of Flushing, in 1666, and also among those who took
the oath of allegiance in 1673.
A valuation of estates at Flushing was made in 1675, which has the following
entry: "Anthony Feild, 27 acres, 2 horses, 2 oxen, and 5 cows." His name
occurs in a similar document in 1683, a^s follows: "Anthony Feild, 50 acres, 2
oxen, 4 cows, 4 swine, 10 sheep." From 1675 to 1683 he was among the ratepayers
ot Flushing, and he is one of those to whom a patent of confirmation of that town
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was granted March 23, 1685. This is the last occasion on which the author finds
him mentioned, and he died before his son Benjamin married in 1691, as he is
spoken of in the entry of it as ' 'deceased. ' ' We know from this record that his wife,
who survived him, was named Susannah, but that of her family has not come down
to us. We also learn from it that Benjamin was not his only son. His wife,
Susannah, was named in a letter to her daughter-in-law, Hannah Bowne, living
Nov. 30, 1 69 1. Res. Flushing, L. L
185. 1. BENJAMIN, b. 1663; m. Hannah Bowne and Elizabeth Peaks.
186. ii. JOHN, b. 1659. He was ot Flushing, where his estate was valued
in 1683, named in patent of Flushing, March 23, 1685 (?), made
oath of allegiance in 1673 or 1674. (Received from Governor
Andros, between 1674 and 1681, a patent for land on Delaware
Bay, New Jersey, to which state he probably removed.) He m.
Margaret .
PROOF THAT JOHN FIELD, THE ASTRONOMER, WAS THE ANCESTOR OF THE FIELDS IN
AMERICA.
[By Rev. Henry Martyn Field.]
Of those who have made researches into the genealogy of the Fields in this
country, few have been able to carry back the line beyond the first ot the name who
came to America. Even Mr. Osgood Field, who has spent a greater part of his life
in England, and been ardent in the search, is not able to trace his immediate
ancestors further than to Great Horton, in Yorkshire. This is about seven miles
from Ardsley, where lived John Field, the astronomer, of whom he says: "We are
related to, but not descended from, that distinguished man. and entitled to the
arms confirmed to him, but strictly speaking, not to the crest." He seems to be
lost in attempting to trace the family of John Field, and in a brief account which he
furnished to the "Gentleman's Magazine," supplementary to an article published
in 1834, he says, "I am unable to say if any of his descendants, in the male line,
are now living." We regret to differ from so high an authority, but in our judg-
ment, the proofs which follow, are decisive that there are male descendants now
living, and that he himself is one of them, and further, that this same eminent man
is the ancestor of the principal families of Fields in America.
Twenty years ago 1 prepared a little memorial of my father's family (that ot
the late Rev. David D. Field, D.D., of Stockbridge, Mass.), which had the good for-
tune to bring me into acquaintance with others of the name, and thus teach me
much more about my own family than 1 knew before. Among others, it fell under
the notice of Mr. Richard Field, a venerable Quaker of Brooklyn, who had long taken
great interest in genealogical researches. He "was highly gratified in its perusal,"
but regretted to find that I had not been able to procure the necessary data to trace
my ancestors at least two generations beyond Zachariah Field, as he "had for a
long time been in possession of information which perfectly satisfied him that
Zachariah was beyond question the grandson of John Field, the astronomer."
Fully assured that he had in his hands the missing link in our ancestral line, he
called on Mr. Cyrus W. Field, and laid before him the facts in his possession, and
at his suggestion wrote as follows to his father, the Rev. Dr. Field :
"Brooklyn, Jan. 20, 1862.
"My much respected, though unknown friend:
"I was recently called on by a gentleman, who introduced himself by informing
me that he was a member^of the Field family, from the state of New Jersey, whose
ancestors he had been endeavoring to trace to as early a period as he could ; and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 109
that he had succeeded no farther than to a John Field, who came to New Jersey
from Flushinjj, L. I., more than 150 years ago; that for the purpose of prosecuting
his researches, he had recently visited Flushing, but could obtain no satisfactory
information in relation to the object of his inquiry. He learned that the old records
of the town, in which he hoped to find accounts of the early settlement of that place,
had been destroyed by fire many years since. He finally met with some one who
advised him to call on me, as I could probably furnish him with the desired infor-
mation. He accordingly did call, and I had the satisfaction to furnish him with the
information, that the John Field, who removed from Flushing, was the son of
Anthony Field, of Flushing ; that Anthony Field, his brother Benjamin, and father
Robert, with a number of others, were named in a patent of confirmation obtained
from Governor Nicoll, for the town of Flushing, dated Feb. 16, 1666; that Robert
Field only was named in the original patent obtained from Governor Kieft (that is,
Robert only of the Fields). He, with a number of others, obtained the original
patents from the Governor, or rather Director-General, of New Netherlands, as New
York was then called. Robert Field's sons, Anthony and Benjamin, were then chil-
dren at that date (Oct, 19, 1645). He was further informed, that Robert Field,
father of Anthony, was the son of James Field, the grandson ot Matthew Field, of
Ardsley, York county, England, and that Matthew Field was the son of John Field,
of Ardsley, formerly of London, the celebrated astronomer."
[The letter then details a plan of a genealogical Family Tree, of which John
Field, the astronomer, should form the trunk, and his descendants the branches, to
render which complete it was desirable to obtain information in regard to "the
names of those who can trace their ancestors back to either Zechariah Field, who
came out to Boston about the year 1632 — to William or John Field, who came to
Rhode Island shortly afterwards — or to Robert Field, who arrived in Boston in
1644, and settled in Flushing in 1645."]
The writer of this letter afterwards did me the kindness to call upon me, and
to show me the proofs which made the ancestry of the Fields of this country so
clear and plain to him. Within the two years following I saw him many times, and
was equally surprised and gratified by the extent ot his information. As I am
chiefly indebted to him for the facts which follow, it is right to let the reader know
the character and standing of my informant. Mr. Richard Field was an old mer-
chant of New York, to which he came more than half a century before I knew him.
He was for twenty-two years — from 1823 to 1845 — in partnership with Charles C.
Thompson. The firm was Field, Thompson & Co. He was in business in Pearl
street, where Piatt street is now cut through. From 1829 to 1843 he was in Cedar
street. He was then retired from business, being nearly seventy-two years old,
though the house was continued in the firm of Field, Morris & Co., his two sons
being partners. For twenty-five years he had lived in Brooklyn, where he still
resided, at No. 109 Willow street. He was connected with many of the public
institutions of that city, and for some years discharged the responsible duties of
president of the Brooklyn City Hospital.
At these interviews Mr. Field showed me many ancient and curious documents
containing autograph signatures of his ancestors — one of them, with the date of
1692, bore the signatures of his grandfather's great-grandfather, and of his grand-
mother's great-grandfather, Benjamin Field, and of several of his lineal descend-
ants, as well as collateral branches of the family. Among these was one [copied on
another page] which came from his grandmother, giving the date of the birth of
Benjamin Field, in 1663, and extending back in a direct line to his ancestors —
Anthony, Robert, James, and Matthew — to John Field, the astronomer, giving the
date of the birth of each. There was also a document executed by his great-grand-
110 FIELD GENEALOGY.
father, Robert Field, son of Benjamin, born in 1707, being the manumission of a
slave, in which he says, "Upon considering the case of negroes now in slavery,
believing they should be free, I do hereby declare," etc., discharging his slave
from all claims of himself or his heirs.
These old papers were kept by Mr. Field with religious care, as they enabled
him to trace back his ancestors, in an unbroken line, for more than three hundred
years, and to find a great and honored name as that of the founder of the family.
The following are the testimonies referred to in the letter of Mr. Field, which,
in his view, established the fact that the Fields in this country— at least those des-
cended from Zechariah, William, John, or Robert Field— were all descended from
John Field, the astronomer:
Copy of an old Record belonging to Mr. Richard Field, which came from his
grandmother, and which had probably been in the family more than 100
years. The water mark, G. R., with the crown, showed that the paper was
made when the United States were Colonies of Great Britain.
Benjamin Field was born in Flushing, in the year 1663, was the son of An-
thony and Susanna Field. He had a brother John, a few years older than himself,
who removed to the Jerseys and settled there. His father, Anthony Field, was
born in England, in 1638, and came out with his father, Robert Field, to Boston, in
1644, and came to Flushing in 1645, together with his brother, Robert, who was
born in 1636, and Benjamin, born in 1640.
Robert, father of Anthony, was born at Ardsley, in England, in 1610. He had
a brother James, and two sisters, Anne and Judith. James Field, father of Robert,
was born at Ardsley, m 1587. He was the son of Matthew Field, and had a brother
Robert, younger than himself. Matthew Field father of James, was born at Ards-
ley, in 1563. He had seven brothers, whose names were — Richard, older than
himself, and Christopher, John, William, Thomas, James and Martin, and a sister
Anne, who were younger. John Field, father of Matthew, was born about 1525.
He lived in London, where it is believed he was born, until about 1560, when he
married Jane Amyas, daughter of John Amyas, and removed to Ardsley, where
he resided till his death, in 1587. While he resided in London, he was engaged
in publibhing astronomical tables, by which he gained a very high reputation as
an astronomer.
STATEMENT OF JOSIAH FIELD.
Josiah Field was an uncle of Richard Field, and ot course, like him, was a
descendant of the Flushing Fields. He was born in 1774, in the town ot Green-
wich, Conn., just over the line of the State of New York, and was the son of Uriah
Field. He came to New York City about the year 1815. and here continued to
reside until his death, in 1858 or 1859. He was a dealer in hides, and was well
known to the leather merchants in the "Swamp," as Ferry street, with its vicinity,
was then called. His place of business was in Elizabeth street.
Josiah Field's statement of a conversation with an old gentleman of the Massa-
chusetts branch of the Field family, about the year 1830.
Josiah Field stated that he was one day standing at the door of his place of
business when he was accosted by an old gentleman who was passing, with the
inquiry whether his name was Field, and who, on receiving an affirmative reply,
remarked that he supposed so from seeing the name on the sign-board. He said
his object in making the inquiry was to learn whether he was a descendant ot the
Flushing branch of the Field family, and whether he could trace them back beyond
Robert Field, one of the first proprietors of the town ot Flushing?
FIELD GENEALOGY. Ill
Josiah Field replied he was from the Flushing branch of the family, and that
he could trace them back three generations beyond Robert Field with entire cer-
tainty; that Robert Field, of Flushing was the son of James Field; that James
Field was the son of Matthew Field, of Ardsley ; and that Matthew Field was the
son of John Field, the astronomer.
The old gentleman then inquired whether he could inform him whether James
Field, son of Matthew, had any brothers? Josiah Field mformed him that James
had but one brother, whose name was Robert.
Inquiry was then made as to the brothers of Matthew Field. In reply it was
stated that Matthew had a large number of brothers, some six or seven, a list of
whose names could be obtained from a relative of his. Josiah Field stated that he
could recollect the names of several. There was one named Richard, one John,
another William, and another Martin.
The old gentleman then inquired whether Josiah Field had any certain in-
formation as to the family relationship between Robert Field, of Flushing, and
Zechariah Field who emigrated to Boston some years earlier than Robert Field's
settlement at Flushing? Josiah Field replied that he had not, but that there was a
tradition that had come down through the families of the Flushing Fields, that
Zechariah Field was related to Robert, but not so near as first cousin; that they
were descendants from the same stock within a few generations, he had no doubt.
The old gentleman then informed Josiah Field that he was of the Massachusetts
branch of the Field family, and that the information now obtained (if reliable)
settled a very important question, which had rested in his mind for a great length
of time — that is, whether Zechariah Field was a descendant of John Field, the
astronomer ; that if it were fully established that Robert Field was the grandson of
Matthew, and that Matthew had a brother John, he was perfectly satisfied that both
Zechariah and Robert were the descendants of John Field, the astronomer, the
former his grandson, the latter his great-grandson: for he well remembered, when
he was a boy, hearing a conversation between his grandfather and two still older
members of the Field family, in which they all agreed as a settled matter of fact,
that the father of Zechariah Field and the grandfather of Robert Field, of Flush-
ing, were brothers, and that the name of the father of Zachariah was John.
Josiah Field remaked that the information respecting the ancestors of Robert
Field, of Flushing, might be relied on as beyond question; that an original account
of the transactions of Robert Field in the settlement of Flushing, including a notice
of his ancestors, was deposited with the records of the town of Flushing, where
they remained more than a hundred years, when unfortunately, in the year 1780,
the building in which they were deposited, with all its contents, was destroyed by
fire. Much valuable information was thus irretrievably lost. But the descendants of
Robert Field, or at least some of them, had, for their own satisfaction, obtained from
these records a list of their ancestors, back to John Field, the astronomer. These
lists were very defective on some accounts, containing little more than the names of
the parties, with the years of their birth, not furnishing any account of their occu-
pations, and in many instances no date as to the time of their death. These omis-
sions continued to about the year 1700.
The old gentleman, on leaving, said he would call again in a few days, when he
would like to obtain a memorandum of the ancestors of Robert Field, and that, in
return, he could furnish some interesting accounts of the Massachusetts branch of
the Field family. He left his card, and stated that he was residing temporarily
with a friend of his in Harlem, whose place he described with an intimation that he
would be gratified with a call from Josiah Field, if he should at any time be in that
vicinity.
112 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Josiah Field was anticipating a call trom his old friend but new acquaintance
for some weeks, but he did not make his appearance. Josiah Field finally called
on a relative of his, to go with him to Harlem, and look after him. On reaching
the place, they learned that the old gentleman had a day or two previously gone to
Troy, to spend a few days, with the intention of returning very soon. He, however,
never did return. He died suddenly either at Troy or on his way back.
Josiah Field mislaid his card, but was pretty certain the old gentleman's name
was Henry Field.
Josiah Field died some years since at about the age of eighty-four years.
STATEMENT OF GEORGE CORLIES.
George Corlies was born in 1754. A large part of his life he spent in New York.
Mr. Richard Field says that he came to New York in 1811, and knew Corlies almost
from that time. Thirty-five years ago he was still living, and was well known. He
was a mason, but a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and ot most respectable
character.
Statement of George Corlies, in relation to information obtained from an old lady
of the Field family, a resident of Newtown, L. I., in the year 1842, at which
time she was over ninety years old. Her name was Margaret Smith, formerly
Field. She was the widow of Isaac Smith, and grand-daughter of EInathan
Field, who was son of Robert Field, Jr., of Newtown, L. 1., and grandson of
Robert Field, of Flushing. The information obtained was from her replies to
certain written queries furnished Mr. Corlies by Richard Field, principally in
relation to his lineal ancestors, with but little regard to their collateral branches.
The information elicited was taken down at the time by Mr. Corlies, in writing.
She said she was born in Flushing, and that her grandfather was a grandson of
Robert Field, one of the first proprietors of that town. That in early life she spent
much ot her time at her grandfather's, who was excessively fond of talking about
his ancestors ; and she heard him so frequently repeat accounts of their early his-
tory, that she could remember, with great distinctness, many Items of information
which, he said, he obtained directly from his grandfather, Robert Field. Among
these were the following: That his (R. F.'s) father's name was James Field, and
that his grandfather's name was Matthew Field, and thatMatthew had no less than
seven brothers ; that these brothers and their children had become widely scattered,
many of them having left Ardsley previously to Robert Field's coming to America;
that Matthew and all his brothers were born in Ardsley, to which place their father,
John Field, had removed about the times of his marriage, having previously been a
resident of London, where he was born about the year 1525, and where he resided
between thirty and forty years ; and it is was there that he published his astrono-
mical works. She further said that she remembered distinctly that Matthew Field
had a brother John, whose son, Zaccheus,* emigrated to this country, according to
the statement of Robert Field, about a dozen years before he did, and that he came
out to the Bay State, where he remained but a short time. At the time of the
arrival of Robert Field he was residing somewhere in the colony of Connecticut.
6he also stated that Matthew's brother William had two sons, who came to this
* Zacchens— doubtless Zachariah. On this Mr. Richard Field observes: "There can be no
reasonable doubt that Corlies misunderstood the name given by the old lady, or that she inad-
vertently miscalled it, as she fixes the time and place of emigration precisely corresponding with
that of Zachariah; and it would be a perfect absurdity to suppose that there could have been
two persons of so nearly the same name, arriving in Boston about the same time, and that nobody
to this day should ever have heard of it. The account of the emigration of the two sons of Mat-
thew Field's brother William I also consider perfectly reliable, confirmed, as it is, by the fact
that two brothers of corresponding names are known to have arrived in Rhode Island just
about the time designated in this account."
FIELD GENEALOGY. 113
country very soon after their cousin Zaccheus ; that they came to Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations; that one of these sons was named after his father, and the
other after his grandfather. She related many anecdotes in jelation to family mat-
ters, which are of little interest at this time.
George Corlies died about the year 1847, at about the age of ninety-three years.
These testimonies create a probability, amounting['.to moral certainty. In
establishing the fact of one's ancestry, we can have^but two sources of knowledge
— record and tradition — the possession of authentic documents, Muly recorded at the
time, and preserved from generation to generation, [and a'continuous family tradi-
tion, unbroken by any missing links, and uncontradicted by^evidence of an opposite
character. Here we have both. So far as tradition is concerned, the evidence
seems to be complete, and it is confirmed by family records, which, if not as formid-
able as title-deeds in an office of registry, are yet most valuable sources of informa-
tion. These combined proofs can hardly leave a doubt in the minds of the several
branches of the Field Family in America, that they are descended from John Field,
the astronomer.*
147. ENSIGN BENJAMIN FIELD, (Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. about 1640,
Flushing, L. L ; m. ; m. 2d. Sarah ; d. in 1734 in Flushing. Benjamin
Field, presumably the third son ot the emigrant, *was appointed ensign for Flush-
ing by Nicoll, the Governor of New York, on April 22, 1665. He is named in the
Flushing patents of Feb. 16, 1666, and of 1685, and was a juror at the Court of
Assizes in 1669. On March 22, 1671, he conveyed by deed to John Bowne his "two
shares ot fresh meadows, being Nos. 34 and 42." His death is recorded as follows
in the register of the Society of Friends ot Flushing: "Benjamin Field ot Flush-
ing, and ancient friend, dyed the ist ot the loth mo. 1732." His age must have
been at least between 87 and 90. He lett a widow, Sarah, whose will was dated
the 26th ot ninth month, 1732, only a few days before her husband died, but it ap-
pears from the register referred to that she survived him. The entry of her death
is as tollows: "Sarah Field, widow of Benjamin Field of Flushing, dyed I734-"
The day and month are not given; but it must have been early in 1734, as her will
was proved March 20th of that year. She styles herself in it, ' 'wife of Benjamin
Field of Flushing," and appoints him one of her executors, another being her
grandson William Doughty. Two other grandsons are mentioned — William March
and Henry March. Apparently Benjamin and Sarah Field left no male descend-
ants. It was probably after the death of the emigrant, and during the lifetime of
his sons, that the family became members of the Society of Friends. It is pretty
evident that they had not joined it when Benjamin was appointed ensign in 1665,
considering that the society does not allow its members to undertake military
duties. George Fox, who is looked upon by many as the real founder of this sect,
visited Flushing in 1672, and, while there, was the guest of John Bowne at the old
mansion already referred to. Meetings of the members were held — first at this
* Slight facts sometimes lend strong confirmation to what has been established by presump-
tive evidence. Such is the following: — Conversing some years since with the late Hon. Richard
Field, of Princeton, N. J., at one time United States Senator from that State, and afterwards
Judge of the United States District Court, on being shown the arms printed elsewhere
he was at once struck with the resemblance to a seal which had been in his family for genera-
tions. Both the arms and the crest were exactly the same in every particular. On one side of
the seal were the initials R. F., which were undoubtedly those of Robert Field, of Flushing,
from whom the New Jersey Fields are descended. How came Robert Field in possession of this
very peculiar crest, which had been given to but one man in England? Plainly, because he was
a direct descendant. This strongly confirms the fact, which we believe to be :ully proved from
other sources, that the Flushing and New Jersey Fields— and hence, according to the testimon-
ies here given, the other families in this country also — are descended from the same ancestor,
and can claim kindred by right of inheritance of the same illustrious name.
114 FIELD GENEALOGY.
V
house, and afterwards in the open air, sometimes in the woods, and secretly, on
account of the persecutions to which they were exposed. Fox is represented to
have been a man possessing great natural eloquence, and under his preaching the
leading inhabitants of Flushing and neighborhood became Friends, and among
these, probably, the Fields, most of whom continued to be members of the Society
for nearly a century and a half, while some are at the present day. He d. Oct, i,
1732; res.. Flushing, N. Y.
187. i. THOMAS, b. about 1674: m. Hannah .
188. ii. DAUGHTER, m. Doughty; children, William.
189. iii. DAUGHTER, m. March; children, William and Henry.
150. ROBERT FIELD (Christopher, William, Robert, John, Christopher,
John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard. Roger), b. ; m. Rosamond .
Robert Field of Wakefield made his will Aug. 29, 1599, and mentions in it his wife
Rosamond and daughters Elizabeth, Alice and Margaret. It will be noticed that
two of the grandchildren ot Christopher Field, whose will was made in 1570, were
named Elizabeth and Alice, which leads the author to suppose that their father
Robert — also mentioned in that will — was the same individual as the one who made
his in 1599. He d. about 1599; res., Sandal, England.
190. i. ELIZABETH, b. .
191. ii. ALICE, b. .
192. iii. MARGARET, b. .
151. JOHN FIELD (Christopher, William, Robert, John, Christopher, John,
Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. ; m. . Res., Sandal,
England.
193. i. ISABEL, b. .
194. ii. FRANCES, b. .
154. HENRY FIELD (John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas,
Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire, England, about
1620; m. there Elizabeth Rudd. Res., Cockernhoe, England.
195. i. THOMAS, b. about 1650; m. Sibella Hobbs.
196. ii. PROBABLY other children.
156. ZECHARIAH FIELD (Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William,
William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. prob. Hartford,
Conn., about 1645; m. Dec. 17, 1668, Sarah Webb. She m. 2d, 1677,
Robert Price, and both were killed by the Indians at Deerfield July 29,
1704. Zechariah Field, son of Zechariah and Mary, b. in Hartford, Conn., about 1645.
He came with his father in 1659 to Northampton. In 1672 he removed to Deer-
field, where he died in 1674. His widow presented an inventory of his estate, Sept.
29, 1674 of ;Ci85 17s. 6d. After the massacre of Capt. Lothrop and his men at
Bloody Brook, the family returned to Northampton for safety from Indian depre-
dations. He m. Sarah, daughter of John Webb of Northampton. She m., 2d,
about 1677, Robert Price of Northampton, and about 1690 returned to Deerfield,
where she and her children were slain by the French and Indians under Hertel de
Rouville at the destruction ot Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704. Robert Price was a soldier
under Capt. Turner at the Falls fight, and his son Samuel drew his share in the
Falls fight township in 1737. He had five children by Mrs. Field, viz., i. Sarah, b.
Sept. 12, 1678. 2. Mary, b. March 21, 1681; m. March 17, 1699, Samuel Smead,
killed 1704, 3. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 12, 1683; m. Dec. 6, 1703, Andrew Stephens, an
Indian — the only case I have seen in Massachusetts of the intermarriage between
the two races, at least at as early a day — Sheldon. He was killed, and she cap-
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tured in 1704, and she m. in Canada, Feb. 3, 1706, Jean Fourneau. 4. Samuel, b.
1685, captured 1704, returned and m. April 7, 1714, Dorothy Fox ot Glastonbury,
Conn., and resided there. 5. John, b. May 14, 1689.
The history of Deerfield extends back to 1663. when Eliot, the apostle to the
Indians, obtained a grant from the General Court ot 2,000 acres of land, now within
the bounds of Natick, as a permanent settlement tor his Indian converts. This
tract was then within the boundaries of Dedham, and, as a compensation to the
proprietors of that town, the General Court ga\'e them 8,000 acres of unlocated
land, anywhere they might choose, within the colony. The Dedham proprietors
having entered into this agreement, sent out a committee to explore the country,
and make a selection for the location of the grant. Their exploration extended
over the western part of the county of Middlesex, and the eastern part of the county
of Worcester, but they were not satisfied with the land they found, and thus re-
ported. Soon after this the selectmen of Dedham were informed that there was
some very good land, about 12 miles north of Hadley, where the 8,000 acres might
be located ; whereupon they dispatched John Fairbanks and Lieut. Daniel Fisher,
"to discover the land, and examine it." They reported favorably, and urged that
it should be taken possession of under the grant, as early as possible. The town
then chose a committee to repair to Pocomtuck, the Indian name of the locality,
and to cause the 8,000 acres to be located there. In 1665, this committee employed
Major Pynchon of Springfield to draw the boundary line of the tract, which he
did, as follows: Commencing near Deerfield river, a little west of the present Cheap-
side bridge, he continued southerly nearly on a line now defined by the Connecticut
River Railroad to the Hatfield line, thence westerly on the Hatfield line, which was
about a mile and three-quarters south of the present south line of Deerfield, to the
toot of the western hills; thence, northerly, in a course parallel to those hills to
Deerfield river, near "Old Fort"; thence on the river, to the point of departure.
The tract was purchased of the Indians by Major Pynchon, and conveyed in four
deeds, the consideration for the sale being ^94 i8s., paid by the people of
Dedham.
Zechariah d. in 1674; res., Northampton and Deerfield, Mass.
197. i. ZECHARIAH, b. Sept. 12, 1669; d. young.
198. ii. EBENEZER, b. Oct. 31, 1671; m. Mary Dudley.
- — 199. iii. JOHN, b. Dec. 8, 1673; m. Mary Bennett.
157. JOHN FIELD (Zechariah. John, John, Richard, William, William), b.
about 1648; m. Dec. 17, 1670, Mary Edwards, b. Jan. 20, 1650, daughter of Alexan-
der and Sarah (Searl) of Northampton. John Field, son of Zechariah and Mary
b. in Hartford, Conn., about 1645. He came with his father in 1659 to
Northampton. In 1663 removed to Hatfield, where he d. June 26, 1717. He was a
soldier with Capt. Turner in the Turner's Falls fight with Indians, May 19, 1676.
Alexander Edwards came from Wales, Great Britain, in 1640; settled in Spring-
field, Mass., and removed to Northampton in 1655, and d. Sept. 4, 1690. He m.
April 28, 1642, Mrs. Sarah, widow of John Searle, trom England to Springfield,
whose wife was Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Sylvester Baldwin, who came from
England in the ship "Martin" in 1636 and d. on the passage. The widow Sarah m.
in 1640, Capt. John Atwood, in Milford, Conn., and d. in Nov., 1669.
He d. June 26, 1717; res., Hatfield, Mass.
200. i. JOHN, b. May 11, 1672; m. Sarah Coleman.
201. ii. MARY, b. Feb. 2, 1674; d. young.
202. iii. ZECHARIAH, b. Aug., 1676; m. Sarah Clark.
116 FIELD GENEALOGY.
203. iv. BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 14, 1679; was in the "Meadow fight" in
1704 (res., Deerfield, ? ); n. f. k.
204. V. MARY, b. Feb. 20, 1681; m. March 6, 1701, Dr. Thomas Hastings
of Hatfield. He was son of Dr. Thomas, Jr., b. Sept. 24, 1679.
He d. April 14, 1728. A very quaint, unpoetical, but flattering
elegy of no lines, and an acrostic, to his memory, were written at
the time by "Josephus Nash." Was a practicing physician in
Hatfield. For a very interesting surgical case, treated by Dr.
Hastings, see App. 3 of Rev. John Williams' History of his Cap-
tivity and Deliverance. Children: i. Mary, b. Dec. 24, 1701; d.
Jan. 10, 1702. 2. Thomas, b. Nov. 6, 1702; d. Nov. 4, 1703. 3.
~"^ Mary, b. 1704; m. Benjamin Billings. 4. Hannah, b. Oct. 13,
1706; m. White. 5. Dorothy, b. July 27, 1709; d. July 29,
1711. 6. Thomas, b. 1713; d. same year. 7. Waitstill. b. Jan. 3,
1714; physician, m. Abigail Marsh. 8. Tabitha, b. Oct. 6, 1715; m.
Jan, 4, 1738, John Strickland. 9. Hopestill, b. April 13, 1718; m.
Lydia Frary; res., Hatfield. 10. Dorothy, b. March 20, 1720; d.
April 6, 1720. II. Thomas, b. Jan. 28, 1721 (lieut.); m. Mary
Bilder; res., Hatfield and Amherst. 12. Lucy, b. Feb. i, 1722;
m. Jonathan Taylor. Thomas Taylor m. Cynthia Corse; their
daughter Lucy Taylor m. Anson Higby; their daughter Sarah A.
Higby m. William T. Wheeler; their son Charles Volney Wheel-
er m. Helen E. Nellis. Res., Little Falls, N. Y. Children:
Sarah E. Wheeler, b. May 10, 1878; William Hardin Wheeler, b.
Sept. 29, 1879; Helen W. Wheeler, b. Dec. 27, 1887.
205. vi. BETHIAH, b. 1684; m. in 1707, John AUis, Jr., son of John, b.
May 10, 1682; his first wife was Mary Laurence; he d. Jan., 1691.
206. vii. SARAH, b. Feb. 2, 1687; m. Oct. 25, 1709, Nathaniel Pack ot
Swanzea.
207. viii. ABILENE, b. , 1689; d. May 6, 1689.
208. ix. EBENEZER, b. July 2, 1690; was killed near Bloody Brook by
Indians on a scout in Deerfield, Oct. 26, 1708.
209. X. ABILENE, b. July 2, 1690; m. Dec. 29, 1715, John Nash, b. Oct. 28,
1686. Res., Hatfield. He d. April 7, 1764; she d. July, 1764.
Children i. Hannah, b. Sept. 16, 1716; m. Sept. 30, 1736, Ebene-
zer Belding of Ashfield. 2. Noah, b. March 26, 1719; m. Hepzibah
Bodman and Abigail Belding. 3. Mary, b. about 1721 ; d. Nov. 11,
1725. 4. Martha, b. ; m. Feb. 11, 1752, Phinhas Warner of
New Braintree. 5. Abigail, b. ; m. Dea. Hezekiah Belding
of Amherst. 6. Daughter, b. ; m. Carpenter.
158. SERGEANT SAMUEL FIELD (Zechariah, John. John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b. about 1651, Hartford, Conn. ;m., Aug. 9, 1676, Sarah Gilbert
daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Chapin), of Springfield. She m., 2d, Oct. 17,
1702, Ebenezer Chapin, of Springfield. Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Catharine
(Bliss) Gilbert, of Springfield, b. Dec. 19, 1655; d. Feb. 4, 1712. Samuel Field, son ot
Zechariah and Mary, b. in Hartford, Conn., about 1651. He came with his father
to Northampton in 1663. He removed to Hatfield where he was slain by Indians
in ambush while hoeing corn in Hatfield meadows, June 24, 1697. He was a serg-
eant in the Turners Falls fight. May 19, 1676. He was a prominent and influential
man in Hatfield, holding many town oflBces. The following settlement of his
estate was copied from the original probate records of Hampshire county by Hon.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 117
George Sheldon, of Deerfield. "We whose names are underwritten appointed to
distribute the estate of Sergt. Samuel Field to ye widow and children according to
settlemen w'ch as foUoweth July 24 1701. To ye widow out of the movables at £^
— To Sarah, her portion out of the movables £\7, los. To Mary Field of movables,
;^5 13s. To be paid out of the lands in good pay or money £t> 17s, £\2 los. which
Saml Field is to pay. To Samuel Field the eldest son and heir, ye whole of the
house lot and Lands at ye farm or elsewhere at he agreeing with his mother for
her 3rd for her life yrly at such rent as they can agree, as also for all the Lands in
her disposal till ye young children come to be of age he paying in money or setting
out part ot the land to his brothers according to its appraisal in the inventory at ^^97
(viz.) to Thomas Field at present ;^8 6s. 8d. and after his mothers death £0, 3s. 4d. —
£\2 los. To Zechr Field at present or wh of age ;^8 6s. Sd.and after his mothers death
^4 3s. 4d. — £\'2. los. To Ebenszer Field at present or wh of age £?> 6s. 8d., and after
his mothers death £0, 3s. 4d. — £12 los. To Josias Field at present or wh of age £'i> 6s.
8d. and after his mothers death £i, 3s. 4d. — £\i los. To Joshua Field at present or
wh of age ^^8 6s. 8d. and after his mothers death £a, 3s. 4d. — £\2 los. The allowed
distribution is something varying from the settlent yet ye land lying in several par-
cells any other division there being 5 sons will wholle incapacitate ye improvement
of it to any advantage and therefore that this division may be accepted by the Judge
of Probate and confirmed to wch we subscribe this 24 July 1 701. John Coleman
Samuel Belding John White Joseph Field Samuel Gunn." "Sept ye 2, 1701 the above
distribution being presented before me John Pynchon esq. Judge of Probate of
Wills in Hampshire to be a more full settlemt of ye estate of Sergt. Samuel Field
deceased, to his widow and children which is appraised and allowed by me John
Pynchon. End. settlemt of Sergt. Samuel Fields estate S'ept. 20 1701. Book a, p.
80." He was killed by Indians, June 24, 1697. Res. Hatfield, Mass.
210. i. SAMUEL, b. Sept 27, 1678; m. Mrs. Hannah E. Hoyt.
211. ii. THOMAS, b. June 30, 1680 m. Abigail Dickinson.
212. iii. SARAH, b. June 30, 1683; m., Nov. 18, 1702, Samuel Warner, of
Springfield, b. March 14, 168 1, and moved to Stafford, Conn.
213. iv. ZECHARIAH, b. Aug. 29, 1685 ; m. Sarah Mattoon.
214. v, EBENEZER, b. March 17, 1688; m. Elizabeth Arms.
215. vi. MARY, b. July 23, 1690; m., June 26, 1712, Jonathan Hoyt, son of
David. Res. Deerfield, Mass., b. April 6, 1688. With his father,
David, mother, brother Ebenezer and two sisters, Abigail and
Sarah, he was taken captive by the Indians in the battle of Deer-
field, Feb. 29, 1704, taken to Canada, and returned later. The
father died of hunger near the lower Cohoes ; Abigail was killed
on the way to Canada; Ebenezer remained among the Indians.
Mary d. June 26, 1780; he d. May 23, 1779. Ch. : i. Mary, b.
Oct. 5, 1714; m. Oct. 24, 1740, Ebenezer Sheldon. 2. Abigail, b.
Sept 10, 1716; m. Matthew Clesson and John Nims. 3. Sarah, b.
July 9, 1719; rn. John Burke. 4. David, b. Oct. 26, 1722; m.
Mercy Sheldon and Silence King. 5. Hannah, b. April 8, 1726;
d. Dec. 22, 1728. 6. Jonathan, b. Feb. 20, 1728; m. Experience
Childs.
216. vii. JOSIAH, b. Nov. 5, 1692; m. Elizabeth .
217. viii. JOSHUA, b. April 9, 1695; m. Elizabeth Cooley.
159. CAPTAIN JOSEPH FIELD (Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Hartford, Conn., about 1658; m., June 28, 1683, Joanna Wyatt, b. 1663,
daughter of John and Mary (Bronson), of Sunderland, Mass.; d. March 23, 1722;
118 FIELD GENEALOGY.
m., 2d, Jan. 2, 1723, Mary (Wells) Belding, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Foote).
She d. March 15, 1751.
Joseph Field, son of Zechariah and Mary, b. in Hartford, Conn., in 1658; came
with his father in 1663 to Hatfield. He was one of the forty engagers who signed
the agreement, April 13, 1714, to settle the town of Swampfiekl (now Sunderland),
and in the division ot lots he had No. 12, on the east side ot the street. In 1720 he
removed to Northfield, and in the spring ot 1726 he sold and removed to Northamp-
ton, but returned the same year to Sunderland, where he died Feb. 15, 1736. He is
mentioned in the town records as Sargeant Joseph Field. He married, ist, June
28, 1683, Joanna, daughter ot John Wyatt. of Harlford, Conn., b. 1663; d. March
25, 1722; 2d, Jan. 2, 1723, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Beardsley)
Wells, and widow of Stephen Belding, of Hatfield, b. Sept. 8, 1664, and died in
Northfield March 15, i7=;i, aged eighty-seven.
Sunderland was originally a plantation bearing the name of Swampfield. It
was granted to inhabitants of Hadley, in May, 1673, and included within its limits
the town ot Leverett, the principal part of Montague, and a part of Wendell — set oflF
from Montague after its incorporation. The original limits extended north from
the mouth of Mohawk Brook, being the northwest corner of Hadley. to the mouth
of Little Brook, opposite the mouth of Deerfield river, and easterly "out into the
woods six miles from the Great river." Subsequently a grant, two miles in width,
was added at the east, called "the two-mile addition." A settlement was made
upon the territory soon after the grant, but King Philip's war broke it up, the
Indians burnt their buildings, and the clearings g^ew up with brush. It is said
that when the second settlement was made, a bass-wood tree, about one foot in
diameter, had g^own in the fire-place of one of the houses, that an appletree, set
out by the first settler, on the present home lot of Rufus Russell, was found large
and thrifty, and that the same tree has lived until within a few )-ears. Very little
information can be obtained in regard to this settlement of 1674. When the settlers
of just forty years afterward (1714) took possession, they found buildings in ruins,
and trees growing amongst them. There was originally a continuous settlement of
"weekwams" on what is called "the island," running north and south, and crossing
the east home lots, about halt the distance from the present street to the hill at
the east end ot those lots. He d. Feb. 15, 1736. Res. Sunderland, Mass.
218. i. MARY, b. July 18, 1684; m., April 25, 1706, Ebenezer Bardwell,
son of Sergt. Robert and Mary (Gull), b. 1679; res. Whatley; had
a grant of 500 acres ot land in the northwest part ot Montague.
Ebenezer Bardwell and Ebenezer Bardwell, Jr., were also in this
county. A muster roll of a company of Foot, in His Majesty's
service, under command of Capt. Salah Barnard, in a regiment
raised by the province ot Massachusetts Bay, for the reduction of
Canada, William Williams, Esq., colonel, 1758, Perez Bardwell
enlisted April 13th to November 5th, seven months and eleven
days, ^13 6s. 2d, p. 466. From "a. return of men enlisted for His
Majesty's service within the province of Massachusetts Bay, under
Col. Israel Williams, to be put under the command of His Excel-
lency, Jeffrey Amherst, Esq. For the invasion ot Canada."
Perez Bardwell enlisted April 6, 1759, aged twenty-two years; was
in the former expedition of 1755-57; was provided with the king's
arms. His brother, Samuel, was also in this company, and pro-
vided his own arms. Ensign John Wyatt; see Sheldon's Deer-
field, p. 182. Samuel Gillet killed in "Falls Fight" May 19, 1676.
Ebenezer, Sr., died July 13, 1732. Ch. : i. Lieutenant Ebenezer,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 119
b. Sept. lo, 1707; m. Elizabeth Gillet. Their son, Lieutenant
Perez Bardwell, married Tabitha Hastings. Lieutenant Perez
Bardwell, of Hatfield, Mass., pay roll of the company of His
Majesty's service, under command of William Shepard, captain,
1761; enlisted June 24th; served till Dec. 4, 1761, twenty-three
weeks and three days ; due him ^7 5s. 7d. ; vol. 99, p. 134. Muster
roll of the company in His Majesty's service under command of
Capt. Salah Barnard, enlisted March 5, 1760, and served as pri-
vate till October 5th, and promoted as corporal October 6th, and
served till Nov. 30, 1760; balance due him £13 14s. iid. ; vol. 99, p.
263. A billetting roll of Capt. Salah Barnard's company, in Col.
William Williams' regiment. Perez Bardwell enlisted April 13th;
no date; number of days, fifty-two; vol. 96, p. 110. A pay roll ot
a company under command of Capt. John Burke, Perez Bardwell
£1 7s. 7d. ; dated. May 11,1757; vol. 96, p. 40. Their son, Silas Bard-
well, m. Lorena Abbott. Their son, Daniel Abbott Bardwell, m.
Susie Jones. Their son, Daniel Jones Bardwell, m. Frances
Jenkins, and their son is Harry Jenkins Bardwell ; res. in Chicago.
Lieutenant Ebenezer Bardwell, Jr. of Hatfield, Mass. (grandson
of Robert B.). His name is found in the muster roll of the com-
pany in His Majesty's service, under command of Eph. Williams,
Jr., dated Dec. 19, 1747, Fort Massachusetts; actual service.
Corporal Ebenezer Bardwell, three weeks, £1 los. 8d. In a com-
pany of which Johna Ball was captain, John Church lieutenant,
Ebenezer Bardwell, Jr., appears as ensign, with his signature ap-
pended. Fort William Henry, Oct. 11, 1756. In a billetting roll, of
Capt. Salah Barnard's company, of Colonel Williams' regiment,
Ebenezer Bardwell, of Hatfield. April 13, 1757 or 1758, received the
king's allowance, June 3, 1757 or 1758 ; amount due him £\ 14s. 8d.,
days, fifty-two ; vol. 96, p. 40. His name appears with the rank of
second lieutenant in a muster roll of the company in His Majesty's
service under command of Capt. John Burke; enlisted March 21,
1759, to Nov. 30, 1759, thirty-five weeks, at £s per month, ;^43
15s. He received from the commissary £2 2s. 4d; balance
due him, ^^41 12s. 8d. He was lieutenant in Capt. Moses
Porter's company in the expedition to Crown Point, in
1756, and in Capt. Salah Barnard's company in the
expedition to Canada, in 1757-58.— French and Indian
War Records, Massachusetts. 2. Hannah, b. June 24, 1709. 3.
Joseph, b. 1711. 4. Lieutenant Remembrance, b. 1713; m. Har-
riet Dickinson. 5. Esther, b. 1715; d. soon. 6. Jonathan, b. Jan.
5, 1718; d. young. 7. Abigail, b. Oct. 14, i72i;m. Noah Wells.
8. Esther, b. Dec. 15, 1722; m. Daniel Morton, a son of Abra-
ham and Sarah (Kellogg) Morton, of Whately, Mass., their son,
Consider Morton, b. Oct. 12, 1762, in Whately, died April i, 1834;
married Nov. 5, 1786, Mercy Clark, a daughter of Elisha and Han-
nah (Hopkins) Clark, who was born April 24. 1762, and died Jan.
16, 1850. Their daughter, Hannah Morton, b. Sept. 10, 1797, d.
Aug. 30. 1875; m. Dec. 9, 1819, William Avery Howland, son of
John and Grace (Avery) Howland, who was b. May 17, 1794, d.
June 24, 1878. Their children born in Conway, Mass., were: 1.
Edward Howland, b. June 28, 1821; d. Aug. 24, 1863. ii. William
120 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Howland, b. Dec. 12, 1822; d. Dec. 23. 1880. iii. George How-
land, b. July 30, 1824; principal ot the Chicago Central High
School, 1860-1880; superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, 1880-
1890. iv. Henry Howland, b. March 29, 1827; d. May, 1883. v.
Allen Howland, b. Jan. 20, 1832; d. Jan. 13, 1857. vi. Eliza S.
Howland, b. Nov. 13, 1833; d. Aug. 30, 1836. vii. Francis How-
land, b. June II, 1836; d. April i, 1838. viii. Francis Howland,
b. Sept. 3, 1838. ix. Walter Morton Howland, b. July 22, 1840;
m., ist, July 2, 1873, Florence C. Reynolds; m., 2d, July 12, 1881,
Mida D. Warne; m., 3d, Anna Prettyman, April 11, 1893. Child
by second marriage: Florence Elizabeth Howland, b. May
28, 1883, in Chicago. Mr. Howland is governor of the Society of
Mayflower descendants in Illinois, also a trustee of Amherst Col-
lege.
William Howland was born Dec. 12, 1822, and died Dec. 23,
x88o. He was graduated at Amherst College in 1 846 ; was a pro-
fessor of Greek and Latin at Williston Seminary; instructor of
Greek, Latin and chemistry in Amherst College ; studied law, and
in 1852 moved to Lynn, Mass., where he was a leading citizen and
a prominent member of the bar until his death. George Howland
was born July 30, 1824; died Oct. 23, 1892. He was graduated at
Amherst College in 1850; was a tutor and instructor there from
1852 to 1857; principal of the Chicago High School from i860 to
1880, and superintendent of the Public Schools of Chicago from
1880 until 1891. He served two terms as master of Amherst Col-
lege ; elected by the alumni. He was elected president of the
Illinois State Board of Education in 1883. He was one of the best
superintendents of the public schools that Chicago ever had. The
principals of the public schools of Chicago soon after his decease
formed the George Howland Club, in honor of his memory, and
meet every month during the school year. Henry Howland was
born March 29, 1827, and died at Rochester, N. Y., in May, 1883.
He was a business man, a lumber dealer and lived at Chicago. He
was a quartermaster with the rank of colonel in the civil war.
Francis Howland was born Sept. 3, 1838. He is a farmer, and
owns and occupies the old Howland homestead at Conway, Mass.
Walter Morton Howland was born July 22, 1840. He fitted for
college in the Conway public schools, and at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass. He was graduated at Amherst College in
1863; studied law and is a well known and successful lawyer in
Chicago. Five years since he was elected by the alumni trustee
of Amherst College, which office he still holds.
219. ii. JOANNA, b. Dec. 9, 1686; d. Aug. 30, 1689.
220. iii. JOSEPH, b. June 9, 1689; m.' Mary Smith.
221. iv. DAUGHTER, b. March 15, 1691; d. April 19, 1691.
222. V. JOANNAH, b. Jan. 9, 1693; m., June 11, 1713, Capt. Thomas
French, of Deerfield. He was son of Thomas, b. 1689; was cap-
tured in 1704, and returned before 1707; he was probably brought
back by Ensign John Sheldon on his second trip; d. July 26, 1759.
Ch. : I. Mary, b. March 26, 171 9; m. James Rider. 2. Freedom,
b. March 2, 1721; d. Oct. 26, 1727. 3. Abigail, b. April 29, 1724:
d. Oct. 31, 1727. 4. Thomas, b. July 20, 1726; d. Oct. 25, 1727.
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224.
Vll.
225.
Vlll,
226.
ix.
227.
X.
228.
xi.
5. Freedom, b. April 22, 1730; m. Aaron Rice. 6. Thomas, b.
April 22, 1732; m. Miriam Billings. 7. Abigail, b. Oct. 22, 1735;
m. Joseph Catlin. 8. Joanna, b. May i, 1740; m. Moses Sever-
ence.
223. vi. LYDI A, b. June 26, 1695; m. 1724, John Bliss, of Springfield. Shed.
Feb. 29, 1760. He was son of Samuel and Sarah (Stebbins) Bliss,
and grandson ot Nathaniel and Catherine (Chapin) ; was b. Long-
meadow, Nov. 4, 1690; d. Oct. 8, 1784. Res. Springfield. Chil-
dren: 1. John, b. Feb. i, 1727; d. Nov. 3, 1809. 2. Aaron, b.
May 3, 1730; d. Feb. i, 1810.
JONATHAN, b. Oct. 13, 1697; m. Mary Billings and Esther Smith.
MARTHA, b. Oct. 19, 1699.
ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 4, 1702; d. Jan. 10, 1721.
ISRAEL, b. June 29, 1705; d. July 16, 1705.
THANKFUL, b. Sept. 19, 1707; d. Oct 11, 1707.
167. JOHN FIELD (John, William, John, Richard, William, William), b.
Providence, R. I., about 1645; m. there, Elizabeth Everden, dau. of Hon. Anthony;
also d. in Providence in 1687. She d. before 1698. He d. in 1698. Anthony Ever-
den was a freeman in 1670 ; was a member ot the town council 1667-72; deputy to
General Court, 1667-68-71-72-73.
In 1677 John moved to Bridgewater, Mass., from Providence, R. I., July 5, 1687;
he sold Samuel Comstock, of Providence, two acres of meadow there for £a, los,
and his wife, Elizabeth, conveyed her third also. May 3, 1695, he deeded (tor nat-
ural love and affection for his deceased brother, Zachariah) to four of his brothers'
children, viz., John, James, Daniel and Joseph, all lands in Providence, "which
did formerly belong to my honored father, John Field, of Providence, deceased"
— with certain exceptions of lots previously sold, etc. The land, however, was to
be for the use of Sarah Field, widow of Zachariah, during her widowhood, or till the
boys were twenty-one, at which time they were to have it equally, and they were
to provide their mother with a maintenance if she remained a widow after they
were of age. Dec. 28, 1696, he deeded John Guernsey, of Providence, for ^^20, a
tract of land, a mile east of Mashwenscut, containing sixty acres, and five acres of
meadow, bounded partly by land "formerly belonging to my father-in-law, Anthony
Everden, now deceased." He also sold a half purchase of commonage — all in
Providence, March 8, 1698: administration to eldest son, John; inventory ;^i67
19s. 8d. ; 4 oxen £'i.'2.\ 9 cows, ^18; 3 calves, 3 swine, arms, ammunition, spinning-
wheel, land ;^93 9s. lod.
Prov. Early records — B. 3, 102, swore allegiance to Charles II., in May, 1667. B. 2,
371. "Nephews, May 3, 1695. "For natural love and affection which I did bear to
my loving brother Zachary Field (deceased) and for divers causes and respects to his
wife and children To John, James, Daniel and Joseph Field and to widow Sarah
(during her widowhood) when they shall reach 21, &c. &c. land which belonged to
Father John Field of Providence. Not recorded until 1713-14 Feby. i. e. "all the
lands which belonged to his father John of Providence excepting those parcels here-
after mentioned ; which I the above John Field do reserve to me. All the land I
sold to Gideon Crawford, a piece of meadow bordering upon Oyster Point &c. and
%, right of commonage within the four mile line, and whole purchase right between
the four and seven mile line, and a half purchase right beyond the seven mile line,
all which lands are in Providence. And for all the lands which did belong to my
honored father John Field, I freely bequeath to my sister, Sarah Field during her
9
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122 FIELD GENEALOGY.
229.
1.
230.
n.
231.
iii.
232.
IV.
widowhood, or until my Kinsmen, John. James, Daniel and Joseph shall come to
the age of 21, then to be equally divided between them."
Austin says administration was granted March 8, i6q8, to eldest son, John.
Inventory, ^167 19s. 8d.
7656. John Field, of Bridgewater. His eldest son, John Field, was appointed
administrator March 8, 1697-98. No will and no other heirs mentioned.
7659. On the 17th day of April, 1699, John Hayward, Sr., and Nathaniel Brett,
ot Bridgewater, were appointed guardians of Ruth Field and Hannah Field, orphan
children of John Field, late of Bridgewater. On the same date, John Field is chosen
guardian to his brother, Daniel Field. (This information was taken from two bonds
written on the same paper. The parents of Daniel not given, but he is supposed
to be brother to Ruth and Hannah. — Plymouth county probate.)
I find in the land records of Providence, in book No. 2, a deed of gift from John
Field, of Bridgewater, Mass., to his four nephews, the children of his brother,
Zackrey, of certain lands formerly belonging to his honored father, John Field, of
Providence, dated 1695. It appears by the town records of Bridgewater that this
John Field settled in Bridgewater from Providence in 1677, and died in 169S. His
father resided in Providence in 1640. He d. in. 1698, res. Providence, R. I., and
Bridgewater, Mass.
JOHN, b. Feb. 20, 1671 ; m. Elizabeth Ames.
ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 17, 1673; m., Nov. 3, 1697, Clement Briggs,
of Easton.
RICHARD, b. May 17, 1677: m. Susanna Waldo.
LYDIA, b. Oct. 9, 1679; ™-' O^t. 2, 1701, Thomas Manley. See
history of Easton, Mass., published in 1886, by Rev. "William L.
Chafifin. Ch. : i. Priscilla Field Manley, m. 1732, Benjamin
Kinsley, of Swanzey, and Easton. 2. Martha Manley Kinsley,
b. March 21, 1737; m.. May 30, 1762, Seth Lothrop. 3. Alden
Lothrop, m. Mary Stevenson. 4. Sylvanus Lothrop, m. Eliza
Alden Stockton. Their daughter is Mary Lothrop Painter. Res.
212 Western avenue, Alleghany, Pa. Ruth Manly, daughter of
Thomas and Lydia (Field), married Josiah Keith, ot Bridgewater.
Their son, Isaac Keith, m. Mary Randall. Their son, Isaac Keith,
Jr., m. Joanna Pratt Besse. Their daughter, Parmelia Keith, m.
Col. Abraham Washburn, of Bridgewater. Their daughter, Lucia
Conant Washburn, m. William Jonathan Cutler, of Boston. Their
son, Edward Hutchins Cutler, ot St. Paul, m. Lucy Carter Dunbar.
Mr. Cutler is junior member of the firm of Noyes Bros. & Cutler,
importers and wholesale druggists, 396-408 Sibley street, St. Paul.
233. V. DANIEL, b, July 17, 1681; m. Sarah Ames.
234. vi. RUTH, b. Jan. 25, 1683; d. Nov. 22, 1723.
235. vii. HANNAH, b. ; m. Samuel Steere, son of John, of Providence,
b. ; d. Oct. 18, 1745. Ch. : (from Steere chart) ; see will of John,
elsewhere, i. Anthony, b. Dec. 14, 1716; d. Dec. 7, 1802. 2.
Jonah, b. January, 1720; d. April 14, 1798. 3. Jeremiah, b. Feb.
22, 1722; d. 1803. 4. Samuel, b. Nov. 12, 1731; d. Aug. 2, 1814.
5. Susannah, b. . 6. Urania, b. ; d. April 5, 1785. 7.
John, b. about 1729. Providence, B, 5, 23. Sept. 3, 1720, to Joseph
Mowry, land known as Ridghill Meadow; no wife. B. 5, 113. Dec.
8, 1721, to Brother John, fifteen acres, which John Steere, Sr., had
given to him. This deed was voided by a mortgage in book 6, p.
423. B. 6, 423. 1721, mortgage to John Steere, same as B. 5, 113. B.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 123
6, 425. Dec. 6, 1725, to Joseph Mowry, eighty-five acres of land;
wife Hannah. Steere chart, at Rhode Island Historical Society:
Urania m. William Coman. Anthony m. Rachel Comstock.
Jonah m. Lydia Whipple. Jeremiah m., ist, Burlingame; 2d,
Mary Thornton ; 3d, Mary Wade ; 4th, Jemima Lee. Memo. 1
think the Steere chart is mistaken that Susannah married
Coman; see will.
169. ZACHARIAH FIELD (John, William, John. Richard, William, William),
b. Providence, R. 1., about 1650; m. there Sarah Thornton. She d. April 14, 1716,
dau. ot John and Sarah. She m., 2d, John Gurney. In 1673 he was made a tree-
man; Aug. 14, 1676, he was ot those "who staid and went not away" in King
Philip's war and so had his share m the disposition ot the Indian captives whose
services were sold for a number of years; Sept. i, 1687, taxed 6s; 1687 ratable
estate ot himself and mother: horse, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 4 heifers, 30 sheep, hog,
8 acres of fence (of which 3 acres are planting land), 8 acres where the
house is (of which i acre is orchard, 2 acres worn out and 2 acres planting), 4
acres of meadow, a house lot in town, a little orchard and meadow. Oct. 31, 1688,
he and wife Sarah deeded land to John Mathewson. Sept. 12, 1693. his widow ap-
peared before the town council and desired settlement ot her husband's estate. She
presented inventory and administration was given her and John Thornton. Aug.
13, 1695, complaint was made by John Thornton and his father, John Thornton,
Sr., desiring council to take care of children of Zachery Field, that they may be
bound out to good places and educated. The council thereupon ordered the mother
to look up good places for three eldest boys. Sept. 17, 1695, the widow informed
the council that she had bound out her sons Zachariah and John to Nathaniel
Waterman, and James to Solomon Thornton. Feb. 4, 1696, her administration was
taken away from her and given solely to John Thornton, because she wasted the
estate and did not improve it as it ought to be, and had not appeared before
council and was "refractory in her actings." On the same date the council ordered
that Daniel Field be put out to Nicholas Sheldon till of age. March 31, 1714, will
proved. April 30, 1714, of his widow, then wife of John Gurney, and the latter
appeared and stated he was present when his deceased wife made her will, and that
he consented thereto. Executor was her son, Joseph Field. To her son, Zachariah,
she gave 5s, and to sons John, James and Daniel also 5s each. To her daughter
Sarah, all my brass, pewter, and iron vessels, bedding and other utensils for house-
keeping. To son Jo.seph, cattle, sheep, swine and working tools, "they being the
product of his care and dilligence" Inventory, ;i^6i 15s, viz., 2 cows, 4 heifers, 2
steers, 27 sheep, swine, auger and other tools and wearing, etc., apparel.
Early records, B. 2, 200. Swears allegiance to King Charles II., May 28, 1671.
Early Providence records, B. 5, 236. Jan. 17, 1678-79. From George Shepard
land between 4 and 7 miles lines.
B. 5, 237. Oct. 30, 1688. Zachary Field, by consent of wife Sarah, conveys same
property to John Mathewson.
Early records, vol. 8, p. 12. Aug. 6, 1676. List ot 27 "who staid and went not
away," includes Zachary Field.
B. 8, 100. Dec. 7, i68r. Town of Providence grant to Zachary Field a lot of 40
feet square above high water mark to build a wharf against his father's lot in the
town.
B. 10, 10. Sept. 12, 1693. Sarah Field, widow of Zachariah Field, who deceased
Aug. 12, 1693, presented inventory of her husband's estate. He d. Aug. 12, 1693.
Res. Providence, R. I.
124 FIELD GENEALOGY.
236. i. ZACHARIAH, b. Jan. 30, 1685; m. Abigail .
237. ii. JOHN, b. 1687; m. Hannah .
238. ill. JAMES, b. 1689; d. unm. about 1718, Providence; was probably
lost at sea and unmarried. B. 3, 17. Of William Crawford, March
26, 171 5, the homestead estate of his father, Zachariah, and his
grandfather, John. B, 4, 145. To William Crawford, March 26,
171 5, all outlying lands.
239. iv. DANIEL, b. Aug. 7, 1690; removed to White Plains, N. Y. Daniel
Field removed to White Plains, N. Y., before June 18, 17 19.
Removed to Dutchess county, New York, before Oct. 30, 1745.
Was a blacksmith at all places. B. 2, 458. From cousin, John
Field, of Bridgewater, Nov. 2, 1714 (B. 5, p. 9). 459. To William
Edmands, Oct. 17, 1715. B. 3, 17. To William Crawford, March
26, 1715; see James above (14). B. 4, 73. To William Crawford,
March 25, 1713. B. 7, 134. To brother Joseph Field (16), June
i8, 1719, interest in brother James; no wife named. B. 11, 314.
To brother Joseph Field (16), Oct. 30, 1745, interest in brother
James' estate; no wife. Early record, X, 35. Feb. 4, 1695-96,
apprenticed by town council to Nicholas Sheldon.
240. V. JOSEPH, b. 1693; m. Zerviah Carey.
241. vi. SARAH, b. ; d. unm.
171. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, William, John, Richard, William, William),
b. in England about 1648; m. in Providence, R. I., Martha Harris. She d. about
1 717; dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Austin).
Early records, B 3, loi; Thomas swore allegiance to King Charles II., June i,
1667. B. 3, 323; chosen treasurer of town of Providence June 3, 1672. B. 2, 11. To
Col.;;;Nathaniel Thomas, 1705. 143. To Ehza Smith, Oct. 10, 1709. 150. To John
Yates, Jr., Dec. 29, 1709, his son-in-law. 307. To John Yates, Jr., Aug. 2,1712.
338. To Benjamin Smith, June 7, 1714. 343. To Daniel Mathewson, May 5, 5, 1712.
353. From William Crawford, Aug. 12, 1714. 406. From William Crawford, Aug.
12, 1714. 390. To Elizer Arnold, Jan. 27, 1714-15. 406. To award of land, Nov. 21,
1685. 492. To Thomas, Jr. May 19, 1715. 519. To John Angell, April 27, 1716.
543. To John Yeates, 1714. B. 9, 403. To son William, Sept 11, 1708. Important.
Probate 2, 19, inventory, £s4 2s. 4d. Providence, 9, 403; Sept. 11, 1708. To
son William (4), his house and lot, bounded by land of Daniel Abbott and Gideon
Crawford, reserving room at his decease for his now wife Martha, during her
married life, also lands at Wanskuck and What Cheer, half a right of land and
meadow, west side of seven mile line, near Wanskuck, also his right in thatch
beds, all his right up the river Woonasquatucket, also his part of the Thatch Cove,
between Timothy Carpenter and Ponagansett for twelve years, after that one-
half part ot all my cattle and swine, in case my now wife Martha outlives me,
mother of my said William, said William shall pay her forty shillings annually.
This deed was not entered until 1738. Wills 2. 1717. Thomas inventory pre-
sented by son Thomas. Son Thomas appointed administrator.- See early records,
XII. p. 59. Early records, B. 4, p. 34. April 12, 1675, Thomas with others
protests in town meeting against vote denying right of Joshua Verin to sell land in
Providence. B. 4, 213. July 23, 1706. Thomas and Martha given by Elizabeth
Hoag, of Boston, her daughter (born April 4, 1703) to bring up. I presumed she
was the Elizabeth (5) who married John Yeats, but this cannot be as she (5) married
1708-9. B. 8, pp. II, 12, 1676. Aug. 14, 1676, at Thomas Field's by the water side
under a tree was held a town meeting. In list of twenty-seven "who staid and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 125
went not away" appears name of Thomas Field. He was chosen one of five to
dispose ot the Indians captured.
It is noticeable that he had grandsons, Anthony and Jeremiah Field, as did also
John Field, Jr. June 3, 1665, he gave receipt to his aunt, Deborah Field, tor
legacies which she, as executrix of his uncle, William Field's will, had paid him.
The will reterred to (dated May 31, 1665) gave to loving cousin (i. e. nephew),
Thomas Field, now at Providence with me, all that cargo that is now upon sending
to the Barbadoes, as also, all my horsekind (with certain exceptions), and four
heifers, rights of land at Aquidnesett and Pauchassett, and turs which I have in
my house. It was further provided that at death ot testator's wife, his nephew,
Thomas, should have the house and all the etc. (including Saxafrax Neck), thus
making him his heir, 1667-70-83-92-95-1706. Deputy, Feb. 20, 1671. He had twelve
acres laid out. 1673-74 assistant; 1674 town treasurer. Aug. 14, 1676, town meet-
ing was held, "before Thomas Field's house, under a tree, by the water side, "to
make disposition of Indian captives, whose services were sold for a term of years.
He had his share in the sale, as he was one of those "who said and went not away"
in King Philip's war. July i, 1679, taxed is gd. 1681-82-83-87-88-1 702-3-4, town
council. Nov. 27, 1682, in an agreement about the boundary lines between certain
parties, allusion is made to Thomas Field, as being nephew and heir to William
Field. Nov. 21, 1685, he had lands laid out to him, lo^ acres. Sept. i, 1687, taxed
13s. 7d. 1688, ratable estate, a bull, 11 cows, 2 oxen, 3 heifers, 3 two-year, 8 year-
ling, a horse, 6 swine, 6 acres Indian corn and English corn, 2 acres mowing pasture
in swamp, 10 acres pasture, 2 shares meadow, 80 acres wild pasture, 300 acres in
woods and rights. July 23, 1706, he and his wife, Martha, had given to them
Margaret Hoggs, the little daughter of Elizabeth Hoggs, for them to bring up,
instruct and dispose of as their own. (The mother of the child gave her to them.)
Sept. II, 1708, he deeded son William land, situated lying and being in Providence,
bounded north by land of Daniel Abbott, south by heirs of Gideon Crawford, east
with highway and west with town street, including dwelling house, etc., half at the
signing of deed and half at decease ot grantor, reserving a fire-room for use of
wife, if she live after me. He further deeded to son William two parcels of land,
one ot thirty acres, in place called Waller's Island, in place of Great Swamp, and
the other at place called What Cheer, also ot thirty acres, with reservation to
grantor ot privilege of timber, firewood and pasturing at What Cheer for life.
He further deeded him one-half right in lands and meadow, west side of seven mile
line, about 100 acres east of seven mile line, with other rights, etc. But in case my
now wife Martha, mother of said William, should outlive me, then William is to
pay her 40s annually for life. Dec. 29, 1709, he deeded son-in-law, John Yates, Jr.,
for well being and settlement, a lot on west side of town street, near my dwell-
ing, and three years later deeded him another lot. May 29, 1715, he deeded son,
Thomas, Jr., for love and affection, etc., all lands and meadows in place called
Pumgausett, adjoining land where he now dwelleth, half at signing of deed and
other half at decease of grantor (excepting what had before been disposed of to
son William), also two other lots of seventy-one acres and eighty acres, and cer-
tain rights. Nov. 29, 1717, administration to son and heir Thomas on his estate.
Inventory, ^54 2S. 4d., viz., a cow that "he brought with him." and 3 cows raised
by son Thomas, for his father's use, 2 steers, 2 heifers and 2 calves raised by son
Thomas, and 8 sheep and 3 lambs, raised by son Thomas, and an old Bible, warm-
ing pan, and old pewter, brass, wearing apparel, etc. Perhaps his daughter, Mary,
married John Dexter (Stephen, Gregory). He. d. Aug. 10, 1717, res. Provi-
dence, R. I.
126 FIELD GENEALOGY.
242. i. THOMAS, b. Jan. 3, 1670; m. Abigail Hopkins and Abigail Chaffee.
243. ii. MARY, b. June i, 1673; ™- John Dexter. He was b. 1673; d.
April 22, 1734; son of Stephen and Abigail (Whipple). She d.
June, 1727, and he m. 2d, Mary Mason, who d. s. p. Ch. : i. Naomi,
b. 1698. 2. Mary, b. 1699. 3. John, b. 1701 4. Stephen, b.
1703. 5. Jeremiah, b. 1705. 6. Sarah, b. 1707. 7. Lydia, b. 1709.
8. William, b. 1711. 9. Jonathan, b. 1713. 10. Abigail, b. 1715.
244. iii. AMOS, b. in 1677; d. young.
245. iv. WILLIAM, b. June 8, 16S2; m. Martha and Mary Mathewson.
246. V. MARTHA, b. ; m. Thomas Mathewson. He d. Oct. 23, 1735.
■ Res. Providence and Scituate, R. I. Ch. : i. Thomas. 2. Amos.
Dec. 2, 1707, he had a deed of four acres of land from William
Field, whom he calls brother-in-law, and who conveys the land
for good will and respect. Thomas Field, father of said William,
confirms the deed. His widow was administratrix of the estate.
Inventory, ;i^7i8 is. 4d.
Austin is my authority for this name (Martha). He savs she
married Thomas Mathewson, but he subsequently corrects this
and says that Mathewson married Martha Sheldon. I do not
know of any such Martha.
247. vi. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 27, 167 — ; m., Jan, 24, 1709, John Yeats, Jr.
He was son of John Yates, and died Nov. 28, 1724. Ch. : i.
John. 2. James, b. July 18, 1710; m., Jan. 6, 1733, bapt. at
Uxbridge, Mass. 3. Mary (see below) ; married at Providence,
June 9, 1 721, John Bird, of Newport.
B. 2, 150. From Thomas Field, Dec. 29, 1709. 543. From
Thomas Field, 1714, and Marcy Borden.
Council records: James Yeats chooses his uncle, Thomas Field
(3), to be his guardian.
Council records: June 4, 1733, voted that William Turpin shall
deliver what things is now remaining in his hands that was the
estate of John Yeats, deceased, unto Mary Boed, dau. of ye
said John Yates. (I think this name is Boyd.)
175. JEREMIAH FIELD (Joseph, Edward, William, John, John, William),
b. bap. Bradford, England, July 27, 1634; m. there Nov. 2, 1658, Judith Walker,
daughter of William, of Scoles, in the parish of BirstoU. Jeremiah Feild, named
in his father's will, bap. at Bradford July 27, 1634, of Hipperholme, 1660 to 1672,
afterwards of Chellow, buried at Bradford May 7, 1705.
The children of Jeremiah and Judith Feild are recorded as follows: Joseph
Feild, eldest son and heir, baptized at Halifax, March 10, 1660; sometime of Chel-
low, after of Shipley and Heaton. Will dated March i, 1728; codicil April 11, 1729;
proved July 6, 1733. Died without issue. Mary, baptized at Halifax, Jan. 11, 1662;
married at Bradford, May i, 1685, to Paul Greenwood. John Feild, of Chellow, in
Heaton, second son, married Grace, daughter of Timothy Rhodes, of Heaton, and
relict of Thomas Hodgson, of Little Heaton, in the parish of Bradford. Buried at
Bradford, Jan. 18, 1731, and his wife. Grace, Dec. 5, 1702. Sarah Feild, of Brad-
ford died unmarried. May 11, 1758, at a great age. Anne, baptized at Halifax,
May 8, 1671. Abigail, baptized at Halifax, March 16, 1672, married to George
Longbotham, of that town; living; a widow, March i, 1728. He d. 1705. Res.
Chellow, England.
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250.
111.
251.
IV.
252.
V.
248. i. JOSEPH; sometime of Chellow, after of Shipton and Heaton, eld-
est son and heir, baptized at Halifax, March 10, 1660; will dated
March i, 1728; codicil April 11, 1729; proved July 6, 1733; d. s. p.,
and the estate passed to his nephew John.
249. ii. MARY, bap. at Halifax, Jan. 11, 1662; m. at Bradford, May i, 1685,
Paul Greenwood, esq.
JOHN, b. ; m. Grace (Rhodes) Hodgson and Susan Binns.
ANNE, bap. Halifax, May 8, 1671.
ABIGAIL, bap. Halifax, March 16, 1672; m. George Longbotham,
esq., of Halifax, England. She was living a widow May i, 1728.
253. vi. SARAH, b. . Res. Bradford; d. unm. at a great age. May 11,
1758, and was buried there.
179. WILLIAM FEILDE (William, Edward, Edward, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas , Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Wakefield, Eng-
land, ; m. Sarah ; d. May 4, 1657. The following is entered in the
Wakefield Manor rolls in 161 2: "William Feilde, civic and Merchante tayler
de London & Sara ux. eius surrender vac, voc. Lowefeild (Wakefield) to
John Lyon of Wakefeild, gent, money to be paid at his house in the psh of
St. Faith, London." It does not follow that the calling of this William
was that of tailor, tor many who had no such occupation, joined this wealthy
guild for the valuable privileges conferred on its members. His will is recorded in
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at London. It is dated Jan. 28, 1621-22, and
was proved Feb. 13th following. He styles himself "Citizen and Merchant Taylor."
He leaves to four friends in trust "Ail my lands and tents in Hawmess and Chap-
well, Co. Beds." The personality to be divided between his wife, Sarah, and his
children. There are legacies as follows: To my wife Sarah 200 out of my lands at
Lambeth. To twenty poor people of this parish of St. Faith, each 20s. To my
brother John Chapman 20s. for a ring. To my brother Warner and my sister each
20S. To my mother 20s. He appoints his wife, Sarah, sole executrix. His widow
survived him for more than thirty years. Her will is dated July 30, 1653, and was
proved Nov. 10, 1657. She describes herself as "Sarah Field of St. Faith's under
St. Paul's widow, aged and weak," and directs her debts to be paid out of her leases
in St. Paul's church yard and Old Change. There are bequests to my grand-
daughter Mary, wife of Oliver Boteler of Harrold, Co. Bedford; to my son-in-law,
William Jetson and his wife Mary; to my son-in-law, Robert Thornton ; to Adam
Howes, and to her, the testator's daughters, Sarah Thornton and Elizabeth Howes.
She speaks of her eldest son Samuel, deceased; of her son James, and of her grand-
child William Feild. Her burial is thus recorded in the parish registers of St.
Faith's: "1657 May 4, Mrs. Feild out of St. John's, chancel." Meaning that she
was buried in this part of the church. The writer supposes that the words " out
of St. John's" mean that she was residing in that parish at the time of her death,
but that her husband was buried in the church of St. Faith's, and, as she wished to
lie beside him, was interred there. He d. Feb. 1621-22; res., London, England.
SARAH, b. ; m. Robert Thornton.
ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Adam Howes.
SAMUEL, b. ; m. .
JAMES, b. .
MARY, b. ; m. William Jetson.
180. ROBERT FIELD (Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christo-
pher, John, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Newtown, L. I., ;
m. Dec. 24, 1689, Mrs. Phcebe (Titus) Scudder. Robert Feild, of Newtown, grandson
254.
255-
11.
256.
111.
257.
IV.
253.
v.
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of the emigrant, married Phoebe, daughter of Edmond Titus, and widow of
Scudder. The register of the Society of Friends says, in an entry referring to
her father's death, that "his daughter Pheby Field, standing by him, he de-
parted this life in a quiet frame of spirit sensible to the last, the 7th 2nd mo.
1 71 5— aged 85."
Her marriage is entered as follows in the Friends' register: "Robert Field,
son of Robert Field of Newtown and Phebe Scudder of Westbury, 24th day ot 12th
mo. 1689, at the house of Edmond Titus of Westbury."
This Robert Field's will was dated the loth day of the loth month, 1734, and
proved April 16, 1735. He names in it his brother Elnathan's children, Robert,
Benjamin, Susannah, Phoebe and Mary; the daughters of his brother Nathaniel,
who are not named, and a daughter of his brother Ambrose, also not named. There
are bequests to his sister Susannah, wife of Peter Thorne, to Robert Field, and
wite Elizabeth, and "my cousin (i. e., nephew) Robert Field" is one of the execu-
tors. His widow, Phoebe, made her will the 12th day ot the nth month, 1742.
There are numerous legacies in it to relatives and friends, and among others to
the wite of Robert Field and her two daughters and two sons, Elnathanand Robert.
It is evident from their wills that Robert and Phoebe Field died childless. He d. in
1735; res., s. p., Newtown, L. I.
181. NATHANIEL FIELD (Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher. John John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Newtown,
L. I. ; m. July 9, 1701, Patience Bull of the Barbadoes or Bermudas. Nathaniel
Field, named in a deed of his father, dated Oct, 8, 1690, and in his brother Robert's
will. Nathaniel Field, brother of Robert, third of the name, and of Elnathan, m. the
9th day of the 5th month, 1701, Patience Bull, "formerly ot Bermudas." The
author can give no further account ot him, nor of his brother Ambrose, who was
one ot the witnesses of his marriage. As shown in their brother Robert's will,
Nathaniel had daughters and Ambrose a daughter in 1734. There may be de-
scendants living ot these two, and their brother Elnathan. Res., Newtown, L. I.
259. i. HE HAD several daughters mentioned in the will of their uncle
Robert.
182. ELNATHAN FIELD (Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher. John, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Newtown,
L. I., ; m. Elizabeth . Elnathan Field, named, in his father's deed
of Oct. 8, 1690, and in his brother Robert's will. His own dated July 12, 1735,
proved Feb. 7, 1754. Elizabeth, named in the record of the birth ot her three
eldest children, and in her husband's will. Elnathan Field, of Newtown, brother
of the last Robert, made his will July 12, 1735. He mentions in it his wife Eliza-
beth, his eldest son Robert, son Benjamin, and his daughters Susannah, Sackett,
and Phoebe and Mary Coe. The author supposes that he survived some time
after the date of it, as it was not proved until Feb. 7, 1754. An earlier entry
in the Friends' register records the birth of some of his children, the date of it
being uncertain. In all probability Elizabeth and Elnathan died before the wills
of their father and uncle Robert were made, and their brother Benjamin and sis-
ters were not born at the date of this entry in the register. Elnathan was elected
assessor Jan. 6, 1703; April i, 171 2; April 2, 1723; April 6, 1724, and April 5, 1748.
He was surveyor of highways in 1730. Was a Quaker in religion. He d. Jan. 3,
1754; res., Newtown, Long Island.
260. i. ROBERT, b. May 12, 1698; m. Elizabeth Hicks.
261. ii. BENJAMIN, b. ; named in the wills of his father and uncle
Robert.
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262.
111.
263.
iv.
264.
V.
265.
vi.
266.
vii,
ELIZABETH, b. June 24, 1696; m. John Sackett.
ELNATHAN, b. Nov. 19, 1700; prob. d. young.
SUSANNAH, b. ; m. John Sackett, late husband of her sister
Elizabeth; she was named in her father's and uncle's wills.
PHCEBE, b. ; m. John Coe, Jr., mentioned in the wills.
MARY, b. ; m. Robert Coe, mentioned in the wills. Children:
Phoebe m. 1727. John Hendrick, of Fairfield, Conn. ; their son
John, Jr., m. Eunice Bradley; their daughter Phcebe m. Jeremiah
Wakeman; their daughter Martha m. Hezekiah Wellman; their
daughter Phoebe Jane m. Napoleon Bonaparte Turner; their
daughter Mary Malvina m. i860 Jesse Sands, b. Birmingham,
England, 1838; he d. March, 1865; their daughter Clara Louise, b.
Feb. 17, 1862, res. unm. 66 Lincoln st., Meriden, Conn.
183. BENJAMIN FIELD (Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Newtown,
L. I. ; m. May 29, 1692, Experience Allen. Benjamin Field was born in Newtown,
L. L, and went to Shrewsbury, and later, about 1690, to Chesterfield, N. J. Tradi-
tion has it that he was accompanied by Peter Harvey and Lawrence Miller, and all
journeyed through the province with their families carrying their effects in a
wheelbarrow. This may have been true of the others, but not of Mr. Field, for he
was not married until 1692. They all settled close together near the site of the
present city of Bordentown. Field was possessed ot some means, was a good busi-
ness man and was much respected and esteemed by the Friends. In 1697-98 he was
appointed with Francis Davenport to contract with the builders for the building ot
a stable at the Crosswick's Meeting House. He was frequently appointed on other
business committees. Res., Flushing, L. I., and Shrewsbury and Chesterfield,
ROBERT, b. June 6, 1694; m. Mary Taylor.
AMBROSE, b. ; m., 1705, Susannah Decow.
SUSANNA, b. ; m. in 1712, Benjamin Firman of Philadelphia,
THE FIELDS OF NEW JERSEY.
[Osgood Field, Esq., of London.]
Although it has been supposed that the Fields of New Jersey, or rather that
some branches of them, are descended from the Flushing family, as far as the
writer is aware no positive proof of this has hitherto been forthcoming. Several
circumstances have been known tending to show an early connection between the
Long Island Fields and that State, but they do not afford the evidence of this rela-
tionship which the genealogist should require. Savage says in his Dictionary that
Robert Field, of Newtown, a patentee of Flushing in 1645, had a son, John, who
removed to Boundbrook, N. J. 1 do not know on what authority this statement is
made. In it the writer confuses the emigrant with his son Robert of Newtown, while
the John referred to was probably the son of Anthony and grandson of the first
settler. Accuracy cannot always be expected in a work of so extensive a character;
however, that portion of the notice which is more intimately connected with
the subject of this article, is partly confirmed by the record at Albany of a grant
by Gov. Andros to John Field of a patent for land on Delaware Bay, called
"Field's Hope." The date does not appear, but it must have been between 1674
and 1681, the extent of Andros' term. I may add that the latest notices I find of
John Field at Flushing are in the valuation of estates there in 1683, and the patent of
N.J.
267.
i.
268.
ii.
269.
iii.
Pa.
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1685. His name does not appear among the witnesses to marriages there in the
family commencing in 1689; nor is he mentioned in the list of the inhabitants of
the town in i6g8. It is not improbable that he removed to New Jersej^ before these
dates, and he may be the same individual as the one named in the family record of
an old Bible, noticed in the Register for April, 1S68, who had a son born m 1698.
Among the papers preserved at the old Bowne house in Flushing, are tdree
letters from B. Field to Samuel Bowne of that town, dated at Chesterfield, N. J.,
respectively 1700, 1701 and 1702, relating to purchases of land at Salem and else-
where in that neighborhood, in which they both were interested. The writer's
Christian name was doubtless Benjamin, as I know of no other members of the
family, then living, with the same initials. One of them commences, dear friend,"
and before the signatures of all are the words "thy friend," from which I infer that
they were not written by Benjamin Field, the son of Anthony, who married Samuel
Bowne's sister Hannah, as other expressions would probably have been used in
addressing one so nearly connected with the writer. We may suppose that Bowne's
correspondent was residing at Chesterfield from the fact of all these being written
there at considerable intervals of time, and also because it appears from one that
the writer's wife was with him, and we know that the Benjamin spoken of remained
at Flushing and died there m 1732. There were two other members of the Long
Island Fields of the same name, who attained their majority before 1700 — one the
son of the emigrant who is named in the Flushing patent of 1665-66, and the other a
grandson of Robert of Newtown.
The first of these Benjamins must have been nearly 60 years of age at the date
of these letters, and they are apparently written by a younger man. In the one
dated 26th, 5th month, 1701, the writer says, "remember duty to my mother." The
emigrant left a widow. Charity,* who was living in 1672-3, but who probably died
long before 1701 ; while we know that his son Robert's widow was then living, as it
is stated in the marriage record of his son JNathaniel that it took place "9th day,
5th month, 1701," "at the house of his mother Susannah ffield, widdow."
For these reasons 1 am disposed to ascribe the authorship of these letters to
Benjamin, son of Robert Field of Newtown, to whom his father deeded land there in
1690, and who probably removed to New Jersey between that date and 1700. It is
pleasant to turn from the uncertain inferences derived from the foregoing state-
ments to a piece of undoubted evidence.
The New Jersey family, of which the late Hon. Richard Stockton Field was a
distinguished member, have had in their possession tor generations an old triangu-
lar seal of steel, or iron, believed by them to have belonged originally to Robert
Field, the emigrant. It has on one side the initials R. F., on another a shield with
a chevron between three garbs, which are the arms ot the Fields of Yorkshire and
Flushing, and on the third the crest granted to a member ot the family in 1558; an
arm, issuing from clouds, supporting a sphere. The possession of this relic by the
family induced me to apply to Judge Field's daughter for any information she
might have of their ancestry, and I am indebted to this lady tor the following copy
of entries in their old family Bible, which in connection with what is stated below,
conclusively prove their descent from the Flushing Fields:
"Robert, Field, son to Benjamin and Experience Allen, was b. Jan., 6, 1694.
"Mary Field, daughter to Samuel and Susanna Taylor, was b. March 31,
1700.
"Robert Field, son to the above Robert and Mary Field, was b. May 9, 1723.
Susannah Field, daughter to Robert and Mary Field, was b. Oct. 25, 1725.
* She describes herself as "widow" in a document she signed Feb. 12, 1672-3, disclaiming
any right to "my sone Anthony field's Lott."
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"Mary Field, daughter to Robert and Mary, was b. Feb. 21, 1730.
"Samuel Field, son to the above Robert and Mary, was b. Feb., 1736.
"(Two other children, names torn off.)
"Robert Field, son to Robert and Mary, 'm. Mary, daughter of Oswald and
Lydia Pease. Children ot the above: Lydia, b. Oct. 10, 1766; Mary, b. Oct. 10,
1767; Robert, b. July 10, 1769; Grace, b. Oct. 10, 1770; Susan, b. April 20, 1772;
Samuel, b. July 14, 1773; Robert, b. April 5, 1775 "
All the children ot Robert and Mary Pease died in infancy, except the last
named, Robert, who married in 1797, Abby, daughter of Richard Stockton, and
died in iSio, leaving five children, the fourth of whom was the Hon. R. S. Field.
Among my extracts from the old records ot the Society ot Friends at Flushing, I
find the following: "Benjamin Field and Experience Allen declared intentions of
marriage, 29th, 6lh month, 1C92." Probably the marriage took place elsewhere, as
I found no record ot it m the Flushing registers. This Benjamin, who is now
shown to be the ancestor of a New Jersey famil\% could not have been Anthony's
son, whose wife Hannah Bowne was married to him in 1691, and survived till 1707,
There were two other members of the family of the name on Long Island at an
early date, as already stated, I do not think that this one was the emigrant's son,
who was at least 48 years ot age in 1692, and probably several years older, as his
brothers Robert* and Anthony had attained their majority in 1653, when their father
conveyed land to them. Apparently, he was dead, or had left the neighborhood some
little time before this marriage, for according to the Flushing records, two and only
two ot the name witnessed the marriage of Robert Field., Jr., of Newtown, in 1689,
and ot Samuel Titus, t a near connection, in 1691, and the signature of but one is
appended to the entry ot that of Benjamin Field and Hannah Bowne in the last
named year.
As neither styles himself senior or junior, I infer that they were about the same
age, and therefore, the two cousins who were grandsons of the emigrant, both ot
whom are known to have been residing on Long Island about this time. For a
generation after these dates only one Benjamin signs these records. The conclu-
sions I derived from all these facts are that Benjamin Field, | son of Robert of New-
town, was tae husband of Experience Allen, and the writer of these letters, and that
he removed to New Jersey shortly after his marriage, where he left descendants, as
the old Bible clearly shows.
183^. AMBROSE FIELD (Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. Newtown,
L. I. ; m. , . He was named in his father's deed in 1690; had a daughter
who was referred to in her uncle Robert's will, but name not given. Res., New-
town, L. I.
185. BENJAMIN FIELD (Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I. ; m. Nov. 30, 1691, Hannah Bowne of Flush-
* At the old Bowne house in Flushing is an official copy by John Clements, the town clerk,
of a deed of land there by Robert Field to his sons Robert and Anthony, dated Feb. 12, 1653.
The Register for July, 1864, contained a notice of a pamphlet by the Rev. Henry M. Field, giv-
ing an account of the family, which, in the number for April, 1868, was shown to be erroneous.
It is stated in this pamphlet that the brothers Robert and Anthony were born respectively in
1636 and 1638. This deed, whose existence has been known to me only recently, proves that the
dates of births signed therein to the emigrant's sons are at least six years too late.
t Samuel Titus, born in 1658, was a son of Edmund and brother of Phebe, the wife of Rob-
ert Field, Jr., of Newtown.
t His sister Susannah and "Isaac Merrit of Burlington in West Jersey," declared inten-
tions of marriage in 1699.
132 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ing, b. April 2, 1665; d. Dec. 30, 1707; m., 2d, Feb. 23, 1709, Elizabeth Peaks of
Matinecock; d. 1724. Benjamin Field of Flushing, youngest son in 1690, d. in
Flushing, Dec. i, 1732, described in record as "an ancient friend." His thini wife,
whom he m. at Flushing, April 13, 1727, was Sarah Taylor, widow. Her will,
dated Nov. 26, 1732, proved March 20, 1734, leaves her property to her grandsons
Doughty and March.
Among other papers preserved at the old Bowne house is the draft of the fol-
lowing letter from Hannah Bowne to her parents. It bears no date, but was no
doubt written in 1690, for in that year her father lost his second wife, Hannah Bick-
erstaffe, and did not marry his third, Mary Cock, till 1693: "And dear father and
mother, I may also acquaint you that one Benjamin Field, the youngest son of my
friend Susannah Field, has tenderd his love to me — the question he has indeed pro-
posed as concerning marriage the which as yet I have not at present rejected nor
given much way to, nor do I intend to proceed nor let out my affection too much
towards him till I have well considered the thing and have yours and friends' ad-
vice and consent concerning it."
The writer of this letter was Hannah, daughter of John Bowne, and his first
wife Hannah, daughter of Robert Feaks, or Feeks, as it was sometimes spelt. This
Feaks married Elizabeth Fones, granddaughter of Adam Winthrop of Groton, and
widow of her cousin Henry, son of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts.
Hannah Bowne was born in 1665, according to the Friends' register, and her mar-
riage entry in it occurs the year after the supposed date of her letter. It reads:
"Benj. Field, son of Anthony Field of Long Island, deceased, and Hannah Bowne,
daughter of John Bowne of Long Island, aforesaid married 30th, gth, 1691, at John
Bowne's in Flushing."
At the old Bowne house is a deed of land by Benjamin Field to Samuel Bowne,
dated 9th, 12th month, 1696-97. In a list of the inhabitants of Flushing in 1698 is the
following: "Benj. Feild and Hannah his wife, children Benj., John, Anthony, and
Sam'l, negroes Jo and Betty."
At the same mansion two or three letters are preserved, dated at Chesterfield
in 1700 and 1701, signed B. Field, and addressed to Samuel Bowne. They relate to
purchases of land in that neighborhood, in which they were both interested. One
of them speaks of "another purchase of land to the quantity of 1,000 to 1,500 acres,"
which "lyes above the falls of Delaware, about 10 or 11 miles from Salem."
This Samuel Bowne was son of John and Hannah, and born in 1667. It has been
stated that there were three Benjamin Fields living at the date of these letters; but
they were doubtless written by the son of Anthony, who was the brother-in-law of
the person to whom they were addressed. One of them commences, "Dear and
loving friend and kinsman Samuel Bowne."
The following is in the register of the Flushing Friends: "Children of Benja-
min and Hannah Field: Benjamin, born 5th day, i2th month, 1692; John, born 13th
day, nth month, 1694; Samuel, born loth day, 8th month, 1696; Anthony, born
28th day, 5th month, 1698; Hannah, born 20th day, 5th month, 1700; Joseph, born
I2th day, 4th month, 1702; Sarah, born 17th day, 6th month, 1704; Robert, born 7th
day, 7th month, 1707."
Hannah Field died shortly after the birth of the last child, as shown by this
entry: "Hannah Field, wife of Benjamin Field, of Flushing, died 30th day, loth
mo., 1707." Her husband married again a lady who must have been a near relative
of his first wife and her mother. This marriage is thus entered in the register:
"Benjamin Field and Elizabeth Feaks, daughter of John Feaks, of Matinecock,
married the 3rd day of 12th mo., 1709-10, at Jericho." Her death is recorded as fol-
lows: "Elizabeth Field, wife of Benjamin Field of Flushing, died 1724-" As far as
FIELD GENEALOGY. 133
271.
11.
272.
iii.
273-
IV.
274.
V.
275.
VI.
276.
vii.
the writer can learn, she left no children, nor does he know the date of her hus-
band's death.
Robert Feake was at Watertown, Mass., as early as 1630 and represenied that
town in the Massachusetts Court of Deputies many years. He came to Flushing in
1650, and died in 1668 at an advanced age. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Fones, of London, and Anne, his wife, who was daughter of Adam Winthrop, of
Groton, Suffolk, and sister of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts
colony.
Elizabeth Fones was first married to her cousin Henry Winthrop, son of the
governor, who was drowned at Salem about a year after. A little later she became
the wife of Robert Feake, by whom she had a daughter, Hannah, who married John
Bowne, of Flushing, and another, Elizabeth, the second wife of Captain John Un-
derbill. Robert Feake survived his wife Elizabeth, and married again ; for admin-
istration on his estate was granted to his widow, Sarah, the igth June, 1669. Mount
Feake, at Waltham, was named after this Robert.
He res. in Flushing, L. I.
270. i. BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 5, 1692-93, in Friends* Records, of Flushing;
m. Feb. 13, 1727, at Flushing, Sarah Tayler.
JOHN, b. Jan. 13, 1694; m. Elizabeth Woolsey.
SAMUEL, b. Oct. 10, 1696; m. Mary Palmer.
ANTHONY, b. July 28, 1698; m. Hannah Burling.
JOSEPH, b. June 12, 1702; m. Molly Denton.
ROBERT, b. Sept. 7, 1707; m. Rebecca Burling and Abigail Sutton.
HANNAH, b. July 20, 1700; m. March 9, 1721, Thomas Haviland;
shed. Nov. 21, 1721; res.. Flushing.
"This is to certify ye truth to all people that Thos. Haviland,
son of Benjamin Haviland, of Rye, in the county of Westchester,
and Hannah Field, daughter of Benjamin Field" (Flushing),
"Queens County, on Long Island, both in the province of New
York. Haveing intentions of marrage eatch with other did pro-
pose the same, at the men and women's meeting ot the people.
Comonly cald Quakers, in Flushing afores'd. The said meeting
appoynted persons to enquire whether they were clear from all
others on account ot Marrage, and bring report accordingly to the
next monthly meeting wher the persons above mentioned were
desired to come for their answer. And at their second coming
before said meetings, enquiry being made, and nothing appearing
to ninder their proceeding, they having consent of parents, the
meeting left them to their liberty to accomplish their marrage, ac-
cording to the good order used amongst the friends ot truth.
"And accordingly on this ninth day of the ist m. 1721, At a
meeting at the meeting-house in Flushing aforesaid the said
Thomas Haviland and Hannah Field tooke eatch other by ye
hand standing up in ye said Asembly did solemnly declare ye they
took eatch other for husDand and wife promising by the lord's as-
sistance to be true and loving husband and wife to eatch other till
death shall separate them.
"And for farther confirmation, they have hereunto sett both
their hands ye day and year above written.
"She assuming ye name of hei husband according to the custom
of marrage. "Thomas Haviland.
"Hannah Haviland.
134 FIELD GENEALOGY.
"And we whose names are underwritten are witnesses:
"J. Rodman, John Ryder, Wm. Burling, Hugh Cowperthwaite,
Obediah Laurence, Eliakira Hedges, Cornelius Van Wyck. James
Clement, Jr., Wm. Philips, Wm. Haigat, Henry Rodman, John
Field, Elizabeth Field, Anthony Field, Joseph Thorn, Thomas
Thorn, Samuel Thorn, Mary Rodman, Jane Clement, Benjamin
Field, Samuel Bowne, Sarah F'eild, Martha Thome, Susanna
Hedger, Hannah Field, Grace Cowperthwaite, Phebe Van Wick.
"Thomas and Hannah Havilaud's Marriage Certificate, 1721."
277. viii. SARAH, b. Aug. 17, 1704; m. James Clements; she d. 1724.
186. JOHN FIELD (Anthony, Robert. William, Christopher, John, Christo-
pher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., May 15, 1659; ™- Margaret ; shed, before 1729.
John Field was at Flushing at an early period. There is a person of this name
among those who took the oath of allegiance in a list without date, and with no
place named. As the province ot New York was definitely ceded by the Dutch to
the English in 1674, I ^o i^ot think that it could have been later. There is also
among the Albany records an entry referring to a tract of land granted by Gov-
ernor Andros to John Field. No date is mentioned, but it must have been between
1674 and 1681, which years embrace Andros' tenure of this office. The record com-
mences: "Whereas there is a certain parcel of land, which by my order hath been
laid out for John Field, called by the name of Field's Hope, situated in a creek
called Maspillan Creek, and on the east side of said creek, and on the west side of
Delaware Bay, etc., etc., etc." In the valuation of estates at Flushing in 1683, John
Field had "5 acres, 2 cowes, and 4 swine." He is named in the patent confirma-
tion of this town in 16S5. The records of the Society of Friends at Flushing are
pretty complete from about this date, and there are the names of a number of wit-
nesses to every later marriage ot a member of the family, but his does not appear
among them. The author infers from this that he either died, or lett the neighbor-
hood, in or shortly after 1685. In the latter case he may have been the grantee of
"Field's Hope," and removed there.
The American Bible Society possesses an old Bible presented to it by the Hon.
Peter D. Vroom, of Trenton, N. J., which has the following:
"Jeremiah Feild, the son of John Field and Margaret his wife, was born May
17th, 1689."
On Dec. 14, 1695, John Field, of Flushing, purchased ten hundred and fifty-five
acres of land fronting the Raritan river below Bound Brook, N. J, He purchased
his Raritan lands from Benjamin Clarke. The deed is recorded in Book G. of
Deeds, folios 188-189-190-191, Trenton, N. J. This land is still in possession of
some of his descendants. He was commissioned a justice of the peace, Feb. 14,
1 710, for the counties of Middlesex and Somerset, N. J.
In The Name of God Amen.
I John Field of the Township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex and
Province of East New Jersey Gent, Being Sick and weak in Body but of Perfect
mind and memory, thanks be therefore given to Almighty God, do make and ordain
this my Last will and testament in manner and form following . . .
Imprs. I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Cre-
ator, Trusting to be saved only by and through the alone merits of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ; and my body I commit to the earth whence it was taken to
be Decently Interred at the Discretion of my executor hereafter named ; and as for
those worldly goods which God in his mercy has been pleased to bestow upon me I
FIELD GENEALOGY. 135
give, devise, bestow and bequeath the same in manner and form following,
viz. —
Item. I give devise and bequeath unto my youngest Daughter Charity Field the
sum of one hundred pounds current money of this Province to be paid unto her my
said daughter by my Executor within five years next after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Breece the sum of sixty
pounds current money of this Province to be paid unto my said daughter Hannah
within four years next after my decease by my Executor.
Item. All the rest, residue and remainder of my Estate both real and personal
I devise and bequeath unto my son Jeremiah Field whom I do hereby nominate,
constitute and appoint full and ;sole executor of this my last will and Testament ;
utterly Revoking, Disannulling, Annihilating and Disalowiug all former and other
Wills, Testaments, Executors, Legacies and Bequests whatsoever by me heretofore
made ordained or given by writing or any other way; howsoever. Ratifying'
confirming and allowing this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament.
In Witness Whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day
of March in the Eleventh Vear of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the
grace ot God, of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith,
&c. Anno. Dom. one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four or five.
John Field. [L. S.]
Then follows names of witnesses, etc., with usual acknowledgments as to sig-
nature.
On July 22, 1729, this will was admitted to probate by M. Kearney, surrogate.
This will is recorded in Liber B, folio 126, of&ce of Secretary ot State, Trenton,
N. J. He d. in 1729; res., Bound Brook, N. J.
278. i. JEREMIAH, b. May 17, 1689; m. Mary Van Vieghten.
279. ii. HANJNAH, b. ; m. Hendrick Brees.
280. iii. CHARITY, b. ; mentioned in his will.
187. THOMAS FIELD (Benjamin, Robert, William, Christopher, John, Chris-
topher, John), b, about 1674; m. Hannah , b. 1680; d. Feb. 2, 1761. Thomas
Field, who was named among the inhabitants of Flushing in 1698, and was then
single, had i:isue according to the Friends' register. The marriages ot some of
these children are entered in the Flushing registers, viz: On the loth of the 12th
month, 1725-6, Nathan Field, "son of Thomas and Hannah Field of Flushing," and
Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of James and Rebecca Jackson, were married.
"John Clarke and Sarah Field, daujihter of Thomas of Fkshing were married 3d
day of 2d mo. 1735." "Joseph Field, son of Thomas and Hannah and Mary Rod-
man, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, married the i6th of 6th mo. 1750." The
last couple had a son, Rodman Field, born on the 2d day of 8th mo. 1751. The
mother, Mary Field, died 23d of same month, "aged about 22." The death of the
father of these children is entered in the registers as follows: 'Thomas Field de-
ceased the 3rd day of ist mo. 1761, aged about 87." This would make the date of
his birth about 1674. His wife's death is recorded immediately after, this: "Han-
nah Field, his widow, died the 2d day of 2d mo. 1761, aged about 81. They
had been married and lived together near sixty years."
The author has already stated that he is unable to say who was the father of
this Thomas. The most plausible suggestion he can offer is, that he was son of
Benjamin Field, the son of the emigrant who was appointed ensign tor Flushing
in 1665, and by a first wife. It is pretty evident from the will ot his widow Sarah,
that she left no child ; but she may have been the second wife, and perhaps her
husband had issue by a previous one.
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281.
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282.
ii.
283.
iii.
284.
iv.
285.
V.
286.
vi.
287.
vii.
288.
viii.
289.
ix.
290.
1.
291.
11.
292.
111.
293.
IV.
294.
V.
He d. Jan. 3, 1761; res., Flushing, L. I.
WILLIAM, b. Oct. 22, 1 701; d. March 4. 1759.
NATHAN, b. Sept. 30, 1703; m. Elizabeth Jackson.
CALEB, b. Nov. 5, 1705; m. Anne Rodman.
JACOB, b. May 23, 1708.
MARY, b. Oct. 30, 1710.
SARAH, b. July 6, 1712; m. Feb. 3, 1735, John Clarke of Flushing.
HANNAH, b. May 27, 1715.
THOMAS b. Sept. 28, 1719; d. Oct. 9, 1748.
JOSEPH, b. Feb. 29, 1722; m. Mary Rodman.
195. THOMAS FIELD (Henry, John. John, John, Richard, William, William,
Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockemhoe, Hertfordshire, England,
about 1650; m. Sibella Hobbs. He d. about 1695; res., Cockemhoe, England.
THOMAS, b. about 1691 ; m. M. Rudd.
JOHN, b. Nov. 15, 1683; m. E. Waters.
NATHANIEL, b. Nov. 9, 1685; m. E. Southgate.
ISAAC, b. July 29, 1687; m. M. Gartick.
WILLIAM, b. April 22, 1691 ; m. E. Stackhouse.
. ^ ^ .-.197. SERGT. EBENEZER FIELD (Zechariah. Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Northampton, Mass., Oct. 31, 1671; m. Jan. 14, 1697,
Mary Dudley, b. May 16, 1678. Shem., 2d, Timothy Alcott, of Bolton, Conn.; d.
April 20, 1740. Ebenezer Field, son of Zechariah and Sarah (Webb), b. in Northamp-
ton, Mass., Oct. 31, 1671. He came to Deerfield with his father; in 1696 he removed
to East Guilford, Conn., now Madison, where he d. May 17,1713. He was a sergeant,
and had charge and command of a few men on the Sound for the protection of the
settlements. He m. Jan. 14, 1697, by Andrew Leet, a member of the Governor's
Council, Mary Deadly, or Dudley, as the name is now spelled, b. May 16, 1678.
She m., 2d, 1722, Timothy Alcott, of Bolton, Conn., where she d. April 20, 1740.
Ebenezer, whose good old Scriptural name signifies, "Thus far hath the Lord
helped us," resided in Madison, Conn. Here he and those that came after him
abode for more than one hundred years. In the old burying ground where
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep,
may be seen side by side three low head-stones which mark the heads ot three
generations. He d. May 17, 1713; res. East Guilford, Conn.
SAMUEL, b. Jan. 12, 1704; m. Bethiah Johnson.
DAVID, b. Dec. 2, 1697; m. Anna Bishop, Catherine Bishop and
Mrs. Abigail Tyler Strong.
MARY, b. Nov. 16, 1699.
EBENEZER, b. 1706; m. Hannah Evarts. Margaret Evarts, Debo-
rah Hall and Hannah Mills.
ZECHARIAH, b. 1708; m. Prudence Graves and Anna Seward.
JOAREB, b. March 2, 1711; m. Abigail Bradley.
ANN, b. March 22, 1713; m. Aug. 31, 1752, Elisha White of Hat-
field and Bolton, Conn.
301 >^. viii. GREGORY, b. ; found drowned in Shoatacket river. Conn.,
April 29, 1710.
199. JOHN FIELD (Zechariah. Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Dec. 8, 1673; m. Nov. 9, 1696, Mary Bennett, daughter ot James of
Northampton. John Field, son of Zechariah and Sarah (Webb), b. in Deerfield,
Mass. His was one of the unfortunate families that was broken up at the destruc-
295.
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296.
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ii.
298.
IV.
299.
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tion and massacre of the inhabitants of Deerfield by the French and Indians un-
der Hertel De Rouville, Feb. 29, 1704. where many of the inhabitants were slain
and others carried into captivity to Canada. He was one of that heroic band who
attacked the retreating enemy without success in the meadow. He m. Mary,
daughter of James and Mary (Broughton) Bennett, of Northampton and North-
field. She was one of the captives taken to Canada, but was ransomed and returned
the next year with her son John. He removed about 1710 to East Guilford, Conn.,
from there to Coventry or Stafford, Conn., where he' d. in 1718.
John Field of Northampton and wife Mary and Elizabeth Hurd of Boston, sur-
viving heirs of Francis Bennet, convey lands in Boston, Sept. 15, 1697, to John
Clarke.
In the wills and distribution of estates in the Hartford probate office is the will
of John Field, of Coventry, Conn. ; wife Mary, son John, other children mentioned^
but no names given; deceased before March 6, 171 7- 18; was proven at that date.
Witness, Joseph Meacham, Samuel Barker.
He d. Coventry, Conn., Feb., 1718; res. Deerfield, Mass., East Guilford, and
Stafford. Conn.
302. i. MARY, b. 1697. She was captured with her mother and taken
captive to Canada and adopted into an Indian family, who gave
her the name of "Walahowey." She m. an Indian chief and came
with him to visit her relations in Connecticut, and sent to North-
field for her brother Pedajah. Her friends made every effort to
have them both remain, and Pedajah urged them to come to
Northfield and live with him. Her husband was willing, but Mary
was not, as she had become so firmly attached to her Indian mode
of life that she could not be persuaded to stay among her friends.
She told her brother Pedajah that he should be captured and
taken to Canada, and he firmly believed the attempt was made
one day while he was mowing in a little meadow ; which was only
frustrated by his taking the alarm and crossing the river to
Pachang, where other men were at work. He used every precau-
tion to prevent a surprise, but was not molested afterwards. It
seems strange that persons can be so infatuated with such a mode
of life. It is not know whether she had any children. Nothing
more is known of Mary or her husband.
303. ii. JOHN, b. Oct. 4, 1700, was captured by the Indians; returned and
m. Anna .
SARAH, b. April 14, 1703; killed by Indians Feb. 29, 1704.
PEDAJAH, b. Jan. 28, 1707; m. Hannah and Abigail Pettee.
BENNETT, b. Dec. 13, 1709; m. Elizabeth Spaflford.
SARAH, b. July 20, 1712.
200. JOHN FIELD (John, Zechariah, John. John, Richard, William, Wil-
I'am), b. Hatfield, Mass., May 11, 1672; rn. i6g8, Sarah Coleman, b. Feb. 15, 1673,
daughter of John and Hannah (Porter); d. Jan. 8, 1759. John Field, son of John
and Mary (Edwards), born in Northampton, Mass. He settled in Hatfield, where
he died. He was one of the two constables appointed by the governor and council
in 1708. A soldier in the Indian wars. He married Sarah, daughter of John and
Hannah (Porter) Coleman, of Hatfield. Mrs. Field was one of the captives of
Ashpelon's raid, Sept. 19, 1677. She was redeemed by Wait and Jennings in 1678.
A shoe, worn by her on the homeward march from Canada, in 1678, is among the
treasures in the Deerfield Memorial Hall. He d. May 28, 1747. Res. Hatfield, Mass.
10
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306.
v.
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308. i. JOHN, b. Sept. 14, 1700; m. Editha Dickinson and Ann Bagg.
309. ii. SARAH, b. May 14. 1702; m. Dec. i, 1725, Joshua Belding; m., 2d,
1741, Thomas Noble, of Westfield. She d. Aug. 17, 1763.
310. iii. HANNAH, b. July 8, 1704; m., Dec. 24, 1729, Samuel Dickinson, ot
Deerfield. He was son of Nathaniel, b. 1687 ; captured by the Ind-
ians at Hatfield, in 1698. and recovered in the Pomeroy pursuit;
taken again at Northfield, Oct. 11, 1723, and returned and settled in
Deerfield in 1730, on lot No. 23; in 1739 ^^^ general court granted
him 200 acres of land at Roadtown, "in consideration of his suf-
ferings while m captivity." He died June 23, 1761. Their daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, was drowned m the Deerfield river with her
mother while they were fording the stream on horseback, at Old
Fort. There is a horizontal sandstone slab over her grave in the
old burying yard. The marble tablet bearing the inscription is
broken to fragments. Ch. : i. Hannah, b. Sept. 21, 1730; m.,
Jan. 30, 1765, Col. William Williams, of Hatfield, Deerfield and
Pittsfield. He was born in 1713; was graduated at Harvard Col-
lege in 1729; went into business in Boston, but soon failed; was
ensign under General Oglethorpe, 1745, in the attempt on St.
Augustine, and with Admiral Vernon, in 1741; went to Deerfield
about 1743; was lieutenant-colonel in the Northern Hampshire
army. In 1745 raised a company about Deerfield and sailed for
Cape Breton with a lieutenant-colonel's commission; arrived
there after the reduction of Louisburg, but was of the garrison
which held it until spring ; was in charge of the detachment which
rebuilt Fort Massachusetts, in 1747; refused Governor Shiley's
request to remain as commander, but was made commissary of
, supplies of the line of forts; resigned Nov. 15, 1748, on account of
difficulty in obtaining provisions, but remained at Deerfield;
kept a store on lot No. 29; was selectman in 1751. He moved
to Pittsfield about 1754, where he built a house which
became Fort Anson; was the savior of the noted Pittsfield Elm.
From 1755 to 1758 he served as captain in the regiment of his
uncle, Sir William Pepperell, and in 1758 as colonel under Gen-
eral Abercrombie. At the end of the campaign of that year he
retired on half-pay; was justice of the peace in 1748; judge of the
court of common pleas, 1761, and later judge of probate, and
almost continually in town office in Pittsfield until the Revolu-
tion; was a Tory, and died April 5, 1784. Hannah was his third
wife, and she m. 2d, Shearer, and was a widow again
before 1789. 2. Hepzibah, b. Oct. 8, 1732; drowned 1740. 3.
Nathaniel, b. Oct. 7, 1734; m. Mrs. Hannah Woolsey. 4. Samuel, b.
Oct. 13, 1736. He was a soldier in the last French war; died
unmarried, Nov. 30, 1780. Hannah, the mother, was drowned in
Deerfield river Sept. 3, 1740.
311. iv AMOS, b. June 24, 1708; m. Mehitable Day.
312. V. ELIAKIM, b. Nov. 27, 1711; m. Esther Graves.
313. vi. MARY, b. June 18, 1715; m.. May 18, 1738, Moses Warner.
202. ZECHARIAH FIELD (John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., August, 1676; m., May 25, 1705, Sarah Clark, b. April
20, 1677, daughter of Deacon John and Rebecca (^Cooper), of Northampton. Zecha-
riah Field, son of John and Mary (Edwards), was born in Hatfield, Mass. He
FIELD GENEALOGY. 139
removed, in 1734, to the district of Amherst, where he died, in 1738. The first town
meeting to organize in the town of Amherst was held at his house, Dec. 31, 1734,
but was not organized until 1739. His name is the first that appears on the town
records.
Amherst was originally a pa^-t of Hadley. At a legal town meeting, in Hadley,
March 4, 1700, it was "voted by the town that three miles and one quarter eastward
from the meeting house, and so from the north side of Mount Holyoke unto the
Mill river, shall lye as common land forever, supposing that the line will take in
the new swamp. Voted that the rest of the commons eastvrard shall be laid out in
three divisions, that is to say, between the road leading to Brookfield and the Mill
river, notwithstanding there is liberty for the cutting of wood and timber so long as
it lieth unfenced; there is likewise to be left between every division forty rods for
highways, and what will be necessary to be left for highways, eastward and west
through every division is to be left to the discretion of the measurers, and every one
to have a proportion in the first and second division, and every one to have a pro-
portion in the third division, and every householder to have a 50-lbb. allotment, and
all others who are now the proper inhabitants of Hadley, sixteen years old and
upwards, to hav a 25-lbb. allotment in said commons." In accordance with this
order the most of this land was laid out in April, 1703, by Capt. Aaron Cook, Capt.
Nehemiah Dickinson and Mr. Samuel Porter, town measurers. The precise date of
the settlement of these lands is not known. A Mr. Foote, probably from Hatfield,
is said to have built a shanty in the east part of the town prior to 1703. The loca-
tion was a little north of the east Parish meeting house. He chose the spot, think-
ing that he could subsist there by hunting and fishing, but failing to do so, he left,
and, m commemoration of his tolly, the east part of the town was for many years
called "Foote-foUy Swamp." On the 5th of January, 1730, the town of Hadley
appointed men to lay out a burial place for the "East inhabitants." Zechariah d.
January, 1738. Res. Amherst, Mass.
314. i. EBENEZER, b. Aug. 8, 1709; invalid. Res. Conway.
315. ii. REBECCA, b. about 1711; m., Jan. 13, 1737, Joseph Hawley, of
Amherst. He d. about 1756. She d. and he m. 2d, 1753, Thank-
ful Alexander. Res. Amherst. Ch. : 1. Araneth, bap. Decem-
ber, 1739; m., 175S, Jonathan Scott, of Sunderland. 2. Joseph,
b. July I, 1744; d. young. 3. Joseph, bap. Oct. 10, 1748.
4. Abigail, d. 1758. 5- Rebecca, b. .
316. iii. SARAH, b. March 18, 1714; m., January, 1736, Samuel Hawley, of
Amherst. She d. 1796. He d. in the army, Dec. 15, 1750. Ch. :
I. Anne. 2. Elijah; d. in the army, Nov. 30, 1756. 3. Sarah, m.
Benjamin Backman and Hodden. 4. Zachariah, bap. April
10, 1743; d. young. 5. John, bap. Dec. 28, 1746. 6. Miriam,
bap. Jan. i, 1749. 7. Mehitable, m. David Hawley, of Amherst.
8. Zechariah, bap. May 13, 1753; m. Rebecca Edwards; was a dea-
con in Amherst, and died there June i, 1824.
317. iv. MARY, b. Jan. 21, 1716.
31S. v. JOHN, b. Jan. 12, 1718; m. Hannah Boltwood.
210. DEACON SAMUEL FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, John. John, Richard,
William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Sept. 27, 1678; m.. Jan. 10, 1706, Mrs. Han-
nah (Edv>7ards) Hoyt, b. Sept. 10, 1675; d. July 23, 1747. She was daughter of
Joseph Edwards ; her husband, David Hoyt, was killed by the Indians in the Mea-
dow fight.
Samuel Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert), was born in Hatfield, Mass.,
140 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Sept. 27. 1678. He removed to Deerfield in 1706, where he died Aug. 25, 1762, aged
eighty-three. He was one of the twenty-two men who came from Hatfield, that
were engaged in the Meadow fight in the unsuccessful attempt to rescue the pris-
oners taken at the destruction of Deerfield by the French and Indians, Feb. 29,
1704. He was wounded in a fight with Indians, Aug. 25, 1725, near where the pres-
ent depot in Greenfield now stands. A deacon and prominent man in town. He
was granted by the general court, in 1736, 200 acres of land on the east line of
Northfield, probably for military services. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph
Edwards, of Northampton, and widow of David Hoyt, Jr., who was one of the nine
men killed in the Meadow fight in trying to rescue the prisoners.
On August 25, Deacon Samuel Field, Deacon Samuel Childs, Sergt. Joseph
Severance, Joshua and John Wells and Thomas Bardwell left town to look
after some cattle at Green liver farms, with but a single musket in the party.
Crossing North Meadows, and the river, north of Pine Hill, up through Cheapside
until the present town line was crossed, when a cow they were driving ran out of
the path. She was followed by Deacon Childs, who soon discovered Indians in
ambush, and gave the alarm, when they arose. The following is from an manu-
script account of the affair by Rev. Stephen Williams, about 1730:
Aug. 25, 1725, Deacon Samu Field, Deacon Samu Child, Sergt. Joseph Sev-
erance, John Wells, Joshua Wells and Thomas Bardwell, went over Deerfd river
to go to Green river farms, and they took a cow with them, designing to put her in
a pasture; the Indians ambushed them, but Deacon Child, driving the cow, discov-
ered them, and cried out, "Indians!" John Wells discharged his gun at an Indian,
who fell upon his fireing. Dea Field, being at some distance trom the company,
rode towards them, but the company being before separated from one another, re-
treated towards the mill, and at a considerable distance from the hill they haltd, jt
John Wells might load his gun, and then the Indians fird upon them, and wound
Dea Samu Field, the ball passing through the right Hypocondria, cutting off
three plails of the mysenteice; a gut hung out of the wound in length almost two
inches, which was cut off even with the body; the bullet passing between the lowest
and the next rib, cutting at its going forth part of the lower rib. His hand being
close to his body when ye ball came forth, it entered at the root of the heel of ye
thumb, cutting the bone of the forefinger, resting between the fore and second
finger ; was cut out, and all the wounds through the blessing of God upon means
were healed in less than five weeks by Dr. Thomas Hastings, whose death since
ye war is a great frown upon us, etc.
He d. Aug. 30, 1762. Res. Hatfield and Deerfield, Mass.
319. i, ELIZABETH, b. April 16, 1707; m., Oct. 9, 1731. Moses Miller, of
Springfield.
320. ii. SAMUEL, b. Feb. 20, 1709; d. Oct. 24, 1726.
321. iii. EUNICE, b. May 29, 1714; m., Nov. 28, 1735, Joseph Smead. He
was son of Ebenezer; was born 1713; was a maker of snow
shoes in the French and Indian wars; removed to Pine Nook
about 1764, and died about 1796. She d. June, 1792. Ch. : i.
Mary, b. March 28, 1737; m. Abner Hawks and Enos Marsh. 2.
Eunice, b. Sept. 28, 1738; m. John Clapp. 3. Ebenezer, b. March
25, 1740; m. Mary Stebbins. 4. Joseph, b. Nov. 28, 1741. Rev-
olutionary soldier, 1778; was a sergeant; died before 1785. 5.
Oliver, b. Nov. 10, 1743; d. before 1784. 6. Catherine, b. June 8,
1745; m. Oliver Root. 7. Susanna, b. Nov. 27, 1748; d. before
1787.
322. iv. DAVID, b. Jan. 4, 1712; m. Mrs. Thankful (Taylor) Doolittle.
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VI.
323. V. EBENEZER, b. Oct. 2, 1723; d. Oct. 14, 1723.
324. vi. THANKFUL, b. 1716; m., Nov. 28, 1739, Seth Heaton, of Keene.
Ch. : I. Seth, b. Dec. 11, 1740. 2. Huldah, b. April 28, 1742. 3.
Daniel, b. 1744.
211. THOMAS FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., June 30, 1680; m., Oct. 4, 1713, Abigail Dickinson,
daughter of Hezekiah and Abigail (Blackman), b. Dec. 8, 1690; d. June 20, 1775.
Thomas Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert), was born in Hatfield, Mass.,
June 3, x6So. He purchased, Dec. 23, 1703, a lot of land in Lebanon street. Re-
corded in vol. i, p. 120, but there is no record of his ever having resided there. He
removed about 1728 to Longmeadow, Mass.. where he died Feb. i, 1747. He was
a useful man in town. He married Abigail, daughter of Hezekiah and Abigail
(Blackman) Dickinson, of Hatfield. He d. Feb. i, 1747. Res. Hatfield and Long-
meadow, Mass.
325. i. ABAGAIL, b. Oct. 5, 1714; m. Nov. 14, 1754, Abial Abbott, of
Windsor, Conn. She died Aug. 8, 1777, s. p. in Longmeadow.
SAMUEL, b. May 10, 1718; d. Aug. 10, 1721.
MOSES, b. Feb. 16, 1722; m. Rebecca Cooley and Mrs. Lydia
Champion.
SIMEON, b. April 25, 1731; m. Margaret Reynolds.
SAMUEL, b. Oct. 10, 1725; m. Hannah Lord.
SARAH, b. Nov. 28, 1728; d. unm. April 19, 1773.
213. CAPTAIN ZECHARIAH FIELD (Samuel. Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1685; m., Dec. 31, 1711, Sarah
Mattoon. She m., 2d, June 25, 1750, Deacon Samuel Childs. She died
March 21, 1752.
Zechariah Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert), was born in Hatfield, Mass.
He came to Deerfield in 1710. He removed in the spring of 1717 to Northfield,
where he died. He was chosen ensign in December, 1717, after Lieut. Thomas
Taylor was drowned, subsequently chosen Lieut, and in 1743, captain. In 1718 En-
sign Zechariah Field built mills on Miller's brook, which were held by his heirs for
many years. He built a house on his home lot, which was finished in 1724. In the spring
of 1724 a mount was built at his house, which was brick lined, for a guard against
Indian attacks. Upon the organization of the town, Jan. 15, 1723, he was chosen
first selectman, and afterward generally held some important town office. In 1739
he purchased, in company with Orlando Bridgman, for ;^5oo, of Colonel Stoddard,
of Northampton, his farm of 100 acres in little meadow. He soon purchased Mr.
Bridgman's share, and the place is known in modern times as the Field farm, and
was lately owned and occupied by one of his descendants, Thomas J. Field.
He was in the meadow fight, in Deerfield, in the attempt to rescue the captives,
Feb. 29, 1704. He purchased, in 1720, of Pompanoot, son of Wawelet. 30,000 acres
on Miller's river, at Payuayag (now Athol), for which he paid twelve pounds, being
the balance of all the desirable land claimed by the Indians as original proprietors.
His own petition to Governor Belcher best tells the story:
' 'To His Excellency Jona Belcher,
"It being represented to me that it would be for the interest of this Government
to purchase the right of Pompanoot son of and heir to Wawelet one of the Chiefs
among the Indians, of and in a large tract of land lying upon Millers River so called,
at a place called Payuayag (Athol) of the contents of about 30,000 acres, bounded
upon large falls on said river easterly, extending seven miles down the river, run-
ning four miles southerly from ye sd. river, and two miles northerly. And your
142 FIELD GENEALOGY.
memorialist being intimately acquainted with the said Pompanoot, and consider-
ing that if the land should not be bought of him before the English begun to make
some settlement and build upon the sd land, he would afterwards demand a much
higher price, than if bought before such improvement.
' 'Your memorialist for the good of the country bought the sd land of sd Indian
in the year 1720 for an inconsiderable sum, viz. twelve pounds, which is now of
great worth. And the sd land by the authority of the Great and General Court has
been lately granted for a Township to the English inhabitants. Though your
petitioner has it under the hand of a great number of Indians that the sd land was
the right of the said Pompanoot by virtue of a gift from his honored father Wawelet,
yet is entirely satisfied that this grant of the Court should take place provided he
be recompensed for the £\'2. advanced, with interest, or receive a part of said land.
Northfield April 1733. Zechariah Field."
In consideration of the aforesaid purchase, the general court allotted him for his
trouble and money advanced, 800 acres of the land, which by running ot town lines
tell mostly in New Salem.
The general court afterward granted the same land to other parties, regardless
of the first agreement. But being determined to maintain his rights, he was
allotted land enough by the general court as they considered an equivalent, m
Buckland, after several years had elapsed from the first allottment. He never
considered he received an equivalent for his money and services, besides the an-
noyance of following up officials. He married Sarah, daughter of Philip and Sarah
(Hawks) Mattoon, of Deerfield, born April 25, 1687. She was one of that miserable
company captured at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and was earned to Canada. After
suffering incredible hardship she was ransomed and returned the next year. She
was allowed by the probate court a share of the property of Mathew Clesson, who
was killed in a fight with Indians in the meadow in 1709, she being engaged in
marriage to him.
He removed to Northfield in 1714. He paid the largest tax there in 1717, and
the third largest in 1729. In 1729 he bought for ;^55o the land now known as the
Field farm, at Northfield Farms. He held more land than anyone in town in 1733.
That year he was granted by the general court 800 acres near Athol, in return for a
purchase of 30,000 acres, bought from the Indians, in 1720, for £11, which shrewd
purchase was not confirmed by the court. In 1717 and later was an ensign, ranging
against the Indians; a militia captain in 1743; selectman in 1721, 1733 and 1738-4.2;
town treasurer in 1739-41; a leading man in the church.
In 1715 Zechariah Field was appointed surveyor of highways, and the follow-
ing year a fence viewer. In 1716 he was on a committee "to inspect the minister's
house, the building of the same and to appoint and procure workmen and materials,
and take an account of all service and expense about said building, and render their
account to said committee and by them allowed."
In 1733 when it was well assured that Northfield was to stand, men who had
ready cash began to invest it in lands in and around the plantation. Ensign
Zechariah Field made a wholesale purchase.
In 1717 he was chosen ensign in place of Thomas Taylor, who was drowned, and
succeeded in command. June 7 of this year he purchased the home-lot of Thomas
Leffingwell and wife, Mary. In 1723 he purchased the homestead of his brother's
(Ebenezer's) heirs. In 1723, when the plantation was incorporated into a town,
Mr. Field was elected one of the first selectmen. In 1724 the governor directed
the forts at Northfield to be examined and repaired at once. By March 5 the Zech-
ariah Field fort and mount were finished. The mounts were square towers, from
fourteen to twenty feet high, fitted up for a sentry. Zechariah Field was sergeant
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in Captain Dwight's company in 1725. It often had engagements with the Indians
on the frontier. The total amount of pay and subsistence of this company from
May 19 to November 16 was ^1,139 4s. sd. Part of the time the company was at
Fort Dummer.
In 1729, in a rate for defraying the town and county charges levied on the polls
and real and personal estates, Zechariah Field paid the third largest tax in a list of
nearly fifty.
In 1 731, in a division of lots, Ensign Field chose on lot below the first Beer's
mountain, and the other on the plain, against and above Little Meadow, The lat-
ter was laid out 160 rods long by 10 rods wide.
In 1743 Zechariah Field was captam of the Northfield company in Col. John Stod-
dard's Hamps^hire regiment of militia. This year the town voted to build four
mounts, one at Captain Field's. His house was brick lined, and better for protec-
tion on this account.
Captain Field was selectman 1721-33-38-39-40-41-42.
In October, 1672, the territory known by the Indian name of Squakheag, now
the town of Northfield, was granted to certain individuals living mostly in North-
ampton. The grant was a township equal to six miles square, not to exceed eight
miles in length. The condition of the grant was that twenty families should settle
within eighteen months. The General Court appointed Lieut. Wm. Clark, Wm.
Holton, Lieut. Samuel Smith, Cornet Wm. Allys, and Isaac Graves a committee
to lay out the plantation, and superintend the concerns of the proprietors, and it
was enjoined upon them to lay out a farm of 300 acres of upland and meadow, for
the use of the country, and to settle a minister so soon as twenty families should
be gathered. The plantation was laid out the following year, as follows: "Begin-
ning at a brook called Natanis, at the lower end of a meadow Nattahameongom, or
Natanis (now Bennett's meadow), and running up the river eight miles, and extend-
ing three-fourths of a mile from the river on the west side, and three miles and
three-fourths of a mile on the east side." On September 9, 1673, a part of this
territory, with a large additional tract on the west of the river, was purchased
of the Indians. Soon after this, and during that year, several settlers from North-
ampton, Hadley and Hatfield, came in, and built several houses, one of which was
fortified.
Northfield settlement took place during the inception of King Philip's war. The
story of the Indian murders in Squakheag, the slaughter of Captain Beers and his
men on their way to that settlement, and the forsaking of the plantation, has been
fully told.
It was not until after the passage of several years succeeding the conclusion of
Philip's war, that the proprietors moved for a new settlement. In 1782, the sur-
vivors of the original committee, and others, petitioned the General Court that the
limits of the Squakheag grant might be extended, so as to bound southerly on Stony,
or Four-mile brook. Their petition was granted on condition that forty families
should settle in the town within three years; and as some of the committee had
died, a new committee was appointed to take their place. In 1684 the village was
laid out upon the same ground, and in the same form, as it now exists. The lots
were laid out twenty rods in width, and a reservation was made for highways ten
rods in width, through and across the village. In 1685, a number of families
returned to the plantation, built a few houses, and erected a block house. At a
meeting of the committee the same year, lots were granted to thirty-two persons,
and it was ordered that every person who had sixty acres of interval land should
settle two inhabitants upon it. It was agreed also that all the proprietors should
be on their lands, with their families, on or before May 10, 16S6, or forfeit their
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grants. Deeds of all the territory and much besides seem to have been given by
certain Indians after this.
The settlement went on prosperously for a year or two, when, in 1689, came on
King William's war. The settlers saw that their strength was small, that their
situation was the most northern in the colony, and thus peculiarly exposed to the
incursions of the French and Indians from the north ; and burying their most valu-
able goods in a well, a few rods south-easterly of the present meeting house, -they
left their dwellings tenantless, and with their wives and children, fled to Hadley.
This withdrawal was destined to be a long one. Queen Anne's war followed soon,
and it was not until February, 1713, that, in accordance with a petition to the Gen-
eral Court, of Joseph Parsons, John Ljmian and others, the Squakheag grant was
revived. The act appointed Samuel Partridge, John Pynchon (the second), Samuel
Porter, John Stoddard and Henry Dwight, a committee to determine on the rights
of claimants, under the old grant, and to join them with others, preference being
given in all cases to the descendants of the original planters and grantees. The
committee were empowered to make their allotments, and required to reserve 250
acres of land to be at the disposition of the government. The grant was based on
the provision that forty families should be settled within three years, and that they
procure and settle a learned and orthodox minister, "the town to be named North-
field," and to "lye to the County ot Hampshire." On April 14, 1714, sixteen per-
sons appeared before the committee and proved their claims in the right of their
ancestors, and three in their own rights, and entered mto articles ot agreement.
ONE OF DEERFIELD'S ROMANCES.— LOVE STORY TWO
CENTURIES OLD.
Of the Sack of Deerfield by the Indians in 1704, of the Captivity of Sarah
Mattoon, of her two Lovers, and of her Return Years After.
[Written by Mary Field for the 'Sunday, Springfield, Mass., Republican, December 3, 1899.]
It was February, 1 704. The snow-clad hills that encircled the frontier town ot
Deerfield stood peacefully and solemnly lookmg down on the broad valley. Sarah
Mattoon, a girl ot seventeen summers, had climbed to the top of a low foot-hill near
to her father's house, and stood looking over the settlement as it lay shining in the
snow. How she loved the winter with its sparkle and cold, its delicate, tender
beauty ! Surely heaven and earth were never more beautiful than to-night !
Nor was Sarah less than beautiful with her glowing color and deep brown eyes,
clad in her simple homespun gown and hood. After a long stint of spinning she
had escaped for a few minutes' run over the crust. Shunning the village street,
she sped through the home lot to the apple trees on the slope. She sought vainly to
find relief from the weight of perplexity and pain that grew and grew within her as
she spun. It was but two days since she had promised Matthew Clesson to be his
wife, and already those two days were an eternity,— and more terrible. To-morrow
he would return from Northampton, and she must meet him. How could she meet
him? How could she bear his distress and pain? Dear, good, gentle Matthew,
whom she loved so much — yet not enough.
"I can never, never explain it in this wide, dreary world!" How dreary and
lonely the world seemed to Sarah on a sudden ! The sun was setting in the midst
of rising clouds, and the wind grew colder. An oppressive sense of real or fancied
danger came over her. Was it so? Were there savages lurking behind those far-
off hills, or nearer, close at hand? She was rash to have come so far from the
settlement, but misery knows no fear. And danger? What was danger to her woe?
But she drew her cloak about her and hurried home, entering the long, low liv-
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ing room, lit by the glowing wood fire. How the firelight flickered and danced over
the brown boards of the walls and floor, gleaming on the great rafters overhead and
reflecting a cozy home-like glow on all it touched !
It was supper time, and Sarah was soon busily stirring the bubbling kettle ot
hominy that hung over the coals, then dipping it out into porringers and bowls and
helping the children to pour the precious milk from the great blue pitcher brought
through so many perils from safer shores. She went on fulfilling one after another
the ceaseless round of evening duties, — seeing that the boys brought in great armfuls
of wood, brushing up the broad hearth, turning the settle to the fire and tucking
the youngest child into the low red cradle in the corner. At length all was settled
and secure for the night.
"Sally," said her mother, as she took up her knitting in the chimney corner,
"if ye ain't afeer'd o' the dark ye ken go and tell Rebecca I'll be up and help her in
the mornin' wi' the weaving. Ye ken stay the night, too, if ye like, and mind to
assist Rebecca if ye do. She's frail, poor thing. It's hard on Philip. I alius told
him — "
Here Sarah interrupted: "I'll go right off, mother, 'twill be dark soon. Good-
night, mother."
And glad to get out again, she undid the great door and stepped forth. She
paused a moment on the broad door stone to look at the sky. The stars were few
and faint and the rising wind was from the south and chill, and full of eerie whis-
perings. The bare branches of the trees tossed and creaked in the wind, darkly
silhouetted against snow and sky. As Sarah went on a tall figure met her.
"Sarah!" — "Zechariah!" There was silence for a moment until the girl said,
sharply, "Zechariah Field, what do you here?"
"Nay, Sarah, be not so hard. Verily, the fiercest foe is easier met than you in
anger. Yet why be angry? I did but pause an instant to cheer my loneliness with
the chinks of light between the shutters of your home. Do you know what it is to
have no home? Nay, do not interrupt me. Where are you going? I care not.
Surely heaven sent you forth to me, waiting so long for speech with you. Do not
turn away, why be unkind to me? May I not ask you once in all these weary
months why you avoid all friendliness with me? 'Tis strange. 'Tis past all my
experience of God's mercies that you should so rebuff me. I, who loved you from
the hour I met you yonder on the hill slope as I found my way hither up the great
river and across the mountain. Do you recall it, Sarah, that spring day? The
sweet pink flowers I'd gathered pleased you then. You were so kind, courteous,
yet homelike as a sister in gentleness and spirit. Was it nought to you, that meet-
ing?"
Seeking to detain her, the young man seized Sarah's hand. He found her
trembling like a slender aspen, and drawing her arm within his led her to the next
home lot, where a new house was rising, and made her sit upon a great felled tree.
"I must not, I must not!" she protested, striving to go.
"No, Sarah — no, you shall not go, you must hear me. The times are ominous
and fearful. Who knows what moment we may be set upon, slaughtered, or widely
separated? No, dear heart, do not shudder so; all things are bearable, but two
things help to make them so; the love of God and love of you. Ah, if you love me,
Sarah, what is life or death?"
But Sarah drew herself deep in her cloak and dropped her head upon her knees
and shook with sobs, yet spoke no word.
Zechariah bent over her. "And, Sarah, if it be not so; if you have no love in
your heart for me, nor ever had, nor will have, say so; tell me. I can bear it, and
(heaven help me) love you still. Ah, is it so? Is my dream with all its miracle of
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sweetness but a dream and not the blest reflection of some deeper bond? Sarah —
tell me, tell me truly! Arm me with desperation, if not with love."
But no sound broke the silence of the night, save the swaying branches over-
head rustling in the wind.
"Look up, Sarah, speak to me! just one word."
In vain she strove to speak, she rose to her feet struggling to overcome her
emotion, but Zechariah drew her to him and soothed and hushed her like a little
child, until at last she freed herself and said resolutely: —
"No, Zechariah, no — I have no right to let you love me. I have told Matthew
I would be his wife."
Zechariah started with a low cry. "Sarah, — Sarah!" — he turned away, but
again returned to her.
"And do you love him, Sarah? 1 will be silent if you tell me that."
Her breath came quick; without looking up she repeated: "I have told Mat-
thew I would be his wife."
She turned to go, but Zechariah seized her hand.
"You must not go, you shall not leave me so. Your words are arrows, but
vour voice trembles and breaks with tenderness — for whom? for what? Oh, is it
not for me? Think, Speak ! I shall be loving you always and ever, and will you
not give me one little word of kindness or of pity?"
Sarah burst into tears "Pity — pity. Oh, Zechariah ! 'tis I who need your pity !
May God help us! My life must be a desert and a waste, with but one gleam of
brightness far away — that you have loved me — grudge it not to me, I will be worthy
of it if I live; now I must go."
But Zechariah clasped his arms firmly about her. "Not so, Sarah, 'tis not so.
You are not Matthew's, you are mine. You love me — 'tis all I ask. No power in
heaven or earth should part us. I may be poor and Matthew rich, but "
Sarah stopped him.
"Oh, Zechariah, you cannot think it that; you do not. Blest were captivity
with you to all that England's safest, stateliest home could be without you; oh, my
love!"
She clung to Zechariah now and her story came bursting forth like some pent-
up mountain brook whose splash and foam and hurrying eddies hide its onward
course, so overwrought with tears was her tale.
"Oh, Zechariah, when you came two years ago, upon that day — but, no — I
cannot speak of that — heaven opened with your eyes meeting mine. I loved you
from that moment, and I soon knew I loved you, but that you should love me
seemed as far away as the blue sky above me. So I strove against it, and rebelled ;
it may be in that struggle I was rude to you."
"Indeed you were," he broke in; "a wild rose set with thorns I found you, but
I loved you all the same."
"Then," Sarah went on, "you drew to Betty, beautiful Betty. We were insep-
arable, Betty and I — I see it now — but then I did not dream but that 'twas she you
sought. I was so miserable, so unhappy, and Matthew all along was kind, too kind
to me, though truth to tell, I think 'twas Betty he first loved."
"Aye, verily," Zechariah interrupted angrily, "and Mistress Betty, not so shy
as you, saw through it all. 'Twas not so difficult tor her to blind your eyes, to throw
you and Matthew together, and take the hand held out to you. Ah, but she did
forget that I had eyes and that, though they might see the beauty and bloom of the
stately damsel, it was the sweet shy rose they dwelt upon."
"Yet she loved you," Sarah went on. "Her whole mind was set upon you,
that I knew full well. Ah, what an endless struggle did I have to keep my patience
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and to curb my tongue. Once — once long ago, it flashed over me that it was me
you loved. How that brief flash illumined all my sky ! and yet I would not, could
not, heed it or believe it. When shall we learn to listen to those deep-hidden mes-
sages? Meanwhile, confusion grew among us, Matthew, Betty, you and me; and
but one word was plain— to promise Matthew I would be his wife, making his hap-
piness, helping hers, and perhaps yours; nor did I fancy my misery could be greater
till 'twas done two days ago, since when I have known but torture and slow death
— would it were death indeed!"
Sarah became silent; Zechariah, deep in thought, did not speak for many min-
utes. At length he said: —
"And can you marry Matthew feeling so? Can you — " she interrupted him.
"Nay, Zechariah, nay. I cannot. I but wait his coming to tell him so. I told him
I did not, could not love him as I should, as I wished, but he said it mattered not
to him ; it would come by and by ! But no, no, 1 should hate him were I wed to
him. I'll do him no such wrong.— dear, gentle soul! But, Zechariah, how can I
be yours? Surely, not now."
"But, dearest, we can wait," he whispered. "Aye, verily I can live for many
a weary day glad in the thought that you have loved me all these years, and you
will love me still?"
Sarah could not speak, she suffered him to draw her to him and kiss her sol-
emnly,— "sealing thus," he said, "our love tor future time."
The curfew was ringing and they hurried reluctantly to the stockade, and Zech-
ariah left Sarah at her brother's door.
It was late before Sarah slept, but at length, youth and health conquered the
tumult of thought within her. Her rest was brief. Horrible sounds awoke her,
screams of terror, blood-curdling howls, rang in her ears; a fierce red glare lit up
the blackness of night and shone into the low-rattered attic where she slept. She
sprang up, trembling, yet resolute. Rushing downstairs she roused her brother: —
"Philip! Philip! the Indians — the Indians! Give me your gun! I'll hold the
door a moment while you fly with Rebecca and the babe."
But as she spoke the heavy door was battered down and a wild horde of Indians
entered. Seizing Philip, despite his desperate resistance, they bound him, also
Sarah; then turning to Philip's wife and seeing her unfit for the journey they
instantly tomahawked her before her husband's very eyts and their little child like-
wise. Plundering the house of all they coveted, they set it on fire, dragging Sarah
and Philip away to a neighboring house where they gathered men, women and
children bound and captive.
Here, wild with grief and terror, helpless to aid or alarm, they were forced to
witness slaughter and ruin until their hideous captors, satiated and fearful of further
delay, summoned them to march unwillingly forth out into the wilderness of snow
and ice. Desolate, desperate, scarcely knowing who was living and who dead, they
were driven mercilessly onward in the cheerless gray of the morning.
Vainly did Sarah search the long, straggling band of captives for Zechariah's
erect, fine figure. He was not among them. For a moment she rejoiced, then came
a deadly fear that he was slain ; and thus, torn between hope and despair, yet sus-
tained by invincible courage, she struggled on. When Philip, maddened beyond
endurance, became so unmanageable that the Indians murdered him, poor Sarah
sank down beside him, ready to share his fate, but the appeal of Mary Field, Zech-
ariah's uncle's wife, to help her to carry her little son of three years, roused her
once more; and with greatest exertions she succeeded in carrying him until her sav-
age master, moved by her indomitable pluck, took pity on her and put the child
upon the sledges.
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From Mary Sarah learned of the brave fight Zechariah and his uncle had made
to save her and the children, escaping only at the last minute, and sallying forth
from the fort after the departing enemy, following them persistently and perilously
till summoned back to the defense of the remaining few. Sarah learned, too, of the
safety of her own family. Thankful beyond measure, Sarah strove to comfort the
poor mother whose baby had been ruthlessly torn from her, and thus cheenng each
other as best they could they journeyed on ; now many, now few, meeting and part-
ing some to meet no more. Over the frozen river, along whose icy tracks they
moved swiftly, over desolate wooded mountains, through forest and fastness for
300 miles they struggled on.' Near the end of the journey Sarah fell in with Betty
Hurst, — beautiful Betty, already learning to banter a few French words with the
young Canadians, ^amusing and subduing her captors with her playful and vain
childishness. She greeted Sarah eagerly and soon began talking of Zechariah and
Matthew, contrasting them with the gay young Frenchmen.
This was too much for Sarah. Matthew took possession of her. Was it for this
freakish, flippant child she had sacrificed her love and bound herself to Matthew?
For, stern Puritan that Sarah was, she felt herself bound still to Matthew. How
painfully she longed to tell him of her mistake that she might conscientiously love
Zechariah! And now a new terror came over her, Matthew would proclaim her his
at home. Indeed, he might venture forth to redeem her. Now despair succeeded
to wrath ; she heard Betty's hopeful chatter ot home-going, but vaguely, distantly
— to go home would be to face a more fearful dilemma than now confronted her.
Thus torn and tossed by miserable thoughts, too rigid to accept any easier view
of her curious relations to Matthew, Sarah was led to hide herself among the Indians
of the tribe who took her, refusing to avail herself of any chance of exchange or
redemption, and becoming gradually an Indian in dress and manners, she acquired
much of their self-control and dignity, and grew strong in the free outdoor life and
often outdid the squaws in wildwood accomplishments.
For five years she dwelt among the Indians, alone and lonely. It chanced one
June day at the end of this time that she sat a little apart from the other women,
mending a net on the shore of the broad St. Lawrence. The day was cloudless and
still. Suddenly a great white river bird rose up from the reeds of the shore and
hung for a moment poised over the water close to Sarah. She looked up, startled,
and then, entranced by his beauty, she watched his flight upward into the shimmer-
ing, shining blue, and as he rose up, up, up into the glorious sky, she sprang to her
feet, exclaiming: —
"Home — home! I must go home!"
As if a weight were lifted from her heart, the rushing river, the rising bird,
seemed to inspire her. All in one moment she saw the pity of her fate, the desolate
years to come, afar from kith and kin, alone among savages.
Her eyes were opened anew to the beauty and gladness of the world The net
she was mending dropped from her hand, catching as it fell on wild rose bushes
which she now saw encircled the spot where she had been sitting. The blushing
blossoms looking up to her brought sweetest memories. Without an instant's pause
she sprang to her canoe, and seizing the paddle pushed out and sped away out on to
the breast of the great, friendly river. She would trust to its throbbing current and
her own strong arm to bear her to Quebec.
Once in Quebec she would be safe from pursuit, and but one day's journey
should bring her there.
So on and on she went, fearful yet brave, revolving many things in her mind
as the paddle dipped and redipped to the water. In after years Sarah never dwelt
upon this journej' in recounting her adventures. Too much suspense and strain
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were crowded into those few hours of incessant labor and fear. When at last the
great, crown -like city appeared far away in the mists ot the morning, joy almost
overcame all Sarah's precautions, and, ceasing to paddle, she was lost m relief and
delight. But chancing to glance behind her, she beheld, to her horror, four well-
guided canoes just coming mto view way up the river. Redoubling every effort
and keeping close to the yet dusky shores, she succeeded in reaching the landing
before she was perceived. As she jumped from her canoe her pursuers discovered
her, and a wild yell rose from them, but friendly Canadians surrounded her and she
was soon safely hidden in the convent's shelter. And here, worn out in mind and
body, she lay ill of a fever for weeks and months. When Sarah at length slowly
recovered she knew no way to show her gratitude to the good sisters but to remain
and serve them, and so nearly two years elapsed from the time ot her sudden flight
before all negotiations were ended and she really embarked for home.
With what strangely mingled feeling did she travel homeward, the only Deer-
field captive now returning. Landing at Boston she journeyed to Northampton
with a train of wagons bearing goods to the settlements, only one wagon and its
convoy continuing up the river to Hatfield and Deerfield.
The long May day was drawing |to a close as they left Northampton. The
slanting rays of the sun fell softly on the valley and crept gently up the eastern
hills. Familiar outlines came in sight, familiar song birds filled the evening air.
A joy so deep as to be painful came over Sarah; she was wrapt in contemplation
and emotion, and heeded not the approach of a horseman until she heard a voice
that sent the warm blood rushing to her heart, ask eagerly, "Does Mistress Sarah
Mattoon journey with you?"
A moment later Sarah was helped from the heavy wagon and trembling like a
leaf was mounted behind Zechariah. His strong gray horse bore them swiitly for-
ward, leaving the wagon lumbering along in the distance. As the woods shut them
from view Zechariah turned and kissed her, looking deep into her eyes.
"Sarah! my Sarah! God be praised!"
And Sarah could not speak, she clung to him, and for many minutes they jour-
neyed on in silence.
At length, as it to emphasize his thankfulness, Zechariah said: "And, Sarah,
until one month ago we all believed you dead." He paused and then resumed.
"Not one word or trace of you could be obtained in all these seven years. In vain
did Ensign Sheldon search for you. You were reported dead when he was first in
Canada, and on his second visit no news at all seemed truly to verify the tale, and
yet we marveled greatly that he could gain no certain news. Night after night have
I pondered over this, ill sati-sfied and restless, often rising from a sleepless night
determined to seek you afar off through the forest. Scarce could the elders keep us
from the quest. How was it, Sarah? How did those barbarous, bloodthirsty crea-
tures so conceal you?"
Alas for Sarah, she could not meet his eye; she turned her face away full ot
remorse for his long years ot suffering.
"Ah, Zechariah, blame them not. 'Twas I whose cowardice kept me prisoner
there."
He started and looked strangely at Sarah. She went on: "You cannot com-
prehend it? Oh, my love ! — A great weight lay upon my heart. I was still bound to
Matthew by my word, yet all my heart was yours, and as each day deepened my
love for you so seemed to strengthen the dreaded bond to him, and this it was that
kept me in the wigwams of the Indians. Can you forgive me, Zechariah?'.'
He clasped her hand tighter and she continued ; —
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"There came a day when suddenly courage came tome. My heart said all
would be well and I arose and turned me homeward unto you."
Again she looked into his face and once more the joy of meeting silenced all
words, all thought.
The sun had set and the young moon hung brilliant in the clear western sky
dipping downward to the dark horizon. To the north rose the great red rock of the
Lequamps, rising abruptly in the midst ot the wide valley. Here they left the Con-
necticut and entered the Pocumtuck valley. As they rode on Sarah told Zechariah
of her life with the Indians, of the terrible winter march to Canada, of Betty
Hurst and her approaching marriage to a young Canadian, of her own long illnesss
and the strange homeward voyage. Again and again she strove to ask for Mat-
thew, and again and again her courage failed, and it was not until they were
nearing the settlement that she finally asked faintly: "And Matthew — what of
Matthew?"
Very quietly Zechariah pointed to the low bank above the meadows where the
village dead lay sleeping.
"He lies there — killed by the Indians."
And turning his horse from the highway he rode thither. No word was spoken.
The familiar path, the nestling village beneath the hill, the warm presence ot Zech^
ariah filled Sarah's heart with keenest joy, yet the thought of Matthew overcame
all these, and as they dismounted and entered the burying-ground her tears were
falling like a soft, warm rain on a gloomy October day. As they stood beside the
long, low mound, Zechariah said gently: —
"He loved you, Sarah, to the end, deeply and generously. Through all those
anxious years we were the best of friends, and, strange to say, the common bond of
lovmg you bound us together."
"And did he know?" asked Sarah wonderingl}'.
"He knew that I loved you — not that you loved me."
Sarah stopped to trace the letters on the low headstone, brushing aside a wild
rosebush which grew beside it.
"Zechariah," she whispered: — "You planted this?"
"I did," he assented. "'Twas all I had to give. "
Then bj^ the moon's light Sarah read: —
"Matthew Clesson.
Aged 30.
Killed by ye Indians June 9, 1709."
"June 9," she repeated. "June g?" She started to her feet with a cry:
"Zechariah! It was June 9 that I left the Indians, — June 9 of 1709 that I turned
homeward, home to you."
Again Sarah saw the majestic river, the vivid Canadian sunlight, and the great
white bird vanishing into the sky. Again the thrill of her joy and freedom came
over her. She turned to Zechariah. He, too, was gazing into the sky as if he saw
a vision. Long they stood there, silent, wondering. Trembling, Sarah laid her
hand upon his arm. At her touch he drew her to him and folded her to his breast,
saying with awed voice: —
"He sent you! Oh, my love! He sent you home to me!"
A deeper, holier joy was added to them, a greater peace fell upon them; the
long years ot pain and separation were as naught, and life was glad and good and
love was ever new.
He d. Aug. 15, 1746. Res., Hatfield, Deerfield and Northfield, Mass.
331. i. SETH, b. Sept. 28, 1712; m. Susanna Doolittle.
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332. ii. CATHERINE, b. Feb 11, 1715; m. prob, inNorthfield, Mass., Capt.
Simon Willard. of Winchester, N. H.
Eliza Francena Dwinnell, born at Ashburnham, Worcester
county, Mass., Jan. 15, 1844; married Charles Henry Chandler, at
Fitchburg, Mass., Aug. 17, 1868; died at Ripon, Fond du Lac
county, Wis., Oct. 28, 1894. A member of the Congregational
church. Two children, born at Yellow Springs, Greene county,
O. Ch. : I. Elwyn Francis Chandler, b. Aug. 29, 1872. 2 Edith
Beatrice Chandler, b. Feb. 26, 1881. Present permanent address
of both is Ripon, Wis. He is professor of mathematics in Ripon
College. Her father's name, Hiram Dwinnell, born at Sutton,
Mass., Feb. 28, 1808. married March 11, 1835, Charlotte Adelia
Willard, who was born at Ashburnham, Mass., Jan. 26, 181 5.
Both died at Ashburnham, Mass., he March 24, 1874; she
Jan. 22, 1854. He was a worker in wood. The other children
besides Eliza F., all born in Ashburnham, Mass., were Marcus
Morton Dwinnell. born November, 1S37; died Nov. 25, 1876;
daughter, L. Grace Dwinnell, 42 Vine street, Leominster, Mass.
He married about 1867 a Miss Buraham, of Putney, Vt., who died
soon after birth of daughter named above. Jonas Willard Dwin-
nell, born April, 1840; married, ist. Nov. 19, 1867, Sarah E.
Pierce, who died Nov. 2, 1880. He married, 2nd, Sept, 17,
1886, Mary E. Casey. One daughter by first marriage, Minnie E.,
born 1869; died June, 1S84. He was a member of Twenty-first
regiment Massachusetts volunteers, and lost an arm at Fredericks-
burg. I am uncertain as to his present address, as he is unable to
work, and changes his residence frequently. A short time ago
he was in Winchendon, Mass. Waldo Wilson Dwinnell. born
August, 1842; was in the Twenty-first regimnet Massachusetts
volunteers; captured in battle of the Wilderness, and died in
Andersonville prison, 1864. Minerva Dwinnell, born Sept. 3, 1847;
died April 16, 1S62. The brothers and sisters ot Hiram Dwinnell
were Cyrus, who removed to Cleveland, O., long ago, and was
lost sight ot ; Polly, who married Leonard Davis, of Oxtord, Mass. ,
and died in 1866; Lucy, who married William Wilson, of Shore-
ham, Vt., and has been long dead; Sale.m, who died young; Alice,
who married James M. Bailey, ot Ticonderoga, N. Y., and died in
1839; Eliza, who married William G. Willson, ot Shoreham, Vt.,
and is probably still living, but very low in health, so that her
present address of which I am not quite certain, would be useless.
She has no hving children. Hiram Dwinnell was the son ot
Abraham and Mehitable (Rich) Dwinnell, both of whom were bom
in Sutton, Mass., he Feb. 13, 17731 she Dec. 6, 1778. He died
Nov. 5, 1814, at Sutton, I think. She died at Ashburnham, Mass.,
May 31, 1862, being then the widow ot Stephen Hayward, whom
she married after her first husband's death. Abraham Dwinnell
was the son of Henry and Hannah (Daggett) Dwinnell. Henry
Dwinnell was the son of Jonathan and Mehetable (Kennay) Dwin-
nell. Charlotte Adelia Willard was the daughter of Jonas and Ruth
Hall (Lincoln) Willard, ot Ashburnham, Mass., where he was born
May 2, 1786, and died April 17, 1854. The mother, daughter ot
Lot and Sally (Hathaway) Lincoln, was born at Dighton, Mass.,
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Feb. 29, 1792, and died at Ashburnham, Mass., [uly co, 1857.
Jonas Willard was a farmer. He was the son of John and Sara
(Willard) Willard. He, John, was born at Harvard, Mass., July
26, 1739, and died at Ashburnham, Mass., July 3, 1793. She was
born at Winchester, N. H., Nov. 16, 1746. and died at Ashburn-
ham, Mass., Nov. 18, 1S34. They were cousins, he being the son
of Henry and Abigail (Fairbanks) Willard, and she the daughter
ot Captain Simon and Catherine (Field) Willard, the fathers being
sons ot Henry and Abigail (Temple) Willard. grandsons of Henry
and Mary (Lakin) Willard, and great-grandsons ot Major Simon
Willard of colonial reputation and his third wife, Mary Dunster.
Capt. Simon Willard, who married Catherine Field, was prob-
ably born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1709; baptized there April 24,
1709. He was one of the proprietors of Winchester, N. H., one of
the selectmen, town -treasurer, often presided at the tovirn meetings,
was at Fort Dummerfrom February to July, 1748, in the company
commanded by Capt. Josiah Willard, and was himself a captain
afterward. He died in Winchester, March 10, 1757. His wife
survived him. They had nine children.
GAIUS, b. April 2, 1716; m. Sarah Holton.
EBENEZER, b. June 11, 1717; m. Abigail Holton.
SAMUEL, b. July 6, 1719; m. Abigail Field.
PAUL, b. Jan. 23, 1721; m. Christian Hubbard.
SARAH, b. Nov. 4, 1713; d. April 23, 1722.
SILAS, b. July 4, 1722; d. Sept. 23, 1722.
RUFUS, b. April 10, 1724; d. Sept. 19, 1724.
ZECHARIAH, b. July 22, 1726; d. Sept. 13, 1726.
EBENEZER FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah. John, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Hatfield, Mass.. March 17, 1688; m. 1714. Elizabeth Arms, daughter of
William; she m., 2d, Azariah Wright. She was b. 1695; d. Oct. i, 1772. Ebenezer
Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert), b. in Hatfield, Mass. He settled
about 1710 in Deerfield. Being oftered a house lot, he removed in 1717 to
Northfield, where he was engaged working at his trade, being a blacksmith and
gunsmith. One of his charges to his brother Zechariah is four shillings and six-
pence for repairing Pompanoots gun, with which he probably fought the white in-
habitants. There is a tradition in the famliy that being mistaken by the guard in
the twilight for an Indian while pitching peas into his barn, was fired upon and
wounded in the hip. There being no surgeon in Northfield, he was taken to Deer-
field for treatment, and wearied by the journey, he died before his wound could be
dressed. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Joanna (Hawks) Arms,
of Deerfield, b. 1695. She married, 2d, Jan. 27, 1727, Azariah Wright, of Northfield.
She d. in a fit Oct., 1772, aged 77. She was noted school teacher in Northfield and
vicinity. Feb. 23. 1720, the committee of the town granted to Ebenezer Field and
others "the stream upon Bennett's brook, for a saw mill, with the lands that may
be necessary for ponding and to lay logs by the same; in case they build it by May
come twelvemonth and improve the mill from that time forward for their own and
the town's benefit and service." The property is now known as Sawyer's Mills.
Dry Swamp, which was in brushwood in 1673, had become well timbered with
oak and had pine in 17 14. This was east of the Great Swamp and was lotted out
in the settlement of 17 14 and given to those who did not have a share in the Great
-Swamp. The tracts given contained a little over five acres, except Ebenezer
333-
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334.
IV.
335-
V.
336
vi.
337-
vu.
338.
viii.
339
IX.
340
X.
214
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Field's, which contained over ten acres. This larger piece was given to him, be-
cause, being a blacksmith, he needed abundance of charcoal.
An old account book ot his is in existence which was kept by him from 1721-23.
He often did work for the Indians, and especially for Pompanoot, son and heir of
Wawelot. Some of the charges read as follows:
March, 1722. To mending Pompanoot's gun 4s.
To 2 steel traps and mending a gun lock for the Indians £1 5s.
To my wife making an Indian shirt 8d.
To doing work for the Indians on j-our (his brother Zechariah's) acct 16s.
This shows the relation of the two races in time of peace. When the war
broKe out, the Indian at once used his repaired gun.
When Mr. Field moved to Northfield from Deerfield, he settled on the lot then
held by the Patterson heirs — Jonathan Patterson having died in 1 718— which he
afterwards brought. This was later known as the "Landlord Field Place." He
put up a shop in the street, after the custom of those times. He "finished his
house" in the winter of 1721. After his death in 1723 the shop was sold to Deacon
Samuel Smith, who moved it down to the "old meeting oak."
Up to the year 1721 no forts had been built in Northfield village. One or two
houses were brick-lined, and one building used as a guard room. The garrison
soldiers, when not on duty, lived with the inhabitants. The war which threatened
for more than a year and which broke out in the eastern frontiers in June, natural!}-
alarmed the people and immediate measures were taken to prepare for the worst.
In the course of the summer two forts were begun and wholly or partially com-
pleted. One stood on Zechariah Field's lot. These were not strongly built works.
Probably the mounts were only partially finished. This fort was surrounded by
a stockade. The following year the sentry stationed in the mount shot Mr. Field.
It was in the dusk of the evening, and he mistook him for an Indian.*
Mr. Field was an excellent smith, and so invited his removal to Northfield. It
cannot be seen how the inhabitants managed to get along the previous years with-
out an artisan of this kind, as all their tools in daily use, such as axes, shears, nails,
hoes, plowshares, loom-irons, cranes and trammels and hog-rings were of wrought
iron and made by the smith.
Some entries from Dr. and Cr. taken from Mr. Field's book for 172 1-2 will
give an idea of the prices, and the workday aspect of things in the little frontier vil-
lage, and are quite interesting:
Cr.
By fetching a load of coal from Dry brook £0. 5.0
" a bushel of malt 0.3.6
I " harrowing my flax ground o. i.o
" making hay one day 0.2.6
' ' team to draw tar to Deerfield 2 days o. 8.0
" team getting candle wood >^ day 0.2.0
I. " horse to drag my home lot one day o. i.o
' ' a quarter of venison 1 9 lbs o. 3. 2
" reaping at Moore plain i day 0.3.0
" Jany.. Sledding hay trom Benncts meadow 0.5.0
" breaking flax one day 0.2.0
" 6 bushels Indian corn 0.12.0
* In the dusk of evening Mr. Field was standing on his shed pitchine peas, which were
passed up to him from the cart below and out of sight, into the barn window. The sentry caught
a glimpse of the wads as they were rapidly tossed into the window, and thinkmg the Indians
were leaping stealthily into the barn for mischief, instantly fired, mortally wounding Mr. Field.
— Deacon Phineas Field.
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154 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Cr.
By a boy to pull flax one day 0.1.6
" bushels of turnips 0.4.6
" malting 7;^ bushels barley 0.3.6
" I bushel of wheat 0.5.6
" horse to go huckle-berrying 0.0.6
" a bottle ot rhum 0.2.0
" March, 1721, Step, Crowfoot work finishing my house 0.2.6
Dr.
To shoeing a horse round ;^o.3.6
sharping pair of plow-irons o. i.o
my oxen to work one day o. i.o
making 4 hog-rings 0.0.4
" a trammel 0.7.0
' ' a clevis and pin o. 5. 8
" 36 hatchel teeth 0.3.0
sharpening a plow-share 0.0.8
" a coulter 0.0.4
laying an axe 0.3.0
making a steel trap 0.16.0
' ' a hoe o. 4. 6
one sett of loom-irons and spindle o. lo.o
7 pigs at 7 weeks old i. 5.0
4 lbs. of hops 0.4.0
a wapanock skin 0.3.8
3 fox skins and ^ a woolang skin 0.13.6
my wife's making an Indian's shirt 0.0.8
I quart of honey 0.2.0
making a gun lock and two screw pins for ye Indians 0.2.6
At the first two meetings in Northfield in June, 1723— just fifty years after its
first settlement — Ebenezer Field was elected constable and fence viewer. He was
a selectman of the town in 1722. He d. Sept. 12, 1723; res. Hatfield and Northfield,
Mass.
341. i. EBENEZER, b. June 15, 1715; m. Sarah Mattoon and Mrs. Chris-
tian Field.
342. ii. JOANNA, b. April 6, 1717; m. 1737, Col. Phineas Wright. Col.
Phineas Wright (Eliezer, Lieut. Samuel, Deacon Samuel), b.
in Northfield Mass., July 20, 1710, was delegate to Provincial
Congress, and to Massachusetts General Court; was also chairman
of the Committee of Vigilance and Correspondence in the trying
years of the county, 1775 and 1776. I have from the Secretary of
State of Massachusetts a ceitified copy of the record of service of
Phineas Wright, in the Revolutionary War, as colonel of the
Sixth Hampshire County Regiment of Militia. He d. 1795, aged
85 years; she d. 1797, aged 82 years. Their children, b. in North-
field, Mass., viz.: i. Eliphaz. b. Aug. 8, 1738. 2. Catherine
Wright, b. Aug. 17, 1740, d. 1803; m Capt. Reuben Smith. 3.
Joanna Wright, b. Aug. 30, 1742. 4. Tabitha Wright, b. Aug. 23,
1744; d. Sept. 23, 1822. 5. Naomi Wright, b. Oct. 29, 1746; m.
Col. H. Wells, Greenfield, Mass. 6. Rhoda Wright, b. Nov. 6,
174S; m. Oliver Watriss, Northfield, Mass.
FIELD GENEALOGY, 155
Capt. Reuben Smith (Dea, Samuel, Preserved, Lieut. Samuel,
Rev. Henry), b. in Northfield. 1740; d. Aug. 24, 1832; aged 82
years. He m. Sept. 24, 1761, Catherine Wright (see above),
daughter of Col. Phineas Wright Children b. in Northfield,
Mass. (sixth generation): A, Phineas Smith, b. Nov. 7, 1762; d.
Sept. 18, 1823; aged 61 ^^ears. B, Content Smith, b. April 29,
1764; d. . C, Sarah Smith, b. Oct. 11, 1765; d. Feb. 20, 1811.
D, Catherine Smith, b. Sept. 14, 1767; d. . E, Joanna Smith,
b. Sept. 12, 1770; d. May 14, 1852. F, Submit Smith, b. Feb. 27,
1773; d. June II, 1826. G, Rhoda W. Smith, b. Jan. 24, 1775; d.
Feb. 13, 1818. H, Mary Smith, b. Jan. 21, 1777; d. April 29, 1822
(unmarried). I, Fanny Smith, b. July 7, 1779; ^- • J' Adol-
phus Smith, baptized March 24, 1782 (adopted son); m. Patty
Holton.
Content Smith (of the above family), daughter of Capt. Reuben
and Catherine Wright Smith, m. Oct. 15, 1787, Jerome Hutchin-
son, of Brookfield, removing to Norwich, Vt., where their chil-
dren were born. i. John Hutchinson, res., Gaines, N. Y., had
three children. 2. Fanny Hutchinson, unmarried, res., Norwich,
Vt. 3. Sarah Hutchinson m. William Loveland, Norwich, Vt.,
4. Cynthia Hutchinson m. May 31, 1820. Asaph Allen, of Deerfield,
Mass. 5. Sophia Hutchinson m. A. J. Williams; res., Hagans-
burg, N. Y. 6. Mary Ann, Hutchinson m.. ist, Milo Marsh; 2d,
James Fuller, Boston. 7. Williams Hutchinson m. Eliza Crary,
Norwich, Vt.
Sarah Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine (Wright)
Smith, m. May 28, 1783, Ebenezer Stratton, res. Brookfield, Vt.,
where the stately mansion of more than a hundred years is still re-
tained by relatives of the family. Children b. in Brookfield: i.
Martha (Patty) Stratton, b. July 6, 1784; d, Feb. 24, 1829 (unmar-
ried). 2. Sarah Stratton, b. 1788; d. Aug. 19, 1863. 3. Caleb
Allen Stratton, b. 1798; d. Jan. 12, 1882; m,, 3d, Emily Edson,
children's mother. 4. Harriet Stratton, b. Nov. i, iSoo; d. March
20, 1867.
Catherine Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
(Wright) Smith, m. Chester Ponieroy, of Newfane, Vt. Children
born there: i. Willard Pomeroy, Newfane, Vt. 2. Maria Pome-
roy, res. Newfane, Vt. 3. Chester Pomeroy. 4. Sophia Pomeroy.
5. Fanny Pomeroy.
Joanna Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
(Wright) Smith, m. Hon. Ebenezer Hinsdale Williams, of Deer-
field, Mass. Children of seventh generation: i. Elijah Williams
m. Isabella Hoyt. daughter of Gen. Epapheas Hoyt; res. Deer-
field. 2. Anna McC. Williams m. Charles Howard, Greenfield,
Mass. (All deceased.)
Submit Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright
Smith, m. Dr. Walter Burnham, of Brookfield, Vt. (formerly of
Norwich, Conn.), Jan. 18, 1795. Res. Brookfield, Vt. Children
bom in Brookfield. (Grandparents of Perkins Bass.) Children: i.
Zebulon Perkins Burnham, M.D., b. Aug. 30, 1796; d. Dec. 25,
1 861. 2. Fanny Smith Burnham, b. March 28, 1800; d. April 30,
1888. 3. Catherine Wright Burnham, b. July 15, 1805; d. Feb. 20,
156 FIELD GENEALOGY.
iSgo. 4. Walter Burnham, M.D , b. Jan. 12, 1808; d. Jan. 16, 1S83.
5. Helen Maria Burnham, b. Dec. 11, 1815.
Rhoda Wright Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, m. Henry Bard well, Sept. 29, 1807. Res. Deer-
field, Mass. Child of seventh generation : i. Catherine Elizabeth
Bardwell, b. Aug. 9, 1S12; d. ; m. Jan, 5, 1842, Caleb Allen;
res. Deerfield; no children.
Fanny Smith, daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright
Smith, m. Richard .Watriss; res. Northfield, Mass. Child of sev-
enth generation: i. Elijah Watriss, b. 1816; d. ; res. North-
field, Mass. ; unmarried.
Sarah Hutchinson, granddaughter ot Capt. Reuben and Cathe-
rine (Wright) Smith, m. William Loveland; res. Norwich, Vt.
Children born there: i. Mercy Bigelow Loveland, b. 1816; d. at
Norwich, Sept. 6, 1874. 2. Joseph Talcott Loveland, b. April 5,
1818; d. at Norwich, April 15, 1889, unmarried. 3. Reuben Smith
Loveland. b. Oct. 30, 1820; d. 1898; res. Norwich, Vt. 4. William
Jerome Loveland, b. Nov. 11, 1822; res. East Saginaw, Mich.; no
children. 5. Aaron Loveland, b. April 10, 1826; res. Norwich;
four children. 6. Charles Loveland, b. Nov. 11, 182S: res. Nor-
wich, Vt. 7. Mary Content Loveland, b. July 2, 1831; m.
Badger; d. 1870. S. Ellen Loveland, b. Sept. 18. 1S33; m.
W. H. Hutchinson ; res. Norwich ; four sons who have entered the
professions.
Cynthia Hutchinson, granddaughter ot Capt. Reuben and Cath-
erine Wright Smith, m. Asaph Allen, Deerfield, Mass., where chil-
dren were born: i. Charles Hutchinson Allen, b. March 5, 1S22;
m. Miranda Williams; three children. 2. Mary Ann Allen, b.
Aug. 14, 1823; m. May iS, 1S43, Horatio Hawks, Deerfield. 3.
William Allen, b. April 26, 1825. m. Nancy E. Wilcoxson, Durand,
111. 4. Amelia S. Allen, b. Feb. 16, 1828, m. Christopher Merrill.
Pennsylvania, 5. Edward Allen, b. July 7, 1832, m. Emily Wil-
coxson, Durand.
Sarah Stratton, granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, m. Luther Wheatley. Esq. ; res. Brookfield, Vt.
Children born, Brookfield: Emily V. Wheatley, b. 1809; d. Oct.
II, 1833; m. Noah Paine, Esq. 3. Deacon Luther Wheatley,
b. 1816; d. May 27, 1S85. 3. Frederic Wheatley, b. 1819; d. May
1, 1847. 4. Sarah E. Wheatley, b. 1825; d. Oct. 28, 1850. 5.
Eunice Wheatley, b. 1S31; d. April 10, 1859. ^- Alpha Wheatley;
res, Peake's Island, Me.
Harriet Stratton, granddaughter ot Capt. Reuben and Cather-
ine Wright Smith, m. Dec. 11, 1823, Jesse C. Wheatley, Brook-
field, Vt., the birthplace ot children: i. Jesse Cook Wheatley,
Jr., b. Dec. 25, 1824; m. Sarah A. Sprague; have lour children.
2. George Wheatley, b. April 19. 1827; d. Feb. 4, 1S61. 3. Harriet
Wheatley, b. Oct, 2S, 1832; m. 1853, Elliot Bowman, of Essex
Junction, Vt. Res. Essex Junction, Vt.
Zebulon Perkins Burnham, M. D., grandson of Capt. Reuben
and Catherine Wright Smith, m. Jan. 28, 1828, Fanny Crawford,
daughter of Hon. Theophilus Crawtord. Putney, Vt. ; res. Wil-
liamstown, Montpelier, Vt., and Lowell, Mass. ; d. at Ripon, Wis.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 157
She d. Sept. 26, 1871, at West Rosendale, Wis. Dr. Burnham
graduated at Yale, and held a high rank as physician and surgeon
before the introduction of anaesthetics. Children: i. Helen M.
Burnham, 2d, b. Feb. i, 1830. 2. Frances C. Burnham, b. March
26, 1832; d. 1838. 3. Crawford Burnham, b. April 8, 1834. 4.
Perkins Burnham, b. Sept. 4, 1836: d. at Eagle Harbor, Mich.,
Jan. 26, 18S3. 5. Lucy H. Burnham, b. Feb. 20, 1841.
Fanny Smith Burnham, granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and
Catherine Wright Smith, m. March 19, 1822. Dr. Numan Robbins
Dryer, Brookfield, Vt., res. in Penfield and Elmira, N. Y., and in
Tuscola, 111. ; d. in Tuscola, July 24, 1872, aged 75 years. Chil-
dren: I. Fanny Ursula Dryer, b. Aug. i, 1823; d. in Elmira,
N. Y. 2. Walter Burnham Dryer, b. June 3, 1832; d. Buffalo,
N. Y., March 20, 1890. 3. Isabella Williams Dryer, b. Feb. 19,
1827; d. in Vermont in 1832.
Catherine Wright Burnham, daughter of Dr. Walter and Submit
Smith Burnham, granddaughter of Capt, Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, m. March 25, 1825, Joel Bass, Jr., son of Joel and
Mary Martin Bass, Williamstown, Vt. Children b. in Williams-
town, Vt. : I. Perkins Bass, b. April 30, 1827; d. in Peterboro,
N. H., Oct. 9, 1899. 2. Walter B. Bass, b. Dec. 4, 1828; d. Otta-
wa. Kan., March 13, 189S. 3. Mary C. Bass, b. June 11, 1830; d.
m Illinois, April 15, 185 1. 4. William Bass, b. 1832; res. Lowell,
Mass. : a successful physician. 5. Fanny Caslma Bass. b. Jan.
25, 1835; d. in Chicago, April 11. 1882. 6. Myron H. Bass, b. Dec.
24, 1836; d. June 3, 1890, in Evanston, 111. 7. Hugh Bass, b.
:\Iarch 6, 1839; d. Aug. 29, 1872, Chicago, 111. 8. George Bass, b.
1845; res. Chicago, 111.; lawyer. 9. Catherine Bass; res. Chi-
cago, 111.
Walter Burnham, Jr., M.D., grandson ot Capt. Reuben and Cath-
erine Wright Smith, m. Annis Crawford, daughter ot Hon. Theoph-
ilus Crawford, Putney. Vt. Res. Barre, Vt, thirteen years;
Lowell, Mass. He was a distinguished surgeon with a national
reputation. He d. in Lowell, Mass. ; she d. Feb. 17, 18S8, Lowell.
Children: i. Astley Cooper Burnham. b. May i, 1836; d. Feb.
16, 1837. 2. Stella L. Burnham, b. April 8, 1837. 3. Isabella
Hortense Burnham, b. March 25, 1839; "i- Waldo Adams, of ex-
press fame, Boston ; no children. 4. Arthur Hubert Burnham, b.
Sept. 23, 1841. 5. Julia Ada Burnham, b. July 16, 1843; m- Dr.
James G. Bradt, Lowell ; no children.
Helen Maria Burnham, granddaughter ot Capt. Reuben and
Catherine Wright Smith, m. Barre, Vt., March i, 1842, David
Dodge, M.D., graduate of medicine, Columbia College, Washing-
ton, D. C. He practised medicine in western New York fourteen
years; then removed to Chicago, 1857; d. in Chicago Jan. 31, 1888.
Her address is Chathamport, Mass. Children: i. Fred Walter
Dodge, b. Aug. 23, 1843, in Barre. Vt. 2. Mary Louisa Dodge,
b. July 5, 1846, Victor, N. Y. ; m. Oct. 17, 1871, in Chicago, 111.,
Osborn Nickerson, son of Orick and Mary Ryder Nickerson ; b.
May 25, 184b: res., Chathamport, Mass.; no children.
Helen Maria Burnham, second daughter of Dr. T. P. Burnham,
great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright
158 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Smith, m. July 21, 1852, Henry C. Bottum, of Vermont; res..
West Rosendale, Wis. Children: i. Joseph Henry Bottum, b,
Sept. 26, 1853; lawyer; res. Felkton, S. D. 2. Roswell Bottum,
b. Aug. 3, 1&57; bank cashier; res. Watertovvn, S. D 3. Perkins
Bottum, b. June 6, 1S59; res. Chillicothe, Mo. 4. George Bot-
tum, b. May 26, 1862; farmer; res. Burdette, S. D. 5. Sheldon
Gale, b. July 31, 1866; res. Wisconsin. 6. Helen Burnham Bot-
tum, b. April 25, 1875; res. West Rosendale.
Crawford Burnham, son of Dr. T. P. Burnham, great-grandson
of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright Smith, m. Mary F.
Hewes, Lyme, N. H. ; a lumber merchant, Lowell, Mass. Chil-
dren: I. Fanny C. Burnham, b. Sept. 19, 1861. 2. Fred G.
Burnham, b. April 7, 1864; a practicing physician, Lowell, Mass.
3. Walter Burnham, b. Dec. 31, 1S72; res. Lowell, Mass.
Lucy Hubbard Burnham, daughter of Dr. T. P. Burnham,
great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright
Smith, m April 24, 1862, Edward Burling, son of James and
Sarah Burling; b. April 21, 1833, in New York; res. Eldora, Iowa.
Children: i. Fanny Burling, b. May 18, 1863; graduate of Chi-
cago University. 2. James P. Burling, b. Aug. 10, 1866; minis-
ter of the Gospel. 3. Edward B. Burling, b. Feb. i, 1870; graduate
of Harvard College; lawyer; res. Chicago, 111. 4. Helen Burl-
ing, b. April 5, 1874; res. Eldora. Iowa.
Rev. James Perkins Burling is a graduate of Iowa College,
Harvard University and of the Chicago Theological Seminary,
He m. Terese Temple, Chicago, 111. Child of tenth generation.
Child: I. Frederick Temple Burling, b. March 23, 1876.
Fanny U. Dryer, daughter of Fanny Smith Burnham Dryer and
of Dr. N. R. Dryer, m. Erastus Kellogg Weaver, son of John and
Kellogg Weaver, of Pen field, N. Y. She was great-grand-
daughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright Smith. Chil-
dren: I. Mary Isabella Weaver, m. Charles Palmer; res. Elmira,
N. Y. 2. John E. Weaver, graduate ot Ann Arbor University; res.
Rochester, N. Y. 3. Frank E. Weaver, m. Griflf Palmer, hardware
dealer; res. Rochester, N. Y. 4. Helen Weaver, m. Rev. I. Duane
Phelps, both graduates of Syracuse University ; have five sons ;
res. Buffalo, N. Y. 5. Charles G. Weaver, m. Grace Bell Harris,
Chicago, 111., March 27, 1894; res. Chicago, 111.; graduate of Syr-
acuse University. 6. Catherine Weaver, m. James Williams; she
is a graduate of Syracuse College; he is attorney-at-law ; res.
Philadelphia, Pa. 7. George Weaver, graduate of Syracuse Uni-
versity, editor of newspaper Rochester, N. Y. ; m. ; had four
children. 8. Fenton B. Weaver, graduate of Syracuse University ;
merchant, Elmira, N. Y.
Stella Lucretia Burnham, daughter of Dr. Walter Burnham,
"Sr., great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright
Smith, m. July 30, 1857, Henry Phelps Perkins; b. Dec. 25, 1832,
son of ApoUos and Wealthy Porter Perkins, of Lyme, N. H. Chil-
dren: I. Walter Burnham Perkins, b. 1858; real estate business ;
res. Lowell, Mass. 2. Henry Phelps Perkins, b. i860; a physician;
res. West Newton, Mass. 3. Isabella Adams, b. 1862; m. H. D.
Kendell, of Boston, manager of chemical works; res. Lowell,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 159
Mass. 4. Frank Gardner Perkins, b. 1866; res. Florida. 5. Her-
bert Crawford Perkins, graduate of Harvard Medical School; res.
Newton, Mass.
Perkins Bass, b. in Williamstown, Vt., son of Joel and Catherine
Wright Bass, great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith and a descendant of Deacon Samuel Bass, the New
England immigrant. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College,
and began the practice of law m Chicago; but has been a resident
of Peterboro, N. H., about twenty years. He m., first, in 1856,
Maria L. Patrick, of Chicago, 111. She and their only child died
in Williamstown, Vt., whither they had gone to seek health, in
1858. In 1861 he m. Clara Foster, daughter of Dr. John Foster,
of Chicago, 111. Perkins Bass, son of Joel and Catherine Burn-
ham Bass., was born on a farm in Williamstown, Vt.. April 30,
1827. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1852, paying his
expenses by teaching school. In 1854 he went to Chicago and
taught in the public schools. He was admitted to the bar and
began the practice of law in 1856. The same year he m. Maria L.
Patrick, late of Granby. Mass., who d. in 1858. He m., 2d. Clara
Foster, of Chicago, Oct. 5, 1861. He was appointed United
States district attorney for the northern district of Illinois by
President Lincoln, and continued the practice of law in Chicago
until 1874. He was always interested in the cause of education
and served on the boards of education of the city of Chicago and
the State of Illinois. Since 1882 he has made his home in Bos-
ton, and Peterboro, N. H. Children: i. Gertrude Bass, b. May
14, 1863; m. Dr. George F. Fiske, Chicago. Dr. Fiske was son of
Samuel and Elizabeth Foster Fiske; was b. Jan. 26, i860, in Mad-
ison, Conn. The first three months of 1864 he passed in the camp
of the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers at Stony Mountain on
the Rapidan river, near Stevensburg, Va., with his parents. He
fitted for college at the high school in Woburn, Mass., graduated
from Amherst College in 1881, and from the Yale Medical School
in 1883; spent three years in Germany and France studying
ophthalmology and otology; was assistant surgeon to Prof.
Alfred Graefe in the University at Halle, Prussia, in 1884-85.
Settled in Chicago in 1886 as an eye and ear specialist. In
1 891 he built a private hospital for treatment of his own
patients. He visited European hospitals in 1890 and 1895.
Res. 438 La Salle avenue, Chicago. 111. 2. John Foster Bass,
b. May 8, 1866; graduate of Harvard University and Law School.
John Foster Bass, son of Perkins and Clara Foster Bass, b. at
Chicago, May 8, 1866; fitted tor college at Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy; graduate at Harvard College in 1891, and from Harvard
Law School in 1894. He was war correspondent during the
Greco-Turkish war for New York and London newspapers, and is
now correspondent at Manila for Harper's Weekly and the New
York Evening Post. He was wounded at one of the battles about
Manila, Feb. 10, 1899. Gen. Hale, in report ot operation before
Manila, referred to him as the only correspondent on the firing
line when our troops captured Manila. He was the first corre-
spondent to visit Iloilo, and was wounded in attack on Caloocan.
160 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Robert Perkins Bass, son of Perkins and Clara Foster Bass, b. at
Chicago, 111., Sept. i, 1873; fitted for college in Boston, Mass.;
graduated at Harvard College in 1896. Res. of family. Peter-
boro, N. H.
Walter B. Bass, a brother of the above, m. in Williamstown,
Vt., Ellen Lynde, daughter of John Lynde, granddaughter ot
Judge Lynde, one of the first settlers there. He removed to
Ottawa, Kan., where he d. in 189S. He w^as great-grandson of
Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright Smith. Children: i. John
Bass, farmer in Ottawa, Kan. 2. William Bass, farmer in Otta-
wa, Kan. 3. Ella Bass; res. Ottawa; d. —
Dr. William Bass, great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Cath-
erine Wright Smith, m. Lizzie Hunt, Lowell, Mass. He has been
a successful practitioner ot medicine and surgery from his grad-
uating till the present time in Lowell.
Myron H. Bass, great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, m. Elizabeth Kelley. He removed to Evanston,
111., and gave his children collegiate education. Children: i.
George A. Bass; res. Washington, D. C. 2. Perkins B. Bass;
res. Evanston, 111. 3. Stella Bass; res. Evanston, 111. 4. James
K. Bass; res. Evanston. 111.
George Bass, great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, is a graduate of Harvard University and Law
School and pursues his profession in Chicago. He m. Elizabeth
Merrill, ot Wisconsin.
Fred W. Dodge, son of David and Helen M. Burnham Dodge,
great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Catherine Wright Smith, m.
Amelia M. Colvin; res. Chicago, 111. Children: i. Helen C.
Dodge, b. March 3, 1869. 2. Mary Belle Dodge, b. Jan. 25, 1871.
Aaron Loveland, great-grandson of Capt. Reuben and Cather-
ine Wright Smith, son of Wm. and Sarah Hutchinson Loveland;
m. Laura S. Goodell, at Westminster, Vt. ; children b. at Wau-
watosa. Wis. ; res. Norwich, Vt. Children: i. Frank Edwin
Loveland, b. March 13, 1S55. 2. Laura Ellen Loveland, b. April
26, 1857. 3. Joseph Henry Loveland, b. March 10, 1858. 4.
Fanny Hutchinson, b. July 14, 1866.
Sarah Ellen Loveland, daughter of Wm. and Sarah Hutchinson
Loveland, great-granddaughter of Capt. Reuben and Catherine
Wright Smith, b. Sept. 18, 1833; m. William H. Hutchinson; res.
Norwich, Vt. ; farmer. Children b. at Norwich. Ch. : i. Louis
Jerome Hutchmson, b. Sept. 24, 1867. 2. Charles Martin Hutch-
inson, b. Feb. II, 1870. 3. Joseph Perkins Hutchinson, b. Nov.
21, 1872. 4. William Loveland Hutchinson, b. Aug. 22, 1875. 5.
Elsie May Hutchinson, b. Jan. 9. 1878.
343. iii. MOSES, b. Feb. 19, 1719; m. Ann Dickinson and Martha Root.
344. iv. AARON, b. March 17, 1722; m. Eunice Frary.
345. V. ELIZABETH, b. Jan, 3,-1723; m. Feb. 14, 1745. Capt. Ebenezer
Wells, of Greenfield, son of Joshua, b, 1723: she d. May 17, 1784,
and he m.. 2d, Mary Whipple. He was a prominent man in
Greenfield, and d. Deerfield, Jan. 11, 1787. Ch, : i. Obedi-
ah, b. Feb. 5, 1746; d. Sept. 19, 1758. 2. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 3,
1748; d. Sept. 15, 1758. 3. Ebenezer, b. June 16, 1750; m. Mercy
FIELD GENEALOGY. 161
Arms. 4. Daughter, b. March 3, 1752; d. March 4, 1752. 5.
Reuben, b. May 5, 1753; m. Experience Severance. 6. Simeon,
b. June 30, 1756; d. Sept. 16, 1758. 7. Levi, b. July 27, 1758; m.
Mehitable Wells. 8. Obediah, b. Oct. 16, 1760; m. Caroline Grin-
nell. 9. Simeon, b. Oct. 17, 1762; m. Abigail Stebbins. 10. Con-
sider, b. Jan. 16, 1765; d. next day. 11. Elizabeth, b. July 30,
1766; m. Joseph Symonds. 12. Seth, b. Oct. 7, 1768; m. Polly
Smith.
216. JOSIAH FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, John, John. Richard. William.
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Nov. 5, 1692; m. Elizabeth . He moved from
Deerfield to Northfield m 1724. In 1726 he sold his house and moved to Connecti-
cut. In 1718 the town of Northfield granted to Josiah Field a house lot and inter-
val lands. As a specimen of the way lands there were disposed of by the commit-
tee, the following e.Kample is quoted :
"Then granted to Josiah Field thirty acres of land, whereof ten or twelve acres
of meadow (if to be found); the remainder to be a house lot and upland — all to be
laid out conveniently for him bj- direction of the committee — all on condition of his
abode there four years from the above date."
The lots on the west side of the street all join to the brow of the meadow hill,
unless otherwise specified. All were nominally sixty rods in length. Beginning,
for the sake of convenience at the lower end of the street, lot No. i of ten acres,
bounded south on the falls of Miller's brook was in 1714 common land. In 1718 it
was granted to Josiah Field. He occupied it long enough to gain possession, and
March 14, 1726, then of Springfield, sells it to Benoni Wright, and two years later
Wright sold it to Capt. Zechariah Field. Res. Deerfield, Springfield and Northfield,
Mass., and Somers, Conn.
346. i. JOSIAH, b. Feb. 24, 1724; m. Sarah .
347. ii. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 26, 1726; m. Dec. 8, 1748, Joseph Chapin.
of Enfield and Somers, Conn.
348. iii. MARY, b. Sept. 11, 1729 (added in pencil), "probably Thankful;
m. Sampson Wood, of Springfield."
217. JOSHUA FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William.
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., April g, 1695; m. Dec. 15, 1719, Elizabeth Cooley,
daughter of Daniel, of Springfield, and Elizabeth (Wolcott), b. July 23, i6g6; d.
April 8, 1781. Joshua Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gilbert), b. in Hatfield.
Mass. He settled first in Springfield, removed from there to Longmeadow, and m
174S to Bolton, Conn., where he died. Joshua Field and Elizabeth Field joined the
church in Bolton in 1748. Joshua Field d. Jan. 11, 1783, of old age, aged 87 years.
Wife of Joshua Field d. April 8, 1781, of great cold, aged 86 years. Jonathan Rey-
nolds, of Bolton, deeded to Joshua Field, of Springfield, Mass. , "land on both sides of
the Boston Road with a mansion house," dated April. 1744. Joshua Field's deed:
"In consideration of Parental love and aftection which 1 have and do bear unto my
son Nathaniel Field, 1 give, etc., with the buildings, etc., situated m the Township
of Bolton." Dated Dec. 31, 1754. He d. Jan. 11, 1783; res. Springfield and Bolton,
Conn.
SAMUEL, b. Oct. 13, 1720.
EBENEZER, b. , 1722.
DANIEL, b. , 1724.; ra. Elizabeth Cooley.
ELIZABETH, b. , 1726; m. June 27, 1745, Edmond Bartlett.
NATHANIEL, b. , 1727; m. Mary Goodrich.
DEACON JOSEPH FIELD (Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Sunderland, Mass.. June 9, 16S9; m. Sept. 13, 1716, Mary Smith,
340-
350.
11.
351.
111.
352.
IV.
353-
V.
220.
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daughter of Joseph and Canada (Wait), b. Sept, 24, 1697; d. March 9, 1767. He
removed in 1714 to Sunderland, and in 1715 he took the allotment of his father. No.
12, on the east side of the street, which he occupied until his death in 1754. He d.
Feb. 4. 1754; res. Sunderland, Mass.
354. i. ELISHA, b. July i, 1717; m. Betty Pratt.
355. ii. MARY, b. May 19, 1719; m. March 14, 1754, Daniel Clark, of Tem-
pleton; she d. Aug. 15, 1804. He was son of Increase, and Mary
was his second wife.
356. iii. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 11, 1721; m. April 24, 1745, Samuel Field, of
Northfield; she d. Nov. 2, 1803,
357. iv. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 8, 1723; m. Ruth Parker.
358. V. THANKFUL, b. Dec. 9, 1726; m. Sept. 15, 1757, Benjamin Graves,
of Sunderland.
359. vi. MARTHA, b. Feb. 27, 1729; m. April 21, 1767, Hezekiah Belden,
of Hatfield and Amherst.
360. vii. EXPERIENCE, b. April 10. 1732; m. Nov. 8, 1759. Elijah Clark.
of Sunderland.
361. viii. SARAH, b. Jan. 16, 1735; m. in Sunderland, July 17, 1755. Sergt.
Simeon Lyman, b. 1730. He was son of Joshua; was sergeant in
the Revolutionary war; d. May 19, 1809; she d. Nov. 28. 1797,
and he m., 2d, Mrs. Molly (Smith) Stratton; res. Northfield,
Mass. Children: i. Mary, b. May 29, 1756; m. Solomon Holton.
2. Persis, b. Oct. 7, 1758; m. Joseph Smead, of Montague. 3.
Joshua, b. Oct. 12, 1760; m. Catherine Hammond and Sally Hol-
ton. 4. Joseph, b. Jan. 23. 1763; m. Elizabeth Liscomb. 5. Sim-
eon, b. Dec. 8, 1764; m. Diadana Allen. 6. Submit, b. July 11,
1767; m. Col. George Dennison. 7. Sarah, b. Sept. 13, 1769; m.
James Strobridge. 8. Timothy, b. Sept. 22, 1771; m. Ruby Beach.
9. Elisha, b. Aug. 13, 1772; d. young. 10. Penelope, b. July 26,
1774; m. Lieut. Hezekiah Mattoon. 11. Elisha, b. Aug. 13, 1778;
m. Margaret Liscomb and Rachel Ames.
362. ix. JONATHAN, b. July 30, 1737; m. Elizabeth Cooley.
363. X. ISRAEL, b. March 27, 1741; m. .
224. CAPT. JONATHAN FIELD (Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
"William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Oct. 13, 1697; m. March 30, 1721, Mary
Billings, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Church), b. May 24, 1701; d. June 3,
1736; m., 2d, July 25, 1739, Esther Smith, daughter of Joseph and Canada (Waite),
of Hatfield, b. June 2, 1710; d. Jan. 12, 1795. Esther was greatly distinguished for
her industry and exemplary piety. He was the youngest son of Capt. Joseph, and
was b. in Hatfield; removed with his father to Sunderland in 1714. He moved to
Leverett in 1752, and settled on Long Plain, so called. His sons, Jonathan, Seth
and William, purchased lands in the neighborhood, which they cleared up and con-
verted into farms, and occupied the same until their decease. He held the commis-
sion of captain in the militia for many years, and was noted for his courage and
sagacity, and distinguished himself by his services in protecting the people in the
settlements of Leverett and Sunderland from the incursions and depredations of
the Indians during the French wars which commenced in 1744 and terminated in
1760. Little is known of his two daughters.
Esther Smith, the second wife of Capt. Jonathan Field, was a daughter of
Joseph Smith, of Hatfield, and granddaughter of John Smith, who was killed by
the Indians in Hatfield Meadow, May 30, 1676, and a great-granddaughter of Lieut.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 163
Samuel Smith, an English emigrant, who came from Ipswich, the shire town of
Suffolk county. England, in 1634. He remained in Boston until 1638, when he re-
moved to Weathersfield, Conn., and from thence to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, and was
one of the sixty Associates or Separatists, who purchased the Hadley plantation in
165S. She was b. in Hatfield in 1710, and d. in 1794. She was the mother ot Seth
Field, and grandmother of Martin Field. Her mother, Canada Waite, wife of Joseph
Smith, was the daughter of Benjamin Waite, whose wife and three daughters were
of the seventeen captives taken by the Indians in their attack on Hatfield, Sept. 19,
1677, and carried to Canada, where she was b. Jan. 22, 1678. They were the first
captives of English descent who were taken to Canada during the Indian wars, and
her Christian name was given to her as a living memorial of this captivity and the
place of her birth. The wife ot Stephen Jennings, who was taken captive at the
same time gave birth to a daughter, who was b. March 14, 1678. The child was
named Captivity, and the two daughters were ever afterwards called the "Canada
Babes." Benjamin Waite and Stephen Jennings were men of great energy and per-
severance, and undertook to redeem their wives and children and the other captives.
They obtained a commission from the Colonial Government of Massachusetts,
and left Hatfield on the 24th day of October, for Canada, by the way of Albany.
The officials at Albany frowned upon the enterprise and represented it as
hazardous and hopeless, and after they had reached Schenectady, they were brought
back forcibly to Albany and went down the river to New York to Governor Andros.
Through the intercession of one Captain Brockhurst, they were sent back to Albany
with a pass, and reached there Nov. 19. They then hired a Mohawk Indian to
guide them to Lake George. This friendly Indian fitted up a canoe for them, made
a rudely executed diagram of Lakes George and Champlain, to guide them on their
journey. They sailed down Lake George to its outlet, carried their canoe on their
backs to Lake Champlain, and reached Chambly January 6, 1678. They
were ignorant of the country, being the first New England men who had ever
passed over Lakes George and Champlain to Canada. At Sorell and vicinity they
found the captives. The French governor at Quebec, Count De Frontenac, treated
them civilly and kindly, and granted them a guard of eleven men to accompany
them and the captives whom they had redeemed to Albany, which they reached
May 22. 1678. The following is the plain unstudied letter written by
Benjamin Waite to the people of Hatfield, after reaching Albany:
"To my loving Friends and Kindred in Hatfield: These few lines are to let you
understand that we are arrived at Albany now with the captives, and that we stand
in need of assistance, for my charges is very great and heavy and therefore any
that have any love to our condition, let it move them to come and help us in this
strait. Three of the captives are murdered — old Goodman Plimpton, Samuel Foot's
daughter, Samuel Russell; all the rest are alive and well and now at Albany,
namely, Obadiah Dickinson and his child, Mary Foote and her child, Hannah Jen-
nings and three children, Abigail AUis, Abigail Bartholomew, Goodman Coleman's
children, Samuel Kellogg, my wife and four children, and Quintin Stockwell. I pray
you hasten the matter, for it requireth great haste ; stay not for the Sabbath nor the
shoeing of horses. We shall endeavor to meet you at Canterhook ^Kinderhook), it
may be at Housatonick. We must come softly because of our wives and children.
I pray you hasten them, stay not night nor day. for the matter requireth haste;
bring provisions with you for us. At Albany, written from mine own hand, as I
have affected to you all that were fatherless, be affected to me now and hasten the
matter, and stay not, and ease me of my charges. You shall not need be afraid
of any enemies. Your loving kinsman,
Benjamin Waite.
164 FIELD GENEALOGY.
They remained in Albany five days, and on May 27, started and walked twenty-
two miles to Kinderhook, when they met men and horses from Hatfield. They
rode through the woods and reached Hatfield in safety. The captives had been ab-
sent eight months, and Waite and Jennings seven months. The day ot their arrival
was one of the most joyful days that Hatfield ever knew. The ransom of the captives
exceeded two hundred pounds, and was collected by contributions from the English.
On May 27, the governor and council appointed June 26 as a day of fasting, humilia-
tion and prayer, and May 30 they issued an additional order recommending the case of
Benjamin Waite and the captives for relief to the pious charity of the people of the
several towns in the colony, desiring the ministers on the fast day to "stir up" the
people to contribute for the relief of the captives. And for "quickening the work"
copies of Benjamin Waite's letter were remitted to the ministers to be publicly read on
the aforesaid fast day. Canada Waite was the grandmother of the late Oliver Smith,
of Hatfield, who was distinguished for his great wealth, and the munificent trusts
he created under his will for the benefit of the poor and indigent in several towns
in Hampshire and Franklin counties in Massachusetts. Sophia Smith, who founded
and endowed the female college at Northampton was a niece of Oliver Smith and
great-granddaughter of Joseph Smith and Canada Waite. There is nothing in the
tales of the Colonial Indian Wars more affecting than the story of the efforts of
Benjamin Waite to procure the ransom of his wife and children from captivity, or
more touching and thrilling than his letter addressed to "his loving friends and
kindred at Hatfield." This letter and the account ot the hazardous journey of
Waite and Jennings to Canada reads like a tale of the Crusaders. Bishop Hunting-
ton, in his address at the bi-centennial celebration in 1859 of the first settlement of
Hadley in 1659, well said in relating the story of the attack on Hatfield by the
Indians, that the names of Benjamin Waite and his companion in their perilous
journey through the wilderness to Canada should "be memorable in all the sad or
happy homes of this valley forever." The descendants of Capt. Jonathan Field
deem themselves honored that through Canada Waite, the child of captivity, they
can trace their lineage to Benjamin Waite, and they feel as though they had a
direct family interest in the memories of his strong and loving soul and Christian
heroism. Benjamin Waite was killed by the Indians at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, at
the time of the destruction of the town by the French and Indians under Hertel
De Rouville. Canada Waite was married to Joseph Smith, of Hatfield, Dec. 15,
1696, and died May 5, 1749. Her husband, Joseph Smith, was born Nov. 16, 1670,
and died Feb. 6, 1752.
About 1750, settlements were commenced in different part of the present town
of Leverett by Nathan Aaams, Moses Graves, Solomon Gould, Elisha Clary, Joseph
Clary, Joel Smith, Moses Smith, Jeremiah Woodbury, Joseph Hubbard, Isaac Mar-
shal, Jonathan Hubbard, Richard Montague, Wilde, and Absalom Scott.
Montague settled in the north part of the town ; Adams, Joel Smith, Gould and
Graves in the south part; Elisha and Joseph Clary at the foot of Cave Hill; Jona-
than Hubbard in the eastern part, and Joseph Hubbard on the farm now owned by
Sawyer Field, near the east side ot the fish pond. The latter was probably the first
settler in the town. Josiah Cowls. Jonathan Field, Stephen Ashley, and Jonathan
Field, 3d, settled soon afterwards on Long Plain, in the southwest part of the town,
and Joseph Bartlett on "brushy mountain." Leverett was originally a part of Sun-
derland, and a petition of its residents laid before that town at its March meeting
in 1773, praying for liberty to be set oft into a new town, for the common lands
within its boundaries, and an equitable proportion of the town property, doubtless
contained the names of all who were then settled within the present boundaries of
Leverett.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 165
Mr. Field d. March 31, 1781 ; res. Sunderland and Leverett, Mass.
364. i. EUNICE, b. March 12, 1723; m. John Ballard, of Sunderland.
365. ii. JOANNA, b. Dec. 11, 1725; m. Jan. 31. 1753, Daniel Graves, ot
Brimfield. Ch. : i. Persis; m. Eli Parsons; 2 Gideon; 3 Sibyl.
366. iii. LYDIA, b. Jan. i, 1731; m. Nov. 20, 1750, Thomas Chapin. of
Springfield, and, 2d, March 14, 1814, John Amsden, of Deerfield ;
she d. March 11, 1814.
367. iv. MARY, b. July 11, 1734; m. July 5, 1754, Seth Warner, of Sunder-
land; m., 2d, Nov. 21. 1771, Miles Alexander, of Sunderland and
Northfield. Seth Warner was b. Sept. 29, 1729; d. jNIay 14, 1769;
she d. Feb. 21, 1829. Their son Eleazer Warner, b. Sept. 20,
1755, m. Elizabeth Belden; d. Aug. 9, 1837; he d. Dec. 8, 1829.
Their daughter Martha Warner, b. April 10, 1784, m. Caleb Mon-
tague; b. July 7, 1781; d. Oct. 28, 1825; she d. March 13, 1876.
Their daughter Fanny E. Montague, b. Aug. 29, 1824, m. Henry
S. Stockbridge, b. Aug. 31, 1822; d. March 11, 1895. Henry
Stockbridge, lawyer, b. in North Hadley, Mass., Aug. 31, 1822,
was originally named Henry Smith Stockbridge; but he dropped
the Smith in early manhood. He was graduated at Amherst in
1845, ^Q<i studied law in Baltimore, where he was admitted to the
bar May i, 1848, and has since practiced his profession. During
the Civil war he was a special district attorney to attend to the
business of the War Department, and m 1864 as a member of the
legislature he drafted the act that convened a constitutional con-
vention for the abolition of slavery in the state. He took an active
part in the proceedings of the convention, and defended the con-
stitution that it adopted before the court of last resort. Afterward
he instituted and successfully prosecuted in theUnited States courts
proceedings by which were annulled the indentures of apprentice-
ship by which it was sought to evade the emancipation clause. Mr.
Stockbridge thus practically secured the enfranchisement of more
than 10,000 colored children. He was judge of the circuit court for
Baltimore county in 1865, a delegate to the Loyalists' convention in
1866, and vice-president of the National Republican convention of
1868. Mr. Stockbridge has been for twenty years editor of the Fund
publications of the Maryland Historical Society, of which he is
vice-president, and he is the author of publication No. 22, "The
Archives of Maryland" (Baltimore, 1886); besides various contri-
butions to magazines. His son, Henry W., of Baltimore, Md., b. in
that city, Sept. 18, 1856, graduated at Amherst College in 1877,
and from the law department of the University of Maryland in
1878. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and at once
began the practice of law in connection with his father. In 18S2
was appointed one ot the examiners in chancery, and discharged
the duties of this position till March, 1889. In 1887, upon the death
of Major Randolph, he became one ot the editors ot the Baltimore
American, and continued in this employment until March, 1S89,
when, having been elected to the Fifty-first Congress, he retired to
devote his attention to his congressional duties. He declined a
renomination for Congress in 1890, and in i8gr was appointed
Commissioner of Immigration at the port of Baltimore, and un-
dertook the work of organizing at this port the inspection of im-
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STOCKBRIDGE ARMS.
migrants. He resigned as immigration commissioner on March
3> 1893.^ From the time ot the expiration of his congressional
term he resumed actively the practice of the legal profession, and
became counsel for several large corporations. In i8q6 he was
elected as an associate judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city, and has since been discharging the duties of that position;
m. Jan. 5, i88a, Helen Maria, daughter of Chester Smith, of Hadley,
Mass. Ch. : i. Henry, b. Dec. 21, 1885. 2. Enos Smith, b. Mays, 1888.
Arms: Argent, on a chevron azure three
crescents or. Crest: Out of a cloud two
dexter hands in armor conjoined, holding
up a heart inflamed all proper. Res. : 11 N.
Calhoun street, Baltimore, ]\Id. Societies:
Maryland Historical, American Historical,
Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution,
Founders and Patriots.
368. v. SETH, b. March 13, 1741; m. Mary Hubbard
and Mrs. Margery (Knowlton) Lotheridge.
369. vi. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 27, 1745; m. Dorothy
Kellogg and Editha Tracy.
370. vii. ESTHER, b. Feb. 6, 1743; m. Feb. 9, 1764.
Joseph Bodman, of Williamsburgh. She
d. 1720.
371. viii. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 15, 1750; m. Sarah
Kellogg,
372. ix. EDITHA, b. Dec. — , 1767; m. April 23, 1767, Giles Hubbard, ot
Sunderland.
373. X. MOSES, b. Sept. 17, 1754; m. Mary Spellman.
374. xi. DAUGHTER, b. March 7, 1740; d. March 7, 1740.
229. CAPTAIN JOHN FIELD (John, John. William, John, Richard. William,
William), b. Providence, R. I., Feb. 20. 1671; m.. November, 1697. Elizabeth Ames,
dau. of John, b. Sept. 6, 1680; d. 1739; was res. in Bridgewater and returned to
Providence in 1 749.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Ames, of Bridgewater. He moved to
Providence in 1730, and died in 1758, aged eighty-seven. His wife died in 1739 aged
fifty-eight. John Field, son of John Field, born in 1704; died in 1729; aged twenty-
five.
Removed to Providence about 1730-31. Admitted freeman 1731.
B. 2, 458. To cousin Daniel, Nov. 2, 1714.
B. 4, 183. To Benjamin Whipple, June 4, 1720.
B. 8, 203. To James Edwards, Oct. 24, 1729.
B. 308. From Peleg Williams, May 21, 1730.
B. g, 16. From Greenes (several), Oct. 12, 1731, right of John Greene, of W^ar-
wick, to land in Providence, Smith field, Scituate and Gloucester. Important deed.
B. 9, 17. To Jonathan Whipple, Oct. 14, 1731, 400 acres in Gloucester.
B. 9, 79. To Daniel Smith, Jan. 5, 1731-32.
B. 9, 187. To Elizabeth Snow, July 22, 1732.
B. 9, 278. To Thomas Steere. Feb. 28, 1733-34, thatch in Cove on Woonasqua-
tucket river, which belonged to grandfather John Field.
B. 9, 297. From Thomas Steere, Feb, 28, 1733-34, Thatch in Hawkins' Cove.
B. A 10, 57. To John Walton, June 9, 1736.
B. A 10, 63. To Joseph Snow, Jr., Sept. i, 1736.
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B. Aio, 137. To John Hawkins.
B. Aio, 330. To Shadrach Manton, Nov. 13, 1735.
B. An, 213. To Benjamin Gorham, 1740.
B. A12, 381. To Elizabeth Snow, May 31, 1750, Benedicts Pond.
B. 441. To James, April 10. 1751, land ot grandfather John.
Will of John Field (Capt.)— Providence Probate Docket, Vol. i, No^ A708. Will
book 5, p. 156. In the Name ot God. Amen, I John Field of Providence its^-e County
of Providence in ye Colony of Rhode Island &c. being ancient ot an Infirnr Constitu-
tion, but of Sound Memory, Blessed be God, do make and Publish this my Last Will
and Testament in manner following that is to Say —
Imprimis, I give and devise to my Grandson John Field all my Homestead
Lands and Buildings whereon I now Dwell (excepting a Small Lot of Land fifty foot
front, and one Hundred foot Back, Joyning to the Highway, which I shall herein-
after give to my Grandson James Field) and the Land and Meadow which I pur-
chased of Peleg Williams, lying on the North Side of the Highway opposite against
m}' Dwellmg House, and also all that my Tract of Land lying on the Plain, on the
South Easterly Side of the Highway that leads from Providence Town to that part
called Moshanticutt, adjoyning to the Pond, called Long Pond; all the above men-
tioned Lands, Buildings and Appurtenances to be and remain unto my Said Grand-
son John Field, his Heirs and Assigns for ever, being in Providence and Cranston
in ye County aforesaid
Item, I give and Devise unto my Grandson James Field, a Small Lot of Land,
lying adjoyning to the Lands of Joseph Snow, a little Northwestwardly from my
Dwelling House, adjoyning to the Highway, bounded Northwestwardly on Said
Snow's Land, on which it measures One Hundred Feet, & North Eastwardly on the
Highway on which it measures Fifty Feet, (this Lot is intended to be Fifty Feet
wide in all parts) and to hold the Breadth of Fifty Feet, extends back Southwest-
wardly One Hundred Feet, where it terminates; and also all that my Tract or Par-
cel of Land, lying on the Northwestwardly Side of the Highway that leads from
Providence Town, towards Moshanticutt aforesaid, adjoyning to the Pond, called
and known by the Name of Benedict's Pond, all to be and remain unto him my
Said Grandson James Field, and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever, being partly in
Providence, and partly in Cranston in said County
Item, as to all the rest and remaining Part of my Lands both divided and undi-
vided, allotted or not allotted, lying and being in the Towns of Providence and
Smithfifcld in the County of Providence, within the Original Purchase of Providence
and elsewhere, I give and devise the same unto my said Two Grandsons John
Field, and James Field, to be equally divided betwixt them, and to be and remain
unto them, their Heirs and Assigns respectively forever
Item, I give and bequeath unto my said Two Grandsons John Field and James
Field all my Husbandry Tools and Tackling of all sorts, and my Carpenters Tools
to be equally divided betwixt them
Item, I give to my Grandson John Field my biggest pair of Hand-Irons, and
one Feather Bed and Furniture thereto belonging
Item, I give to my Grandson, James Field a pair of Hand-Irons
Item, I give and bequeath unto my Three Daughters viz. Elizabeth Snow,
Sarah Howard and Susanna Keith, Two Feather Beds & Furniture to them belong-
ing, and One Hundred Pounds in Bills of Credit old Tenor, to be divided amongst
them in this manner, that is to say, Two of my said three Daughters to have a Bed
and Furniture, each of them, and the other of my said Daughters that hath not a
Bed, to have the said Hundred Pounds ia Bills of the Old Tenor in Lieu thereof, as
they shall agree
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Item, I give and bequeath unto the Children of ray Sister Elizabeth Briggs, and
the Children of my Sister Lydia Mandly. the Sum of Ninety Pounds in Bills of
Credit of the Old Tenor, to be equally divided amongst Such ot my said Sister's
Children as are Surviving
Item, I give to my Nephews, Anthony, Jonah, Jeremiah and Samuel Steers,
and to my Neice Loranna Coman, Ten Pounds to each ot them in Bills of Credit of
the Old Tenor
Item, I give and bequeath unto Mary Snow of Providence, Single Woman, for
and in Consideration of her Care and Industry, Since She hath kept my House, the
Sum of Ten pounds in Bills ot Credit, Old Tenor, exclusive of her Wages
Item, as to all the rest and remaining part of my Personal and Moveable Estate,
that shall remain after my Just Debts, Legacys, funeral Charges and other Ex-
penses are duly paid, I give the Same to my aforesaid Three Daughters, Elizabeth
Snow, Sarah Howard and Susanna Keith, and my aforesaid Two Grandsons John
Field and James Field to be equally divided amongst them respectively
Item, as to my Negro man Jeffery. I do hereby Order, and my Will is, that he
Shall Chuse which of my Children or Grandchildren he Shall think proper to live
with, and so far give him his Time as to chuse any ot them, or any other Person as
he thinks proper to take him, provided they, that he Shall So chuse. give Bond to
keep my Heirs, Executors, and Administrators from all Cost, Charge and Trouble,
that Shall from thence accrue by reason of Said negroe Jeffery's Maintenance; and
in case none of my Said Children Shall See cause to accept ot Said negroe, then he
Shall be kept and maintained by my executor hereafter named
Item, I do hereby Order, and it is my Will, that all my Just Debts and Legacys
before mentioned and other Expenses, Shall be paid by my Executor out of my
Personal Estate and I do hereby Name ordain and Appoint and make, my aforesaid
Grandson John Field my Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament, to pay
all my Just Debts and Legacys and perform this my Last Will and Testament
In Witness and Confirmation whereof I do hereunto Set my Hand and Seal, the
Twenty-Sixth Day of June in the Year ot Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Fifty-tour
After the aforewritten Jnstrument being publickly Read to the above named
John Field it was by him. Signed, Sealed, published and declared to be his Last
Will and Testament, in the Presence of us the Subscribers
Be it remembered, that "the Lot to be fifty foot wide in all "parts" in one place,
and the words "one feather Bed and "Furniturethereto belonging" in another
place, was interlined before Signing and Executing these Presents
And be it also remembered, that 1 have heretofore Sold & conveyed unto my
Grandson John Field all my Stock of Cattle, Sheep and all Sorts of Quick Stock ;
and that 1 have heretofore given unto my Grandsan James Field the Sum of Four
Thousand Pounds old Tenor, and Several Deeds of Gifts of Lands and that the
words "partly in Providence and partly "in Cranston" in two places, was interlined
before Executing hereof
Solomon Searl his
Ezekiel Williams John X Field l. s.
Richard Waterman mark
Proved April 5th. 1757.
He died in 1757. Res., Bridgewater, Mass., and Providence, R. I.
375. i. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 4, 1698; m, in Providence, Joseph Snow, b.
Sept. 6, 1690. Joseph Snow was born in Bridgewater; died in
Providence, July 23, 1773: son ot Joseph Snow; b. 1668; d. 1753;
m. Hopestill ; son of William Snow and Rebecca (Backer
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Snow, dau. of Robert Backer and Lucy (Williams) Backer, ot
Duxbury. Ch. :
I. Joseph, b. March 26, 1715; m., ist, Nov. i, 1737, Sarah Field,
dau. of Zachariah and Abigail Field b. Aug. 9. 17 10; d.
July 9, 1753. He m., 2d, March 14, 1754, Rebecca Grant, of Bos-
ton; she d. Sept. 30, 1774. He m., 3d, Oct. 24, 1775, Mrs. Mar-
garet Proctor. Ch. (by first wife): a. Sarah, b. Oct 27, 1738;
d. April 23, 1752. b. John, b. Feb. 3, 1740; m., Feb. 14, 1799,
Eliza Snow, dau. of John. c. Joseph, b. Sept. 22, 1741; d. Oct.
10, 1741. 4. Joseph, b. Sept. 2, 1742; m., March 7, 1773, Sarah
Noyes, dau. of Jonathan Badger. Ch. : i. William, ii. Oliver,
ill. Margaret. This family are to be found in its descendants of
Penn Yann, N. Y. e. Lydia, b. Jan. 3, 1744; d. March 22, 1763 (or
1766?). f. Susannah, b. Oct. 14, i745;m., Dec. 23, 1764, Dr. Samuel
Carew; d. March 22, 1766. g. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 10, 1747; m.,
July 9, 1774, Zabdiel Rogers, h. Abigail, b. March 26. 1749;
d. Aug. 10, 1752. i. Josiah, b. Feb. 24, 1750; m. . Ch. by
2d wife: j. Rebecca, b. Feb. 13, 1756. k. Samuel, b. Aug. 10,
1758: m. May 18, 1781, Frances Wanton, dau. of Capt. Peter and
Elizabeth Gardiner Wanton. He was member ot the Cincinnati ;
lieutenant in Revolution. Ch. : i. Peter; captain of infantry.
Continental army. He d. May 13, 1838. 1. Edward, b. May
9, 1760. m. Benjamin, b. Dec. 6, 1761; m., ist, Sally Rogers,
dau. ot Theophilus, of Norwich, Conn., b. Jan. 26, 1761; d.
April 8, 1788; m., 2d, Sarah Otis, dau. of Joseph, of Norwich,
Conn. Ch. : i. Hamilton Rogers, b. Nov. 7 1786; d. April 7, 1789.
ii. Frances, b. May 22, 1790. iii. Maria, b. Dec. 19. 1791: d. Feb.
8, 1795. iv. Caroline M., b. Sept. 24, 1793: ni. R. M. Field; d.
1843. V. Charles Knox, b. May 5, 1796. vi. Samuel Edward, b.
March 5, 1798. vii. Maria L. b. July 9, 1800; d. Aug. 18, 1824.
viii. Sarah Ann. b." Aug. 10, 1802; m. J. L. Hubbard; d. March
29, 1820. ix. Rebecca Monroe, b. June 11, 1805; m. J. Hunting-
ton, of Norwich, d. Sept. 3, 1839. He d. March 23, 1849.
Joseph Snow was pastor of Beneficient Congregational Church
from 1743 till death. He d. April 10, 1803,
2. John, b. April 19, 1717; d. Dec. 3, 1738.
3. Elizabeth, b. May, 4, 1719; m., ist, Jan. 12, 1736, John
Field, son of Zachariah and Abigail, b. 1708; d. April 5, 1738.
Ch. : John Field, b. 1738; d. Aug. 29, 1808; m. Abigail Covy,
March 21, 1761, who died May 19, 1820, aged eighty-five.
M., 2d, Ezra Dean and moved to Plainfield, Conn. She d. Dec.
18, 1750.
4. Susannah, b. Dec. 12, 1721; m. March 19, 1741, Matthew
Short; d. Feb. 18, 1743.
5. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1723 ; is said to have married John Jenckes;
d. Jan. 8, 1745.
6. Daniel, b. Oct. 2, 1727; m. Jan. 11, 1767, Sarah Searle, dau.
ot Solomon and Elizabeth Gladding Searle (she was dau. ot Wil-
liam^and Mary), b. Oct. 15, 1738; d. 1821. By records of Provi-
dence he also married Feb. 6, 1749, Elizabeth Searle, dau. of
Solomon. Sarah and Elizabeth were both living in 1810. Ch. :
Elizabeth, Susannah, Lydia, Daniel, Rebecca and Sarah. Chil-
12
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dren of Daniel and Elizabeth: Daniel, bap, April 20, 1751.
Samuel, bap. June 3, 1753. He d. Nov. 17, 1784.
7. James, b. Dec. 30, 1729-30; m., March 26, 1755, Hannah
Searle, dau. of Solomon and Elizabeth (Gladding) Searle, b. June
10. 1733; d. Nov. 14, 1823. Ch. : James, Daniel, Mary, Joseph,
John Samuel, Edward, Sarah and Hannah. James Snow, cap-
tain m Fourth company Providence militia in 1776-80, was
either he or his son. (See Col. Rec. ot R. L. vol. vii, viii, Reg.
Orders R. I. Hist. Soc, June 11, 1778; Rev. Defenses of R. I.,
by Edward Field.) Had. Oct. 18, 1812.
8. Mary, b. April 20, 1733. She was probably the first child
of Joseph Snow to be bom in Providence. Her father was deacon
of First Congregational church. He is called deacon in the His-
tory of Easton, Mass., and perhaps his title was at first com-
plimentary. She d. Feb. 12, 1751.
9. Lydia, b, Feb. 8, 1735; d. Dec. 10, 1738.
10. John, b. April 19, 1739. No trace of him, unless he is
the one who married Mary Thurston, of Newport. (See Redwood
Family Gen.)
Joseph Snow, Sr., appears to have been a cantankerous person
whose specialty was a stirring up church rows. He lived in
Easton, Mass., and in "Chaffins" book, on that town, you will
find some record of him. After his removal to Providence he
became involved in a controversy at the First Congregational
church, and because of the teaching of "damnable good works"
that the minister indulged in, Mr. Snow withdrew and estab-
lished a congregation with his son as pastor on the west side of
the town. (See "Staples' Annals of Providence," "The Beneficent
Church," by Rev. J. G. Vose.) The funeral sermon of the Rev.
Joseph Snow was preached by Rev. Stephen Gano, from the text,
"I have fought a good fight." A copy of this is in the Brown
University library. Mr. Snow continued as pastor until his death,
but in his later years he withdrew from the church founded by
his father, and established a third Congregational church. The
reason of this change is to be found in the growing popularity
of the Rev. James Wilson, called to be his assistant. Old Mr.
Snow could not see his own growing decrepitude, and was
oflEended at the people who preferred the younger man. Mr.
Snow took with him the records of the church that he had kept
with great care and attention and many of the dates here
can be verified by consultation with the original record now in
the custody of the Union Congregational Society. A picture of
Rev. Joseph Snow was printed some years ago in Dr. Vose's
"Beneficent Church."
James Snow, his brother, was captain of Fourth company of
Providence militia in 1 776-1 778. See Edward Field's "Rev.
Defenses of Rhode Island." Pay abstract on file at State House,
Rhode Island. Reg. Orders R. I. Hist. Soc. "Col. Rec. of R.
I., Bartlett.
From a note gleaned at the city hall (where the documents, are
filed And indexed in first-class order) I am led to believe that
these services should be credited to James Snow's son, James,
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since he is called Capt. James Snow, Jr. The dates are James,
St., b. Dec. 30, 1729-30; d. Oct 18, 1S12. James, Jr., b. April
10, 1756; d. Sept 13, 1825. Is not twenty years rather young
for a captain? It seems as if it was the elder James who was
the veteran.
Mitchell's Bridgewater. Moved to Easton about 1730 and after-
wards to Providence.
B. 9, 157. From John Field, July 22, 1732, meadows, thatch
beds and common, i. e., seventy-nine acres at Bennet's, near
Benedict Pond three acres near his dwelling house, a right in
thatch beds which was the right of John Greene, Jr., etc.
B. 12, 381. From John Field, May 31, 1750, Benedict's Pond.
376. ii. SARAH, b. 1700; m. July 30, 1719, Jonathan Howard. He was son
ot Major Jonathan, and was b. 1692. Res. Bridgewater. Ch. : i.
Nathan, b. 1720. Was Esq.; m. Jane Howard. 2. Charity, b.
1721; m. Benjamin Pierce, a descendant of Capt. Michael Pierce.
3. Susanna, b, 1724; m. 1745. Col. Edward Howard. Their
daughter was Susannah Howard, who m. Oakes Angier. They
had a daughter Susannah, whom. April, 1803, Ohver Ames, b.
April II, 1779; d. Sept 11, 1863. She d. March 28, 1847. Their
son, Oliver Ames ( manufacturer, b. in Plymouth, Mass., Nov.
5, 1807; d. in North Easton, Mass., March 9, 1877), was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts State Senate during 1852 and 1857. He
was largely interested with his brother in the development of the
Union Pacific railroad, and was its president pro tem. from 1866
until 1868. He was formally elected president of the company
March 12, 1868, and continued as such until March 8, 1871. He
was connected with the Credit Mobilier, and in 1873 succeeded
his brother, Oakes Ames, as the head of the firm. They had a
son, Oliver, who had a son, Fred L. Oakes Ames, the brother
of Oliver was a manufacturer, and was b. in Easton, Mass., Jan.
10, 1804; d, in North Easton, Mass., May 8, 1873. He was the
eldest son of Oliver Ames, a blacksmith, who had acquired con-
siderable reputation in the making of shovels and picks. After
obtaining a public-school education he entered his father's work-
shop, and made himself familiar with every step of the manufac-
ture. He became a partner in the business, and with his brother.
Oliver, Jr., established the firm of Oliver Ames & Sons. This
house carried on an enormous trade during the gold excitement
in California, and again a few years later in Australia. During
the Civil war they furnished extensive supplies of swords and
shovels to the government In the building of the Union Pacific
railroad they were directly interested, and obtained large con-
tracts, which were subsequently transferred to the Credit
Mobilier of America, a corporation in which Oakes Ames was one
of the largest stockholders. In 1861 he was called into the exe-
cutive council of Massachusetts. He served continuously m Con-
gress from 1862 to 1873, as representative from the Second Mas-
sachusetts district His relations with the Credit Mobilier led to
an investigation, which resulted in his being censured by a vo-.e
ot the House of Representatives. Subsequent to his withdrawal
from political lite he resided at North Easton, where he died of
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apoplexy May 8, 1873. His wife was Elvira O. Gilmore, b. June
14, 1809; d. July 20, 1882. Their children were: a. Fred Norton
Ames, b. Aug. 14, 1833; m. Nov. 13, 1856, Catherine Hayward
Copeland. Ch. : i. Alice L.. b. . ii. Edward C. Norris;
Res., Boston, b. Oakes Ames, b. . m. . Res. Canton,
Mass. 4. Sarah, b. 1726; ra. 1746. Capt. Adams Bailey. 5. Jona-
than, b. 1729; was captain; m. Phebe Ames. 6. Amy. b. 1734;
m. Jeremiah Belcher. She d. 181 2.
377. iii. SUSANNAH, b. Feb. 25, 1702; m. 1721, Joseph Keith. He was son
of Joseph, and his grandfather was Rev. James Keith, from Aber-
deen, Scotland. He was b. 1699. Res. first in Easton, and later
in East Bridgewater. He d. 1777. Ch. : i. Joseph, b. 1722;
was captain; m. Ann Turner. 2. Abigail, b. 1725; m. Joseph
Robinson. 3. James, b. 1727; m. Sarah Holman. 4. David, b.
1728; m. Jemima Whitman. 5. Susanna, b. 1731; m. Peter
Whitman. 6. Eleazar, b. 1733' m. Elizabeth Mitchell. 7. John,
b. 1736; m. Alice Mitchell. 8. Seth, b. 1739; m. Abigail Holman.
9. George, b. 1742; m. Deborah Clift.
378. iv. JOHN, b. Feb. 27, 1704; m. Mary Howard.
379. v. JAMES, b. Sept. 12, 1706; d. unm. Aug. ri, 1729. Administration
of his estate was granted his father. Captain John, Oct. 27, 1729.
Died at sea. His father appomted administrator. James
belonged to Providence, that Probate Court having jurisdiction.
Admitted freeman in 1728. Probate records, 3, pp. 130, 132.
Inventory of estate made by Joseph Field, William Hopkins.
Captain John, of Bridgewater, administrator.
231. RICHARD FIELD (John, John, William, John, Richard. William, Wil-
liam), b. Providence, R. I., May 17, 1677; m. Jan. 17, 1704, Susanna Waldo, b. 1684.
B. 8, 42. To James Mathewson, May 17, 1703. — Prov. records.
7665. Richard Field, of Bridgewater. Susannah Field, his wife, was appointed
administratrix Nov. 24, 1725. Inventory filed in this case gives the dafe of the
decease of said Richard, Sept. 14, 1725. No will and no heirs mentioned.
7666. Richard Field, of Bridgewater. His wife, Susannah Field, appointed
administratrix Sept. 25, 1734. No will and no heirs mentioned. (There was noth-
ing in these papers to show that this was a second appointment on the first Richard's
estate. It may be another Richard.)
7667. Richard Field et als. On April 13, 1730, Susannah Field was appointed
gfuardian to her children, viz. : Mercy Field, Zabia Field and Susannah, under the
age'of^fourteen years, and to Jabez, Richard and Ruth, who were under the age of
twenty-one. — Plymouth County Probate.
He d. Sept. 14, 1725. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
380. i. ZEBULON, b. Aug. 23, 1707; m. Anna Williams and Patience
Wetherell.
MARY, b. Oct. 5, 1709; m. March 16, 1747, Samuel Noyes.
RICHARD, b. Oct. 21, 1711; no record.
JABEZ, b. Sept. 29, 1713; m. Mary Fobes.
RUTH, b. Aug. 6, 1715; m. Nov. 24, 1737, Israel Packard, Jr. He
d. 1752, son of Israel and Hannah. She m., 2d, 1754, Joseph
Ames, son of Thomas, b. 1711. Res. Bridgewater, Mass. By
her first husband she had four sons and a daughter, all of whom
d. young. By her second husband she had Zephaniah, b. 1755.
She d. and he m. 2d, Mrs. Abigail (Lathrop) (Bosworth) Alger.
381.
n.
382.
111.
383.
IV.
384.
V.
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385. vi. ZOBIAH, b. March 4, 171Q; d. Nov. 26, 1722.
386. vii. MERCY, b. Aug. 17, 1723; m. Jan. 29, 1747, Archibald Robinson.
He was son of Gain Robinson, of Bridgewater, who came from
Ireland. Ch. : i. Robert, b. 1747. 2. John, b. 1749.
3S7. viii. SUSANNAH, b. May 18, 1725; m. Oct. 16, 1747, Nathan Hartwell.
He was son of Samuel. Res. Bridgewater, Mass. She d. 1758,
and he m. 2d, in 1761, Betty Cushman. Ch. : i. Mary, b. 1753;
m., 1 78 1, Abner Shirley. 2. Daniel, b. 1755 (major), m. Mehitable
Copeland. 3. Susannah, b. 1758; m., 1780, Asa Keith.
388. ix. ZOBIAH, b. March 28, 1705; d. April 3, 1708.
389. X. SUSANNAH, b. Aug. 6, 1721; d. Nov. 26, 1732.
233. DANIEL FIELD (John, John, William, John, Richard, William, Wil-
liam), b. Providence, R. I., July 17, 1681; m. March 6, 1706, Sarah Ames, dau. of
John, of Bridgewater, b. 1685. He was living in Bridgewater in 1703.
B. 8, 42. To James Mathewson, May 17, 1703; 1715 blacksmith at Providence.
7045. Daniel Field, of Bridgewater. Will written Nov. 25, 1746. Legatees
mentioned, eldest son, Daniel Field, son of Job Field, son Joseph Field, daughter
Abigail Field, daughter Mehitable Manton, of Providence, and five grandchildren,
children of his daughter, Hannah Beswick, deceased (their names not given). Job
and Joseph Field, his sons, appointed executors, March 4, 1746. — Plymouth County
Probate.
He d. February, 1746. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
390. i. MEHITABLE, b. Nov. 22, 1706; m. Nov. 13, 1733, Edward Manton,
of Providence, R. I.
391. ii. HANNAH, b. Feb. 16, 1709; m. March 18, 1734, Charles Beswick.
Five children.
392. iii. DANIEL, b. Oct. 5, 1712; m. Susanna Thayer.
393. iv. JOB, b. Aug. 25, 1714; d. unm. in 1748.
7655. Job Field, of Bridgewater, yeoman. His will written
Jan. 16, 1747-8. Legatees mentioned in will : Brother Daniel,
sister Mehitable Manton, sister Abigail Field. He gives unto the
children of Charles Beswick five shillings (their names not given).
He mentions brother Joseph Field, who was appointed executor
April 4, 1748. — Plymouth County Probate.
SARAH, b. Jan. 23, 1718.
JOSEPH, b. ; m. Betty Pray and Rachel
ABIGAIL, b. ; d. unm. 1750. 7640. Abigail Field, of Bridge-
water, single woman. Her will written March 21, 1749-50. Lega-
tees mentioned in will: Brother Daniel Field, brother Joseph
Field, sister Mehitable Mariton (or Manton), sister Susanna Field,
cousm Rachel Field, cousin Anna Field, cousins Charles Beswick,
Ede Beswick and Daniel Beswick. (This abstract was taken from
the records, as the original papers are missing. The above name,
Ede Beswick, is a facsimile of record — evidently the copyist could
not make out the whole name.) Abigail's will was proved, and
Joseph Field, her brother, was appointed executor May 7, 1750.
In the bond recorded in this estate she was called "widow," but
in the letter of appointment was called single woman, the same
as in the will.
397. viii. SUSANNA, b. ; m. 1735, Israel Packard, Jr. His second wife.
He d. 1752. They had five children, and all d. young. She
m., 2d, 1754, Joseph Ames.
394.
V.
395.
VI.
396-
Vll,
174 FIELD GENEALOGY.
236. ZACHARIAH FIELD (Zachariah, John, William, John, Richard. Will-
iam, William), b. Providence, R. I., Jan. 20, 1685; m. before 1706, Abigail . Ad-
mitted Freeman, 1708.
B. 2, 285. From John Hawkins, July 21, 1709.
B. 2, 290. From William Steere, March 25, 1711-12, 4 acres w. of 7-mile line.
B. 2, 60. Mortgage to G. Crawford, Jan. 22, 1706-7, discharged 1709.
B. 2, 122. Mortgage to F. Crawford, Feb. 22, 1708-9, discharged 1710.
B. 2, 252. Award of Land, July g, 1709.
B. 2. 324. To Elisha Knoulton, March 27, 1714.
B. 2, 414. To Joseph Whipple, June 25, 1715.
B. 2, 283, To Zachariah Eddy, July 14, 1709, wife Abigail.
B. 9, 18, Deed to John Field, son of Zachary, Jr., deceased, Oct. 26, 1731.
Early Rec, B. 11, 164. 1712, July 2S. Controversy between Zachary Field and
John Hawkings referred to a Purchasers meetmg.
He d. between 171 5 and 173 1 ; res. Providence, R. L, and moved away.
: 395. i. ZACHARIAH, b. about 1706; m. Lydia Titus.
399. ii. JOHN, b. , 1 70S; m. Elizabeth Snow.
399^. iii. SARAH, b. Aug. 9, 1710; m. Nov. i, 1737, Joseph Snow, Jr. ; she d.
July 9, 1753 (see elsewhere for children).
237. JOHN FIELD (Zachariah, John, William, John, Richard, William, Will-
iam), b. Providence, R. I., 1687; m. 1712, Hannah . Admitted Freeman 1734.
Error. M. in Providence, Dec. 13, 1741, Hannah Field and Josiah King.
B, 4, 73. To William Crawford, March 25, 1713, wife Hannah resigns dower
May 4, 1713-
Probate, Book 3, p. 298. Inventory ;^77 6d.
Probate, Book 3, p. 310. Widow Hannah administratrix and to support his
children.
Prov. Early Rec, 9, 115. 1735, Nov. 24. John Field living on west side of
Mashapauge Pond, etc.
He d. in Rhode Island, April 2, 1737; res. Providence, R. I.
400. i. JOSEPH, b. 1715; m. Susannah Hambleton.
400K. ii- OTHER children.
240. JOSEPH FIELD (Zachariah, John, William, John. Richard, William.
William), b. Providence, R. I., , 1693; m. , Zerviah Carey, daughter of
Joseph and Abigail, b. 1697; d. June 28, 1787 Inventory presented 1768. His son
Isaac was administrator June 23, 1768.
B. 4, 145. To William Crawford, March 26, 171 5, all outlying lands.
B. 3, 17. Of William Crawford, March 26, 1715, homestead estate, of John ist
and Zachary 3d.
B. 7, 134. From Bro. Daniel, June iS, 1719, His int. in James Est.
B. 8, 214. From Nicholas Lapham, Sept. 23, 1729.
B 3, 466. From Peleg Williams, May 25, 1731.
B. II, 246. From Joseph, Jr. (42), Oct i, 1744. Int. in uncle James Est.
B. 273. From Jeremiah Field, 1744, land at Mashapaug.
B. 314. From Bro. Daniel (15), Oct. 30, 1745. Int. in Bro. James Est.
B. 331. From Joseph Jr. (42), March 14, 1745. Int. in uncle James Est.
B. 17, 499. From Archibald Young, July t, 1767, Hawkings Cove.
B. 5,465. Probate Records. Inventory, ^255 14s. i7d. Set forth by son Isaac
who was made administrator June 21, 1768.
He d. June 4, 1768; res. Providence, R. I.
401. i. ISAAC, b. Nov. i8, 1743; m. Martha Hartshorn.
4<j2. ii. SARAH, b. Oct. 24, 1740; d. April 7, 179;.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 175
242. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, William, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Providence, R. I., Jan. 3, 1670; m. there Abigail Hopkins, daughter
of William and Abigail Hopkins; m., 2d, April 2S, 1737, Abigail Chaffee; she d.
soon after 1752. June 7, 1725, he deeded "for fatherly love and affection, which 1
have for my eldest son Thomas Field, Jr., etc., lot of land where he liveth, in the
lands of Pawtuxet, on west side of Pauchasset river, 140 acres and buildings, with-
out limitation, 1730-42, Town Council. April 5, 1732, he deeded son Anthony for
love and good-will, certain lands, viz., 5 acres that was my honored father,
Thomas Field's, deceased, also lots of 80 acres and 62 acres, etc. April 26, 1737, he
made an agreement with Abigail Chaffee, two days before his marriage, concern-
ing property, 1742, deputy. Jan. 18, 1744.
B. 2, 353. From Wm. Crawford, Aug. 12, 1714. Edward Harte's right.
B. 2, 406. From Wm. Crawford.
B. 2, 492. From Thomas, Sen., May 19, 171 5.
B. T,, 54. From Elisha Arnold, Dec. 28, 171 7, land at Pawtuxet.
B. 4, no. To Samuel Gorton, Dec. 17, 1719.
B. 6, -j-j. To Robert Crane, June 3, 1723.
B. 6, 330. Benjamin Paine, April 27, 1723.
B. 7, 34. To Elisha Smith, March 3, 1725.
B. 8, 501. To Son Thomas, June 7, 1725.
B. 9, 109. To son Anthony, April 12, 1732.
B. 9, 150. To Zachariah Eddy, Jr., Nov. 8, 1728.
B. 9, 412. To Moses Lippitt, May 28, 1735, right of Thos. Weston.
B. 9, 414. To son Thomas, Feb. 13, 1734-5-
B. 9, 384. To Pardon Sheldon, March 4, 1734-35.
B. Aio, 105. To son Jeremiah, March 30, 1737.
B. Aio, 255. To son Nathaniel, property which he had lately given to Jere-
miah.
B. Aio, 399. To son Thomas, 1738-39, land at Pawtuxet.
B. II, 223. To son Jeremiah, May 12, 1744. — "
Probate 2, 20. Son and heir to Thomas called Yeoman, Sept. 13, 1717.
Probate 4, 30S. Widow, Abigail, appointed administratrix, void.
Probate 4, 311. Will proved. See below. No property.
Thomas was living in 1746, as son Jeremiah is appointed his guardian, he being
unable to care for himself.
Will dated Jan. 17, 1743; presented for probate Feb. 17, 1753. Jeremiah to
be executor. Will was objected to by son Thomas on account of incompetency of
father, but Jeremiah reported that there was no property.
"Monday Morning, Feb. 20. 1882.
"Mr. George T. Paine.
"Dear Sir: I verj' much regretted not seeing you last week, and being desir-
ous to give you as little trouble as possible, 1 call at your office to-day, and lest I
should not find you, I am writing this note to leave. Unless there is some reason
for the belief, that Abigail Field was not the daughter of Wm. Hopkins, except
that she was not mentioned in his will, I shall leave it for the Hopkins to prove the
contrary. The idea of her being called 'Hopkins' by courtesy is not reasonable,
especially on her marriage. It is evident her mother had one Hopkins boy, and
when she speaks of her first husband's son, calls him by his true name, and so does
her husband.
"Thomas Field was a very rich man, for his day, and fathers of that day, so
little inclined to give to daughters anything, but household goods any way, it was
not strange if he thought it unnecessary; besides he might not have liked Thos.
176 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Field, many of that day did not like him, he was arbitrary and exacting. Again,
all those old Fields were apt to mention degrees of relationship. Thomas 2d, who
referred to his 'two grandfathers,' did not hesitate when the estate was to be set-
tled, to summon his 'mother-in-law,' Abigail (Chaffee) Field. They were too proud
and independent to admit of patronage of any sort, even from a step-grandfather,
though a Hopkins. I remember hearing Uncle George Field tell with tearful ap-
preciation of the heroism of 'Old Uncle Stephen Hopkins,' when he signed the
'Declaration,' being a paralytic, said, 'My hand trembles, but my heart don't.'
'However, 1 am open to conviction. 1 am puzzled over Thomas 50 and Thomas
44 (see Mrs. Brovvneli's Field Genealogy, p. 10). Mrs. Wiaid says, 'My grandfather
married Hannah Irons.' She had not seen my book. Mrs. Wiaid's father was
Darius Field, and if born in 1777 (see last page of the book), it would be right for
the marriage 1775. But this Thomas was not son of Silas so I leave it.
"With thanks for the loan of the book, I remain,
"Very truly yours,
"H. A. Brownell.
Capt. John, ist, of Bridgewater, did not mention two of his daughters in his
will."
Will of Thomas Field— Providence Probate Docket, Vol. I. No. A610. Will
Book No. 4, page 311.
Jn the Name of God amen I Thomas Field of Providence in the County of
Providence and Colony of Rhoad Jsland in New England yeoman being a ToUar-
able state of helth and in my Right mind and memory and vnderstanding as to a
Disposing mind Thanks be giuen to allmighty God therefore and Knowing it is
appointed for all men once to Die and knowing not how soon it may Please God to
take me out of this World; and being minded to set my house in order while I haue
a being Jiere in this world Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament
first and Principally I Giue and bequest my Sole vnto God that Gaue it and my
body to the Earth to be Decantly Buryed at the Discretion of mine Executor here
after mentioned and named and as touching such worldly Estate as it hath Pleased
God to bless me with in this world I Giue and Dispose of in the following manner
and form first I Will and ordain that all my Just Debts that I owe to any Person
either in Right or Concrance shall well and Truly be Paid and ansured and ordained to
be paid in sum Conueniant time after my decease by mine Executor hereafter named
Jtem I Giue and Bequest vnto my Louemg wife Abigail Field the sum of Forty
Pounds in Bills of Publick credit of said Colony of the old tenor money Eqvielant
thereto to be Paid to her by my Executor hereafter named and Likewise I oblige my
Executor to fuUfill all my agreements made with my wife which I made before mar-
rige and is vnder hand and seal Likewise I Giue and bequest vnto my Loueing wife
all and Euery Part of what she brought with her to me when I married her as Bed
and beding and sundry other Household stuff.
Jtem I Giue and bequeath vnto my Loeing son Thomas Field the sum of fif-
teen pounds in Bills of Credit of the old tenor to be paid within one year after my
Decease by my Executor hereafter named
Jtem I Giue and Bequest vnto my Loeing son Jeremiah Field my Lott of Land
Lying in the Township of Siteuate in the County of Prouidence abouesaid Lott
Lyeth on boath sides of Punhanset Riuer Containing Two Hundred and Fifty acres
or thereabouts and also one Lott of Land in the Lands of Pautuxet on the west side
of Pauchasets Riuer in the Township of Prouidence aforesaid and adjoj-ning to the
seuen mile Line so caled Containing one Hundred and Fifty acres or thereabouts
both the aforementioned Lotts to be and Remain vnto my said son Jeremiah Field
his Heirs and assigns for Euer
FIELD GENEALOGY. 177
Jtem I Giue and bequeath my Loueing son Nathaniel Field the sum of four
Pounds in money to be Paid unto my said son his Heirs &c: by my Executor here-
after named in one 3'ear after my decease
Jtem I Giue and bequeath vnto my Loueing son Anthony Field my Lott of
Land Lying in the Township of Glocester in the County of Providence aforesaid
said Lott Lyeth near Chapachit Ceeder swamp Containing one Hundred and seuenty
acres beit more or Less to be and Remain vnto my said son Anthony Field his
Heirs and Assigns for Euer
Jtem 1 Giue and bequeath vnto my Loueing son Jeremiah Field whome I Like-
wise Make Constitute ordain and appoint to be my whole and sole Executor of this
my Last Will and Testament all my Moueable Estate after ray Just Debts Leageses
and Funeral Charges are Paid if any there be Remaining and to his Heirs and
Assigns &c In Witness and for Conhrmation of all the Particulars of this my Last
Will and Testament I the said Thomas Field haue herevnto set my hand and seal this
Eighteenth Day of January in the seuenteenth year of his Majestyes Reign George
the second King of Grate Britain &c: Anno que; Domine — 1743-44
Signed Sealed Published Declared and Pronounced to be the Last Will and Testa-
ment in the presence of vs
Thomas Field ls
James Arnold
A: Francis
Samuel Boyles
Proved December 16, 1752.
He d. July 17, 1752; res. Providence, R. I.
403. i. THOMAS, b. , i6g6; m. Abigail .
404. ii. STEPHEN, b. in Providence ; d. at sea Sept. 10, 1727; m.
Sarah; had one child that lived a few years; widow Sarah m.
William Smith March 31, 1732-33. Sarah was appointed administra-
trix of his estate Dec. 11, 1727; m. Sarah Smith, daughter of John
the Miller, 3d (see Austin's Diet., p. 383). Admitted Freeman
1723.
Probate 3, 89. Inventory. Relict and widow Sarah. Mentions
family.
Probate 3, 245. Bill of Sarah Smith (widow of Stephen Field).
For child's clothing 3 yrs and 3 mos. ; for child's funeral expenses.
Was a Blacksmith.
Mrs. Brownell, 1724. To Wm. Page land in right of Thomas
James between Weybosset Hill and Muddy Brook.
Early Records XII, p. 22. 1720, Nov. 26. Appt. Administrator
of estate of Hannah Wailes.
405. iii. JEREMIAH, b. ; m. Abigail Waterman.
.406. iv. NATHANIEL, b. ; m. Margaret Barstow.
407. v. ANTHONY, b. ; m. Mehitable Whipple.
408. vi. JOSEPH, b. before 1699; ^- at sea; Oct. 5, 1736. Probably unmarried.
A mariner. Admitted Freeman 1720.
B. 8, 214. From Nicholas Lapham, Sept. 23, 1729.
Council Records, July 2, 1737, Jeremiah Field appointed admin-
istrator. Father Thomas, declines.
B. 3, 218. Probate Rec. 3, 218. Father Thomas refused to ad-
minister. Bro. Jeremiah appointed.
B. 3. 219. Inventory made July 19, 1737, by Josiah Pain and
Richard Waterman, Jr. Inventory, ;^79 i6s. lod.
178 FIELD GENEALOGY.
245. WILLIAM FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, William, John. Richard. William.
William), b. Providence, R. I., June 8, 1682; m. Martha ; m., 2d, in Provi-
dence, Mary Mathewson; she d. after 1729. Admitted Freeman 1708, M., 3d, Mary,
who outlived him, and afterwards m. Moore. Austin says he m. Mary
Mathewson, daughter of James and Hannah, and that she d. 1729. He had a
brother-in-law, Thomas Mathewson.
Probate 3, 137. In his will he directs all his children except John and Charles
to provide for their mother, and these may have been children of the first wife.
B. 2, 86. To Thomas Mathewson, Dec. 2, 1707, brother-in-law.
B. 2, 382. To James Browne, March 4, 1714-15.
B. 5, 130. To Zachariah Eddy, Jr., Sept. 14, 1721.
B. 5, 284. To David Rutingbar, May 17, 1717.
B. 7, 150. To John Pray, Jr., Aug. 26, 1726.
B. 7, 237. To Robert Currie, Jan. i, 1727-8.
B. 7, 238. To Robert Currie, May 15, 1725.
B. 7, 264. To William Turpin, May 15, 1725.
B. 9, 403. From Thomas (Sen.), Sept. 11, 1708.
His will was dated Oct. 16, 1729, proved.
To dau. Martha Browne, lot &c., for her son Gideon or his elder bro.
To son Joseph (a minor) lot on Town St.
To son Nathan (a minor) a lot on Town St. and land at Snaile's Hill.
To dau. Mary lot on Town St.
To sons William and Thomas (minors).
To wife Mary.
To sons John and Charles the lots of land given /ii'm by his mother Martha dec.
To sons John & Charles his land at Wanskuck.
To son John his salt meadow at Pungansett
Early Records, Vol. XI, p. 137. Elected constable June 6, 1709.
He deeded to brother-in-law Thomas Mathewson for good- will, «&c., 4 acres
(confirmed by Thomas Field, father of said William), 1708, Freeman, 1727, March
13. he, of the one part, deeded Nicholas, Richard and Henry Harris, of the other
part, for purpose of establishing boundary line, they all choosing Capt. Wm. Pot-
ter, to make partition between them ' 'of a certain piece of land, being that which
was the front of that which was the homestead of our honoured grandfather.
Thomas Harris, deceased."
Will of William Field.— Providence Probate Docket, Vol. I. No. A327. Will
Book No. 3, page 137.
I William ffeild of the Towne of Prouidence in the Colony of Rhoad Jsland and
Prouidence plantations Jn New England: yeoman. Being now sick and weake of
Body: but of sound dissposeing mind and memory Praise be Given to God for the
same ; Doe make this my Last Will and Testament ; Jn manner and forme follow-
ing; first and Prinsipally I Commit my spirit to Almighty God my Creator: and my
body I Commit to the Earth : to be decently buried att the discression of my Exec-
utrix: herein After named: and as to the outward and worldly Esstate the Lord
hath Lent mee in this present world I Give and bequeath as followeth :
Jmprimis as to my homestead whereon I now dwell: I Give and bequeath in
the following manner and forme — I Giue to my daughter Martha Browne one small
Lott of Land adjoyneing on the East side of the Towne streets in said Prouidence
and on the south side of James Browne Junrs houslot whereon he Liueth : Contain-
ing of fifty foot in breadth: north and south bounding on the west end with the said
Town streete and from thence to Extend Eastward Eighty foot bounding on the
north side with the said James Brownes Land and to hold the full breadth of fifty
FIELD GENEALOGY. 179
foot at Each end and so the whole Length : the said Lott of Land to be and Re-
mains to my said Daughter Martha Browne her heirs Executors Administrators and
Assigns: with the preuiledges and appurtinanses theireunto belonging for Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my son Joseph ffeild: one Lott of Land fifty foot
in Breadth north and south bounding on the west End with the said Towne streete
and from thence to Extend Eastward holding the same breadth Eighty foot: bound-
ing on the north side with the Land I haue Given to my Daughter Martha Browne:
To Haue and To Hold the said Lott of Land unto him my said son Joseph ffeild
and to his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns with the previledges and
Appurtinanses for Euer.
Jtem I Give and bequeath to my son Nathan ffeild: one small Lott of Land
adjoyneing on the west side of the said Town streete of fifty foot in breadth north
and south bounding on the west End with the said streete; and from thence to
Extend Eastward holdeing the same breadth of fifty toot: vntill Jt Comes Eighty
foot Eastward from said Townn sreete : and to be taken in that place where on :
Doctr Henry sweeteing hath built a house: To Have and To Hold the said Lott
ot Land unto him my said son Nathan ffeild his Heirs Executors Administrators
and Assigns with the preuiledges and Appurtinanses thereunto belonging tor Euer.
Jtem I Give and bequeath to my daughter Mary ffeild one small Lott of Land
adjoyneing on the East side of the Town streete bounding on the south side with
the Land belonging to the Heirs of Major William Crawford: and from thence to
Extend fifty foot northward bounding on the East side of said streete: and from
thence to Extend Eastward Eighty foot holding the full breadth of fifty foot: To
Haue and To Hold the said small Lott of Land unto her my said Daughter mary
ffeild her Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns with the Preuiledges and
Appurtinanses for Euer.
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my two sons William ffeild and Thomas ffeild all
the Remaining part of my homestead Land whereon my Dwelling house standeth
in said Prouidence to be equally deuided betwixt them my said two sons William
and Thomas: and to beandRemaine unto them theire Heirs Executors Administra-
tors and Assigns To Have and To Hold with all the buildings and Appurtinanses
thereunto belonging foreuer: But my will is and I doe hereby Order that my loue-
ing wife Mary ffeild shall haue the whole management use and profet of my said
homestead and buildings thereon untill my said two sons shall attaine and Come
to the age of twenty one years: for her to Jmproue prouided shee Remaines a
Widow for the support and nurture of herself and famoly but in Case shee shall
marry before my said sons shall attaine to that age: then my will is that shee shall
be quitt of all my said homestead Lands and preuiledges : and that there shall be
Gardians Chosen to my Children who shall haue power to Rent and Jmproue my
said homestead Lands and buildings thereon for the use and profet of my famely
untill my said sons William and Thomas shall attaine to the age of twenty one
years: At which age Each ot them shall Jnherit his part
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my son Nathan ffeild all that my Lott of Land att
the place Called snailes hill in said Prouidence neck: To Haue and To Hold the
said Lott of Land unto him my said son Nathan his Heirs Executors Administra-
tors and Assigns with the preuiledges and Appurtinanses theireunto belongmg for
Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my son Joseph ffeild all my Lands and farms att
the place Called the new ffeilds: and in the place Called the neck in Prouidence
aboue said: To Haue and To Hold the said Land unto him my said son Joseph
ffeild his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns with the preuiledges and
Appurtinanses thereunto belonging for Euer. Rut my will is that my wife shall
180 FIELD GENEALOGY.
haue full Power and Command of thtse two Last Percells of Land as of the other
part afore mentioned Jf shee Remaine a widdow: and in Case shee marry then to
be managed as is prouided in the other part by Gardians untill my said sons shall
attaine to the age of twenty one years: being Giuen under the same tennure as the
other is: or: so: Jntended
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my two sons John ffeild and Charles ffeild all that
my part of the two Lotts of Land that was Giuen mee by my honrd Mother Martha
ffeild, deceased, which are sctuate Lieing and being in said Prouidence Town
adjoyneing on the south side of the Land belonging to the Heirs of Major William
Crawford, deceased, to be Equally deuided betwixt them my said two sons John and
Charles: and to be and Remaine unto *^hem theire Heirs Executors Administrators
and Assigns To Haue and To Hold with the preuiledges and Appurtinanses for
Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath unto my son John ffeild my half Lott of Land within
that tract of Land Called the stated Common in said Prouidence to be and Remaine
unto him his Heirs and Assigns for Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath unto my son Charles flfeild my Half small house Lott
which was Layed out in the Last deuision of house Lotts in the Land Called Dex-
tors Lane: to be and Remaine unto him my said son Charles his heirs and Assigns
with the preuiledges and Appurtinanses foreuer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath unto my said two sons John ffeild and Charles ffeild
all my Lands att the place Caled Wenschcutt in Prouidence abouesaid to be
Equally Deuided betwixt them and to be and Remaine unto them my said two sons
John and Charles theire Heirs and Assigns for Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath unto my son John ffeild all my salt meadow and
Right in the Thatch Coue at the place Called Punganset in Prouidence abouesaid —
to be and Remaine unto him his heirs and Assigns with the preuiledges and Appur-
tinanses for Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath to my son Charles ffeild all my right in the Thatch
beds Lieing up in the Riuer Called Wonasquotuckett Riuer in Prouidence aforesaid
to be and Remaine unto him his Heirs and Assigns with the preuiledges and
Appurtinanses for Euer
And my will is and I do hereby order that the Lott of Land I haue Giuen to my
daughter Martha Browne shall be to her son my Grandson Gidian Browne when he
shall attaine to the age of twenty one years: and to his Heirs and Assigns foreuer:
and Jn case he shal dye before he shall attaine to that age then the said Lott shall
be and Remaine to his Eldest brother that shall attaine to the said age of twenty
one years: and to be and Remaine to his Heirs and Assigns for Euer. And my will
further is that Jn case my Loueing wife shall Remaine a widdow and bare my
name; then shee shall haue the East end of my dwelling house Called the parler
and a preuiledg in the seller under said house and Preuiledg in the yard and Liberty
of freiut in my orchard for her Nessesary use and to pass and Repass ouer and upon
my Land- as shee shall see cause dureing the term of her Natural Life; but Jn case
shee shall marry then to haue thirte pounds out of my moueable Esstate: and so to
be quitt: And in Case shee doth Remaine a widdow then my two sons Nathan
ffeild and Joseph ffeild shall find and prouide firewood for there mother my said
wife and Carry it home to her doore dureing all the term of her Life and my other
two sons as namely William ffeild and Thomas ffeild shall find and prouide suffi-
ciant meate drink Cloathing and all other things nessesary with sufficiant attend-
ance both in sickness and helth for theire mother my said wife dureing the term of
her natural Life
Jtem my will is that Jn case Either or any of my said sons shall dye before they
FIELD GENEALOGY. 181
attaine to the age of twenty-one years then there parts that shall so decease, shall be
deuided amongst his or theire suruiueing brothers: and to be and Remaine to theire
heirs and Assigns for Euer
Jtem I Giue and bequeath unto my Loueing wife Mary fFeild all my household
stuff of all sorts: and for her to Giue a portion thereof to my daughter Mary fFeild
as shee shall see cause; and as to all the Rest. of my moueable Esstate after all my
Just debts funeral Charges and other Expenses are duely paid and my Children
brought up: what then after Remaines I Giue Equally to be deuided amongst all
my sons: And 1 doe name ordaine Appoynt and make my Loueing wife Mary ffeild
sole Executrix to this my Last will and testament to Receive and pay all my Just
debts unto whose Care I Commit the bringing up and tuision of my small Children.
— Jn witness whereof I doe hereunto sett my hand and seale this sixteenth day of
October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand seauen hundred and twenty nine.
Signed sealled pronounced and Memorandum
declared in the presence of us before signeing and
sealeing. I Giue to
Jabez Bowen my daughter Martha
William Potter Browne: ten
Richard Waterman Junr sheepe William field ls.
Proved December ist, 1729.
He d. Nov. 5, 1729; res. Providence, R. 1.
409. i. MARTHA, b. in Providence, 1710; m. Jan. 7. 1727, Joseph Brown.
Joseph Brown was son of Rev. James and Mary (Harris) (John.
Chad); b. May 5, 1701; d. May 8, 1778, in North Providence; she
d. April 19, 1736, aged 26. He m., 2d, Abigail Waterman, b.
1711; d. May 23, 1784, aged 73. Joseph lived in North Providence
on what is now Chalkstone avenue, on the north side of the road.
The old homestead is still standing and is a little to the east of the
present Obadiah Brown farrn. It is a large white house with a
substantial chimney in the center. Joseph Brown made his will
April 15. 1772; it was proved in North Providence, June 6, 1778,
and is recorded in Book A, p. 175-6, at the Pawtucket city hall.
He and his two wives are buried at North End in the same lot
with Rev. Chad Brown. Ch. of Joseph and Martha (Field) Brown:
I. Gideon, b. 1728; d. 1807 'Q Johnston, R. I.; m., ist, Ruth
Rutinburg; 2d, Sarah Place. 2. William, b. about 1780. 3. Mar-
tha, b. about 1732. 4. John, b. April 6, 1734; d. 1815 in Johnston,
R. I. ; m. Sarah Harris. 5. Anne, b. Jan. 4, 1736. Ch. of Joseph
and Abigail Brown. 6. Joseph, b. 1739. 7- Elisha, b. April i,
1748. 8. Andrew, b. 1750. "The Chad Browne Memorial," pub-
lished m 1888, takes up the descendants of Joseph Brown by his
second wife, and gives little information of Martha Field's poster-
ity. Clarence I. Brown, of Thornton, R. I., is compiling an
account of the Brown family of Johnston, R. I., particularly the
descendants of Martha Field.
410. ii. JOSEPH, b. about 1720; m. Sarah Harding.
411. iii. NATHAN, b. ; probably d. unm. June 20, 1743, or Sept. 28,
1747, intestate. Not of age in 1729, Oct. 16, when his father's will
is'dated. B. 12, 152. Charles Field sells Sept. 2S, 1747, to Stephen
Hopkins, land belonging to his brother Nathan, supposed dead.
412. iv. MARY, b. ; m. Caleb Arnold, of Warwick.
413. v. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Jemima .
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417-
1.
418.
11.
4lq.
iii.
420.
IV.
421.
V.
422.
VI.
414. vi. THOMAS, b.*about 1708; m. Margaret — --.
415. vii. JOHN, b. 1712; m. Deborah .
416. ix. CHARLES, b. Feb. 6, 1714; m. Waite Dexter.
250. JOHN FEILD (Jeremiah, Joseph, Edward, William, John, John, Will-
iam), b. Chellow, in Heaton, England; m. , Grace (Rhodes) Hodgson, dau. of
Timothy Rhodes, of Heaton, and relict of Thomas Hodgson, of Little Horton. She
was buried at Bradford, Dec. 5, 1702; m., 2d, in Bradford, May 27, 1708, Susan Binns,
of Allerton; baptized April 17, 1687; she was a widow m 1749. John, after the
death of his first wife, Grace, m. May 27, 1708, Susan, dau. of John Binns, of Aller-
ton, at Bradford, where this lady was baptized April 17, 1687. She was living, a
widow, in 1749. John Feild had.by his second wife Susan, a dau., Mercy, baptized
at Bradford. Sept. 9, 1708, who d. young, buried Nov. 30, 171 6. Jeremiah, baptized
Feb. 10. 1709-10, buried at Bradford, Sept. 2. 1718; and Jonathan, baptized March
4, 1714, buried March 21, 1715, at Bradford. He was buried Jan. 18, 1731; res.
Bradford, England.
JOHN, b. 1701 ; m. Mary Eamondson.
JUDITH, eldest dau., m. to Henry Atkinson, of Bradford, marriage
settlement dated Dec. 29, 1733; living 1751.
GRACE, baptized at Bradford, Sept. 19, 1708.
MERCY, d. young, buried Feb. 24, 1720.
JOSEPH, d. young; buried Nov. 30,^716.
JEREMIAH, baptized Feb. 10, 1709; buried at Bradford, Sept, 2,
1718.
423. vii. JONATHAN, baptized March 4. 1714; buried at Bradford, March
21, 1715.
256. SAMUEL FEILD (William, William, Edward, Edward, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b. London,
England, ; m. . . He d. before 1657; res. London, England.
424. i. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Elizabeth .
425. ii. MARY, b. ; m. Oliver Boteler, of Harold, County Bedford.
260. ROBERT FIELD (Elnathan. Robert, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. Newtown, L. I., May 12, 1698; m. , Elizabeth
Hicks. Robert Field, of Newtown, eldest son. named in the wills of his father,
uncle Robert and aunt Phcebe. His own dated August 10, 1765. Elizabeth Hicks,
his wife, named in her husband's will, and also in that of his uncle Robert Field,
Dec. 10, 1734. He d. Dec. 19, 1767; res. Newtown, L. I.
426. i. ELNATHAN, b. ; m. Mary Willet.
427. ii. ROBERT, b. ; named in his father's will and in that of his
great aunt, Phoebe Field.
428. iii. BENJAMIN, b. ; named in his lather's will ; removed to Middle-
town. N. J.
429. iv. JACOB,b. ; named in his father's will; was assessor April 5,
1796; overseer of the poor, 1835 to 1842. Hem. Charity Whitehead,
dau. of Thomas. Ch. : i. Mary; m. Samuel Blackwell. 2. Eliza-
beth. 3. Henry. 4, Jacob. The father d. April 26, 1 815, aged 82.
430. V. STEPHEN, b. ; named in his father's will; m. Helena White-
head, dau. of Thomas. Ch. : i. Frances. 2. Deborah Smith, m.
Van Dorn. 3. Sarah, m. Thomas Keeler. 4. Waters. 5.
Hannah, m. Jacob Field. 6. Richard. 7. Stephen, b. Oct. i,
1774; m. Sarah Blackwell. He d. April 15, 1828. Ch. : a. Abigail
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Helen, b. ; m. Cornelius Layster. b. Sarah Maria, c. Rob-
ert M., of New York city. d. Stephen, e. Cornelia.
431. vi. ABIGAIL, b. ; m. Samuel Moore. Samuel Moore named in
will of Robert Field, Aug. 10, 1765. Abigail Field, named in her
father's will.
432. vii. DEBORAH, b. ; m. Daniel Betts and Walter Smith. Walter
Smith named in will of Robert Field, Aug. 10, 1765. Deborah
Field, named in her father's will.
433. viii. THOMAS, b. .
434. ix. WHITEHEAD, b. ; m. and had sons, Daniel and Austin.
267. ROBERT FIELD (Benjamin. Robert, Robert, William, Christopher.
John, Christopher, John), b. Jan. 6, 1694, Flushing, L. I. ; m. in 1721-22, Mary Tay-
lor, dau. of Samuel and Susannah, b. March 31, 1700. In Book L of Deeds in the office
of the Secretary of State of New Jersey at Trenton, page 93, is recorded a deed, Dec.
18, 1 721, in which Nathan Allen, of Monmouth county, gentleman, conveys to Rob-
ert Field, of the county of Burlington, cooper, for the consideration of ;^8oo, one
certain plantation lying and being in the county of Burlington, etc., beginning at a
chestnut tree by river Delaware, thence N. 52 degrees. E 23^ chains to a small
black oak, thence E. 23, chains to a large white oak in the line of John Albertino,
deceased, yeoman, thence south 29 degrees 13)^ chains to a small black oak, down
the road to Black's bridge, thence down the creek to an ash tree, thence N. W. till
it intersects Anthony Woodward's line, thence E. 27 chains to the head line of Rob-
ert Murfin, thence W. S. W. 19 chains in ye sd line, thence N. 10 chains,
thence W. 15 chams to the corner of William Black's lands, thence N. 28 chains to
a small black oak, thence N. W. to the river Delaware, thence down the several
courses thereof to the place of beginning, containing 500 acres more or less. This
tract contains the site of White Hill and the village of Fieldsboro. Res. White
Hill, Burlington county, N. J.
435. i. ROBERT, b. May 9, 1723; m. Mary Peale.
436. ii. SUSANNAH, b. Feb. 27, 1730.
437. iii. SAMUEL, b. Feb. — , 1736.
438. iv. TWO other children.
268. AMBROSE FIELD (Benjamin, Robert, Robert, William, Willam, John.
John, William), b. Newtown, L. I.; m. 1705, Susanna Decow. In 1705, "Amoras,"
or Ambrose Field, son of Benjamin, was married to Susanna Decow. Their mar-
riage certificate having eighty names appended thereto. Res. Newtown, L. 1.
439. i. SUSANNA, mentioned in the will of her uncle Robert.
440. ii. BENJAMIN, b. ; m. Mary Barton.
271. JOHN FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John,
John, William), b. Flushing, L. I., Jan. 13, 1694; m. there Jan. 12, 1720, Elizabeth
Woolsey, dau. of John, b. June 24, 1769. He d. March 23. 1773; res. Flushing, L. I.
441. i. HANNAH, b. , named in Flushing record and d. there March
20, 1773.
272. SAMUEL FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. at Peach Pond, Flushing, L. I., Oct 10, 1696; m.
March 7, 1718, Mary Palmer, dau. of William, granddaughter of Samuel; she d.
Aug. 5, 1775. He was born in Flushing, L. I., where he resided and where he was
married. Some time after his marriage, about 1732, he moved to the Oblong, locat-
ing on Dingle Ridge, now in South East, Putnam county, N. Y., where his last child,
Jane, was born. She was the first white child born on the Oblong. Samuel be-
184 FIELD GENEALOGY.
came a prosperous farmer, a well known and highly respected citizen, and whose
well preserved house is still standing. He was a Quaker and belonged to the Soci-
ety of Friends.
Another account says: Samuel appeared on Dingle Ridge on the Oblong before
1733 with sons, William, John and Stephen, and daughters, Elizabeth and Anna.
He settled on a square one mile north and south and seven-eighths of a mile east
and west, on the south side of the town of South East. Dutchess county, N. Y.,
since set off as a part of Putnam county. He was probably the first settler on the
Oblong in South East. His daughter Jane, bom Aug. 18, 1733, was the first white
child born on the Oblong. Samuel's will recorded in the Surrogate's office,
Poughkeepsie, is a unique document. He was a prominent citizen of South East ;
was supervisor 1754-56; was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, as were
his children. He and many of his descendants were buried in the Friends' burying
ground at Peach Pond, where, unfortunately for us, no records were kept and no
inscriptions on the stones.
He d. Sept. 10, 1783; res. Flushing, L. I.
442. i. WILLIAM, b. April 15, 1721; m. Deborah Boyd and Hannah Van
Wyck.
443. ii. JOHN VAN WYCK, b. March 13, 1729; m. and Charity
Coles.
444. iii. STEPHEN, b. Nov. 10, 1730; m. March 17, 1757, Molly Hunt, and
d. s. p.
445. iv. HANNAH, b. June 11, 1719.
446. V. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 4, 1724; m. Elias Palmer.
447. vi. ANN, b. Dec. 25, 1726; m. Nov. 12, 1747, David Palmer; she d.
July 12, 1794. He was son of Obadiah and Anne of Mamaroneck,
N. Y., Westchester county. David and Anne (Field) Palmer had
ch., p. 194, Ob. Q. Rec. : i. Elizabeth, b. June 14, 1748. 2. John,
b. Oct. 23, 1750. 3. Stephen, b. Dec. 23, 1752. 4. Silvanus, b.
Jan. 18, 1755. 5. Jesse, b. Jan. 5, 1757. 6. David, b. Dec. 9, 1759.
448. vii. JANE, b. Aug. 18, 1733; m. Dec. i, 1757, Samuel Coe, shed. Jan.
17, 1808. Ch. : I. Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1758; m. Eleazer Ryder, b.
South East, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1764, son of John and Sarah Ryder.
Eleazer occupied a house which stood on the corner of the high-
way from Brewster, N. Y., to Danbury, Conn. The spot is marked
by a huge rock which formed one side of the dwelling. Three of
his children were born there. On May 5, 1794, he purchased 130
acres, a portion of the present Ryder farm on the westerly side of
Peach Lake, where he built the houses that form the present resi-
dence and to which he removed. He was an energetic and indus-
trious farmer, weaver, merchant and marketman. It is said that
he often obtained the money to pay for his hired help on the farm
by working wilh his loom at night. He kept a country store on
his premises and further supplied his own and his neighbors' wants
by driving a market wagon thrice a week to Sing Sing, transport-
ing the surplus products of the community to the Hudson river,
the avenue of trade with New York, and returning with the man-
ufactures that that locality produced. He was a Whig, and all his
descendants became Republicans. He d. May 25, 1840, and his
wife passed away June 3, 1840. Ch. : i. Sarah; m. Benjamin
Raymond. A descendant is Mrs. Theodorus B. Nash, of South
Norwalk, Conn. 2. Samuel ; m. Rozanna Field, dau. of
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Stephen and Betsey (Brown). 3. Col. Stephen; m. Betsy Nichols.
4. Polly, b. May 11, 1796; d. unm. June 11, 1831. 5. Elizabeth, d.
unm. 6. John, d. unm. 7. Athalanah; m. Solomon Crane.
449. viii. SAMUEL, b. Feb. 3, 1740; d. Jan. i, 1759.
273. ANTHONY FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, CJiristopher, John), b. at Peach Pond, Flushing, L. I.. July 28, 1698; m. Aug.
13, 1730, Hannah Burling. Anthony Field, of Harrison's Purchase, Westchester
county, N. Y., named in Flushing Record, b. there; will dated April 21, 1773. His
wife Hannah, dau. of William Burling, of Flushing, m. there; co-executrix of her
husband's will. Anthony Field, son of Benjamin and Hannah, who was born in 1698,
and married Hannah Burling, removed to Harrison, sometimes called '"Harrison's
Purchase" and sometimes "Purchase," in 1725.
This tract was bought from the Indians by John Harrison, of Flushing, to
whom it was conveyed by a deed of Pathungo, sachem, or chief of the tribe, resid-
ing there, dated Jan. 24. 1695. It is in the county of Westchester, and about thirty
miles from New York. Originally it formed part of Rye, but was separated from
it after the Indian deed referred to, and successfully resisted the claims of owner-
ship made by this town. Bolton, the historian of Westchester, says: "Nearly all
the settlers of this purchase came from Flushing and other towns on Long Island."
And again: "This seems to have been a favorite settlement of the Friends. They
were shamefully persecuted in Connecticut and Massachusetts; from there driven
to Long Island. Even there they could find no rest, for the governor of New York
issued an order forbidding them to worship, even in a barn. So they crossed by
means of the ferry to Rye and settled principally in Harrison." Anthony Field
gave the ground for the first Friends meeting house erected here in 1727, which land
adjoined his estate. His will was dated, "this twenty-first day of the fourth month
(called April), 1773." After providing for his wife Hannah, he directs his land to
be sold "that lies on the North side of the road that leads from King street to White
Plains" ; and out of the proceeds certain sums to be paid to his sons Thomas, Sam-
uel, Anthony and John, "which will make them equal with what my son Benjamin
hath already had, which is eighty pounds"; also forty pounds to son William and
the same sum to daughter Sarah out of the said proceeds, and the remamder of
same to be equally divided between his children, Thomas, William and Sarah.
"When my widdow pleases to sell the farm, where I now live en the East side of
the road that leads from the Purchase meeting house to Rye," eighty pounds is to
be paid "to my son Moses Field," the remainder to be divided equally between his
— the testator's — "widdow" and his children, except Anthony, who has had his full
share. His land in Hampshire (i. e., New Hampshire) is to be equally divided be-
tween his sons William and Moses. "My beloved wife Hannah Field and my sons
Benjamin and John Field to be executors." His death is entered as follows in the
Friends' register of Harrison: "Anthony Field died 9th mo. 2nd 1777," and he
was interred in the burial ground of the meeting house there.
Hannah Burling, dau. of William and Rebecca Burling, of Flushing, was b.
Oct. 16, 1713, and m. there to Anthony Field, June 13, 1730, at which time she had
not completed her seventeenth year. Her father, William, third child of Edward
and Grace Burling, was b. in England Oct. 26, 1678. This Edward arrived in
America shortly after, as appears by an entry of the births of his seven children in
the Flushing register of the Friends, where it is stated that three were born in Eng-
land and four in America. This enables us to fix the dale of his emigration at from
1673 to 1681 inclusive, as his fourth child was born in the last named year, and was
three years younger than the third. Rebecca Burling, the mother of Hannah Field,
d. Feb. 2, 1729. The author does not know her maiden name, but would mention
186 FIELD GENEALOGY.
two circumstances which may be of some help in ascertaining it. Her husband
William, in his will, which is recorded at the Surrogate's office. New York, gives
to "my daughter Hannah Field," besides a bequest of money, "a chest whi^h was
her mother's marked R. S.," and to Sarah Bloodgood, another daughter by his wife
Rebecca, "a silver porringer which was their mother's, marked E. S. M." William
Burling m. a second wife, Mary, who survived him, and is mentioned in his will.
He d., according to the Friends' register of Flushing, Aug. lo, 1743. (The last
figure is indistinct.) The following is the entry of his widow's death: "Mary Burl-
ing, widow of William Burling, dyed 25th day, 8th mo., i747-" Her will, also at
New York, was dated Sept. 4, 1746. This family gave the name to "Burling Slip,"
New York, having obtained a grant of land in the vicinity in 1737. Watson says,
in his "Annals of New York": "Burling Slip was so called after a respectable
family of that name, living at the corner of Smith's Vly (now Pearl street), and
Golden Hill." Probably the family referred to was that of Edward Burling, eldest
brother of William, whose will, dated Feb. 14, 1744, describes him as "merchant of
New York."
He d. Sept. 2, 1778; res, Harrison's Purchase, Westchester county, N. Y.
THOMAS, b. ; d. s. p.
BENJAMIN, b. 1732; m. Jerusha Sutton.
JOHN, b. 1731; m. Lydia Hazard.
WILLIAM, b. ; m. Mary Hatfield.
MOSES, b. ; d. in infancy.
ANTHONY, b. about 1734; m. Mary French.
SAMUEL, b. ; m. Abigail Haight.
SARAH, b. ; m. Joseph Waters.
MARY, b. ; d. in infancy.
JOSEPH FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., June 12, 1702; m. Molly Denton. He
went to Dingle in 1740, and was known there as "The Old Standard." Samuel's
brother Joseph m. Mary, dau. of Solomon and Athalana (Clay) Denton, and settled
seven or eight years later on the next square south of Samuel, in North Salem,
Westchester county. His children were, Solomon, Nehemiah, Joseph, Gilbert,
Nancy, Comfort, Elnathan, Mary, Hannah and Rebecca. Those of his children
who married settled in the same neighborhood. I suppose his will, if he made one,
is recorded at White Plains. Westchester county. He may not have made a will,
as he was blind in his old age. He d. in 1793; res. Flushing, L. I., and Dingle,
N. Y.
SOLOMON, b. 1738; m. Betty Vail.
NEHEMIAH, b. ; d. unm.
JOSEPH, b. ; d. unm. : he was an officer in the Revolutionary
war.
GILBERT, b.. ; m. Hepsibeth Ryder.
NANCY, b. ; m. Joseph Bailey.
COMFORT, b. ; d. unm.
ELNATHAN, b. ; m. Jane Palmer.
MARY, b. ; m. David Waring.
HANNAH, b. ; d. unm.
REBECCA, b. ; m. Oct. 8, 1797, David Palmer, son of David
and Anne (Field), b. Dec. 8, 1759; d. Nov. 27, 1845.
275. ROBERT FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., Sept. 7, 1707; m. Nov. 12, 1729, Re-
450.
1.
451.
11.
452.
111.
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IV.
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V.
455-
VI.
456.
vu.
457-
vin
458.
ix.
274.
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1.
460.
11.
461.
111.
462.
iv.
463.
V.
464.
VI.
465.
vn.
466.
VlU.
467.
ix.
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X.
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becca lauding, dau. of William; d. Feb. 2, 1736; m., 2d. Abigail Sutton, dau. of
Joseph. The wife of Robert Field was Rebecca, dau. of Ebenezer Burling, of Long
Island. Their dau. Sarah Burling m. Isaac Underhill. For a second wife Robert
Field m. Abigail Sutton, dau. of Joseph and Mary Sutton. He d. Feb. 2, 1737;
res. Flushing, L. I.
469. i. SARAH, b. ; m. Aug. 18, 1756, Isaac Underhill at Harrison's
Purchase.
470. ii. URIAH, b. ; m. Mary Quimby.
471. iii. JERUSHA, b. ; m. Oct. 15, 1760, Stephen Field, son of
Nathan. She d. about 1792. Ch. : i. Jesse Field. 2. Oliver
Field. 3. David Field. 4. Phebe Field; m. Haviland. 5.
Elizabeth Field; m. probably Carpenter.
278. JUDGE JEREMIAH FIELD (John, Anthony, Robert, William, Christo-
pher, John, Christopher, John), b. May 17, 1689; m. Feb. 19, 1712, Mrs. Marytje Van
Vieghton*, b. Oct. 8, 1687, widow of Albert Teneicke. She d. Aug. 28, 1742.
Marytje Van Vechten, wife of Jeremiah Field, was dau. of Michiel Van Vechten,
the first son of Dirck Tennisef , and Jarmetje Vrelant. Michiel (above) was b. at
Greenbush, opposite Albany, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1663, and m., ist, Marytje Parker,
Nov. 21, 1686; she d. July, 1690. Tennis Dirckse Van Vechten came to the New
Netherlands in the ship Arms of Norway, 1638, with wife and child and two serv-
ants. He came from Vechten, Holland. Jeremiah Field came with his father John
Field to New Jersey in 1695; was commissioned a lieutenant of Col. Thos. Farmer's
Company in Piscataway, Middlesex county, N. J., Sept. 28, 1713. In 1741 he was
judge of the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, p. 496, History of
Union and Somerset Counties. He m. . All the sons of Jeremiah Field are
buried m the family cemetery on the John D. Field place, excepting Michael, v,-ho
is buried in the churchyard of the Presbyterian church in Bound Brook.
At the Lenox Library in New York there may be seen an old Dutch Bible
printed in Amsterdam in the year 1603, which, notwithstanding its great age, is in a
very good state of preservation, except that the title pages to both the Old and
New Testaments are missing. This Bible bears dates of family history as far back
as 1634. These records are in Dutch, and refer to the Van Vechten family, in whose
possession the book undoubtedly was for many years. It is probable that it came
into use as the Field family Bible at the time of the marriage of Marytje Van Vech-
ten, dau. of Michael Van Vechten, to Jeremiah Field. After the record of the
births of Jeremiah Field and of Mary Van Vechten and prior to the record of their
marriage, there are recorded the births of two children of Mary by her first hus-
band, Albert Teneicke ; then follows the record of the births of the Field children.
In 18 17 this old Bible was presented to the American Bible Society, in whose custody
it has been ever since. The two cuts here shown are reproductions from photo-
graphs recently taken by Mr. John S. Bussing, one of the descendants of "Jeremiah
Field and Mary his wife." They add much interest to the family record. The fol-
lowing shows more clearly the record of the Field family as to names and dates
♦Richard I. Field had in his records which he obtained from his uncle Dennis that Jeremiah
Field married Feb. 19, 1711, Mary Teneicke. Both of the names were familiar in the family.
A silver bodkin found in the "Old House" is engraved with the initials "M. V. V." It is my
opinion that Teneicke was either her middle name — Mary Teneicke Van Vieghton — or she was
a widow when Jeremiah married her. This latter supposition I should give the preference, as
she was two years older than Jeremiah. Then she was Mrs. Mary Van Vieghton Teneicke. —
F. C. P. Her children by her first husband were: 1. Jane, b. Oct. 6, 1708. 2. Albert, b. April
11, 1711.
tMichiel settled in Somerset county, on Raritan river, 1685, and was the first Van Vechten
in New Jersey. He was one of the associate judges of Somerset county, 1711.
188 FIELD GENEALOGY.
than can be seen in the page of the miniature Bible herewith shown. "Jeremiah
Field, the son of John Field and Margaret his wife, was born May 17, in the year
1689. Mary Van Vechten, the daughter of Michael Van Vechten and Mary his wife,
was born October 8, 1687. Jeremiah Field and Mary Van Vechten (widow
of Albert Teneicke), were married February 19, 1 712-13. Jeremiah Field and
Mary his wife had following children (see record in Bible in full). Jeremiah,
b. Jan, 27, 1713-14; John, b. April 5, 1715; Michael, b. Aug. 24, 1716; Margaret,
b. Oct. 2, 1717; Mary, b. Sept. 8, 1719; May, b. Oct. 19. 1720; Michael, b. Feb. 4,
1722-23; Benjamin, b. Feb. 19, 1724-25." On one of the pages someone had written
"this is Jeremiah Field's book," and it is easily understood why he had a Dutch
Bible, He married a Dutch young lady, and probably her parents gave her this
book when she married Mr, Field. The Van Vechtens were a leading family at
that time in that region. It was at the old brick house of the half-brother of Mary-
tje (now standing) that Washington attended a reception in honor of Miss Schuyler.
During the Revolution this homestead was the center of a bounteous hospitality.
On one occasion General Washington danced for three hours with Mrs. Greene, wife
of General Greene, without sitting down. Of course, this house had nothing to do
with the Fields. It is interesting to note, however, that as soon as Jeremiah Field
married into this circle he received a commission as lieutenant; he was probably
much in this social and military life. He d. Nov. 10, 1746; res. Bound Brook. N. J.
472. i. JEREMIAH, b. Jan. 27, 1713; m. Phoebe . He m. and had one
dau., b. Jan. 19, 1736. They resided on the Stephen Voorhees
Place. Jeremiah, at the beginning of the troubles resulting in the
Revolutionary war. we find acting in concert with the true men of
the land. He served on township and county committees of corre-
spondence, and in other ways operating with similar organizations
in the colonies in the common cause of liberty. The history of this
branch of the family since its identification with New Jersey is, as
before, both in this country and in England, marked with true
energetic manliness and good citizenship; always striving for the
best interests of society, loving liberty with a determination to
have it. Owner of large landed property situated along the banks
of the Raritan, his attention was mostly given to the cultivation
of the soil, at the same time advocating and executing measures
tending to improve and benefit the community.
JOHN, b. April 5, 1714; m. .
MICHAEL, b. Aug. 24, 17 16: d. in infancy.
MARGARET, b. Oct. 2, 171 7; m. , Van Deventer.
MARY, b. Sept. 8, 1719; d. in infancy.
MARY, b. Oct. 19, 1720; m. George Rapleyea and Jacob Boice.
MICHAEL, b. Feb. 4, 1723; m. two sisters named Williamson; no
i.ssue; res. on the "Mill Property," Bound Brook, N. J, Michael
Field was owner of the flourishing mill near Bound Brook, and was
particularly noted for his large-hearted generosity and penetrating
foresight; his footsteps are yet seen, and the effects of his benev-
olence are still felt and enjoyed in the neighborhood where he
lived. He gave largely in real estate and by will, in money, to
the Presbyterian church at Bound Brook and for public benefit.
At the outbreak of the Revolution (1775) the able and hardy of the
generations, then living of the family, to a man, sided with the
patriots of the colonies, serving on committees of safety, meeting
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11.
474.
111.
475.
iv.
476,
V.
477.
VI.
478.
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in the councils of the people, sacrificing time and their blood in
the cause of liberty.
The Scotch and English multiplied in this vicinitj', and by the
year 1700 they were in sufhcient numbers to warrant forming the
"Presbyterian Congregation of Bound Brook," which before long
became one of the most flourishing and important religious organi-
zations in the colony. We have no record of where the first services
were held — probably in one of the log dwellings that were distrib-
uted along the willow-fringed banks of the river. It was not until
1725 that the congregation erected its first edifice, a low one-story
house which stood within the present church grounds, and was
preserved until far m this century, the uses of its later years being
that of a school house. Itinerant preachers served the needs of
the people until 1741, when the Rev. James McCrea was appointed
by the Presbytery as a supply, which service he continued until
1749. A second and more pretentious building was completed
about the year 1760, the funds having been obtained from the pro-
ceeds of a public lotterj'.
Affixed to the walls of the present church edifice is a tablet
showing the first settled minister of the congregation to have been
the Rev. Israel Read. He was called to the pastorate in 1750, "in
which he was faithful to his Divine Master to the death." In
November, 1793, he was thrown from his carriage while riding
near New Brunswick, receiving injuries of which three days later
he died. Judging from the congregational records it would seem
that members of the Field family have, from the founding of this
religious society, been among its most active supporters and ben-
efactors. A portion of the church grounds was conveyed by
Benjamin and Jeremiah Field in the year 1749, and the large
church Bible which bears a London imprint of 1772, has on its leaf,
in the handwriting of the Rev. Mr. Read, the following. "Mr.
Michael Field's book 1784 he Presents to the Reverend Mr. Read,
being the Second Small Legacy made by him to the Church at
Bound Brook. Pris- 1-8-0." Michael Field d. Jan. 13, 1792; a copy
of his will, in iny possession, shows that he bequeathed one thou-
sand pounds to the trustees of the congregation, the interest of
which was to be applied "towards supporting the gospell in the
Presbiterian Church at Bound Brook." Healso left the sum of
five hundred pounds for the support of a free school within the
congregation. This was not the first one of the village. The
Scotch Presbyterians held the school almost in equal estimation
with the church ; schoolmasters were brought from the old country
and early established in the East Jersey settlements. In 1752,
when Johannes visited Bound Brook, John Wacker taught the
village children in a low one-story building within the present
church grounds. Doubtless the colonial lads found that peda-
gogue's name to be appropriate to his calling, for schoolmasters of
the olden time considered that mental perceptions were precipi-
tated by knuckles and palms being well ridged by hard rulers.
One of the first teachers in the free academy established by the
bequest of Michael Field was Isaac Toucey, who afterwards was
secretary of war under Buchanan's administration.
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479-
Vlll,
480.
IX.
481.
X.
484.
1.
485.
11.
486.
iii.
BENJAMIN, b. Feb. 19, 1725; m. Margaret De Groot.
RICHARD, b. Oct. 31, 1726; m. Elizabeth Smock.
SARAH, b. Oct. 15. 1728; m. John Pool; they had a son in the
Revolution.
482. xi. HANNAH, b. Feb. 14, 1730; m. John Garrish; they had a son in
the Revolution.
483. xii. TUNES, b. about 1732; m, March 28, 1764, Margaret Fisher.
282. NATHAN FIELD (Thomas, Benjamin, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., Sept. 30, 1703; m. Dec. 10, 1725, Eliz-
abeth Jackson, dau. of James and Rebecca. Res. Flushing, L. I.
283. CALEB FIELD (Thomas, Benjamin, Robert, William, Christopher, John,
Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., Nov. 5, 1705; m. there Anne Rodman.
Caleb Field, son of Thomas and Hannah, m. Anne Rodman, who was probably a
sister of his brother Joseph's wife. He d. before 1783 ; res. Flushing, L. 1.
THOMAS, b. July 28, 1747.
ELIZABETH, b. .
MARY, b. ; m. Nov. 8, 1787, Walter Farrington, son of John
and Ann, of Flushing.
487. iv. ANNE, b. ; ra. Feb. 20. 1783. John Bowne, son of John and
Dmah. "To the monthly meeting to be held at New York 5 d.
2 m. 1783 (Quaker meeting). Dear Friends: These may inform
you that I am consenting to the marriage of my Daughter Anne
to John Bowne. From your Friend, Anne Field. Flushing, 4th
of the 2d month."
488. V. PHILIP, b. .
28g. JOSEPH FIELD (Thomas, Benjamin, Robert, William, Christopher,
John, Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I., Feb. 29, 1722; m. June 16. 1750, Mary
Rodman, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth, b. 1729; she d. Aug. 23, 1751. Res.
Flushing, L. 1.
489. i. RODMAN, b. Aug. 2, 1751.
290. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard, William,
William, Thomas. Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire,
England, about 1681 ; m. there M. Rudd. He d. June, 1746. Res. Cockernhoe,
England.
490. i. THOMAS, b. Nov. 26, 1703; m. M. Rudd.
491. ii. OTHER children.
291. JOHN FIELD (Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard, William,
William, Thomas. Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire,
England, Nov. 15, 1683; m. there Oct. 16, 1716, E. Waters. He d. Dec. 13, 1740;
res. Cockernhoe, England.
492. i. JOHN, b. Jan. — , 1719; m. Anne Cromwell.
493. ii. THOMAS, b. Sept. 4, 1731; m. Feb. 5, 1763, Sibella Field.
292. NATHANIEL FIELD (Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William, Thomas, Thomas. John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertford-
shire, England. Nov. g, 1685; m. Oct. 8, 1717, E. Southgate; d. June 4, 1755. Res.
Cockernhoe, England.
494. i. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 31, 1719; d. Sept. 20, 1729.
495. li. NATHANIEL, b. Dec. 8, 1720; d. .
496. iii. THOMAS, b. Feb. 6, 1722; d. .
497. iv. ROBERT, b. March 28, 1726; d. Dec. 10, 1747.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 191
498. V. HENRY, b. Aug. 31, 1727; d. April 10, 1728
499. vi. JUDITH, b. Jan. 4, 1730; d. Aug. 20, 1731.
293. ISAAC FIELD (Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard, William,
William. Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire,
England, July 29. 1687; m. Jan. 28. 1713, M. Gartick; d. Sept. 18, 1729. Res.
Cockernhoe, England.
500. i. ISAAC, b. Dec. 14, 1714; d. Feb. 7, 1730.
501. ii. MARY, b. Feb. 5, 1717; d. Feb. 14, 1723.
502. iii. BENJAMIN, b. June 21, 1721 ; m. Ann Undershell.
294. WILLIAM FIELD (Thomas, Henry. John, John, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William. Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe, Hertford-
shire. England. April 22, 1691; m. Dec. 22, 1722, E. Stackhouse; d. June 7, 1759-
Res. Cockernhoe, England.
503. i. JOHN, b. June. 16, 1727; m. M. Robinson.
504. ii. WILI,IAM, b. May 20, 1729; m. A. Bailey.
295. SAMUEL FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John. Richard.
William, William), b. East Guilford. Conn., Jan. 12, 1704; m. Dec. 15, 1735. Bethiah
Johnson, of Norwich, Conn.; d. April 13, 1776. He d. in 17S3; res. East Guilford,
Conn.
SAMUEL, b. Jan. 17, 1737; m. Submit Willard.
JOHN, b. June 11, 1740; he was killed at Fort Ticonderoga; one
account says October, 1759; another, Nov. 6, 1775.
DANIEL, b. Nov. 11, 1742; m. Bethsheba .
JOAREB, b. April 3, 1745; m. Hannah Crampton and Mrs. Anna.
S. Batchley.
JOSHUA, b. Feb. 20, 1750; m. Mrs. Submit (Field) Collins.
LUKE, b. Feb. 4, 1753; m. Patience Griswold.
510^. vii. JOHN, b. ; d. young.
296. ENSIGN DAVID FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John. John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford (now Madison), Conn., Dec. 2, 1697;
m. Jan. 13, 1720, Anna Bishop, dau. of John; b. Feb. 15, 1695; m., 2d, May 17, 1731,
Catherine Bishop, dau. of Samuel, b. July 23, 1710; m., 3d, Feb. 20, 1742, Mrs.
Abigail (Tyler) Strong, of Branford, Conn., b. 1705; d. Dec. 23, 1783; widow of
Jedediah. He settled in the north part of Madison, probably as early as 1720, in a
district which, as it was yet uncleared, was called "The Woods," where he soon
after erected a frame house of two stories, that was literally founded on a rock, as
it is standing to this day. The assembly of Connecticut in 1747 at the May session
"do establish and confirm Mr. David Field to be Ensign of the 6th Company or train
band in the 7th Regiment in this Colony and order that he be commissioned accord-
ingly." He d. Feb. 6, 1770. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
511. i. SARAH, b. Dec. 12,^1722; m. Sept. 10, 1740, Nathaniel Crampton,
of East Guilford.
BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 20, 1736; d. Dec. — , 1745.
DAVID, b. July 31, 1728; m. Anne Stone.
ICHABOD, b. Jan. 8, 1731; d. March 30, 1751.
ANNA, b. Jan. 12, 1732; m. June 26, 1754, Ebenezer Bartlett, of
East Guilford.
SAMUEL, b. Feb. 20, 1734; m. Mary Dickinson.
EBENEZER. b. April 18. 1736; m. Rachel Scranton.
TIMOTHY, b. March 12, 1744; m. Anna Dudley.
SOS-
1.
sob.
u.
507.
iii.
508.
iv.
509
V.
510.
VI.
512.
11.
513-
111.
514.
IV.
5IS.
V.
516.
vi.
S17.
vu.
518.
Vlll,
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522.
1.
523-
11.
524.
iii.
525.
IV.
526.
V.
519. ix. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 19, 1745; m. Neri Crampton. He settled first in
Litchfield, Conn.; in 1774 removed to Tinmouth, Vt., where he
died. He was in the battle of Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775. At the
time Arnold claimed command of the expedition, the Green Moun-
tain boys refused to go under any one but their chosen commander.
Col. Ethan Allen. He was captured at the battle of Skeenesboro,
in August, 1777 and paroled, notwithstanding was in the battle of
Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777.
520. X. CATHERINE, b. Aug. 19. 1745; m. Ambrose Graves and d. Nov.
20, 1777.
521. xi. MIND WELL. b. Oct. 14, 1747; d. Sept. 5, 1763.
298. EBENEZER FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., about 1706; m. Oct. 30, 1728,
Hannah Evarts, b. Oct. 30, 1710; d. Jan. 2, 1737; m., 2d, Oct. 16, 1737, Margaret
Evarts, b. Aug. 22, 1711; d. May 28, 174S; m., 3d, Jan. 5, 1749, Deborah Hall, b.
Oct. 27, 1704; d. April 6, 1753; m. , 4th, Nov. 21, 1753, Hannah Mills, b. 1732; was
daughter of Deacon Joseph Mills and Hannah Adams, his wife, of Simsbury, Conn.
(For Mills, Adams, Phelps, Griswold ancestery of his wife see Stiles' "Ancient,
Windsor, Conn.") Res. Norfolk, Conn.
EBENEZER, b. Oct. 13, 1729; d. May 13, 1734.
HANNAH, b. March 23, 1733; m. Jan. 13, 1751, Samuel Teal, of
East Guilford.
EBENEZER, b. 1739; m. Anna Field.
NATHANIEL, b. 1741; m. .
DEBORAH, b. 1755 ; m. I. Plumbly and Elijah Buttolph, of Canaan,
Conn.
527. vi. BETHIAH, b. Oct. 9, 1756; m. John Bunn. John Bunn served
under Col. Frederick Fisher in a New York regiment in the Rev-
olution. (For sketch of John Bunn, see article in American
Monthly Magazine, about three years ago, by Annette Fitch
Brewer, of Sandusky, O. For his Revolutionary services see
New York State Archives.) He was corporal in Captain McAllis-
ter's company. Third New York battalion. (See lineage of Alta
D. W. Fitch in vol. viii., D. A. R. Lineage Book.) Ch. : i.
Hannah M. Bunn, b. in Norfolk, Conn., May 11, 1784; m. Rev.
Jonathan David Winchester, Oct. 6, 1811. (See Steam's "His-
tory of Ashburnham, Mass.") He was a Presbyterian minister of
some celebrity; preached at Madrid and Waddington, N. Y.,
1811-21 ; Brighton, N. Y., 1S21-25, and m Ohio several years. He
d. in Madison, O., Aug. 17, 1835. She m., 2d, May 2, 1842,
Joseph B. Cowles, who d. in 1S54. She d. at Staceyville, Iowa,
Jan. 23, 1876. Ch. by Mr. Winchester: ix. PhilanderWinches-
ter, b. Madrid, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1812; m. in 1838, Elizabeth Oilman
Calkins, of Stowe, Vt., dau. of Rev. Charles Calkins, of Water-
bury, Vt, and Lakewood, near Cleveland, O., and his wife,
Marian Oilman, dau. of Nicholas and Elizabeth Oilman, of
Exeter, N. H. (See Oilman Genealogy, p. 242.) They had nine
children as follows: (a) Alta D. Winchester, b. Plainville, Lake
county. O., Sept. 11, 1839; m. Oct. 27, 1863, Hon. Edward Hub-
bard Fitch, of Ashtabula, O. (See "One Thousand Years of Hub-
bard History, p. 454.) He was son of Hon. Oramel Hinckley
Fitch, a relative of Rev. James Fitch and Maj. John Mason, of
1^. ^A^f fttp.^i^V- ^^'ilJs.
H. M. S. "Marathon," East Indies.
See pase 31.
PHILANDER WINCHESTER.
See page 192.
WINCHESTER FITCH
See page 193.
HON. EDWARD H. FITCH.
See page 193.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 193
Norwich, Conn., 1660. (See Stiles' "Ancient Windsor.") Hon,
Edward Hubbard Fitch, who was for years conspicuous in law,
science and politics, was born at Ashtabula, O. His father, Hon.
Oramel Hinckley Fitch, a lawyer and man of affairs, was born
in Connecticut, and his ancestors were English. His mother,
Cathenne M. Hubbard, was a native of Trenton, New York State,
whose parents formerly resided in Middletown, Conn., were like-
wise of English descent. At an early age Edward was sent to
the grammar school at St. Catherine's, Canada, where he was
prepared tor college. In 1854 he entered Williams College and
was graduated with honors in 1858, being one of the class orators.
While at college he was the president of the Natural History
Societj'. After receiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts he
returned to Ashtabula and at once entered his father's office,
where he began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar
by the District Court of Cuyahoga county in September, i860.
The following year Williams College conferred upon him the
degree ot A. M. He commenced practice at once alone, but in a
short time formed a copartnership with his father, which contin-
ued until Jan. i, 1863, when his father retired from practice, He
then formed a partnership with Judge Horace Wilder, afterwards
a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, under the name of Wilder
& Fitch. This continued until the December following, when
Mr. Wilder was appointed to the Supreme Court bench. He then
practiced alone until Juh', 1864, when he became a partner of
Judge L. S. Sherman, who at this time is the oldest practitioner
in this county. In 186S this firm was dissolved, and he was
again alone until 1878, when he formed a partnership with Hon.
S. A. Northway, now Congressman from this district. In the tall
of 1878 he removed to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, where he
has continued to reside. Ten years later this partnership was
dissolved, and he remained alone until Sept. i, 1896, when he
formed a copartnership with his son, Winchester Fitch, with
offices at Jefferson and Ashtabula, the son being in charge of the
Ashtabula office. In 1S70 Mr. Fitch was, by Gov. R. B. Hayes,
appointed delegate from the Nineteenth District to the National
Capital Convention, at Cincinnati, and in the same year he was
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States
upon the motion of James A. Garfield, who had been his friend
since college days. Mr. Fitch has for years enjoyed one of the
largest law practices of the lawyers of north-eastern Ohio. He
is a lawyer of great ability, and has the reputation of conducting
a case with great skill. His arguments to the court are always
clear, strong and to the point, omitting nothing essential to a
complete statement and containing no surplusage. Before the
jury he is both forcible and persuasive, evincing the art and
power of the advocate. He has been most successful with his
cases on error, and has won a large majority of the cases he has
argued in the Supreme Court. His practice, while it has often
been of necessity of a general character, has had much to do with
the insurance and real estate law. Mr. Fitch is politically a
Republican. His first vote was cast for Lincoln, and he has
194 FIELD GENEALOGY.
always taken an active interest in state and national politics. An
orator of force and influence he is much sought for public speak-
ing. For twenty years he was recorder and a member of the
Ashtabula council. In 1867 and i368 he was prosecuting attorney
for Ashtabula county. He was for fifteen years a justice of the
peace and forty years a notary public. He was several years a
member of the Republican State Central Committee. Mr. Fitch
was appointed by Governor McKinley. in 1894, chairman of the
Torrence Commission. He is a fellow of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancment, of Science, a memb.er of the American
Bar Association, the Ohio Bar Association and of the Sons of the
American Revolution. He was for a number of years chairman
ot the committee of judicial administration, and legal reform of
the Ohio State Bar Association. In 1863 Mr. Fitch was married
to Alta D. Winchester, a daughter of Philander Winchester, at
one time editor of the Painesville Telegraph, a noted abolitionist,
and one of the founders of the Republican party. Of this union
there have been eight children, five of whom are living: Win-
chester, b. Nov. 21, 1867, now a member of the bar and partner
ot his father; Annette, b. Jan. 31, 1870, and m. Jan. 31, 1892, to
Curtis Brewer, who is at present city engineer ot Sandusky and
connected with the Jarecki Chemical Company; Edward H., b.
March 31, 1873, educated in the Western Reserve Academy at
Hudson, Oberlin College and Cornell University; at the latter
place, being a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, to
which his father, brother and brother-in-law also belong, and of
the university football team, receiving his degree ot Bachelor of
Laws in 1897; Alta, b. July 24, 1875, and Flora, b. Aug. 5, 1878.
Mr. Fitch died at Conneaut, his summer residence, on Lake ave-
nue, Thursday, Sept. 9, 1897, and was buried in Chestnut Grove
Cemetery, Ashtabula. Ch. : i. Catherine, b. February, 1865;
d. young. 2. Winchester, b. Nov. 21, 1867; m. June 30, 1897,
Florence Hopper, b. June 21, 1876. Res. 319 West Eightieth St.,
New York City. (See "The Bench and Bar ot Ohio," Century
Pub. Co., Chicago. See Biog His. N. E. Ohio, Lewis Pub. Co.,
Chicago.) Ch. : (a) Alta Jane, b. June 16,1898. (b) Katherine
Elizabeth, b. Oct 19, 1899. Winchester Fitch is descended trom
a family of lawyers. His earlier English ancestors were con-
nected with the profession, and he is the third generation of the
family engaged in the practice of law in Ashtabula. With his
inherited tendencies, studious habits and determination to mas-
ter the principles of law it is fair to assume that he will maintain
the reputation of the family. The son of Hon. Edward H. Fitch
and Alta D. Winchester, he was born at Ashtabula, Nov. 21, 1867.
and received his primary education in the schools of that city.
After he had passed through the grammar school his parents
removed to Jefferson, where he was graduated from the high
school. At the age of fifteen he entered Cascadilla school, at
Ithaca, N. Y., where he was prepared for college. In 1884 he
entered Cornell University and was graduated in 1888 from the
literary department of that institution. His favorite studies
were history and languages. After graduation he went to Chi-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 195
cago. and was tor a time in the general offices of the C. B. & Q.
R. R. He then became a reporter on the Inter-Ocean, and later
was appointed the marine editor, and afterward the literary
editor of the Chicago Evening Journal. For a short time prior to
the Columbian Exposition he was a member of the real estate
firm of Edwin Reed & Co. While in Chicago he read law and
was a student of the Chicago College of Law, taking the night
course. In 1893 he returned to Jefferson to complete his law
studies in his father's office. In 1894 he was admitted to practice
at Columbus by the Supreme Court. At this time he owned an
interest in the Geneva Times, and edited the paper until 1895,
when he came to Ashtabula. Since that time he has been asso-
ciated with his father in the practice of law, under the firm name
of Fitch & Fitch, with offices in Jefferson and Ashtabula. Mr.
Fitch IS a Republican, and has been a member of the county
central committee, of the senatorial committee, and of the board
of county school examiners. During the campaign of 1896 he
was an assistant to Colonel Haskell, and Major Dick, at the
Republican National headquarters, in Chicago. In that position
he discharged the duties devolving upon him with much skill, and
in a manner entirely satisfactory to them and the national com- .
mittee. Mr. Fitch was married to Miss Florence Hopper, daugh-
ter of George H. Hopper, Esq., of New York, a member of the
Standard Oil Co., at Elmwood, his country seat, at Unionville,
Lake county. O. Mr. Fitch is a member of the Ohio State Bar
Association, the Western Reserve Society, of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Cincinnati Society of Colonial Wars,
the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, and the Twentieth Century Club
of Chicago. 3. Annette, b. Jan. 21. 1870; m. Jan. 30, 1893, Curtis
Brewer. Lives at Sloane House, Sandusky, O., son J. C. Brewer,
b. Ashtabula, O., Aug. 15, 1899. 4- Elizabeth Gilman. b.
1872. 5. Edward Hubbard Fitch, Jr., b. March 31, 1873; gradu-
ated at Cornell University in 1897; L. L. B. Lansing, Mich.,
1898-99. 6. Alta Denexa, b. July 25, 1875; m. at Ashtabula, O..
May 23, 1898. Howard Lyman Ingersoll. Son Winchester Fitch
Ingersoll, b. at Ashtabula, O., Feb. 5, 1899. Address, 45 W.
126th St., N. Y. 7. Flora Cornelia, b. Aug. 6, 1878. 8. Charles
Gilman, b. November, 1S84; d. young, b. Ellen Bowdiman,
m. William O. Hipwell, of Chicago. He was assistant cashier
Union National Bank. Res., s. p.. Highland
Park, 111. He was born at Portarlington, Ireland,
July I, 1S35; served apprenticeship to hardware
business; in charge of Savings Bank, Portarling-
ton, 1857 to 1864; emigrated to United States in
1864; entered Union National Bank, Chicago,
December. 1864. as bookkeeper; appointed assist-
ant cashier in 1881, and is now serving in that
capacity, (c) Persis Annete, m. William Sage "'''"^^'"^ *«"S-
Ranney. One child. Fitch Winchester Ranney, b. February, 1865
Res. Euclid Ave. and Erie St.. Cleveland, O. (d) Charles' Jona-
than m. Grace Baldwin Gilbert, of Columbus, O., at St. Louis,
Mo. Lives at 61 West 49th Sc, New York. Ch. : i. Frederick
196 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Churchill: res., io8 Wall St., New York. ii. Anna Scott, m.
John Putnam, of Highland Park. Lake county, 111. (e) Col.
Arthur H. Winchester, m. Ella Spaulding, of Cleveland, O. ;
res. Buckhannon, W. Va. Col. A. H. Winchester is commissioner
of Forestery for the United States lumber exhibit at Paris Expo-
sition. His son, Spaulding, was a victim of the Spanish war;
died with fever at Philadelphia in 1898. Has son, Charles; dau.
Lila, res. Latham, Cumberland, Md., Kalherine and Ruth, (t)
Mary Elizabeth Oilman, m. Henry C. Carver, ot Chicago. Ch. :
Jonathan Winchester, George, Robert Knowlton and Priscilla.
Res. Highland Park, 111. (g) Frances, m. Charles Spaulding. ot
Cleveland, O. One son, Ranney Winchester, Rogers Park, 111. ;
m. Cecil Norton, ot Chicago, 111., iSgg. (h) Elizabeth Oilman, b.
July 24, 1853; m. Aug. 5, 1S76, Hubbard F. Bannard, b. April 21,
1847. Ch. : i. Winchester, b. Jan. 2, 1880; d. July 21, 1880. ii.
Annete, b. Feb. 28, 1881; d. ]\Iarch 11, 18S1. Address Griffin
Chemical Co., 904 Western Av., Seattle, Wash, (i) Phillip, m.
Dora Dunnica, ot St. Louis, Mo. Ch. : i. Phyllis, ii. Theodore.
2x. Dilectus, b. Jan. 17, 1814; d. Sept. 10, 1814. 3x. Darius, b.
Sept. 19, 1815; d. Sept. 23, 1S21. 4X. Electus, b. Nov. 15, 1817;
unm., Res. Staceyville, Iowa. sx. Mary D., b. March 20. 1822; d.
Sept. 2, 1839. ^^- Melana, b. July 19, 1824; m. Sept. 14, 1861 Orran
Orcutt. Res. Staceyville. Two daughters. 7x. Amandus O., b.
June 25, 1S27; m. June 6, 1855, Margaret Patton. Res. St. Joe,
Mich. He d. Jan. 29, 1900, leaving one dau., Stella L. The deceased
held a very high place in the community where he lived because
of his moral worth, his worthy life and the strict integrity in
which he held and performed every duty and obligation which
devolved upon him. For fotir generations his ancestors had been
ministers of the gospel, and from their strict and upright lives,
typical of the religious teaching of their day, he had taken the
rule and guide of his life. He was a handsome man ; large and
robust looking, and prior to his death his appearance was as of
one who was in possession of perfect health and gave jjromise of
many years of life and usefulness. But for years he had been a
sufferer from heart trouble and the machinery which propelled
the life current gave out in the midst ot all this apparent vigor.
The Winchester family is descended from Hon. John Winches-
ter, of Brookline, ]\Iass. (first representative from that town to
the General Court of Massachusetts), from the Aspinwalls,
Deacon Sealis, of Scituate; Lieut. Griffin Craft, of Roxbury,
Mass., (see Craft Genealogy); Lieut. John Sharp, killed at Sud-
bury fight, 1676, and John White, of Watertown, (ancestor of
President John Adams), (see Register, October, 1896). Rev. Jona-
than Winchester ivas a near relative of President John Adams
and the Boston Boylstons, of Rev. Elkanan Winchester, tlie
distinguished Universalist preacher and patriot, friend of
Franklin, Jay, etc., and who spoke to great audiences in Eng-
land (see Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography), and
grandfather of Lieut.-Gov. Oliver Fisher, ot Winchester, Pres.
New Haven, Co., known as the Winchester Arms Co., a mil-
lionaire and patron of Yale, to which institution he gave an
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528.
vii.
529.
viii.
530.
IX.
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X.
SSI^
^xi.
astronomical observatory. (See Appleton's Cyclopedia of Ameri-
can Biography.) Rev. Jonathan Winchester, second, was son of
Henry, a Revolutionary soldier, and grandson of Rev. Jonathan
Winchester, first. 2. Fannie Bunn, b. i736, m. James Hill.
3. Sarah Bunn, b. ; m. Coon. 4. Polly Bunn, died the
week she was to have been married to Hiland Hall , later governor
of Vermont. 5. James Bunn, b. 1794; lost at sea in 1S14, enroute
to England. 6. Catherine Bunn, b. 1796; m. McDonald.
REUBEN, b. Jan. 9, 1762; m. Asenath Case.
JOSEPH, b. May 19, 1764; d. March 3, 1767.
MICHAEL, b. July 9, 1768; m. Abigail Calkins.
LUCINDA, b. Feb. 22, 1771; m. Salmon Warren.
POLLY, b. ; m. Daniel Dean.
299. ZECKARIAH FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah. John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., about 1708; m. March i, 1732,
Prudence Graves, b. March 2, 1701; d. Nov. 24, 1737; m., 2d, Dec. 27, 1738, Anna
Seward, of East Guilford, b. Oct. 6, 1716, dau. ot Daniel and Mehitable (Boreman).
After his death she m Teal. He d. Feb. 19, 1752. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
532. i. PRUDENCE, b. Jan. 9, 1734; d. Oct. 8, 1736.
533. li. ZECHARIAH, b. Oct. 22. 1739; d. Nov. 5, 1751, unm.
534. iii. PRUDENCE, b. April 2, 1742; m. Feb. 18, 1761. John Dudley, ot
Killingworth. She d. June 26, 1761.
525. iv. ANNA, b. Oct. 26, 1744; m. 1763, Ebenezer Field, of East Guilford
and New Haven, Vt.
JONATHAN, b. Feb. 16, 1747; d. Oct. 8, 1751.
SIMEON, b. Oct. 15, 1749; d. Oct. 5, 1751.
SUBMIT, b. March 29, 1752; m., ist, Nov, 23, 1768, John Thomas
Collins; m., 2d, March 30, 1774, Joshua Field; m. , 3d, Russell
Dowd; m., 4th, Moore; d. 1846.
300. CAPTAIN JOAREB FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., March 2, 1711; m. April
2, 1733, Abigail Bradley; she m., 2d, John Camp, his fourth wife. She d. Dec. 27,
1769. He was a sea captain and d. at sea in 1747. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
539. i. ESTHER, b. Sept. 18, 1733; m. Jan. i, 1756, Nathan Hall, of Guil-
ford.
540. ii. AMBROSE, b. Feb. 7, 1736; ra. Sarah Bates.
303. JOHN FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. in Deerfield, Mass., Oct. 4, 1700. He was one of the captives
taken by the French and Indians at the destruction of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and
carried to Canada, enduring great suffering. He was with his mother ransomed and
returned to Deerfield the next year. He settled either in Stafford or Tolland, Conn.
The following record is found in the town clerk's office in Tolland: "Anna, wife
of John Field, was accidentally shot by a man of the name of Washburn, of Staf-
ford." Also the date of birth of three children. He m. Anna . Res. Tolland,
Conn.
541. i. ANNA, b. Feb. 6, 1732.
542. ii. ISAAC, b. Oct. 6, 1735.
543. iii. BENJAMIN, b. May 14, 1738.
305. DOCTOR PEDAJAH FIELD (John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Jan. 28, 1707, Deerfield, Mass; m. about 1730, Han-
536.
V.
537-
VI.
538.
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nah , who d. about 1730; m., 2d, Jan. 11, 1732, Abigail Pettee, of Springfield,
b. April 3. 1713; d. Feb. 25, 1792, dau. of John and Mary, of Springfield. He was a
veterinary surgeon; was in Northfield in 1737; Enfield in 1749. a°d returned to
Northfield. In 1736 he removed to Winchester, N. H., in 1737 to Northfield, Mass. ;
in 1747 returned to Enfield; in 1752 returned to Northfield, where he d. Feb. 24,
1798. Res Northfield, Mass., Enfield, Conn., and Winchester, N. H.
544-
545- 11.
546.
547-
IV.
548.
V.
549-
vi.
550.
vn.
551-
Vlll
552.
IX.
553-
X.
554-
XI.
555-
xn.
PEDAJAH, b. 1732. He lived with Elijah Williams, in Enfield,
until 1749; was a soldier from Northfield in 1757. Pedajah Field,
son of Pedajah and Hannah; prob. b. in Enfield. Conn. Is
found living there in 1733 with Elijah Williams; prob. came to
Northfield, Mass., in 1752 ; a soldier in the French and Indian war
from Northfield in 1757. He sold his lot to Hezekiah Stratton,
June 23, 1745. In 1743 he assisted in building the mount at
Deacon Alexander's, and was paid ;i^i 4s. tor two days of hewing
timber. He served from June 12, to Nov. 21, 1755, in the Crown
Point expedition, in Capt. Elijah Williams' company. In seating
the meeting house in 1780 he was given pew No. 19.
MARY, b. 1734.; m. prob. Sept. 26, 1753, Stephen Cooley, of Long-
meadow, Mass.; d. April 3, 1782; age forty-eight. Res. Long-
meadow, Mass. Ch. : i. Stephen, b. Feb. 14, 1754; d. Aug. 18,
1754. 2. Stephen, b. March 27, 1755; m. Mercy Stebbins; d.
June 9, 1830. 3. Abigail, b. April 19, 1757; d. April 9, 1826. 4.
Joanna, b. July 20, 1759. 5. Luther, b. March 16, 1761. 6. Gid-
eon, b. Jan. 31, 1763; m. Dinah Sikes. He d. Nov. 31, 1838. 7.
Calvin, b. Feb. 16, 1765; d. Feb. 19, 1846. 8. Ithamer. b. ;
d. Feb. 15, 1767. 9. Ithamer, b. Aug. 10, 176S. 10. Marcy, b.
July 18, 1770; d. June 24, 1814. 11. Hanan, b. July 18, 1773.
SARAH, b. May 4, 1737; m. June S, 1755, Hon. Ebenezer Janes, of
Northfield; d. March 5, 1766. He was son ot Jonathan; was a
deacon, lieutenant in Revolutionary war, manufacturer of grave
stones, town clerk sixteen years, representative in the legislature
in 1778 and delegate to the provincial congress in 1775; d. Jan. 22,
1808. His wife d. March 5, 1766, and he m., 2d, Mehitable Alex-
ander. Res. Northfield. Ch. : i. Jonathan, b. Feb. 25, 1756;
m. Caroline Mattoon. 2. Jemima, b. May 16, 1757; m. John
Allen. 3. Ruth, b. May 16, 1757; m. Caton Bliss. 4 Obadiah,
b. July 9, 1759; m. Mary Oliver and Harmony Brigham. 5.
Salina, b. March 11, 1761; m. Seth Munn. 6. Hannah, b. Jan.
5, 1763; d. July 13, 1770. 7. Samuel, b. May 11, 1764; m. Susan-
nah Merriman. 8. Ebenezer, b. Jan. i, 1766; d. Nov. 5, 1766;
had seven children by second wife.
RUTH, b. i73y; d. Oct. 17, 1756.
REUBEN, b. Oct. 9, 1740; m. Hannah Alden and Ann Hall Lar-
rabee.
ABIGAIL, b. 1743; d. Aug. 7, 1754.
EUNICE, b. ; d. vmm.. Athens, Vt.
BENNETT, b. 1745; m. Elizabeth Ferrin.
ANN, b. Sept. 3, 1747; m. James Nichols, of Athens, Vt. ; d. Feb.
28, 1829.
EUNICE, b. 1749; d. in Townshend. Vt., unm., August, 1828.
JOHN, b. June q, 1751; m. Sybil Allen.
HANNAH, bap. Aug. 13, 1753; m. Ward.
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556. xiii. NATHAN, bap. Sept. 21, 1755; m. Abigail BuHaid.
557. xiv. ABIGAIL, bap. April 16, 1756; m. Aug. ig. 1775, Samuel Warner.
He was son ot Ebenezer, b. 1748. Res. Northfield and Green-
field. Ch. : 1. Ebenezer, bap. Nov. 17, 1776. 2. Samuel, bap.
Aug. 9, 1778. 3. Lydia, bap. July 23, 1780. 4. Sarah, bap. July
3. 1785. 5- Mary, bap. July 3, 1785. 6. Electa, bap. March 7,
17SS. 7. Phila, bap. Feb. 9, 1791. 8. Amariah, bap. July 28,
1793-
306. BENNETT FIELD (John. Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 13, 1709; m. Dec. 18, 1734, Elizabeth
Spa fford, of Lebanon, Conn., dau. of Thomas and Bethiah, b. April 9, 1715; d.
Nov. 20, 1772. He resided in Deerfield, Mass. ; married there and soon atter moved
to Ltbanon, Conn., and was admitted to the church there in 1736. Moved to Staf-
ford and later to Mansfield, Conn., where he died. He purchased of Caleb and Noah
Chap;n, of Lebanon, Conn., Nov. 21, 1733, a tract of land ; vol. v, p. 20, on which
he re^^ided until 1740, when he sold and removed to Mansfield, Conn. Admitted
to the church in Lebanon in 1736.
He d. April 6, 1770. Res. Lebanon, Stafford and Mansfield, Conn.
558. 1. MARY, b. Nov. 12, 1735; m. Capt. Phinehas Williams, of Mansfield,
Conn. ; removed in 1778 to Woodstock, Vt.
Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Mass., arrived at Boston, Mass.,
June 20. 1637. He came from Norwich, England, and was the
eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams, of Great
Yarmouth, England. He was admitted to the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery company, in 1644. His third son, Isaac Wil-
liams, was captain of the foot company of Newton, and was buried
under arms.
(3) Capt. Isaac Williams, Jr., son of the last named, sold his
portion of his father's property and removed to Roxbury and
settled on the portion of his grandfather Parke's property, which
he had inherited from his uncle, John Smith, of Roxbury.
(4) Capt. William Williams, of Mansfield, represented for many
years that town in the General Court ot Connecticut He was
not only prominent in the military service ot the colony but his
sons followed in his footsteps. Amariah and Phinehas being
connected with the Mansfield company, and the former, as its
captain, led it to Boston on the Lexington alarm, and was at its
head at Bunker Hill, and served through the Revolution. His
son, Capt. Phinehas Williams, went to Woodstock, Vt., in 1774,
from Mansfield, Conn. He was the seventh son ot William and
Experience (Wilson), of Watertown, Mass., b. in Watertown, Nov.
5, 1734. His wife was the dau. ot Bennett and Elizabeth (Spaf-
tord) Field. He was captain of the first company ot militia ot
Woodstock, and until his death, in 1820, there were two or more
ot his descendants holding town or state offices continuously.
(5) Capt. Phinehas Williams was commissioned by the colony
of New York captain in the first company raised east ot the Green
mountains, and was elected to but declined the colonelcy ot the
regiment of which it became a part. Owing to the efforts ot the
Aliens there was little fighting in Vermont during the contentions
ot New York and New Hampshire to the ownership ot the
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"Grants," so that this company saw little service; but Captain
Williams during the Revolution collected subsistence for the
Revolutionary army, and was in charge ot such business in the
section where he lived. Captain Williams was so much of an
engineer that he and his son, Col. Oliver Williams, not only laid
out the original warrants of the town and conducted the ordinary
work of survejang; but the father, with the aid of his large fam-
ily of sons, and his Palmer nephews (children ot Lucy (Field)
Palmer), laid out the roads in Woodstock township on modern
principles, blasting where necessary to keep them short and at a
low level in that hilly region. The compiler of the family record
has receipted bills for similar work in adjoining townships. He
d. Dec. 2S, 1820. His wife d. March 26, 1810.
Ch. : I. Experience, b. Feb. 17, 1755; m. Capt. Josiah Dun-
ham, of Coventry, Conn., who resided in Woodstock, and from
whom descended the Dunhams, Simmons, Richardsons, Perkins,
Westovers, Wileys, Dodges, Smiths and Jaques.
2. Oliver, b. 1758. He went to Woodstock with his father and
was a surveyor. He helped lay out the town, and from exposure
to his work died June 19, 1S23. Oliver Williams was elected col-
onel of the regiment after the refusal of his father to accept the
office. He m. Irene (Urana) Thomas, of Middleboro'. She d.
at Woodstock, Dec. 4, 1S06; m., 2d, Mrs. Molly (Powers) Richard-
son, dau. of Dr. Stephen Powers, and widow of Joran Richard-
son. His ch. : (a) Mary, b. Jan. i, 17S5; m. Anson Dunham,
s. p. (b) Abigail, b. 1786; m. Col. Joseph Topliff, of Bridgewater.
She d. Oct. 31, 1864; seven children, (c) Ira, b. 1788; was an
officer in the war of 1812; was in the regular array as quarter-
master at Dabuque, Iowa, where he d., s. p., 1838. (d) Oliver, b.
1790; n. f. k. (e) Otis, b. 1792: a schoolmaster in Woodstock; d.
in Virginia, s. p., in 1S38. (f) Phinehas, b. 1795; enlisted in reg-
ular army; n. f. k. (g) Nathan, b. 1798; d. s. p.. Hector, N. Y.
3. Phinehas, b. 1760; went to Woodstock with his father; m.
Susan White. She d. Sept. 28, 1790, age twenty-one ; m., 2d,
Sally Gurley. He was in the army, and in 1815 moved to Ohio.
(h) Phinehas, b. Sept. 28, 1790; res. in Bridgewater, Vt. (!) Ben-
nett, b. 1795. (j) Chester, (k) Susan. (1) Adelme. (m) Warren,
(n) Lucia, (o). Sally, b. 181 1.
4. Jesse, b. 1761; remained in Mansfield, Conn., until 1775,
when he moved to Woodstock and opened the first general
store in that place. He is said to have been at the battle of
Bunker Hill when only fourteen years ot age. Jesse Williams,
son ot Captain Phinehas, was left with his uncle, Amariah, at
Mansfield, when his father removed to Vermont. He has told
his grandson, Dr. Edward H. Williams, that he was with the
Mansfield company when it marched on the Lexington alarm, and
was at Bunker Hill, In mentioning the name of his aunt and
mother-in-law it should be written Lucy, and not Lucia. The
last is a modification given to Williams' descendants. Jesse Wil-
liams was the first merchant in Woodstock. He also extensively
raised thoroughbred horses. He was elected associate judge ot
the county court, and served for a number of years. He pur-
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14
chased in Hartiord, Conn., the first bell for the county court
house. It was the first bell of the kind in the state. In 1803 he
was appointed presiding judge; but declined the office and
was appointed judge of probate for the Hartford district,
which he held till 181 5, when he resigned. He had retired
from business with a considerable fortune, and was afterward
interested in numerous projects more or less connected with the
growth of the town. Among them was the manufacture of the
first enclosed stoves from soapstone slabs, held together by iron
clamps at the corners, the stone coming from his quarry. He
died at Woodstock, Jan. 27, 1842. He married his cousin, Han-
nah, daughter of Lieutenant Gershom, Jr., and Lucy (Field)
Palmer, of Woodstock, who was born at Mansfield, Conn., April
I. 1769, and died at Woodstock, Vt., Jan. 27, 1837. Lieutenant
Palmer served during the Revolution, and his grave is one of those
decorated yearly by the G. A. R. He was descended from Capt.
George Denison, of Stonington, Conn., who commanded the Con-
necticut troops at the storming of the Narragansett fort and cap-
tured Miatonomo. Ch. : (p) Norman, b. Nov. 6, 1791. Norman,
eldest son of Hon. Jesse and Hannah (Palmer) Williams, was b.'
at Woodstock, Vt, Nov. 6, 1791. He fitted for college at home
and at the academies of Royalton and Randolph, and entered the
sophomore class of the University of Vermont, in October, 1807,
and at the commencement of Aug. 18, 1810, delivered a ''Poem
v/ith Valedictory Addresses." For many years thereafter Mr.
Williams was called upon for poems on commemorative occasions,
and numerous extracts from the press show that these were
highly valued. After a course of law studies at home and at
Burlington. Vt., he was admitted to the bar at the latter place,
and at once opened an office at home, and practiced till October!
1831. During this period he held the offices of Register of Pro-
bate of the Hartford district (his father being judge). State Aud-
itor of Accounts, i8ig-i823, and Secretary of State, 1823-1831— in
each case declining re-election. He then, unfortunately, formed
a partnership with his brother-in-law in the hardware business in
Montreal, and remained till 1834, when foreseeing the coming of
the rebellion, in which his partner was engaged, he returned to
Woodstock and resumed legal practice. He was secretary of the
State Senate in 1835-1839; and thence till his death, in 1868, he
was clerk of the courts of Windsor county. During this interval
he was one of the commissioners to revise the State statutes;
twice was a State Senator ; and was one of the commission to pre-
pare plans for a new State house. He was one the incorporators
of the Vermont Medical College, and during the greater part of
its life dean of its faculty, and from 1849-1853 a trustee of his
alma mater. Had he been desirous of political preferment there
was no office in the state which he could not have secured.
Many of the offices he held were conferred upon him by his pol-
itical opponents, and he declined the treasurership of the state to
which he had been elected against his wishes, as well as nomina-
tions for higher state offices. The highly laudatory resolutions
adopted by the bar at his decease tell how much he was esteemed
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throughout the state, and in the printed lives ot many prominent
Vermonters, as an evidence of their prominence and worth, it is
stated that they held the friendship of "Norman Williams, of
Woodstock." Remarried, Dec. ii, 1817, Mary Ann Wentworth,
eldest child of Henry Barlow, Esq., and Rebecca (Appleton)
Brown, ot Woodstock, and formerly of the New Brunswick bar.
Mrs. Brown's mother was a cousin of Sir John Wentworth, last
royal governor of New Hampshire, and also descended from
Lieut. -Gov. John Wentworth, who served under Anne. On her
father's side she descended from leaders in colonial history, one
of them, Maj. Richard Waldron, commander of the New Hamp-
shire troops, who was murdered by Indians at Dover, when over
eighty years old, with circumstances of unusual cruelty. Mrs.
Williams was highly cultured and refined, and has left traces of
a gifted pencil m the seals of various courts, and in the present
arrangement of the great seal of Vermont A recent writer on
Woodstock, states, "fifty years ago it contained the best medical
school in the state, and it had a local aristocracy that controlled
society and intelligence, and its women were so cultivated and
refined that one of them had a salon to which every distinguished
guest of the town was invited, and which far and near was talked
of as the one place to visit if you went to Vermont. The site of
the old homestead where Mrs. Williams held high carnival in
society is now used for a public library, and this brilliant woman
herself is able to look down upon its habitues as graciously from
her portrait as she once smiled on the saints and sinners who
crossed her threshold." She was b. at St. Andrews, N. B., Nov.
24, 1794, and d. at Montclair, N. J., Nov. 6. 1879. Mr. Williams
d. at Woodstock, Jan. 12, 1868.
Their children : i. Henry Brown, b. Jan. 24, 1820; m. June
2. 1846, Mary, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Welch) Cooke, of
Providence, R. L, b. there June 27, 1823; living in San Fran-
cisco, Cal. Henry Brown Williams was ' a merchant in New
York City and San Francisco, and tor many years agent
for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. He was knighted by the
King of the Sandwich Islands. He d. at Santa Barbara, Cal.,
Feb. 8, 1890. Ch. : i. Joseph Henry, b. Nov. 9, 1847; d.
Aug. 9, 1851, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 2. Mary Louise, b. Feb.
16, 1850, at Brooklyn; m. April 11, 1871, Alfred, son of Joseph
Henry and Sarah Susannah (Wood) Poett, b. Concepcion, Chile,
March 3, 1839; she d. Santa Barbara, Cal. Living (1899) at Santa
Barbara; civil engineer. Their four children are living, and
the third. Alfred Reddington Poett, is one ot the California vol-
unteers on detached duty with the United States signal corps, at
Manila, Philippines.
2. Mary Ann Wentworth, b. May 10, 1822; living (1899) at
Evanston, 111. ; m. Dec. 29, 1851, Wm. Merritt Campbell, of St
Albans, Vt, who d. at Sumter, S. C, Oct 11, 1862; merchant.
Ch. : I. Mary Wentworth, b. Oct 20, 1852; m. Sept 5, 1875,
Wm. H. Bartlett; res. at Evanston, 111. 2. Stephen Henderson,
b. Sept. 20, 1854; m. and d. s. p. 3. William Norman, b. Aug.
13, 1856; with Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Co., Chicago;
0^lcnyy^^a^^ /i^f-'C^CAyayn'^
See page 301.
See page '203.
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wife deceased; one surviving daughter, Marion. 4. Charles, b.
Nov. 7, 1858, unm. 5. Julia Riley, b. Sept. 19, 1862- d. Aug
16, 1863.
3. Edward Higginson, third child of Hon. Norman and Mary
Ann Wentworth (Brown) Williams, of Woodstock, Vt., was b.
there June i, 1824. and now resides at his country place, "Went-
worth. ' • near Rosemont, Penn. After the usual course in the
high grade private schools of his native town he decided to become
an engineer, and all subsequent work tended in that direction.
While studying the classics with his father he began a course in
higher mathematics with Rosea Doton, well known throughout
Vermont as a mathematician and engineer, and supplemented
this by work with his uncle. Rev. Dr. George Palmer Williams,
at Pontiac, who lately died full of years and honors as Emeritus
Professor of Physics of the University of Michigan. Here Mr.
Williams became acquainted with Col. John N. Berrien, state
engineer, who was locating the Michigan Central railroad, and
during his stay at Pontiac was constantly with the corps. He
was now suffering from what was thought to be a severe attack
of asthma, which defied all remedies, and lasted a number of
years, but which was caused by the lodgment of part of a beech-
nut burr in the vocal chords— afterwards ejected in a fit of cough-
ing—when the trouble entirely disappeared. This alfliction
resulted in his abandoning the life of an engineer, by the advice
of his physicians, and he reluctantly began the study of med-
icine and graduated at the Vermont Medical College in 1846.
The following year was again passed at Pontiac in the open
air with the construction corps of the railroad, but in 1847 he
began the practice of medicine at Proctorsville, Vt. Mr. Doton,
his old instructor, was then building the Rutland & Burlington
railroad through the place, and Dr. Williams was with the corps
as often as possible, and fortunately on one occasion when he
was able to treat successfully one of the foremen who had a three-
foot tamping bar blown through his head, behind the left eye.
He removed his practice to Northfield, where he became ac-
quainted with the management of the Vermont Central road,
which had its headquarters there, and thus added to his railroad
experience. The relief from his bronchial troubles now turned
his mind back to his long cherished life work, and in October,
1 85 1, he became assistant in building a railroad from Caughna-
waga, Canada, to Plattsburg, N. Y,, and, within a few months,
the death of the engineer left him in charge of the work, which he
finished. From 1S55 to 1865 he was in charge of railroad work as
superintendent in the west, and generally on the pioneer road into
the wilderness, so that he acquired abundant experience. In the
latter year he became general superintendent of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Altoona, where he remained till 1870, when he was
invited to bring his experience of eighteen years to the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, and became a partner. Since that date he
has resided in and about Philadelphia, and "Dr. Williams,"
as he is known throughout the world among railroad men, has
introduced American locomotives throughout South America,
204 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Australia, Japan, India and Europe. While in Australia for the
second time he was appointed United States Commissioner to the
Sydney Exposition. In 1861 he received the honorary degree of
M. A. from the University of Vermont, and in 1876 was created
by the King of Sweden a Knight of the North Star, and also
elected a member of the Swedish Royal Society. Dr. Williams
erected, in 1895, for the University of Vermont, a building for
the applied sciences and furnished it throughout, at a cost ot a
quarter of a million dollars, in memory of his wife. He had
previously erected a similar building for Carleton (Minn.) College,
and also given it a sixteen-inch equatorial telescope. The work
most pleasing to Dr. Williams was the erection on the family
homestead of a beautiful granite free library, in memory of his
parents, which he has fully endowed for maintenance and book
fund, and this fall (1899) he is to add to it an extension of nearly
the same size, as the original building is full of books. He married
June 15, 1848, Cornelia Bailey, youngest daughter of John A. and
Sarah (Bailey) Pratt, ot Woodstock, born Jan. 16, 1827; died at
Rosemont, Pa., July 16, 1889. Mr. Pratt was one of the leading
citizens in Woodstock, holding many county and state offices, and
was one of the incorporators and trustees of the Vermont Med-
ical College. Mrs. Williams possessed her father's love for
flowers, and left a large collection ot terns gathered in all parts
ot the world, and successfully cultivated at home. Dr. Williams
died in Santa Barbara, Cal., since the above was written, in
December, 1899.
Their children were: i. Edward Higginson, b. at Proctors-
ville, Vt., Sept. 30, 1849; living (1899) at Bethlehefn, Pa. He
fitted for Yale College at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.,
1865-68, and graduated at New Haven in the class of 1872. Ina-
bility to use his eyes forced him to join an engineering corps of
the Pennsylvania railroad during the ensuing year as chainman ;
but from 1873 to 1876 he studied the profession of mining engin-
eering at the Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa., gradu-
ating with the class of 1875 as valedictorian. From 1876 till 1879
he was connected with the mining corps, and in the latter year
became chemist for a company at Danville. Pa., and on the
change of the firm in the following year became its mining
engineer. For a few months, in 1880-1881, he was principal assist-
ant mining engineer of the Cambria Iron Co, at Johnsto<vn, and
in charge of examination ot properties in Canada and the United
States. A severe attack ot malaria forced him to resign, and
after a few months' rest he was elected professor of mining
engineering and geology at his second alma mater, which chairs
he still holds. Professor Williams is a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, and was one of the original Fel-
lows of the Geological Society of America. He is also a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
of the American Philosophical Society. He has been three times
elected president of the associated alumni of Lehigh. His prin-
cipal geological work has been the mapping of the Kansan glacial
deposits across the state ot Pennsylvania. He has published
XtJK.MAX WILLIAMS.
See page :?05.
GEN. WESLEY MERRITT.
See page 205.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 205
numerous papers on this and kindred subjects and a few hooks.
Since 1867 he has been engaged in compiling the records of the
descendants of his ancestors, Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Mass.
He married, at Roxbury, Mass., June 19, 1883, Jennie Olive,
youngest daughter of Augustine S. and Ophelia (Leland) Bemis,
of Boston, Mass., b. April 2. 1861, and living (1899). Ch. :
1. Olive Bemis, b. July 10. 1884.
2. Cornelia, b. at Roxbury, Mass., Aug. 26, 1885.
3. Elizabeth, b. April 13, 1888.
4. Edward Higginson, 3d, b. June 18, i88q.
5. Norman, b. Aug. 19, 1891.
6. Araory Leland, b. Dec. 14, 1892.
7. Wentworth, b. at Rosemont, Pa., Sept. 7, 1895.
2. William, b. at Lachine, Canada, March 9, 1854, and d. at
Barnard. Vt., July 10, 1872, when a student at the University of
Pennsylvania.
3. Anna, b. at Janesville, Wis., July 25, 1858; m. June 22, 1887,
William Frederick Dreer, of Philadelphia, Pa. They have
adopted two children, Charlotte and Florence. Res. Rosemont,
Pa., "Wentworth."
4. Charles Storrow, b. Dec. 25, 1827; d. at Surrounded Hill,
Ark., June 20, 1S90; University of Vermont, 1847; civil engineer;
residing in the South, where he constructed and had charge ot
several railroads, and was also in charge ol the engineers who
located the southern boundary of Tennessee. During the Civil
war he had charge of military transportation for the Confederate
government in the district where he resided, and a number of
times attempted to come North ; but was prevented, as his serv-
ices were valuable to the South.
5. Louisa Jane, b. Aug. 25, 1830; d. Dec. 30, 1841. She was a
precocious child, acquiring a command of the organ when quite
voung and able before her death to conduct the services ot the
church.
6. Norman, b. Feb. i, 1835, at Montreal, Canada, the only one
of the children born out of Woodstock; m. Dec. ii, 1867, Caroline
Cat on, dau. of Hon. John Dean Caton, of Ottawa, 111. Res. 1836
Calumet Av., Chicago, 111. He d. June 19, 1899. Ch. : i. Laura,
b. April 6, 1871; m. Gen. Wesley Merritt, Oct. 24, 1898. Maj.-
Gen. Wesley Merritt was born in New York City, June 16, 1836.
He was graduated at the United States Military Academy, July
I, i860, and assigned to the dragoons; was promoted first lieu-
tenant May 13, 1861, and captain April 5, 1862. He took part in
Gen. George Stoneman's raid toward Richmond, in April and
May, 1863, and was in command of the reserve cavalry brigade
in the Pennsylvania campaign of the same year, being commis-
sioned brigadier general of volunteers in June. For gallant and
meritorious services during the battle of Gettysburg he was
brevetted major. Still in command of his brigade, he took part
in the various engagements in central Virginia in 1863-64, and was
brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel in the regular army, and
major-general for volunteers for gallantry at the battles of Yel-
low Tavern, Hawes' Shop and Winchester respectively. On
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March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general and major
general in the regular army for bravery at the battle of Five
Forks, and his services during the final Virginia campaign, and
on April 14th was commissioned major-general of volunteers.
After the war he was employed chiefly on frontier duly until 1882,
when he was placed in charge of the United States Military
Academy, at West Point. In June, 1S87, he was ordered to Fort
Leavenworth. He became lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth cav-
alry in 1866, colonel of the Fifth cavalry in 1876, and in 1887
became brigadier-general. Later commanded the department of
the Atlantic until assigned, in May, 1898, to command the United
States torces in the Philippine Islands. In 1899 he commanded
the department of the East into headquarters at Governor's
Island, and in 1900, if arrangements are satisfactorily perfected
will be retired with the rank of lieutenant-general. 2. Norman,
b. Feb. 23, 1873. 3. Caroline Caton, b. May 8, 1875; d. May 25,
1876. 4. Mary Wentworth, b. May 13, 187S.
Norman Williams was a lawyer and a man of large affairs.
He was born in Woodstock, Vt. His father, Norman Williams,
was one of the prominent citizens of the Vermont town, as had
been his grandfather, Jesse Williams, who was interested in pub-
lic affairs and was a man of much influence in the state. His
mother was Mary Anne Wentworth, whose family had contrib-
uted members who had served in important colonial offices before
the Revolution, and more than one member of which served as
governor of New Hampshire. When the Revolution came they
remained loyal to the crown, and when the English troops evacu-
ated Boston they were compelled to leave also, as were all the
prominent Tories of that time. When young Norman Williams
had finished in the public school ot his native town he was sent
to Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., where he prepared
for college. He entered the University of Vermont, from which
he was graduated in 1855. He then entered the Albany Law
School. He continued his studies in the office ot the law firm of
Tracy, Converse & Barrett, at Woodstock, Vt., until he was
admitted to practice. After being enrolled as a member of the
bar he concluded to come West, and in October, 1858, he was
located in Chicago, and with an office as a lawyer. For two years
he continued to practice alone, but in i860 he formed a partner-
ship with King & Kales, and the new firm became King, Kales &
Williams. This partnership continued until 1866, when Mr. Wil-
liams withdrew and became a law partner of Gen. John L.
Thompson, under the firm name ot Williams & Thompson.
This partnership continued until the death of General Thomp-
son, in 1888. The firm later became Williams, Holt & Wheeler.
Mr. Williams had not been in Chicago long before he won a
reputation as a business lawj^er, and from that time was
identified with some of the largest business enterprises in the
city. As legal adviser he assisted in the formation of the Pull-
man Palace Car company, and became a member of the first
board of directors of the company. The organization of the
Western Electric company was due to Mr. Williams' efforts.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 207
The first telephone for public use in Chicago was brought here
by him. The formation ot the Chicago Telephone company and
the efficient management of it, making it one of the important
business institutions in Chicago, were due to the wisdom and
business foresight of Mr. Williams. For many years he took a
keen interest in electrical matters. He became an expert in the
theory and also in the mechanics of electrical engineering. He
was also the first legal authority on subjects related to electrical
undertakings. When the Paris electrical exposition was held, in
1881, he was made United States Commissioner to it. For many
years he was connected with the Western Union Telegraph com-
pany in an advisory legal capacity, and also managed the more
important part ot the litigation ot this company in the west. His
business ability was rewarded with such success that he became
rated among the wealthy men of Chicago before he had reached
the prime ot life. During all of the business years of Mr. Wil-
liams' life he was a busy man and occupied with large affairs ot
both legal and commercial nature, yet he found time to devote to
public matters. He contributed largely to the formation ot the
first regiment of colored soldiers in Chicago during the Civil war
and to the arming of them. He also found time for literary affairs.
In connection with his brother, Edward H. Williams, he founded
the "Norman Williams Public Library," in Woodstock, Vt., this
name being given to it in honor of his father. When the late
John Crerar made the bequest by which Chicago was g^ven the
Crerar Library Norman Williams and Huntington W. Jackson
were named in the will as the trustees. He was also a trustee of
the Crerar estate. Mr. Williams was made the first president ot
the library and the work of organizing the big institution was
placed in his hands. He was for many years a director of the
Chicago Public Library and one of the most active members of
the directory. He was always alert in educational matters.
He was a member of the Chicago, the Calumet, the Literary, and
the University clubs. He was a student traveler who had passed
many seasons in European travel and study, and as a result of
these travels he acquired a large and most valuable library. In
addition to other business affairs Mr. Williams was trustee of
many large estates and served as executor and guardian in some
of the largest. His name was identified with every public enter-
prise of a big kind in which the people of Chicago have been
interested in the last twenty years. Mr. Williams was a member
and trustee ot the Second Presbyterian church of Chicago. For
years he took an active interest in the affairs of this congregation.
He also was deeply interested in the affairs ot the Chicago
Orphan Asylum and was president of the institution. In politics
he was a Republican. He always took a part in political affairs,
but was never an ofl&ce seeker, nor did he ever concern himself
with machine politics. He was one of the organizers and pro-
moters of the Irish-American Republican club, which became a
strong and influential organization in political affairs. Mr. Wil-
liams was married in Ottawa, 111., to Miss Caroline Caton, daugh-
ter of the late John Dean Caton, chief justice of the Supreme
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Court of Illinois. Three children survive him. They are two
daughters, Laura and Mary, and a son, Norman. The elder
daughter, Laura, is the wife of Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt. Their
marriage took place in London, England, on Oct. 24, 189S. Gen-
eral Merritt had just returned from the Philippine Islands, where
he had commanded the land forces in the reduction of Manila.
He was sent then to Paris to attend the convention engaged in
preparing the treaty of peace with Spain and the United Stntes.
Miss Williams met him in London, and there the wedding took
place at the Hotel Savoy. In recent years Mr. Williams had not
been engaged actively in business, except with the more import-
ant affairs with which he had been identified previously.
Charles S. Holt, for many years a law partner of Norman Wil-
liams, speaking of the latter, said: "I cannot talk about him now.
We were most intimately associated for twenty-three years. No
man ever had more friends or was more loyal to them. His
whole nature was genial and sweet and he delighted in sacrific-
ing himself for those he loved. Above all his mental power and
professional success he will live in the memory of those that
knew him as a man of great and affectionate love."
7. Susan Arnold Williams, b. Jan. i, 1838; d. June 18, 1842.
(q) Lucy, b. Oct. 30. 1794; d. Nov. 4, 1794. (r) Charles, b. Oct.
27, 1796; d. s. p. Oct. 6, 1829. (s) Hezekiah. b. July 29, 1798; m.
May 23, 1S26, Eliza Patterson, of Belfast, Me. He graduated at
Dartmouth College in 1820; was a lawyer by profession and
member of Congress from Maine, 1845-49. He d. Oct. 23, 1856.
She d., Dixon, 111., Aug. 19, 1866. Ch. :
40. Hezekiah, b. March 10, 1827; d., s. p., May 14, 1872. He
was a physician and medical director of the army of the Tennessee
in the Civil war.
41. Margaret, b. Feb. 5, 1829; d. Jan. 14, 1844.
42. Lucia Field, b. May 9, 1831; m. Goodwin; res. Chicago.
43. Edward Patterson, b. Feb. 26, 1833; d. Jan. 24, 1870. He
entered the navy as midshipman ; was in command of one of the
monitors during the Civil war, and at its close was captain of the
United States Steamship Oneida, which was run down by the
English steamer Bombay in the harbor of Yokohama, Japan, at
the above date. Captain Williams atter sending off all who could
be crowded into the boats, with the remainder of his men went
down with his ship. He left two sons, one is Edward Patterson,
purchasing agent at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Phila-
delphia.
""■"- 44. Martin Henry, b. Feb. 24, 1835; d., s. p., July 19, 1878.
45. Charles, b. Sept. 9, 1836; d., s. p., Feb. 14, 1873.
46. Mary Field, b. and d. Aug., 1S40.
47. Mary Field, b. May 7, 1842.
(t) Mary Field, b. May 11, iSoo; m. Charles Henry, of Bradford;
three children, (u) George Palmer, b. April 13, 1802. He was a
minister of the Episcopal church, tutor at Kenyon College, first
professor at the University of Michigan, and at his death pro-
fessor and professor emeritus of Physics; there m. Elizabeth
Edson, dau. of General Joseph, of Randolph, Sept. 22, 1829. She
FIELD GENEALOGY.
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d. Ann Arbor, Mich., June 24, 1850; m., 2d, Mrs. Richards. Two
ch. : Mary and Louise, both married, (v) Lucia, b. April 5, 1804;
m. Dr. Willard P. Gibson ; five children, (w) Frederick Aug-
ustus. He lived upon the old Phinehas Williams place, in West
Woodstock; moved to Michigan; m. Miss Sue and had two chil-
dren.
5. Bennett, b. 1763; d., s. p., 179S.
6. Roger, b. 1769. He went to Woodstock with his father.
The accidental death of his brother affected him through life, so
that he was of a quiet and melancholy disposition. He m. Irene
Ransom and had two children. Laura, b. ; m. Judge Ham-
mond. Caroline b. ; m. Capt. John Orcutt, of Randolph,
where they resided. Roger; m., 2d, Mrs. Ely.
7. Hezekiah, b. 1770; d. Sept. 4, 1778. He was accidentally
shot by his brother while going after cows. It was the day that
the Hiram Powers house was raised, and as all the men in the
town were assisting. Experience rode to the village to bring his
father home.
8. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 30, 1775; m. March 15, 1795, Dr. Stephen
Drew, who studied with Dr. Powers. From them descended the
families of Drew, French, Willard, Kendall, Storrs, McConnell,
Bowen, Lovell, Hayes and Wood.
BETSEY, b. Aug. 10, 1737; m. Sept. 22, 1763, William Gurley, of
Mansfield; d. Nov. 16, 1776. He d. Aug. 16, 1814.
LUCY, b. Feb. 11, 1739; m. March 8, 1760, Gershom Palmer, of
Mansfield.
ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 26, 1740; m. Sept. 24, 1761, Thomas Root,
of Coventry and Westminster, Vt.
HULDAH, b. Feb. 24, 1743; m. Moses Bicknell.
SARAH, b. Aug. 9, 1744; m. May 22, 1766, Zebulon Gurley, of
Mansfield. She d. Jan. i, 1793. He d. Jan. i, 1800.
vii. BETHIA, b. April 8, 1746; m. April 17, 1767, Seth Pierce, of Mans-
field, Conn. ; res. Berlin, Vt. He was son of Seth (Samuel,
Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Sept. 12, 1744; d. Homer, N. Y.,
in 1835. She d. Sept. 18, 1807, and he m., 2d, Patty Rindge.
Ch. : I. Sarah, b. Nov. 20, 1767; m. Royal Storrs. 2. Lucinda,
b. Sept. 14, 1769; m. Thomas Welch. 3. Bennett, b. Sept. 12,
1771; d. March, 17, 1773. 4. Gordon, b. Aug. 31, 1773; ™.
Thirsa Smally. 5. Samuel, b. May 23, 1777; d. Aug. 26, 1778.
6. Samuel, b. May 20, 1779; m. Persis Barrows. 7. Elijah, b.
April 27, 1781; m. Patty Moulton. 8. Seth, b. Feb. 17, 1784. 9.
Daniel, b. March 16, 1786. 10. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1788; m.
Chester Collins. 11. Bela, b. April 13, 1792.
viii. HANNAH, b. May 2b, 1748; m. Stephen Brigham.
ix. AMOS, b. April 20, 1750; m. Zeriah Baldwin.
X. BENNETT, b. April 12, 1752; m. Elizabeth Pierce.
xi. SAMUEL, b. May 6, 1754; m. Eunice Dunham.
xii. ELIJAH, b. April 20, 1756; m. Tanison Crane.
JOHN FIELD (John. John, Zechariah, John John, Richard, William,
j, b. Hatfield, Mass., Sept. 14, 1700; m. in 1733, Editha Dickinson, b. Aug.
dau. of Ebenezer and Hannah (Frary); d. Dec. 25, 1740; m., 2d, there Ann
559-
11.
560.
iii.
561.
iv.
562.
V.
563.
vi.
564.
5t>5
566
56
568
569.
308
William
23, 1707,
210 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Bagg. Mrs. Edith Field was granddaughter of Samuel Dickinson, b. July, 1638 ;
m. Martha Bridgeman, b. 1649, dau. of James, of Springfield, Mass, who removed
to Northampton. Samuel was son of Nathaniel, who came from England and
located at Weathersfield in 1637; town clerk, 1645; representative, 1646 to 1658;
removed to Hadley, Mass., in 1659; was a deacon and d. June 6, 1676. He d. May 26,
1762; res. Hatfield, Mass.
570. i. MEDAD, b. Aug. 8, 1734: m. Martha Morton.
571. ii. EDITHA, b. June 15, 1737; m. Jan. 22, 1760, Augustus Fitch, of
Windsor, Conn.
572. iii. HANNAH, b. Oct. 5, 1740; m. Silas Graves, son of Elnathan, b.
Feb. 8, 1732, of Hatfield.
311. AMOS FIELD (John, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard. William,
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., June 24, 1708; m. Aug. 30, 1739, Mehitable Day, dau.
of Thomas, of Hartford, Conn. He d. Oct. 10, 1759; res. Hatfield, Mass.
573. i. ZECHARIAH, b. Jan. 6, 1744; m. Mehitable Dickinson and Rachel
Clark.
574- li. MEHITABLE, b. 1746.
575. iii. AMOS, b. 1748.
312. ELIAKIM FIELD (John, John, Zechariah, John. John, Richard, William,
William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Nov. 27, 1711; m. in 1752, Esther Graves, of Whately,
dau. of David and Abigail (Bardwell), b. Nov. 29, 1732. David Graves, b. Dec.
1693, m. June, 1720, Abigail Bardwell, dau, of Robert of Hatfield, who served in
the "Falls Fight" under Capt. Turner in King Phillip's war. Robert m. Mary
Gull, dau. of William Gull, of Weathersfield, who on coming from England, located
at Hadley, Mass., 1663; d. 1701. David Graves was son of Samuel, b. 1665; m.
16S7, Sarah ; res. Sunderland, Mass., and she d. Oct. 15, 1734. Samuel was son
of John Graves, who m. Mary Smith, b. 1630, dau. of Samuel Smith, and wife Eliz-
abeth from England. John Graves was killed by Indians in Sept., 1677. She d.
Dec. 16, 1668. His father was Thomas Graves, who came from England with his
wife Sarah to Hartford, Conn. ; removed to Hadley, and d. in 1662. His wife Sarah
d. in 1666. He d. Feb. 8, 1786; res. Hatfield, Mass.
576. i. ZENAS, b. Aug. 10, 1753; m. Sarah Burroughs and Lydia Cathcart.
577. ii. SARAH, b. April 22, 1755; m. David Scott (his second wife), of
Whatley.
578. iii. ZILPAH, b. Nov. 13, 1756; m. Abner Loomis. He was of Colchester,
Conn. Res. Whately, Mass. He d. April 2, 1S12, aged 62. She
d. March 22, 1847. Ch. : i. Sally, b. Aug. 24, 1783. 2. Jona-
than C, b. Oct. 18, 1785. 3. William, b. Sept. 26, 1789. 4. Leonard,
b. July 30, 1797. 5. Luther, b. Nov. 20, 1798.
579- iv. RHODA, b. Oct. 26, 1758; m. Elisha Waite, of Hatfield. He d.
June 29, 1816; shed. Jan. 19, 1819.
JOHN, b. Aug. 25, 1760; m. Lucy Look.
ABIGAIL, b. July 21, 1762; m. Roger Dickinson, of Whately; she
d. Feb. 9, 1809.
DAVID, b. April 11, 1764; m. Tabitha Clark.
ESTHER, b. April 4, 1767; an invalid; d. unm.
HANNAH, b. June 21, 1769; ra. May ro, 1796, Samuel Grimes, b.
1771; d. March 24, i8i6, in Whately, Mass.; m., 2d, probably,
April 25, 1823, Oliver Cooley, of South Deerfield. She d. May 13,
1843. Oliver Cooley was a trader and inuholder; Hannah was his
second wife, s. p.
580.
V.
581.
VI.
582.
vii.
583.
viii.
584.
IX.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 211
318. LIEUT. JOHN FIELD (Zechariah, John. Zechariah. John. John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Jan. 12, 1718; m. July ro, 1738, Hannah Boltwood, dau.
of Samuel and Hannah (Alexander), of Amherst. John Field, son of Zechariah
and Sarah (Clark), b. in Hatfield, Mass. He removed in 1736 to Amherst, where he
d. His res. was where some of the college buildings now stand. He was a prom-
inent man in town, holding various town offices. He held a lieutenant's commission
under the king, and at first refused to take the side of the colonies. At a meeting
of the Council of Safety, held at Northampton, Nov. 10, 1776. he was cited to appear
before the Colonial authorities, when he renounced his allegiance to the king, and
became a firm supporter of the colonial cause. Res. Amherst, Mass.
585. i. JOHN, bap. May 18, 1740; m. Elizabeth Henderson and Mrs.
Rachel (Waite) Wells.
586. ii. ABIGAIL, bap. July 11, 1742; d. in infancy.
587. iii. MARTHA BOLTWOOD, bap. Oct. 2. 1743; m. Col. Nathan Allen.
of Amherst, and Thomas Bascom. Res. Amherst and Hatfield,
Mass. Ch. : I. Joel, b. Sept. 18, 1773. 2. Nathan, b. June 22,
1775. 3. Martha, b, Aug. 12, 1777. 4. Nathan, b. April 8, 1779.
5. David, b. Aug. 8, 1780.
588. iv. MARY, bap. July 27, 1746; m. in 1765, Joel Billings, of Amherst;
\
591-
Vll.
592.
vin.
593.
IX.
594.
X.
595.
XI.
she d. Aug. 18, 1813. He was son of Deacon John, b. April i, j,no_
1747; d. Nov. 4, 1825; his second wife was Mrs. Lombard. ^^
589. V. ABIGAIL, bap. June 5, 1748; m. in 1770, Gideon Dickinson, Jr., of
Amherst. They removed to Washington, Vt. ; she d. , and 'he m.,
2d, Lydia Dickinson; six children.
590. vi. SARAH, bap. May 27, 1750; m. in 1774, Timothy Clapp, of Am-
herst; she d. Feb., 1799. He was bap. May 21, 1749; son of Pre-
served and Sarah (West); res. Amherst, Mass.; he left one dau.,
Patty, who m. Nov. 26, 1801, Elihu Belding, of Amherst.
EBENEZER, b. March 22, 1752; m. Sarah Gould.
SAMUEL, bap. Jan. 20, 1754; m. Meriam Nash.
JEMIMA, bap. May 25, 1755; m. Jan. 15, 1775, Oliver Bridgman, of
Belchertown.
JONATHAN, bap. Dec. 9, 1739; m. Sally Smith and Johnson.
ZECHARIAH, b. in 1757. Field, Zechariah, Amherst. Return of
men drafted from Hampshire county militia to march to Horse
Neck under command of Col. Samuel How (year not given), but
who failed to join regiment; drafted to Amherst; drafted into
Capt. Brakenridge's CO. Mass., Rev. Records.
322. COL. DAVID FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah. John. John, Richard,
William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 4, 1712; m. 1740, Mrs. Thankful Taylor.
b. July 18, 1 716, dau. of Thomas and widow of Oliver Doolittle. She d. March 26,
1803. He settled in Deerfield, where he was engaged in mercantile business, also
in trading with the Indians on the Mohawk river, N. Y. From his generosity and
g^eat losses during the Revolution he failed in business, and his large landed estate
was sold for a small part of its value, and from his notes and accounts never realized
six cents on the dollar of their amount which was nearly twenty thousand pounds.
The store in which he traded was taken down in the spring of 1877. He was a
member of the first Massachusetts Congress that met in Concord in 1774; also in the
Congress that met in Cambridge in 1775. He was a member of the Massachusetts
Council of Safety, who gave a commission signed May 4, 1775, of colonel to Benedict
Arnold for raising four hundred men from the Berkshire regiments for the capture
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of Fort Ticonderoga. They also gave him an order on Col. Thomas W. Dickinson,
of Deerfield, dated May 5, 1775, for him to procure for the army to be raised for the
capture of Fort Ticonderoga fifteen thousand pounds of beef cattle, and deliver
them at or near said fort, which order he gave Mr. Dickinson on the morning of
the 6th at the tavern of Major Salah Barnard, where he took breakfast. Col. Dick-
inson purchased the cattle and started them on the morning of the 7th, taking with
him his younger brother Consider, then a lad of fourteen, and reached Castleton,
Vt., on the 12th, the same day the troops from Berkshire arrived, where he met an
order from Arnold to turn all the cattle but four yoke which were to be used by the
troops for transportation, the fort having been already captured on the morning of
the loth by Col. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain boys. He was commissary-
general under Gen. Stark at the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777, and was in
command of a regiment for a short time. He was a very active and influential man
In town and received from his townsmen many important offices. He was in the
confidence of John Hancock and other leading men of the times.
The Massachusetts State Rev. Records has this! "Field, David. Official
record of a ballot by the House of Representatives dated Jan. 31, 1776; said Field
chosen colonel of 5th Hampshire Co. regt. of Mass. militia; appointment concurred
in by Council Feb. 8, 1776; reported commissioned Feb. 8, 1776; also colonel; re-
turn dated Boston, April 8, 1777, signed by Brig.-Gen. Timothy Danielson, of com-
panies of militia from Hampshire Co., which turned out as volunteer under Col.
David Leonard and Lieut. Col. Nay to reinforce the army at Ticonderoga, agreeable
to order of Council of Feb. — , 1777; two companies raised from said Field's regt. ;
also, resignation dated Deerfield, Feb. 14, 1778, signed by said Field, stating that
he had been appointed to the 'first commission' in 5th Hampshire Co. regt., that he
had served in that capacity to the best of his ability, but owing to old age was no
longer able to fulfill the duties of his office, and asking that his resignation be
accepted; resignation accepted bj- General Court, Feb. 20, 1778."
From Deerfield town records ;
"The uncertainty of Success in this our attempt (should the season prove favor-
able) by reason of our Remoteness from market. The scarcity of i\Ioney Amongst
us and the apprehension of an Heavier Tax this year so influenced the Town, that
we had not a vote for a Representative and Caused us to Hope should this our State
be laid before your Honours, you would not lay a fine upon us (who are scarce 100
families) for not Complying with the precept sent us in all which is submitted to
yo'ir Hours Wise Consideration by your Honrs obedient Humble Servants — Wm.
Williams, David Field, Jonath Hoit. "
"To the Honble House of Representatives in Gen. Court Assembled May 29.
1 751: We the Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Deerfield and at the request of
sd Town on our and their behalf Humbly Desire In excuse for not sending any
Person this year to Represent us in the Great and General Court ; To oflfer the fol-
lowing reasons: That we have been great sufi'erers in the last war, in being Drt)ve
from our improvements so that we have been obliged to buy pork of our neighbors
and have had befor the War, more fat Cattle in our Stalls in May, than has been
fatted in Town any year since the War Commenced, and what few we fatted the
last year take the Town together did not fetch what they cost in the Fall by which
our Time, Hay and Provender was entirely lost to us. That through Difficulty we
have Repaired our Fences that were not Burnt and made Such new as were; and at
the desire of Many and particularly some Gentlemen in Boston, have laid ourselves
out to our utmost by Clearing, Fitting and Sowing some Hundred acres of Wheat;
for an Experiment whether we cannot raise as good as the other Governments. In
doing of which we have unavoidably expended what little money we had, which
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will in no poor Degree be evidenced by the Acts of the Committee Appointed to give
Certificates (to) such as had any money to Exchange for the Dollars."
He d. April 19, 1792; res. Deerfield, Mass.
596. i. MARY, b. Oct. 31, 174 1; m. Sept. i, 1755, Rev. James Taylor, of
Norwalk. He was the son of John; was b. 1729; was graduated
at Yale College in 1754, and was schoolmaster at Deerfield in 1755.
Studied theology with Parson Ashley, settled as minister in New
Fairfield in 1758. In 1764 he was tried for holding doctrines of
Sandemanianism by the Association, and was deposed from the
ministry. He returned to Deerfield, but soon settled in Buckland.
He held to his new doctrines through life, and was killed by a
limb falling upon him July 7, 1785. Was the first person buried
in the Buckland graveyard. She d. Dec. 29, 1779. Ch. : i. Mary,
bap. Oct. 27, 1755; d. young. 2. Mary, b. June 29, 1758; m. Daniel
Trowbridge. 3. John James Stewart, b.. Jan. 30, 1761; m. Mary
E. Hawks. 4. Tirza, b. Jan. 11, 1764; m. Seth Hawks, Jr. 5.
David Field, b. Jan. 19, 1767; m. Rhoda Thompson. 6. Hannah,
b. June 16, 1772; m. Col. Elihu Hoyt. 7. Betty Filena, b. July 8,
1774; m. Hezekiah Hurlburt. 8. Gratia, b, June 17, 1777; m.
Daniel Hurlburt. 9. Sarah Amarilla, b. Dec. 27, 1779; m. Zecha-
nah Dutton. 10. Samuel Edwards, b. ; a teacher at Buck-
land and Conway, and d. at latter place, Feb. 13, 1793.
597. ii. SAMUEL, b. Sept. 14, 1743; m. Sarah Childs.
598. iii. RUFUS, b. July 20, 1745; d. July 23, 1746.
599. iv. DAVID, b. May 4, 1747; m. Hannah Childs.
600. V. TIRZA, b. April 16, 1749; m. Nov. 28, 1771, Jonathan Ashley, and
Aug. 27, 1792, Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, of Heath. Ashley was son
of Jonathan, Jr., b. 1739; was graduated at Yale in 1758; was a
lawyer with a large practice; was a Tory, in consequence of which
he got into trouble. After the Revolution he lived in Shelburne ;
was there in 1785-86; sold his house in Deerfield in 1786. He d.
May 30, 1787; she d. Nov. 22, 1797. Ch. ; i. William, b. Sept.
28, 1772; d. Oct. 7, 1772. 2. Harriet, bap. Oct. 24, 1773; m. Eliel
Gilbert. 3. Tirza, b. Nov. 19, 1774; m. Rufus Saxton. 4. Doro-
thy, b. March 3, 1776; m. Roswell Leavett. 5. Abigail, b. Sept.
7, 1777; m. David White. 6. Elizabeth Matilda, bap. May i, 1780;
d. on Dark Day, May 19, 1780.
601. vi. OLIVER, b. Sept. 13, 1751; m. Ketnra Hoyt.
602. vii. ELIHU, b. Oct. 16, 1753; m. Hepzibah Dickinson.
603. viii. THANKFUL, b. March 25, 1758; m. Jan. 25, 1775, Col. Thomas
Wells Dickinson, son of Thomas, b. 1751; lived on lot No. i; was
a farmer; captain of militia company May 3, 1776; major May 22,
1778; lieutenant-colonel June 19, 1794; Whig in Revolution; ap-
pointed assistant commissary under Col. Arnold, May 4, 1775.
For several years he did valuable work in patriot cause in that
department; in 1780 was in the continental army as lieutenant,
under Capt, Isaac Newton in Col. Murray's regt. ; was at West
Point and vicinity when the treason of his old commander was
discovered, and saw Washington when he arrived on the scene
from Hartford. He d. May 16, 1835; she d. Jan. 21, 1836. Ch, :
I. Pamelica. b. Dec. 5, 1775; d. July 21, 1778. 2. Jonathan, b.
May 8, 1778; m. Nancy Paine, dau. of Gen. Edward. 3. Pamelica,
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b. May 23, 1780; m. Robert Bard well. 4. Thankful, b. Jan. 23,
1782; m. Pliny Arms. 5. Thomas W., b. March 26, 1784; m.
Lucy Hoyt. 6. Rev. Rodolphus, b. June 27, 1786; m. Nancy
Hoyt. 7. David, F., b. April 12, 1793; m. Fanny Hoyt and Mrs.
Amelia (Jones) Ware. 8. Clarissa, b. Dec. 29, 1794; d. unm. Feb.
27, 1862. 9. Richard, b. Nov. 23, 1798; d., s. p., July 30, 1871.
604. ix. FILANA, b. Sept. 5, 1761; m. about 1785. Consider Dickinson. He
was b. 1 761 ; was several times out in the continental service; was
at Fort Griswold, whence he was discharged the day before it was
captured by Arnold, and later at Newburgh. After the war he
spent some years in Canada hunting and trading in turs. He
was a noted character and a prominent figure in Deerfield in his
day, and especially noted for his exhaustless fund of humorous
anecdotes and song. He lived on the house lot which the proprie-
tors voted Rev. John Williams when he went there to preach in
1686; the last lineal descendant of Parson Williams there sold it
in 1789 to Mr. Dickinson, after living on the place for sixty-five
years. "Uncle Sid," as he was universally called, d. Dec. 4,
1854, aged 94. By industry, good judgment and economy he had
accumulated what was a large property for the times, which was
left without reserve to his wife; but there is evidence of a mutual
understanding that it was to be eventually used for some public
purpose; this fund was impaired by some unfortunate invest-
ments, but by the most scrupulous economy and conscientious fru-
gality "Aunt Esther" was able to leave a largely increased amount
to a board of trustees for the purpose of establishing and main-
taining a free academy and public library on this old historic
ground ; the building erected for these institutions probably covers
the very spot where stood the house of Parson John Williams,
Feb. 29, 1703-4, and whence he and his family were earned to death
or captivity. Filana d. Oct. 31, 1831, and he ra., 2d, 1840, Esther
Harding.
327. CAPT. MOSES FIELD (Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Feb. 16, 1722; m. Sept. 15, 1748,
Rebecca Cooley, dau. of Jonathan and Joanna; d. Feb. 14, 1783; m., 2d, Nov. i,
1783, Mrs. Lydia Champion, widow of Dr. Reuben, of West Springfield; she d. May
I, 1809. He served five years in the Revolutionary army, and was promoted to the
rank of captain. He d. March 7, 1815; res. Longmeadow, Mass.
605. i. REBECCA,, b. Nov. 29, 1748; m. Nov. 25, 1773, Amariah Wool-
worth, of Longmeadow; d. Dec. 20, 1836.
ELIJAH, b. Dec. 23, 1750; d. Dec. 31, 1767.
OLIVER, b. Nov. 15, 1752; m. Ann Cooley.
MOSES, b. Feb. 9, 1755; m. Lydia Champion.
DIADEMIA, b. Oct. 9, 1756; m. March 4, 1788, Stephen Williams.
She m., 2d, June 25, 1793, Jacob Kibbe, of Monson, and she d.
there.
AARON, b. June 24, 1761; m. Flavia Burt.
ALEXANDER, b. Feb. 5, 1764; m. Flavia Colton and Jerusha
Burt.
SARAH, b. Feb. 24, 1766; d. July 12, 1777.
NAOMI, b. May 22, 1777; d. July 31, 1777.
AARON, b. June 24, 1759; d. Aug. 30, 1760.
606.
11.
607.
iii.
608.
IV.
609.
V.
610.
vi.
611.
vii.
612,
viii.
613.
ix.
614.
X.
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328. DR. SIMEON FIELD (Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John. Rich-
ard. William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., April 25, 1731; m. Dec. 29, 1763,
Margaret Reynolds, dau. of Rev. Peter and Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1742; d. Feb. 9,
1796. He gfraduated at Yale College as a physician. He settled in Enfield, Conn.,
where he was very celebrated, and had an extensive practice. He also kept a tav-
ern which is now, 1900, still standing, and is known as the old Field tavern. He
also was an active and influential man during the Revolution, and during his time
was easily the most important man in his town.
Rev. Nathaniel Collins, of Enfield, sued Simeon Field, one of the principal
inhabitants of Enfield, and of the first church society, and the rest of the inhabit-
ants, but was defeated, April 29, 1771 — Public Records of Connecticut.
He d. Jan. 7, 1801; res. Enfield, Conn.
615. i. SIMEON, b. June 3, 1765. He graduated at Yale College in 1785,
a physician. He settled in Somers, Conn., but after his father's
death returned to Enfield, where he died unmarried March i, 1822.
616. ii. MARGARET, b. Feb. 27, 1768; m. Dec. 19, 1791. Rev. Joshua
Leonard, of Ellington, Conn, and removed to New York. He d. in
Auburn. N. Y., Dec. 18, 1843, aged 75. Ch. ; i. John Adams
Leonard, b. Elington, Conn.. Jan. 16, 1799; ™' Alton, 111., Annis
Armitage, d. there 1858; he d. Chicago, Jan. 13, 1886. Ch. ;
(a) Margaret, dead, (b) Laura Annis, dead, (c) Maria, (d) Flora,
dead, (e) Simeon Field, d. two years old. (f) Simeon Field, b.
Sept. 4, 1852; m. Sept. 11, 1879, Louise Adele Chandler, b. Nov.
5, 1853; res. 212 So. Grove avenue. Oak Park, 111. Ch. ; i. John
Chandler Leonard. ii. Laura Francis Leonard, iii. Edward
Simeon Leonard, iv. Robert Weston Leonard, v. Dean Rollins
Leonard, vi. James Chandler Leonard and vii. Louise Chandler
Leonard, twins, viii. Margaret Elizabeth Leonard, (g) Eliza-
beth, dead. Margaret d. March 5, 1824.
617. iii. MARY, b. Feb. 22, 1771; m. Oct. 15, 1801, Hon. William Dixon, of
Enfield, Conn. ; she d. Oct. 23, 1845. He was b. about 1775 ; d.
about T839; res. Enfield, Conn. He was b. in Killingly, Conn.,
and while a young man settled in Enfield ; there for some time he
taught school ; another brother being engaged in a similar profes-
sion in the same building, only in another room. He studied law
and practiced there until his death. As will be noticed in the pic-
ture of his residence, the one-story addition at the left of main part
was used as his law ofiice. He was representative to the General
Court, and for twelve years was the trusted and honored town
clerk. He erected the bridge in that town that spans the Connec-
ticut river, by the aid of a lottery, in 1832. This toll bridge which
several years ago was condemned as unsafe for use is now the
property of William Dixon Marsh, of Evanston, 111., having been
willed to him by his father, whose wife was a daughter of Mrs.
Dixon. The children of Hon. Wm. Dixon were : i. Simeon Field
Dixon. He was graduated at Yale College; studied law; prac-
ticed his profession, and d. unm. 2. William E., m. Elizabeth
Johnson ; he was a Congregational clergyman ; two ch. : William J.
and Charles, both res. Cimeron, Kan.
3. James, b. in Enfield, Conn., Aug. 5, 1814; d. in Hartford,
March 27, 1873. He was graduated at Williams with distinction in
1834; studied law in his father's office, and began practice in
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Enfield; but soon rose to eminence at the bar, removed to Hartford,
and there formed a partnership with Judge Wm. W. Ellsworth.
Early combining with his legal practice an active interest in public
affairs, he was elected to the popular branch of the Connecticut
legislature in 1837 and 1838, and again in 1844. In 1840 he m. Eliza-
beth L., dau. of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Cogswell, professor in the
Connecticut Theological Institute. Mr. Dixon at an early date had
become the recognized leader of the Whig party in the Hartford con-
gressional district, and was chosen, in 1845, a raemberof the United
States House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 1847, and
was distinguished in that difficult arena alike for his power as a
debator and for an amenity of bearing that extorted the respect
of political opponents even in turbulent times following the Mexi-
can war, and the exasperations of the sectional debate precipitated
by the "Wilmont Proviso." Retiring from Congress in 1840, he
was in that year elected from Hartford to a seat in the Connecticut
Senate, and having been re-elected in 1854, was chosen president
of that body, but declined the honor, because the floor seemed to
offer a better field for usefulness. During the same year he was
made president of the Whig State Convention, and having now
reached a position of commanding influence, he was in 1857 elected
United States senator, and participated in all the parliamentary
debates of the epoch that preceded the civil war. He was remark-
able among his colleagues in the Senate for the tenacity with
which he adhered to his political principles, and for the clear pre-
sage with which he grasped the drift of events. Six years after-
ward in the midst of the Civil war he was re-elected senator with a
unanimity that had had no precedent in the annals of Connecticut.
During his service in the Senate he was an active member of the
Committee on Manufactures, and during his last term was at one
time appointed chairman of three important committees. While
making his residence in Washington the seat of an elegant hospi-
tality, he was remarkable for the assiduity with which he followed
the public business of the Senate and for the eloquence that he
brought to the discussion of grave public questions as they suc-
cessively arose before, during and after the Civil war. Among his
more notable speeches was one delivered June 25, 1862, on the
constitutional status created by the so-called acts of secession, a
speech that is known to have commanded the express admiration
of President Lincoln, as embodying what he held to be the true
theory of the war in the light of the constitution and of public
law. To the principles expounded in that speech Mr. Dixon
steadfastly adhered during the administration alike of President
Lincoln and of his successor. In the impeachment trial of Presi.
dent Johnson he was numbered among the Republican senators
who voted against the sufficiency of the articles, and from that
date he participated no longer in the councils of the Republican
party. Withdrawing from public life in i86g, he was urged by the
President of the United States and by his colleagues in the Senate
to accept the mission to Russia, but refused the honor, and with-
out returning to the practice of his profession, found occupation
for his scholarly mind in European travel, in literary studies, and
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in the society of congenial friends. From his early youth he had
been a student and lover of the world's best literature. Remark-
able for the purity of his literary taste and for the abundance of
his intellectual resources, he might have gained distinction as a
prose writer and as a poet, if he had not been allured to the more
exciting fields of law and politics. While yet a student at college
he was the recognized poet of his class, and even his graduation
thesis was written in verse. His poems, struck off as the leisure
labors of a busy life, occupy a conspicuous place in Everest's
"Poets of Connecticut," while five of his sonnets, exquisite for
refinement of thought and felicity of execution, are preserved side
by side with those of Bryant, Percival and Lowell in Leigh
Hunt's 'Book of the Sonnet." He was also a frequent contributor
to the "New England Magazine" and to the periodical press.
Trinity College conferred upon him in 1862 the degree of LL.D.
Deeply imbued with classical letters, versed in the principles and
the practice of law, widely read in history, and possessing withal
a logical mind, Mr. Dixon always preferred to discuss public ques-
tions in the light of a permanent political philosophy instead of
treating them with paramount reference to the dominant emotions
of the hour.
.4. Mary Reynolds, m. Dr. Asa Leffingwell Spalding. He
was the son of Stephen and Molly (Leffingwell), and was b.
in Enfield, Conn., Sept. 18, 1800. He first married in 1834, Mary
Reynolds Dixon, of Enfield, Conn. She was the dau. of Wil-
liam Dixon, lawyer, and sister of Hon. James Dixon, of Hart-
ford, Conn., United States senator from Connecticut. She d. in
1 841. His second wife, Sarah Howe Field Spalding (which see) d.
March 7, 1864. He d. Jan. 7, 1864. His parents moved from Col-
chester, Conn., soon after his birth. There he fitted for college at
Beacon Academy. He relinquished, however, the idea of a colle-
giate education and entered upon the study of medicine, which he
pursued in part under the instruction of Dr. North, of Hartford,
Conn., and subsequently in the medical school at Yale College,
from which he received his degree in 1S32. He also received the
same from the Berkshire Medical School in 1833. He began the
practice of his profession in Marlboro, Conn ; thence he moved to
East Haddam, Conn., continuing but a short time in each of these
places. He went in the spring of 1839 to Enfield, Conn., where he
spent the remaining twenty-five years of his life, constantly en-
gaged in the duties of his profession. He was a man of marked
energy of character — a quality which showed itself in the vigorous
support he rendered in church and religious matters, no less suc-
cessful than his professional life. His two oldest sons are gradu-
ates from Williams College. Ch. ; 1. William Dixon, b. Oct. 7,
1836; graduated Williams College, 1S60; was four years in the civil
service in the office of the Senate at Washington ; since then has
been in journalism and resided most of the time since 1867 in Lon-
don, England and New York City. 2. James Field, b. Dec. 5,
1839; m. April 2S, 1864, Mary Harper; res. Concord, Mass. He was
fitted for college and graduated at Williams in 1862, and there was
tutor in Greek for one year, and later one of the principals at the
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218 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Round Hill school for boys at Northampton, Mass. ; admitted to
deacon's orders in the Episcopal church in 1869, and at once began
ministerial work in Northampton; was rector there in 1869, and
held the same position at St. John's parish in Ithaca, N. Y. , m 1870;
was rector in Portland, Conn.. 1872-79; Cambridge, Mass., 1879-91.
He withdrew from the Episcopal church in 1892, and joined the
Roman Catholic church the same year. A period of ecclesiastical
uncertainty in his life must be noted, extending over nearly four
years, from the spring of 1892. He is now leading a literary life.
He has written and published "The Ordmances of Confirmation"
in 1880, and in 1886 "The Teaching and Influence of St. Augus-
tine." His children are; (a) Mather Raymond, b. May 22, 1865;
graduated at Harvard in 1887; M.A. there in 1888; taught Latin
and Greek in St. Mark's, Southboro', to 1892; studied music in
Paris and in Munich, 1892-5; became instructor in music in Harv-
ard, 1895 ; is m. and res. Cambridge, Mass. (b) Henry Dixon, b.
July 15, iS6q; educated at high school in Cambridge; is in busi-
ness in St. Paul, (c) Philip Leffingwell, b. June 27, 1871; gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1892; took M.A. there in 1893, and B.S. in
1894. He is an electrical engineer with Bell Telephone Co. ; res.
406 Market street, Philadelphia, Pa. 3. Sarah L., b. May 24, 1844;
d. July II, 1865. 4. John Edward, b. Jan. 27, 1847; he was in the
regular army; address, 29 Liberty street, New York.*
5. Eliza, b. 1806; m. April 5, 1837, Rev. Ezekiel Marsh. He was
b. in Danvers, Mass., Oct. 5, 1808; was fitted for college at Exeter,
and was graduated at Bowdoin in the class of 1831. At Brunswick
he was industrious and faithful. He was a man of good capacity
and common sense, having excellent judgment. He had an ami-
able temper, well expressed by his handsome face. Later he gradu-
ated at Andover Theological Institute and went to New Haven to
put on a finishing touch. In 1835 he was ordained and settled in
the pleasant town of Ellington, Conn., and remained there until his
decease Aug. 30, 1844. His children were: (a) Elizabeth Taylor,
b. Jan. 7, 1838; m. in 1892, Dr. Frank Kin^el; res. Lake Worth,
Fla. (b) William Dixon, b. Feb. 7, 1840; m. Aug. 25, 1884, Lora
E. Campbell, b. Jacksonville, 111., June 26. 1846. She is the dau.
of William Hamilton Campbell and Emelina Parsons; is a mem-
ber of the Chicago Society Daughters of the Revolution, joining
the same as a descendant of Major Joseph Parsons, who enlisted
in the Revolutionary war as a drummer boy, but before peace had
been declared had risen rapidly to the rank of major for meritori-
ous service. She is a remarkably handsome and vivacious
woman, and an excellent conversationalist, and traces her descent
from Rev. John Hancock, of Lexington, Mass., the grandfather of
Gov. John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence; the first governor of Massachusetts after the adoption of its
State constitution ; chairman of the Provincial Congress, and ' 'the
founder of civil liberty in Massachusetts." Mrs. Marsh is also de-
scended from Gov. Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, Rev. Peter
Reynolds, Rev. Thomas Whitfield, and Rev. Thomas Hooker.
* Sarah Howe was not the daughter of Dr. Simeon Field as stated on pasre 604 of the Spald-
ing Genealogy, but of Salathiel, as I have from her sister, who certainly ought to know.
WILLIAM DIXON MARSH.
See page •its.
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She is particularly interested in colonial and historical furniture
and bric-a-brac, and her handsome home, "Enfield Place," is filled
with these articles, many of which antedate the Revolution. Wil-
liam Dixon Marsh was b. in Ellington, Conn., and by the death of
his father when only four years of age was left to the care of his
mother. He received an excellent education under his mother's
supervision, at the public schools of his native town and at Edward
Hall's boys' school. When only nineteen years of age he had de-
cided to go west, and in 1859 located in Chicago. For some five
years he secured an excellent insight into business in one of the
largest wholesale houses in the city, and at the end of that en-
gaged in business on his own account. In 1868-70 he was assist-
ant assessor of internal revenue, and at the expiration of this office
at once engaged in the fire insurance business with Fred. D. James
& Co., and the co-partnership has continued since that time.
This company is one of the best known in the city in this line of
business and stands in the front rank of fire insurance agencies in
the west.
61S. iv. PETER RAYNOLDS, b. Feb. 28, 1774; m. Hannah Pruden.
6ig. V. EDWARD, b. July i, 1777; m. Sarah Baldwin and Esther Baldwin.
329. DR. SAMUEL FIELD (Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Oct. 10, 1725. He graduated at
Yale College in 1745. A physician; he settled in Saybrook. Conn., where he d.
Sept. 25, 17S3. He was a true patriot, and took a very active part during the war
of the Revolution.
"In memory of Dr. Samuel Field stands this monument, teaching us to live in
view of death. He departed this life Sept. 25, 1783. in the fifty-sixth year of his
age."
"In memory of Mrs. Hannah Field, consort of Dr. Samuel Field, who died Oct.
9, 1783, in the forty-eighth year of her age. Having survived her consort but
fourteen days.
"Lovely and pleasant in their lives,
In their death they were not divided."
Res. Saybrook, Conn.
In May, 1751, Samuel Field, of Saybrook, petitioned the Connecticut Assem-
bly that he was with another at an expense of ;^83 i6s. for support of one Pegg. an
Indian woman, when she was sick and in custody of the law, and that he was with-
out remedy unless the legislature interposes. The county court at New London
took charge of the matter and settled the same. Samuel Field was deputy to the
General Court of Connecticut in Maj', 1771, for Saybrook. — Connecticut Public
Records.
Samuel Field was third son and fourth child of Thos. Field, of Hatfield and
Longmeadow, Mass. His mother, Abigail Dickinson, was a sister of Jonathan
and Moses Dickinson (Y. C. 1706 and 1707). He settled in Saybrook (now Old Say-
brook), Conn., as a physician, and became a leading man in that community. In
1771, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1780, and 1781, he was one of the representatives in the
General Assembly. He was also justice of the peace, and was in sympathj- with
the patriot cause in the Revolution. His services were interrupted by his early death in
Saybrook, Sept. 25. 1783, aged 58. He m. in 1745, his second cousin, Abigail, dau.
of Deacon Joseph Field. Jr., and Mary (Smith) Field, of Sunderland, Mass. His sec-
ond wife, Hannah, d. on the 9th of the next month after his death in her forty-
eighth year. He m. Hannah Lord, b. 1735; d. Oct. 9. 1783, m her forty-eighth year.
220 FIELD GENEALOGY.
620. i. SAMUEL, b. 1759; m. Margaret Shipman.
621. ii. HENRY, b. 1761. The following is copied from his tombstone in
Saybrook, Conn.: "Sacred to the memory of Mr. Henry Field
this Monument is erected, teaching the Traveler to remember a
sudden fate. He died ye nth day of May, 1787, in ye 27th year
of his age."
62r>^. iii. WILLIAM, bap. May 13, 1764; he d. at sea of West India fever,
Sept. 15, 1790.
622. iv. FRANCES, bap. Aug. 3, 1766; d. young. "Without a moment's
warning Death's Angel comes. Demands Dispatch. There's no
resistance. Tell not your wife or your children you may love
them. Tis the Almighty's will." — Copied by Henry Hart, Say-
brook.
623. V. FRANCES, b. June 20, 1776; m. Dorrance Kirtland. He was son
of Ambrose and Eliza (Gibson), b. July 28, 1770; d. May 23, 1840;
she d. Feb. i, 1818, at Coxsackie, N. Y. Ch. : r. Ambrose Kirt-
land, b. April 9, 1797; d. June 21, 1846; buried at Coxsackie, N. Y. ;
m. Charlotte McCarty, Sept. 16, 1818; she was dau. of Gen. Rich-
ard McCarty and Eliz. Van Berger. Ch. ; (a) Frances Kirtland,
b. July 3, 1819; d, Oct. 4, 1858; m. Maj. Gen. Nath'l Michler,
. U. S. A., in June, 1848, he was son of Peter S. Michler and Mary
Howell. Ch. : i. Francis Michler, colonel, U. S. A.; b. 1849; m.
Jan. 14, 1900, Marion Lowry. ii. Ambrose K. Michler, b. 1851;
m. about 1888 to Emily Hunt. iii. Peter Sykes Michler, b. 1853.
iv. Richard McCarty Michler, b. 1856. (b) Elizabeth Kirtland, b.
May 15, 1822; d. Nov. 14, 1889; m. Theodore Cozzens, April 16,
1S46; he was son of Wm. Brown Cozzens and Mary Greene. Ch. :
i. Wm. Brown Cozzens, b. Sept. 24, 1848; d. Feb. 27, 1884, unm.
ii. Charlotte (Sharlie) Kirtland Cozzens, b. April 22, 1853; d. Nov.
15, 1881, unm. (c) Charlotte Ellen Kirtland, b. Feb. 7, 1832 (?); d.
Oct. 6, 1897; m. Feb. 13, 1849, Nath'l Ripley Cobb; he was son of
Nath'l Ripley Cobb and Sarah Kendall. Nath'l Ripley Cobb gradu-
ated at the University of New York, at New York City, in 1844,
and was educated for a physician. He never practiced ; was a
member of the Board of Brokers until he came West, and has
since been interested in real estate. Ch. : i. Charlotte Kirt-
land Cobb (Lottie), m. Capt. D. A. Lyle, U. S. A. ; she d. March
I, 1884; one living child, Anna Lyle. ii. Nath'l Ripley Cobb, Jr.,
d. in infancy, iii. Frances Michler Cobb ; unm. ; res. Sioux Citj',
Iowa. iv. Eleanor Hermance Cobb, m. Hon. E. H. Hubbard.
Hon. E. H. Hubbard graduated at Yale College, 1872(1 think). He
is now State senator from the Thirty-second district, at Des Moines,
Iowa, from Woodbury county. His ch. are: i. Elbert Hamilton
Hubbard, Jr., b. in Sioux City. 2. Charlotte Hubbard, b. in
Sioux City. 3. Lyle Hubbard, b. in Sioux City. 4. Eleanor Her-
mance Hubbard, b. in Sioux City. v. Elizabeth Cozzens Cobb, d.
aged 15 years and 3 weeks, vi. Sarah Kendall Cobb, m. Dr. Wil-
lard B. Pineo, M.D. (d) Richard McCarty Kirtland, b. 1838; m.
twice, ist, Mattie Firth, of LaGrange, Tenn. Ch. : i. Julian,
ii. One girl. iii. Others unknown. 2. William D. Kirtland, b.
Feb. g, 1803; d. 1851; m. Elinor Eliza McCarty, Oct. i, 1833. sister
FIELD GENEALOGY. 221
of Charlotte. Ch. : (a) Eliz. (b) Dorrance. (c) William. 3.
Harriet Kirtland, b. June 2, 1804; d. 1873; m. Henry Mander-
ville, Aug. 9, 1827. Ch. ■ (a) Dorrance Kirtland Manderville,
M.D., d. recently in Brooklyn, N. Y.
331. CAPTAIN SETH FIELD (Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John. John,
Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Sept. 28, 1712; m. in 1741, Susanna
Doolittle, dau. of Rev. Benjamin and Lydia (Todd), b. Wallingford, Conn., June 13,
1726; d. Nov. 15, 1787. He was graduated at Yale College in 1732. He was for many
years the leading spirit in religious, civil and military affairs in his town. In 1738 Seth
Field purchased lot No. 5 of the home lots in the third settlement of Deacon Mattoon.
He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, and for some time was stationed
at Fort Dumnier. When the proprietors of the second division organized in 1756,
Seth Field was elected clerk. In 1728 he was employed as teacher and was prob-
ably the first person so employed in that town. In 1753 he was lieutenant in the
Northfield company, and in 1756 was elected captain. He was town clerk and treas-
urer for forty years, and schoolmaster for nearly as many. The town voted in
to pay him ten shillings a week for teaching school and board himself. He was a
commissioner and justice of the peace for many years. He served under Capt.
Joseph Kellogg against the Indians in 1733. He was a lieutenant in Capt. Elijah
Williams' company, Col. Israel Williams' regiment, to Crown Point, from June 12
to Nov. 21, 1757, and captain in Col. Israel Williams' regiment at Ticonderoga and
Crown Point in 1759, and on the frontier to the close of the Indian war in 1760. He
was a lieutenant in Capt. Israel Williams' company. Col. Ephraim Williams' regi-
ment, in the memorable fight with the French and Indians near Lake George, Sept.
8. 1755, where Col. Williams was killed. The Indians were noted for their skill in
capturing animals in traps and wonderfully expert with their divers ways and rude
yank-ups. The latter was nothing more than a stout oak or hickory staddle, bent
over and fastened to a notch cut in another tree. The animal when caught in the
snare at the end, by struggling would loosen the catch, and the staddle would
spring upright, with the game dangling in the air. Capt. Field's old mare once
strayed into the woods and got into a trap of this kind set for deer. The squire
was astonished when an Indian came running breathless to tell him that "his
squaw-horse was caught in a yank-up."
July 25, Seth Field writes- "Since the disastrous tidings from Ohio and the
delay of the Crown Point forces, the mischief done above us together with our cir-
cumstances, has so discouraged the hearts of our people that they are almost ready
to give up all and care only for their lives. A fine harvest is on the ground, and
likely to be lost for want of a guard. The few soldiers we have are constantly on
duty, and not half sufficient to guard the laborers. " Asks that one of the companies
of Rangers that are between the Connnecticut. and the Merrimack rivers may be
sent to scout for a few weeks to the northward of Northfield ; says Capt Rice of
Rutland is ready to come.
What was going on nearer home will appear from the following letters.
"Northfield, June 7, 1756.
"This evening a post from Winchester informs that the Indians have taken
Josiah Foster, his wife and two children from the Bow in Winchester, about 10
o'clock in the morning as 'tis conjectured; though not discovered till the sun
about two hours high this evening. The house is rifled and a hog killed at the door.
The man and a child tracked from the house with the Indians. The numbers can-
not be ascertained, but supposed to be about 6 or 6 in all.
"Seth Field."
222 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Aug. 20, Zebediah Stebbins and Reuben Wright went up from Northfield to
work on Iheir lots near Stebbins' Island, Just as they started to return, they were
assaulted by a small party of Indians in ambush. The leading facts of the en-
counter are given in a letter written the next day.
"Northfield, Aug. 21, 1756.
"To Major Williams, Deerfield.
"Sir: As two of our Northfield men, viz Zebediah Stebbins and Reuben
Wright, were returning from their labor last night about sun half an hour high, a
little below Joseph Stebbms' Island, an Indian laying in the path 6 or 7 rods before
them fired, shot Wright through the right arm between the shoulder an elbow.
They turned and rode 3 or 4 score rods and halted, when the enemy immediately
came up and fired a second gun at them. The men then perceived that there were
not more than 3 or 4 Indians ; but still rode back a few rods and stopped to have the
Indians come up (though they had but one gun). In a minute an Indian came in
sight in the path, when Stebbins fired, and the Indian fell and cried out. Stebbins
and Wright made off: as fast as they could. The Indians were after Joseph Stebbins
as 'tis supposed, who was at work at his house, and who saw 3 of the enemy follow
our men. Some of our farmers had in too much haste got out to their homes, but
we see that we are still in danger, and I hope we shall take warning and stand bet-
ter on our guard. "Ye humble servt,
"Seth Field."
The Fall of Oswego — While Gen. Winslow was delayed in his intended move-
ment on Crown Point, the French under Montcalm invested the English fort at
Oswego, on the south side of Lake Ontario; and after a short siege, took it, Aug.
14. Our loss was 1,700 men; Shirley's and Pepperell's regiments, 7 armed vessels,
carrying from 8 to 18 guns each, 200 bateaux, 107 cannons, 14 mortars, 730 muskets,
besides stores. Many of the prisoners were massacred by the Indians, and the
rest were sent to France. Anxiety about the plans of the victorious Montcalm led
the Massachusetts authorities to issue orders about October i, impref^sing men from
the militia to go to the support of the army under Maj. Gen. Winslow. The follow-
ing were impressed out of the Northfield foot company: Corporal Thomas Alex-
ander, Moses Evens, Ebenezer Field, Samuel Field, Eliphaz Wright, Amzi Doolittle,
Samuel Stratton, Philip Mattoon, Alexander Norton, Asahel Stebbins, Jona Hunt,
Samuel Orris, Daniel Brooks, Amasa Wright, Benj. Miller, Reuben Wright, Thomas
Elgar. As soon as the draft was completed, Capt. Seth Field wrote the following
letter to Col. Israel Williams:
"Northfield, Oct. 5, 1756.
"Sir: The men impressed are the strength and support of the town; many of
them with great families, and under the most difficult circumstances to leave, espe-
cially in the frontiers ; but I am obliged to take such or none. Our people are in the
utmost distrest at the thought of having this town stripped of the first men in it,
and there is a general backwardness amongst the men to go and leave their families
in such situation and under their difficult circumstances ; for as soon as they leave
the town we shall be able to make but a faint resistance against the enemy and
must lie at his mercy. We have indeed forts, and but a few feeble men to guard
and defend them. Pity and compassion cries loud for an exemption from the double
burden lying on the frontiers, and especially poor Northfield who has been wasting
away by the hand of the enemy these ten years past.
"Sir, begging your favor for the distressed town, I am ye humble servt,
"Seth Field."
He d. May 3, 1792; res. Northfield, Mass.
624. i. GEORGE, b. Dec. 22, 1742; m. Martha Smith.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 223
625. ii. RUFUS. b. Nov. 24, 1744; m. Elizabeth Field.
626. iii. KATHERINE, b. Aug. i, 1747; m. Sept. 23, 1767, Elijah Mattoon.
He was son of Nathaniel; was b. 1740; d. Nov. 12, 1823; shed.
Aug. 8. 1S35; res. Northfield. Ch. : i. Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1768:
m. Samuel Hedge. 2. Lucy, b. Nov. 10, 1770; d. Oct. 18, 1793.
3. Susanna, b. May 6, 1773; d. unm. May 29, 1859. 4. Katy, b.
Dec. 18, 1776; m. Samuel Hedge. 5. Elijah, b. Aug. 29, 1782; m.
Hannah Mattoon.
627. iv. SIBYL, b. Oct. 15, 1749; m. Aug. 5. 1768, Oliver Doolittle. He
was son of Lucius; was b. 1746; d. April 29, 1827; she d. Sept. 14,
1836; res. Northfield. Ch. : i. Infant. 2. Otis, b. Sept. 20, 1770
(captain); m. Sophia Shattuck. 3. Oliver, b. May 8, 1773; m.
Arethusey Whitney, of Warwick. 4. Sibyl, b. Jan. 23. 1776; d.
April 9, 1777, 5. Sibyl, b. Dec. 9, 1777; m. Aug. 8, 1794, Deacon
Samuel Foote, b. 1770; d. Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 25, 1848.
Samuel Foote's children were: (a) Elial Todd, b. May i, 1796,
in Gill, Mass. Elial Todd Foote was presiding judge at James-
town, N. Y., for twenty years. He m. at Jamestown, N. Y.,
Dec. 31, 1817, Anna Cheney, b. 1800; d. July 7, 1840. He d. in
New Haven, Conn. Ch. : i. Samuel Foote, of St. Louis, not
living, ii. James H. Foote, Norfolk, Conn. iii. Mary Ann Crosby.
Jamestown, N. Y. iv. Horace A. Foote; res. Boulevard and
Ninety- ninth street. New York city. v. Charles Cheney, b. Sept
5, 1825; m. Amelia L. Jenkms, b. July 19, 1827. He was a physi-
cian, and d. New Haven, Conn., in October, 1872. Ch. : I. Anna
Eliza Foote, not living, no children. 2. Amelia Leavitt Foote,
b. March 26, 1855; m. April 30, 1878, Edward B. Hill, b. June 2,
1853. He is a lawyer. Ch.: Amelia L. Hill, b. Jan. 4, 1884. Res.
331 West 84th street, New York city. 3. Mary Louise Foote, not
living, no children. 4. Sarah Wells Foote, 26 Elm street. New
Haven, Conn. 5. Charles Jenkins Foote, 26 Elm street. New
Haven, Conn. 6. Horace Kenevals Foote, not living, no children,
(b) Samuel, b. Aug. 22, 1798, Sherburne, N. Y. (c) Erastus, b.
July I, 1800, Sherburne, N. Y. (d) Mary Dorothea, b. April 17,
1802, Sherburne, N. Y. (e) Lydia, b. Feb. 4, 1804, Sherburne.
N. Y. (f) Philena, b. Feb. 10, 1806, Sherburne, N. Y. (g) Chloe,
b. April 10, 1808, Sherburne, N. Y. (h) Sedate, b. April 14, 1810,
Sherburne, N. Y. ; m. Cowing. Judge Rufus B. Cowing,
138 East Seventy-eighth street. New York city, is son of Sedate
Foote Cowing. James Foote, Harlem, New York city. Horace
Foote, New York city, (i) Charles Doolittle, b, Dec. 25. 1812;
m. Mary Walton Arnold, b. Nov. 26, 1817; d. Nov. 29, 1883. He
d. Covington, Ky., April 28. 1888; was a lawyer. Ch. : i. Kel-
niah, b. Aug. 7, 1850; m. Judge T. Jeff Phelps, June 25. 1878.
Covington, Ky. ii. Mollie Stella, b. April 7, 1852; m. Carson B.
Forse. Oct. 24. 1870; postofiBce address, Newport, Ky. iii. Sybil
Doolittle, b. March 19, 1855; m. Jan. 1878; Edward D. Casey,
postofiBce address, Cincinnati, Ohio. iv. Fannie Foote, b. April
29, 1858; m. March 30, 1883; Lewis Oliver Maddux; res. 24 East
32d street, Newport, Ky. He is a retired merchant. Ch. : i.
Rufus Foote Maddux, b. Oct. 20, 1884, Cincmnati, O. 2. Char-
lotte Posey Maddux, b. Dec. 16, 1885. Newport. Ky. ; d. Jan. 22,
224 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1S87. 3. Louise Arnold Maddux, b. Aug. 21, 1887, in Newport, Ky ;
Hon. Charles Doolittle Foote, late of Covington, Ky., died there
April 28, 1888, aged 75 years. He was a brother of Elial T. Foote,
and was well known in the vicinity of Jamestown, where he re-
sided for some 25 years prior to 1849, when he removed to Coving-
ton. He soon after studied law, and was for five years law
partner of Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives. He served for two terms as Repre-
sentative and four years as senator in the Kentucky Legislature.
He was born in 1812, and was the last survivor of eleven children,
nine of whom reached maturity, viz., Elial T., Samuel, Erastus,
Charles D., Obed H., Mary D. (Hall), Chloe (Seymour), Sedate
(Cowing), and Philena. All except Erastus were at one time well
known and prominent residents of Jamestown, near which their
parents, Samuel and Sybil T. Foote, settled m 1828. The father,
Samuel Foote, was for many years a deacon of the First Presby-
terian church until his death in 1848. — Jamestown (N. J.) Journal.
(j) Obed Hj^att, b. May 18, 1817, Plymouth, N. Y. (k) Oliver
Doolittle, b. July 28, 1821, Plymouth, N. Y. 6. Sara, bap. Jan. 2,
1780; d. soon. 7. Seth, b. Feb. 19. 1781; m. Eunice Wright. 8.
Sara, b. July 15, 1784; m. Col. Obed Slate. 9. Charles, b Feb.
22, 1786; d. Dec. 8, 1805.
628. V. SUSANNA, b. July 10, 1751; m. March 18, 1771, Asahel Stebbins.
He was son of Asahel; was b. 1750; he was in the Revolutionary
war in the campaign of 1777; d. July 26, 1822. She d. April 9,
1835; res. Northfield, Ch. . i. Eliphas, b. Sept. 26, 1771. 2.
Olive, b. Jan. 20. 1774; m. Nathaniel Collins. 3. Thomas, b.
Nov. g, 1776; m. Polly Willard. 4. Susanna F.. b. Jan. 13, 1779;^
m. Thomas Durkee. 5. Lydia, b. Oct. 8, 1781; m. Zebulon Burr.
6. Cyrus, b. Nov. 27, 1783; m. Mercy Morgan and Mrs. Orrell
(Dean) Jones. 7. Asahel, b. July 27, 1786; m. Mary Scott, Lucy
Rockwood and Mrs. Chamberlain. 8. Mary, b. July 27, 1786; d,
Sept. 6, 1788. 9. Francis, b. March 20, 1792; d. March 6, i860.
629. vi. FRANCIS, b. June 23, 1753; d. Feb. i, 1770.
630. vii. OLIVE, b. Aug. ig, 1755; m. in 1779, Cotton Dickinson, of Hart-
ford; d. Sept. 10, 1844.
631. viii. RHODA, b. Oct. 21, 1757; m. in 1780, Sylvanus Watriss. He was
son ot Sylvanus, was from New Windsor, and was a Revolution-
ary soldier in 1779. Res. Northfield. Ch. : i. Asa, b. June 10,
1781. 2. Henry, b. Oct. i, 1782. 3. Patty, bap. Feb. 4, 1787.
HENRY, b. Sept. 2, 1759; m. Rhoda Stratton.
SETH, b. Nov. 6. 1761 ; m. Martha .
FANNY, b. Nov. 6, 1763; m, Feb. 15, 1786, Asa Gates, of Brimfield
and Worcester; he was b. Jan. 29, 1757.
CHARLES, F., b. Aug. 20, 1765; d. Feb. 21, 1792.
THEODORE, b. May 7, 1769; m. Catherine Parker.
333. GAIUS FIELD (Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,^
William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., April 2, 1716; m. Sarah Holton, dau. of
Eleazor and Sarah (Alexander), b. April 15, 171 7. He was born on the old Field
farm in Northfield, but removed to Winchester, N. H. , where he died ; was a soldier
in the French and Indian wars. Res. Winchester, N. H.
632.
ix.
633.
X.
634-
XI.
635.
xii.
636.
XUl.
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637.
638
ii.
639-
111.
640.
IV.
641.
V.
642.
vi.
643.
vii
JAMES, b. ; m. Mary Woodcock.
ZECHARIAH, b. April 2, 1741; prob. rem. lo Keene, N. H.
JOSHUA, b. June 5. 1746; ni. Thankful Robbins.
GAIUS, b. March 21, 1763; a revolutionary soldier.
WAITSTILL. b. Sept. 4, 1749: m. Anna .
SARAH, b. April 6, 1743; m. Sept. 12, 176?, Enoch Stowell.
RICHARD, b. 1755.
643K-viii. ELISHA, b. Sept. 6. 1752.
643^. ix. DINAH, b. Sept. 21, 1757-
334. DOCTOR EBENEZER FIELD (Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John
John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., June 11, 1717; ra. in 1743,
Abigail Hoi ton, dau. of William and Abigail (Edwards). She m., 2d, Oct. 8, 1767,
Deacon Samuel Smith. She was b. Aug. 14, 1720; d. June 9, iSoi. He was a physi-
cian ; was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, 174S-56. He was noted in his pro-
fession and was named in the town records as Dr. Field. He had great faith in the
oil and gall of the rattlesnake, and was wont to go late in the autumn before they
denned tor the winter, and in early spring before they scattered for the summer to
hunt them on Brush mountain. The oil was applied outwardly, and was considered
a sovereign remedy for rheumatism. The gall was a specific for fevers. It was
mixed with chalk and made into pills. These pills were an article of regular traffic,
and were kept by dealers in drugs, and were often prescribed by physicians. The
pole and hook with which he captured the snakes is now in the possession of the
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, of Deerfield. He d. April 9, 1757. Res.
Northfield, Mass.
WILLIAM, b. Nov. 25, 1744; m. Sarah Petty.
DINAH, b. Jan. 26, 1746; m. Dec. 19, 1775, Dr. Charles Bowen, of
Charlestown, N. H. Ch. b. in Northfield: i. Lucy, b. 1784; m.
William Pomeroy; d. June 13, 1813. 2. Charles, b. 1787.
JESSE, b. Nov. 23, 1749; m. Anna Dewey.
LUCY, b. Dec. 23, 1751; m. Hezekiah Gaylord, of Montpelier, Vt. ;
d. in Stanstead, L. C.
LEVI, b. April 25, 1755; m. .
ASA, b. Nov. 9, 1757; m. Anna Diggins.
SAMUEL FIELD (Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., July 6, 1719; ra. in 1745, Abigail Field, dau.
of Joseph and Mary (Smith), of Sunderland, b. 1722; d. Nov. 2, 1803. He was a
soldier in 1756 in the French and Indian wars under General Winslow. He d. June
17, 1789. Res. Northfield, Mass.
MARY, b. May 14, 1746; d. Nov. i, 1746.
SILAS, b. Nov. 16, 1747: m. Azubah Root.
MERCY, b. Jan. 9, 1750; d. unra. Nov. 12, 1804.
SUBMIT, b. April 9, 1752; d. June 26, 1762.
SAMUEL, b. March 3, 1755; m. Elizabeth Mattoon.
ASENETH, b. Nov. 27, 1757; m. Nov. 19, 177S, Rufus Stratton,
of Northfield. She d. April, 1829.
656. vii. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 7, 1764; d. unm.
336. DEACON PAUL FIELD (Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Jan. 23, 1721; m. Christian Hub-
bard, dau. of Isaac, of Sunderland. She m., 2d, Landlord Ebenezer Field. She
was b. Dec. 17, 1733; d. Nov. 6, 1795. A deacon and very worthy and useful man
644.
1.
645.
11.
646.
iii
647.
iv.
648.
V.
649.
VI.
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650.
651.
11.
652.
111.
653.
iv.
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V.
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in town. He died of smallpox June 20, 1778. He m., 1753, Christian, dau. of Isaac
and Christian (Gunn) Hubbard, ot Sunderland. She m., 2d, May 24, 1786. Landlord
Ebenezer Field, ot Northfield, whom she soon left for Unchristian treatment, and
returned to her children, with whom she resided until her death. He d. of small-
pox June 20, 1778. Res. Northfield. Mass.
657. i. SPENCER, b. Sept. 26, 1754; m. Betty Frink.
658. ii. ROXANA, b. May 12, 1756; m. John Stratton, ot Hinsdale. He
was son ot Samuel; was b. 1756; drowned in the Connecticut
river, at Bellows Falls, Vt., June i. 1785. The stone that marks
his grave in a cemetery in Vernon, Vt., bears the following curi-
ous elegiac, and genealogical epitaph, doubtless written by the
Rev. Bunker Gay:
"MEMENTO MORI.
Here lie interred where silence reigns
Mr. John Stratton's Sad Remains
Sam'el and Ruth once happy were
In Him, Their only Son and Heir.
In January, e'er the Sun
Had Eight & Twenty Curcits run
In Seventeen Hundred Fifty Six
With Mortals here on Earth to mix,
He tirst began; but lost his life
In Seventeen Hundred Eighty-five
The first of June as in his Tour
Where Walpole Rapids foam and roar
He to a rock went down too nigh
To pierce the Salmon passing by.
The Rock's Smooth, Glassy, Sloping side
His feet betrayed, and let him slide
Plum down into a Watry Tomb,
No more to see his native Home
His tender Parents, lovely Spouse.
Or those bright Beauties of his House.
Three little helpless female heirs
Left to bedew his Grave with Tears
Alas, who can Their Loss repair,
Or ease the Widow's Soul of Care
Or furnish adequate Relief
To cure the Parents pungent Grief.
Father of Mercies, hear our Call,
Extend Thy Pity to them all.
Let Momentary Ills like this,
Issue in Everlasting Bliss."
His widow died in a fit in the meeting house in Hinsdale, Aug.
14, 1786, aged twenty-nine. Ch. : i. Thankful or Gratia, b.
May 9, 1776; m. John Wright. 2. Electa, b. April 10, 1779; ^'
Dr. Cyrus Washburn. 3. Roxana P., b. March 11, 1782; d. March
17, 1803.
659. iii. WALTER, b. Nov. 24, 1758; m. Plana Pettee.
660. iv. CHRISTIAN, b. May 20, 1761; m. Jan. 4, 1784, Hollis Taylor, of
Hinsdale. He was son of Thomas; was b. 1757; removed to
Hinsdale, and d. Sept. 3, 1845. She d. June i, 1833. Ch. : i.
Harriet, b. July 26, 1784; m. Randolph Wright. 2. John, b. Jan.
I, 1786; d. March 9, 1846. 3. Alpheus, b. Aug. 27, 1787; m. Lydia
Bridges. 4. William, b. July 25, 1789; m. Delia Hooker. 5.
Thankful, b. April 20, 1791; m. Jason Evans. 6. Lewis, b. April
12, 1793; ra. Lois Webster. 7. Seveno, b. Dec. 30, 1794; m. Mary
FIELD GENEALOGY. 221
662.
VI.
663.
vii.
664.
Vlll,
665.
ix.
666.
X.
E. Creed. 3. Emily, b, May 16, 1797; m. Pardon H, Newell. 9.
Calvin, b. June 30, iSoo; scalded and d. Feb. 19, 1803. 10. Ade-
line G., b. Aug. 26, 1801; d. May 27, 1S03. 11. Edwin H., b.
Aug. 27, 1802; d. May 16, 1833. 12. Calvin, b. 1804; d. an intant.
13. Calvin, b. Sept. q, 1805; m. Mary A. Bascom
661. v. EDITHA, b. Dec. 15, 1763; m. Dec. 21, 1784, Benjamin Doolittle,
of Winchester, N. H. He was b. Jan. 12, 1764.
SARAH b. June 7, 1766; d. May 26, 1790.
ZECHARIAH, b. Sept. 27, 1768; m. Abigail Mattoon.
THANKFUL, b. July 25. 1771 ; d. Feb. 9, 1775.
HUBBARD, b. Sept. 20, 1775; m. .
THANKFUL, b. Sept. 25, 1777; d. Sept. 26, 1777.
341. EBENEZER FIELD (Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Deerfield, June 15, 1715; m. March 27, 1746, Sarah Mat-
toon, dau. ot Eleazer, b. 1722; d. Oct. 29, 17S5; m., 2d, May 24, 17S6, Mrs. Christian
(Hubbard) Field, wid. of Paul, b. 1733; d. Nov. 6, 1795; m., 3d, Oct. 9, 1798, Mrs.
Abigail Chapin, of Orange, b. 1728; d. June 7. 1801. He was an innkeeper and
tailor. He settled in Northfield, where he Kept a tavern, and the tailoring business,
where he d. He m. Sarah, dau. of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Boltwood) Mattoon, of
Northfield, b. Feb. 2r, 1723; d. Oct. 29, 1785; m,. 2d, May 24, 1786, Christian, dau.
of Isaac and Christian (Gunn) Hubbard, of Sunderland, and wid. of Deacon Paul
Field. She soon left him for Unchristian treatment, and returned to her children,
with whom she resided unlil her death, Nov. 6, 1795; m., 3d, wid. of Abigail
Chapin, of Orange, Mass. She d. April 7, 1801, aged seventy-three. He d. Aug. 12,
1 801. Res. Northfield, Mass.
LYDIA, b. Sept 12, 1742.
EBENEZER, b. Oct. 11, 1744; m. Eunice Wright.
SARAH, b. Nov. 4, 1747; m. April 29, 1784, David Allen, of East
Windsor, Conn.
ABNER, b. May 27, 1750; m. Mary Mattoon.
LUCY, b. Sept. 20, 1752; m. at Northfield, Oliver Watriss. He was
a blacksmith from Connecticut; was in Northfield in 1769; was
a Revolutionary soldier, and was at the surrender of Burgoyne ;
d. July 22, 1825. Ch. by Lucy (no ch. by his first wife, Rhoda
Wright): i. Lucy, b. June i, 1775; d. Nov. 28, 1791. 2. Rhoda,
bap. Aug. 13, 1776; d. young. 3. Rhoda, bap. July 28, 1777; m.
Simeon Boyden. 4. Richard, b. Nov. 12, 1779; d. Dec. 13, 1779.
5. Richard, b. May 10, 1782; m. Fanny Smith. 6. Harris, b.
Dec. 21, 1783; m. Hannah Whiting. 7. Oliver, b. March 10, 1790.
672. vi. KEZIAH, b. Feb. 3, 1755; d. Feb. 3, 1755.
673. vii. KEZIAH, b. Oct. 24, 1756; m., ist, July 13, 1806, Stiles, of Gill,
m., 2d, July 3, 1806. James King, of Guilford, Vt. ; she d. in
Boston. He died in Northfield.
343. ENSIGN MOSES FIELD (Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 19, 1719; m., ist, Aug. 20, 1740,
Ann Dickinson, b. Aug. 6, 1721; d. Oct. 16, 1755; m., 2d, Aug. 12, 1756, Martha
Root, of Sunderland. She m., 2d, Dec. 24, 1793, Enoch Bardwell, of Montague.
She was b. Feb. 20, 1724; d. March 3, 18 13.
He settled in Northfield, where he d. Nov. 27, 1787. He was a famous hunter and
trapper of wolves. Once when the bounty was $20 he caught two at a time. On
this occasion Seth Field, Esq., told him that Providence had fairly smiled upon him
667.
1.
668.
11.
669.
iii.
670.
iv.
671.
v.
674.
1.
675.
ii.
676.
iii.
677.
iv.
673.
V.
679.
vi.
68o.
v:i.
68i.
viii,
682.
ix.
228 FIELD GENEALOGY.
that day. On the day of the battle of Bennington, Aug. i6, 1777, he was at work
in the meadow with his youngest sons, and hearing the sound of the guns distinctly,
said he could not work, for a battle was going on and "I have three boys in it, I
must go home." The next day the news of the defeat and death of General Baum
arrived, and the information that his sons had gone through the battle and escaped
uninjured. He d. Nov. 22, 1787. Res. Northfield, Mass.
ANN, b. Jan. 6, 1741; d. same day.
MOSES DICKINSON, b. Feb. 10, 1742; m. Patience Smith.
ANN, b. Nov. 12, 1744; m. Deacon Eli Root, ot Philadelphia, Pa.
SOLOMON, b. June 28, 1746; m. Mary Wright.
ELIZABETH, b. March 30, 1748; m., 1764, Rufus Field, of North-
field.
NOAH, b. Nov. 2g, 1750; m. Mary Brown.
REBECCA, b. Aug. 13, 1752; m. Benton, of Surrey, N. H.
MEDAD. b. Oct. 5, 1755; d. Oct. 17, 1756.
MARTHA, b. June 11, 1757; m., 1781, Squire Howe. He was taken
captive at Fort Bridgman in 1755. He was son of Caleb; b.
1751. When he was captured by the Indians he was terribly
abused, for in 1790, the scars on his head bore testimony to the
brutality he had received then. Res. Northfield, Mass., and
Fabius, N. Y. He d. Nov. 20, 1807. She d., Prattsburg, N. Y.,
1839. Ch. : I. Rodolphus, b. 1782; m. Clarissa Hill. 2. Squire,
b. 1785; m. Mary Townsley. 3. Martha, b. May 20, 1787; ra.
Horace Fowler. 4. William, b. 1790; m. Polly Griffith. 5.
Anna, b. 1792; m. Levi Fowler. 6. Susan, b. April 19, 1794; m.
Horace Fowler. 7. Clarissa, b. April 17, 1797; m. Robert
Weld. 8. Caroline, b. July 17, 179S; m. Harvey Downs. It
was, I think, Fort Sartwell, and not Fort Bridgman, where Caleb
and Jemima Howe were captured. Sawtelle is the modern
spelling and pronunciation. There is a piece of the wood of the
fort in the Deerfield "Hall," and it was built by Jemima Howe's
father. Others have told me that the "Bridgman" was a mistake.
683. X. MEDAD, b. April 25, 1759; m. Phebe Gould.
684. xi. PHINEHAS, b. Nov. 29, 1760; m. Diadama Morgan and Eunice
Lyman.
685. xii. JOHN MONTAGUE, b. July 2, 1764; m. Martha Harris and Olive
Clark.
344. AARON FIELD (Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., March 17, 1721; m. May 26, 1743, Eunice
Frary, dau. of Nathaniel, b. Nov. 30, 1721; d. Oct. 28, 1813. He was a soldier in the
French and Indian wars. Settled in Bernardston about 1753. His father,
Nathaniel Frary, was son of Sampson and Mary (Daniel), and grandson of John
Frary, who came from England with his wife. Prudence, and settled in Dedham,
Mass., where he was one of the founders of the church. Sampson was born in
Dedham, and moved to Hatfield, settling in that part called Deerfield. He escaped
the massacres of King Phillip's war, but his home was burned. He was selectman
in 1704, and was killed by the French and Indians, under Hertel de Rouville. The
old house he erected in 1698 is still standing, being undoubtedly the oldest house in
Deerfield Valley.
Aaron settled in Bernardston about 1753, on "Huckle Hill," which has ever
been the home of the Fields since the house he built was just north of the present
FIELD GENEALOGY. 229
John B. Field place, and has been burned. The Deacon Sheldon Fort was located
very nearly opposite. He ra. Eunice, dau. of Nathaniel Frary, ot Deerfield. He
was soldier in French and Indian wars; his name appearing on John Burke's roll,
ending Nov. 30, 1758. On committee of correspondence, 1775; constable in 1762;
warden in 1763; fence viewer in 1763-74; selectman in 1765-70-76-80-84. Was also
surveyor of highways in 1767-75-78; tithingman in 1768, and town treasurer six
years.
On May 18, 1676. occurred what has been known as the "Falls Fight." Cap-
tain Turner, with a comparatively small body ot men, fell upon and destroyed
hundreds of Indians at the Falls, in the Connecticut river, since known as Turner's
Falls, in honor of the commander of the dav. The retreat from this massacre was
accomplished with great difficulty, and with a sad loss of lite, Captain Turner him-
self being among the victims. It was not until sixty years after this event, namely,
on Jan. 21, 1736, that the general court acknowledged the important and perilous
service rendered on this occasion, by an appropriate grant of land. It then
g^ranted to the survivors of the fight, and the descendants of the others, a township,
which was called in honor of the fight on which the grant was based: "Falltown,"
and which has since been incorporated with the name of Bernardston.
He d. March 17, 1800. Res. Deerfield and Bernardston, Mass.
686. i. EUNICE, b. Dec. 29, 1743; m. about 1760, Joseph Wells, b, 1731.
He settled in Greenfield; d. Dec. 22, 1804. Shed. Dec. 10, 1785.
Ch. : I. Joseph, b. May 11, 1761; Revolutionary soldier; d. Oct.
31, 1831. 2. Eunice, b. March 27, 1763; d. Dec. 8, 1783. 3.
Anna, b. June 6, 1765; m. Eleazer Wells. 4. Aaron Field, b.
June 25, 1767; ra. Abigail Burnham. 5. Roswell, b. Sept. g, 1769;
m. White. 6. Thankful, b. Sept 14, 1773; ra. Ebenezer
Corse. 7. Cephas, b. Nov. 30, 1775; d. Sept. 14, 1777. 8. Cephas,
b. March 24, 1778; ra. Cynthia Corse. 9. William, b. Jan. 24,
1780; d. June 2, 1802. 10. Eunice, b. Dec. 4, 1785; d. Sept. 3.
1789.
687. ii. CHLOE, b. Dec. 29, 1743; ra. November, 1764, Samuel Shattuck,
of Greenfield. He was son of Samuel, and was b. 1741; was a
soldier in the French and Indian wars; was at Bunker Hill; was
a miller at Greenfield; went to New York and d. Sept. i, 1827,
aged eighty-seven. She d. April 10, 1781, aged thirty-eight.
Ch. : I. Samuel, b. Aug. 15, 1765; m. Prudence Healey, of Ver-
mont. 2. Chloe, b. Nov. 22, 1766; m, Ephraira Leach; res,
Enosburg. 3. Consider, b. Feb. 7, 1768; m. Anne Atherton.
4. Seth, b. Jan. 24, 1770; m. Sylvia Chapin and Anna Smith.
5. Lydia, b. Oct. 8, 1771; d. Dec. 8, 1772. 6. Lydia, b. Feb. 15,
1774; m. Arad Root, of Montague. 7. Jesse, b. May 16, 1775; d.
Aug. 27, 1777. 8. Jesse, b. Sept. 21, 1777; m. Mary E. Sargent,
of Dumraerston. 9. Robert, b. Dec. 17, 1730; name changed
to Chester; m. Miriam W. Stocker.
688. iii. IRENE, b. Sept. 11, 1745; m. in 1769, Lieut. Daniel Newcomb. He
was b. in Leyden. Mass., Nov. 18, 1741. When but three years of
age his parents were driven from their home by the Indians and
compelled to leave the county. They went to Lebanon, Conn.
He d. in 1794. She d. in Winhall, Vt., in rSio. He was lieu-
tenant in the Revolutionary war; was on the committee of cor-
respondence; chairman of the committee of safety. Ch. : i.
Luther, b. April 12, 1770 ; m. Milessent Conant and Lucretia
230 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Martin. 2. Jerusha, b, Nov. 3, 1771; m. 1788, Capt. Charles
Hunt. She d. Lebanon, N. Y., 1834. 3, Irene, b. Oct. 28, 1773;
d. Dec. 17, 1789. 4. Daniel, b. June 14, 1776; m. Electa Day.
5. Ephphatha, b. Aug. 12, 1778; m. Annis Clark. 6, Lucinda,
b. Sept. 12, 17S0; ra. Capt. Allen Wood. Res. Lebanon, N. Y.
7. Aurelia, b. Sept. 18, 1782; m. Dudley Beebe, of Winhall, Vt.
8. Tirzah, b. Oct. 12. 1784; m. John Burlin; he d. a prisoner of
the war of 1812; ni., 2d, Paddock. 9. Irene, b. June 24, 1788:
m. Col. Simeon Stearns. Res. Winhall, Vt. 10. Mehitable, b.
Nov. 13, 1790; d. December, 1790.
689. iv. ANNA, b. in 1747; m. August, 1786, Ziba Allen, of Bernardston.
He d. July 10, 1798, and she m., 2d, Salmon Clapp, ot Montague.
Clapp was son of Lieut.-Col. Amasa Clapp, of Northampton,
who removed to Chesterfield. Amasa's line was as tollows:
Seth, Samuel, Preserved, Roger.
690. v. JESSE, b. March 15. 1749; m. Sarah Burke.
691. vi. RACHEL, b. in 1751; m. 1774. Dr. Polycarpus Cushman, of Bern-
ardston. She d. Sept. i, 1812.
692. vii. OLIVE, b. ; m. Reuben Sheldon, of Leyden. He was b. 1749.
Revolutionary soldier ; was in company of Capt. Agrippa Wells
at siege of Boston; served also under Capt. Thomas Alexander
and marched to Quebec, arriving there April 27, 1776; was in the
Burgoyne campaign under Capt. Lawrence Kemp, and removed
from Deerfield to Leyden. Ch. : i. Horace, b. . 2 Salmon,
b. ; m. Rebecca Bigelow. 3. Socrates, b. 1784, m. Experi-
ence Allen. 4. Ora, b. 1786; m. Mehitable Sheldon and Lydia
Sheldon. 5. Mandana, b. 1789; m. Samuel Wright. 6. Reuben,
b. 1797; was first postmaster at Leyden; representative 1838-9.
Res. Rochester, N. Y. 7. Alva, b. . S. Olive, b. ; m.
Elias Perry.
d. unm. Jan. 6, 1831.
f>93-
viii.
AZABA, b. in 176;
694.
IX.
MARIA, b. .
695.
X.
DECIMA, b.
m. Aug. I, 1790, Shubal Fuller, of Windhall,
N. J., and removed to Ohio.
6955^. xi, MEHITABLE, b. about 1748; m. Deacon Jonathan Sheldon. She
d. Jan. 16, 1797.
346. JOSIAH FIELD (Josiah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b, Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 24, 1723; m. Sarah . He settled in
Somers, Conn. He was a soldier in the expedition to Havana, Oct. 6, 1762. Res.
Soniers, Conn.
696. i. EXPERIENCE, b. Nov. 13, 1760.
351. DANIEL FIELD (Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Cooley), b. in Springfield, Mass.,
1723. He settled in Enfield. Conn., in 1748; removed to Bolton, Conn.; in 1785 to
Vernon. Conn., where he d. in 1802. He m. May 26, 1753, Sarah Wells, of Bolton.
Joshua Field's deed, given soon after 1754, to his son, Daniel Field, of Bolton, "con-
sideration, love and affection," dated Bolton, Sept. 15, 1755. Daniel d. in 1828.
Res. Bolton, Conn.
697. i. SARAH WELLS, b. Jan. 15, 1755: m. Daniel Loomis, of North
Coventry, Conn.
698. i^. SAMUEL, b. Oct. 25. 1756; m. Huldah Millard.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 2ol
699.
11.
700.
ni.
701.
IV.
702.
V.
705.
VI.
704.
vn.
705-
viii
70b.
IX.
707.
X.
353-
NA
MARY, b. Nov. 8, 1758: m. Nov. 18, 1784, John Ensworth.
DANIEL, b. May i, 1761; m. Mary .
THOMAS, b. Nov. 13. 1763; m. Lucy Bissell.
DAVID, b. April i, 1766; m. Betty Squires.
NATHANIEL, b. Nov. 23, 1768; m. Clarinda King.
BETTIE, b. Jan. 31, 1771 ; m., ist. Samuel Baker, of Bolton; m., 2d,
Benjamin Talcott, his third wife, d. Mcirch 5, 1854.
MARGARET, b. April i, 1773.
ROXANNA, b. June i, 1775.
EUNICE, b. March 27, 1780.
NATHANIEL FIELD (Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Springfield, Mass., in 1727-28; m. Feb. 23, 1748, Mary Good-
rich, in Bolton, Conn. She d. and he m., 2d, Experience. She d. in Phelps in 1834,
aged ninety-five. Craft Goodrich, deed to Nathaniel Field, of Enfield, Conn., land
with mansion house, etc. ; consideration ;i^4oo; dated, Bolton, March 23, 1761. He
d. in Phelps in 1803. aged seventy-five. Res. Enfield and Bolton, Conn.
707^^. i. JAMES, b. 1750; m. , and removed to Phelps, N. Y.
7071^. ii. FRANCES, b. Nov. 29, 1757; m. Naomi Wakeley.
708. iii. GEORGE, b. 1758; m. Eunice .
708 >^. iv. MARY, b. Feb. 10, 1760.
354. ENSIGN ELISHA FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John. John,
Richard, William. William), b. Sunderland, Mass., July i, 1717. He removed, in
1 761, to Bennington, Vt., and was one of the first settlers of that town. He was
liberal in his religious opinions, which it is said was one of his reasons for removing
from Sunderland. On account of the troubles with the New York claimants to the
lands in Bennington, he sold, in 1781, and removed to Pittsford, Vt. ; in 1782 to
Cornwall, Vt., where he died Jan. 18, 1791. At the first town meeting held in Ben-
nington, March 31, 1762, he was chosen one of the tithing men, and held other town
offices. On the organization of a company of militia, Oct. 24, 1764, he was chosen
ensign, and was in command of the company at the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16,
1777, and was charged with the care of the captured Hessians from the battleground
to the meeting house, in Bennington, beside other guard duties. Hem. Jan. 11,
1753, Betty, dau. of John and Bathsheba Pratt, of Hardwick, Mass., b. in Westboro,
Mass., May 6, 1726; d. Feb. 18, 1809.
JOSEPH, b. April 10, 1754; d. April 12, 1754.
PERSIS, b. Sept. 21, 1756; d. April 16, 1758.
ELISHA, b. Sept. i, 1758; d. Oct. 17, 1758.
LYDIA, b. May 19, 1760; m., ist, 17S1, Benjamin Steams, of Corn-
wall, Vt. ; m., 2d, December, 1S15, Ezra Allen; d. Dec. 10, 1847;
no issue.
ELISHA, b. March 13, 1763; m. Ruth Kirkham.
ELIJAH, b. March 13, 1763; d. Jan. 15, 1769.
ASAHEL, b. March 25, 1765; m. Mariha Field and Betsey Parker.
JOSEPH FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Sunderland, Mass., Dec. 8, 1723. He was a useful man in
town and was held in esteem by his neighbors. He m. April 26, 1753, Ruth, dau.
ot Isaac and Mary Parker, b. in Groton, Mass., Jan. 27, 1734; d. Sept. i, 1796. He
d. Oct. 6, 1798. Res. Sunderland, Mass.
716. i. ELIJAH, b. Feb. 2, 1754; m. Tryphena Cooley.
717. ii. LUCY, b. Nov. 6, 1755; m. April 27, 1780, Rennah Wain Cooley,
of Sunderland.
709.
710.
11.
711.
111.
712.
iv.
713.
v.
714-
VI.
715.
VII
357.
JO
232 FIELD GENEALOGY.
718.
111.
719.
iv.
720.
V.
721.
vi.
722.
vii.
723-
viii.
724,
IX.
725.
X.
REBECCA, b. Dec. 34 1758; d. Aug. 8, 1773.
THOMAS, b. March 9, 1762; d. April 5, 1762.
MARY, b. March 30, 1764; m. Jan. 4, 1786, Heman Farnham, of
Sunderland.
JOSEPH, b. Feb. 24, 1766; d. Sept. 12, 1766.
MARTHA, b. March 11, 1768; d. unm. Oct. 29, 1848, aged eighty.
RUTH, b. May 27, 1770; d. insane October.
JOSEPH, b. May 6, 1772; m. Sabra Emerson.
SUBMIT, b. June 17, 1774; m. Jan. 18, 1797, Gains E. Lyman, of
Northampton ; d. in Hartford, April 27, 1846. He was b. Nov.
24, 1769; son of Ellas and Hannah (Clapp) Lyman. Ch. i.
Elhanan Winchester. 2. Christopher Columbus. 3. Orra
Almira. 4. Julia Etta. 5. Emma Submit. 6. Jane Rachel. 7.
Hannah Submit. 8. Theodore.
726. xi. THOMAS, b. Aug. 16, 1777. He was quite a business man ; was a
colonel of militia ; he removed to Oriskany, N. Y. ; d. unm. Aug.
30, 1847-
362. DEACON JONATHAN FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Sunderland, Mass., July 30, 1737. He settled in 1752
in Leverett, on Long Plain, so called, where he d. May 21, 1814, aged 77. He was
a deacon of the Congregational church in Leverett many years. He was a soldier
in Capt. John Hawks' company from April 15 to Nov. 16, 1758, and was under
Gen. Abercrombie in his disastrous attack upon Fort Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758,
where he lost in killed, wounded and missing, eight thousand men. He was very
active during the Revolution, being one of the Council of Safety to see that the
resolves of Congress were carried out regarding Tories and all inimical to the colo-
nial cause.
Field, Jonathan. Private, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co., Col. David Wells' regi-
ment; enlisted Sept. 23, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, i mo. i day, travel
included, on expedition to the Northwest. Roll dated Leverett. — Mass. State
Rev. Records.
He ra. 1764, Elizabeth, dau. of and Cooley, of Sunderland, b. 1745; d.
May 7, 1838, aged 85.
PARIS, b. Sept. 16, 1765; m. Cynthia Lee.
CLARINDA, b. Nov. 20, 1767; d. unm. April 14, 1859.
ELIHU, b. April 27, 1770; d. Sept. 27, 1780.
MARIANNA, b. April 22, 1772; d. unm. Sept. iq, 1842.
SILAS, b. April 22, 1775; m. Mary Elizabeth Woodbury.
REBECCA, b. April 22, 1778; d. Sept. 19, 1789.
ELISHA, b. Feb. 19, 1781; m. Persis Hubbard.
WALTER, b. March, 178S; m. Elizabeth G. Wiley and Mrs. Fanny
(Stebbins) Woolcott.
735. ix. ELIHU, b. May 24, 1790; d. unm. July 20, 1862.
363. ISRAEL FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b. Sunderland, Mass., March 27, 1741. He settled in Brattleboro,
Vt. His name is signed to a petition to the town clerk to call a meeting to see if
the town will join with Guilford to invite the Rev. Abner Reeve, of Hadley, to
preach two Sabbaths, one in Brattleboro and one in Guilford, on trial. The meet-
ing was held July 5, 1770, but Guilford did not come into the arrangement, although
two of its citizens, Jasper Partridge and William Nichols, signed the petition. In
727.
728.
ii.
729.
iii.
730.
IV.
731.
V.
732.
VI.
733.
vu.
734-
vm.
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1776 he removed to Northfield, Mass., and in 1781 returned to Brattleboro. No
further information to be found. He m. Martha .
Brattleboro was settled by Deerfield people, and Israel Field was one of its
early settlers. It is not generally known that the first settlements in Brattleboro,
outside the limits of Fort Dummer, were made on property now owned by the Brat-
tleboro retreat. In 1757 the first settlement was made by Benjamin Moor upon the
present site of the retreat farm-house. One year later he was killed by the Indians,
and his wife and children carried captives to Canada. Five years afterward, in
1762, John Arms, of Deerfield, subsequently Maj. Arms, and Brattleboro's first post-
master, established a tavern on the same site, which afterward became famous.
Col. Ethan Allen is said to have made this old inn his headquarters when he came
here with a detachment of Green Mountain boys to enforce obedience to the author-
ity of Vermont, while Gen. John Stark was probably a guest of the house just after
the Bennington battle. Maj. Arms was killed by the kick of a horse in 1770, leav-
ing a widow and son, who continued in the hotel business for several years there-
after. While repairs and renovations were going on at the farm-house during the
past summer, a broken rusty sword, consisting of hilt and 18 incnes of blade, every
part of which was hand-made, was unearthed, and near by an old-fashioned iron
door-knocker was found. The second settlement was made in 1762 by Samuel
Wells, also of Deerfield, who later became both a colonel and judge. He built a
log-house half a mile west of the present Linden lodge, the cellar of which is still to
be seen. The house was completely surrounded by a dense growth of stately oaks
and pines. The first clearing was made north of the house, and was subsequentlv
known and referred to as the "Log'us" lot, meaning, of course, "log-house lot."
Ten years later, about 1772, he built the substantial and commodious three-story
house which now forms the front part of Linden lodge, one room of which, elabor-
ately paneled and filled with solid sliding window shutters, evidently designed as a
means of protection against outside invasion, is carefully preserved. Massive tim-
bers were used in the construction of this building, and, notwithstanding their
service of 126 years, are apparently as sound as when framed. Hand-made
wrought iron nails were used exclusively, and may still be seen projecting from the
cupboards. This is now the oldest house in Brattleboro. Res. Brattleboro, Vt.
736. i. MARTHA, b. 1768; m. Oct. 31, 1788, Asahel Field, of Cornwall, Vt. ;
she d. in childbirth Oct. 31, 1759.
737. ii. LUCINDA, bap. Aug. 11, 1776, in Northfield.
738. iii. JOSIAH, bap. Dec. 3, 1779; m. Sarah Graves and res. in Brattleboro.
738JK. iv. ALTHEA, b. Oct. 25, 1764, in Sunderland.
738K- V. MERCY, b. March 6, 1767. in Sunderland.
738^' vi. SUBMIT, b. March 6, 1767, in Sunderland.
368. SETH FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, Wil-
iam, William), b. Sunderland, Mass., March 13, 1741; m. May 26, 1764, Mary Hub-
bard, of Sunderland, dau. of Israel and Abigail (Smith), b. 1747; d. Aug. 3, 1803;
m., 2d, Dec. 15. 1805, Mrs. Margery (Knowlton) Lotheridge, of Pelham, Mass., b.
Ireland, 1754; d. Silver Creek, N. Y., in 1833. He went with his father to Leverett,
when, becoming of age, he purchased a farm near his father, where he died. Mary
Hubbard, his first wife, was a lineal descendant of John Hubbard, who, in company
with Samuel Smith and Zechariah Field, V7ithdrew from the Connecticut churches
and came up the river and settled in Hadley and Hatfield in 1659.
Will of Seth, of Leverett, 1813, June 22, probated. Sons: Roswell, Rufus, Mar-
tin, Spencer, Orlando. Dau.: Polly Adams. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. March 3, 1813; res. Sunderland and Leverett, Mass.
16
234 FIELD GENEALOGY.
739-
Ill
740.
1.
741.
n.
742.
IV.
MARTIN, b. Jan. 12, 1773; m. Esther Smith Kellogg.
ROSWELL, b. Dec. 29, 1767; m. Sarah Graves.
RUFUS, b. 1 771; m. Sarah Field.
POLLY, b. 1776; m. 1795, Eliphalet Adams; d. in 1811, and
removed to Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., where she, her
husband and infant child d. the same week of spotted fever in
the winter of 1811, and were buried in one common grave.
743. V. SPENCER, b. Jan. 20, 1782; m. Hannah Cutler.
744. vi. ORLANDO, b. May 28, 1787; ra. Dolly Field and Fanny Baker.
369. WILLIAM FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Aug. 27, 1745. He settled in Leverett
where he was a successful farmer and a valued citizen, holding various town offices.
He d. Jan. 24, 1824. He m., ist, 1770, Dorothy, dau. of Ephraim and Dorothy
(Hawley) Kellogg, of Amherst, bap. Feb. 28, 1746; d. Aug. 6, 1773; m., 2d, Feb. 17,
1780, Editha, dau. of Phinehas and Mary (Billings) Frary, of Hatfield, b. April 27,
1756; d. in Amherst Oct. 7, 1855, aged 99 years, 5 months, 10 days.
Field, William, Leverett. Private, Capt. Reuben Dickenson's co. of Minute-
men, Col. R. Woodbridge's regt. ; which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775;
service, 16 days; also, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co., Col. David Wells' regt.; enlisted
Sept 23, 1777; discharged Oct. 13, 1777; service, 26 days, travel included, on an ex-
pedition to the Northward. — Mass. State Rev. Records.
LUTHER, b. Sept. 1771; m. Beulah Broad.
ERASTUS, b. July 22, 1773; m. Salome Ashley.
DOLLY, b. Jan. 21, 1781; d. June 18, 1790.
PHINEHAS, b. Jan. 23, 1783; m. Caroline Hubbard, dau. of Wm. ;
d. Nov. 4, 1808.
749. V. MARTHA, b. Oct 6, 1785 ; m. May 3, 1803, Abner Ball, of Amherst;
d. March 2, 1857.
750. vi. CYNTHIA, b. Oct. 15, 1787; m. 1805, Sylvanus Field, of Leverett;
d. April 20, 1854.
HEM AN, b. April 6, 1790; m. Achsah Abbott
DOROTHY, b, April 22, 1794; m. July 13, 1S13, Orlando Field, of
Leverett; d. July 22, 1817.
WILLIAM, b. Sept 4, 1796; m. Roxanna M. Kellogg.
GILES FRARY, b. May 18, 1799: d. March 10, 1804.
JONATHAN FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah. John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Aug. 15, 1750; went with his father to
Leverett, where he was a successful farmer; d. Nov. 22, 1833. At a town meeting
held Jan. 26, 1775, Elisha Clary, Jonathan Field, 3d, and Jonathan Field, Jr., were
chosen a committee of safety to see to it that the resolves of Congress were strictly
adhered to. He m. Sept. 6, 1773, Sarah, dau. of Ephraim and Dorothy (Hawley)
Kellogg, of Amherst; bap. Sept. 30, 1753; d. Jan. 14, 1832. Res. Leverett, Mass.
LUCIUS, b. May 31, 1774; d. Feb. 8, 1775.
SYLVANUS. b. Feb. 26, 1776; m. Cynthia Field.
LUCIUS, b. Jan. 6, 1778; m. Virtue Ashley.
LEVI, b. Feb. 13, 1780; m. Rachel Kingsley.
SARAH, b. June 23, 1782; m., ist, Rufus Field, of Leverett; m.^
2d, Jonathan Conant, of Leverett; d. Apr. 20, 1844.
760. vi. ALPHEUS, b. June 26, 1786; m. Caroline Adams.
745.
746.
ii.
747-
Ill
748.
iv.
751.
Vll.
752.
viii
753.
ix.
754-
X.
371.
JOl
755-
1.
756.
ii.
757.
Ill
758.
IV.
759-
V.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 235
373. MOSES FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Sept. 17, 1754. Hares, on the old home-
stead, a respected citizen and farmer; d. June 30, 1832.
Field, Moses. Private, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co.. Col. David Leonard's regt. ;
enlisted Feb. 25, 1777; discharged April 10, 1777; service on expedition to Ticonde-
roga: also, Capt. Joseph Slarrow's co., Col. David Wells' regt.; enlisted Sept. 23,
1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, i mo., i day, travel included, on expedition
to the Northward; roll dated Leverett. — Mass. State Rev. Records.
Moses, of Leverett, 1832, Dec. 18; rec. wife Mary. Ch. : Jonathan, Lovina
Sanderson, Electa Ball, Mary Field, single woman ; Seth, Ransom, Moses. — Frank-
lin Co. Probate.
He m. 1780, Mary Spellman. of Conn., b. 1753; d. July 23, 1843; res. Leverett,
Mass.
761. i. LOVINA, b. Jan. 30, 1781; m. Lucius Sanderson, of Sunderland;
d. 1844,
762. ii. ELECTA, b. Jan. 5. 1785; d. Feb. 28, 1788.
763. iii. JONATHAN, b. Jan. 25, 1786; m. Elizabeth Lotheridge and Ruth
F. Dustan.
764. iv. ELECTA, b. Oct — , 1788; m. Dr. Silas Ball, of Montague, Lev-
erett, Amherst and Chicopee; d. July i, 1826.
765. V. MOSES, b. Feb. 25, 1791; m. Dolly Russell, Almira Hubbard and
Rhoda C. Putnam.
766. vi. SETH, b. Jan. 15, 1793; d. Oct. 15, 1794.
767. vii, MARY, b. March 30, 1795; m. 1815, Clark Rowe, of Sunderland; d.
Nov. 7, 1853.
768. viii. SETH, b. March 20, 1797, Leverett. Mass.; a physician; he settled
in Barre, Vt. ; removed in to Lodi, Cataraugus county, N. Y.,
where he d. ; he represented the county of Cataraugus in the leg-
islature in 1843; he m. ; no issue.
769. ix. RANSOM, b Feb. 28, 1799; m. Eliza Russell and Louise Stevens.
(Written underneath in pencil, "4 more to be added.")
378. JOHN FIELD (John, John, John, William, John, Richard, William. Wil-
liam), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 27, 1704; m. 1726, Mary Howard, dau. of
Ephraim, of Bridgewater. She m., 2d, April 29, 1738, Hon. Elisha Pierce, of
Scituate. Deacon Pierce was b. in Scituate, Nov. 24, 1699, son of Benjamin and
grandson of Capt. Michael, who was first lieutenant in Capt. Myles Standish's Ply-
mouth company of militia. His first wife was Sarah Edson, dau. of Capt. Josiah.
She had one child, Sarah, and d. in 1735. By Mrs. Field he had Elisha, Calvin,
Mary and Persis (see Pierce Gen. No. 4, by Frederick C. Pierce). Mitchells — Widow
settled his estate, 1729, and she afterwards m. Elisha Pearce. of Scituate, Mass.
John Field gave most of his property in Providence to his two grandsons, John
and James, and that was probably the cause of their moving there.
7657. John Field, Jr., of Bridgewater. Mary Field, his widow, appointed
administratrix Jan. 16, 1729. No will. — Plymouth Co. Probate.
He d. Sept. 28, 1729; res. Bridgewater, Mass.
770. i. JOHN, b. 1727; m. Lydia Warren.
771. ii. JAMES, b. 1729; m. Sarah Burke tt.
380. ZEBULON FIELD (Richard. John, John, William, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 23. 1707; m. Nov. 14, 1733, Anna
Williams (Joseph, Joseph, Richard, of Taunton), b. Jan. 18, 1710; her mother's
name was Mary Gilbert, m. April 7, 1707; m., 2d, Norton, Mass., Feb. 22, 1749-50,
236 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Patience Wetherell, of Norton, dau. of Nathaniel and Mary (White) b. Sept.
3. 1728.
From the division of the estate of Anna, the first wife of Zebulon Field, it ap-
pears that the committee appointed in 1797 to make the division, first "made in-
quiry to know how much of said estate or what parts of shares had been transferred
from the original heirs, to-wit: Richard Field, Zebulon Field, Elizabeth Presho,
Mary Knap, Zibiah Dean and Anna Woodward." They found that Elizabeth
Presho had sold three-sevenths of her share in the two farms, and all her share in
the cedar swamps to Zebulon Field, and four-sevenths of her share in said farms to
Nathaniel Field; that Richard Field had sold to James Leonard, of Taunton, then
deceased, all his share in the two farms, which was two-sevenths thereof, he being
the eldest son and entitled to a double share ; that said James Leonard had sold one-
half of said double share to his son, James, who had sold to Nathaniel Field one-half
of what he bought from his father; that Mary Knap had sold one-half ot her share
in the entire estate to Zebulon Field, and the other half to Nathaniel Field. The
persons who owned the estate at the time of the division and the proportions in
which they held it were as follows: In the two farms, Zebulon Field, by inherit-
ance and purchase (seventeen forty-ninths) 17-49; Nathaniel Field, by purchase.
14^^-49; heirs of James Leonard, deceased, by purchase, 7-49; James Leonard, by
purchase, 2%-^g; Anna Woodward, by inheritance, 7-49. In the cedar swamps,
Zebulon Field, by inheritance and purchase, 21-49; Richard Field, by inheiitance,
double share, 14-49; Nathaniel Field, by purchase, 7-49; Anna Woodward, by
inheritance, 7-49. The estate was divided in the above proportions, and the division
recorded in the probate office at Taunton. It is evident that of the eighteen chil-
dren of Zebulon Field, only six were by his first wife. Wealthy, who has been
claimed as a daughter of Anna, was born about seven years after Zebulon's second
marriage, and probably was the fourth child of his second wife. Patience. James
Leonard, who bought the double share of Richard Field in the two farms, was a
son of William and Sarah (Bolton) Leonard; b. in 1 716; m. in 1737, Jemima Heiford;
d. in 1787, leaving a widow, Jemima; James, the son, m. in 1770; Eunice Smith,
his wife (Eunice) signed the deed which he gave to Nathaniel Field in 1792. Neither
James could have been the husband of Wealthy Field.
As will be seen by the will, his wife Patience was appointed executrix, but she
declined, and Ephraim Wilbor, of Norton, settled the estate as administrator with
the will annexed.
Will — In the name of God, Amen. I, Zebulon Field, of Taunton, in the County
of Bristol, in the Stale of Massachusetts Bay, yeoman, being sick and weak in body,
but of perfect mind and memory, thanks being given unto God; calling unto mind
the mortality of my body, and knowing it is appointed once for all men to die, do
make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say, principally and first
of all, I recommend my soul unto Almighty God that gave it, and my body I rec-
ommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my
executrix; nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same
again, by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith
it has pleased God to give me in this life, I give, devise and dispose in the following
manner and form :
First. 1 give and bequeath to Patience, my truly beloved wife, whom I like-
wise constitute, make and ordain the sole executrix of my last will and testament,
all and singular, my homed cattle and my sheep and my household goods, and my
pew in the Baptist Meeting House, by her freely to be enjoyed.
Also I give to my well beloved son, Richard Field, one shilling, lawful money,
to be paid to him out of my estate by my executors in one year from my decease.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 237
Also I give to my son Zebulon Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful money, to
be paid out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
Also I give to my son Nathaniel Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful money,
to be paid to him out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
Also I give to my son, James Field, the sura of one shilling, lawful money, to
be paid out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
Also I give to my son, John Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful money, to be
paid to him out of my estate, by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
Also to my son, Jude Field, 1 give the sum of one shilling, lawful money, to be
paid out of my estate by my executrix at the age of twenty-one.
Also I give to Solomon Field, my son, the sum of one shilling, lawful money,
to be paid out of my estate by my executrix at the age of twenty-one.
Also 1 give to Elizabeth Presho, my daughter, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
Also I give to my daughter, Anna Woodward, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid to her out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my
decease.
Also I give to my daughter, Zibiah Dean's heirs or legal representatives, the sum
of one shilling, lawful money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix in one
year from my decease.
Also I give to my daughter, Mary Knapp, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix in one year from my decease.
Also I g^ve to my daughter, Hannah Wilbore, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix, in one year from my decease.
1 give to my daughter. Wealthy Leonard, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix in one year from my decease.
Also I give to my daughter, Rachel Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix when she is twenty-one years
of age.
Also I give to my daughter, Sarah Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money, to be paid out of my estate by my executrix at the age of twenty-one.
Also I give to my daughter, Lydia Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful money,
to be paid to her out of my estate, at the age of twenty-one, by my executrix.
Also 1 give to my daughter. Patience Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful
money to be paid to her at the age of twenty-one out of my estate by my executrix.
Also I give to my daughter, Ruth Field, the sum of one shilling, lawful money,
to be paid to her out of my estate at the age of twenty-one years by my executrix.
Also I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid wife. Patience, after my just debts
are paid, all the residue of my estate, dues or demands, monies, or whatever of the
estate I die seized of or in any way belongs to me, to her, freely to the profit and
enjoyment, and I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke all other and former testa-
ments, wills, legacies and bequests by me in any way before named, willed and
bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this my last will and testament.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th day of
January, in the year of our Lord 1778. Zebulon Field.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Zebulon Field, as his last
will and testament in the presence of us, who, in his presence and in the presence
of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.
Daniel Bassett,
Jacob Smith,
August 5, 1797, approved. William Burt, 3rd.
Bristol ss. August ist, 1797.
238
FIELD GENEALOGY.
773-
1.
774-
111.
775.
IV.
776.
V.
777.
VI.
778.
Vll.
779.
Vlll
; m. Rachel Clanp.
Sarah Leonard.
Then before me. the Honorable Seth Padelford, Esq., Judge of the Probate of
Wills, came Daniel Bassett, Jacob Smith and William Burt, 3rd, the three witnesses
to the foregoing instrument, who made oath that they saw Zebulon Field, who has
since deceased, sign, seal, and heard him declare said instrument to be his last will
and testament, and that they who subscribed their names together as witnesses to
this will in each other's presence, declare he was then of sound and disposing mind.
Seth Padelford.
He d. in 1797. Res. Taunton, Mass.
772. ii. ZEBULON, b. the second son ; m. Charity Lincoln and Hannah
Hall.
RICHARD, b. ; the elder son
NATHANIEL, b. Jan. 3. 1751: ra.
JAMES, b. ; m. Mary Drew.
JOHN, b. about 1740; m. Hannah .
JUDE, b. ; m. Abigail Carpenter.
SOLOMON, b. 1767; m. Lucy .
ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Aug. i3, 1755, Peter Presho; res. Taun-
ton. He was of Raynham, and had ch. : i. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 3,
1760. 2. Peter, b. Nov. 19, 1761. 3. Joseph, b. May 22, 1768; and
probably others.
780. ix. ANNA, b. ; m. Elkanah Woodward; res. Taunton; she was
living 1797.
ZIBIAH, b. ; m. Abiel Dean; res. Taunton.
MARY, b. ; m. Nov. 27, 1766, Daniel Knapp; res. Norton.
HANNAH, b. ; m. April 24, 1772, Ephraim Wilbore (Wilbur),
of Raynham, and had ch. : i. Hannah, b. March 5, 1773; d. April
12, 1778. 2. Abiah, b. Oct. 15, 1774; d. April 17, 1778. 3. Ephra-
im, b. Oct. 15, 1776; d. Dec. 29, 1777. 4. Patience, b. Jan. 12,
1779; d. Oct. I, 1786. 5. Elizabeth, b. Aug. i, 1781; m. Samuel
Wetherell. 6. Field, b. Oct. 25, 1783. 7.
March 4, 1786. 8. Reuben, b. July 17, 178S
sina, b. June 24, 1790. 10. Ephraim (again).
784. xiii. WEALTHY, b. ; m. James Leonard;
781.
X.
782.
XI.
783.
xi;
Hannah (again), b.
, 9. Varsina or Bar-
II. Calvin,
res. Taunton. Pub.
She d. Jan. 10,
785.
786.
Sept. 21, 1779, Nathaniel Britton, of Raynham.
1829, aged 72 years.
xiv. RACHEL, b. .
XV. SARAH, b. ; m. March 30, 17S0, Elisha, son of Andrew and
Abigail Gilmore, of Raynham. Their children were: i. Sally.
b. Jan. 3. 1781. 2. Olive, b. July 23, 1782. 3. Elisha, b. Oct. 7,
1785. 4. Serena, b. Aug. i. lyaS. 5. Twins, b. Feb. 23, 1792; d.
soon after birth. 6. Adna, b. Feb.
March 2, 1795. 8. Sidney, b. Oct, 12,
27, 1798; d. Jan. 14, 1802. 10. Ansel,
viah Spencer, b. Sept. 30, 1803.
xvi. LYDIA, b. .
xvii. PATIENCE, b. .
xviii. RUTH, b. ; m. Oct. 18. 1787, Daniel Austin, and had ch. :
Abner, Siimpson and others, m., 2d, Aug. 30, 1832, Capt.
Timothy White, of Taunton; d. in Mansfield, Mass., in 1857.
JABEZ FIELD (Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 29, 1713; m. Feb. 25, 1745, Mary Fobes, dau.
of Ephraim.
15. 1793. 7- Diademia, b.
1796. 9. William, b. March
b. April II, iSoi. ir. Zer-
787.
788.
789.
383.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 239
7653. Jabez Field, of Bridgewater, yeoman, left a will written Feb. 6, 1800.
Legatees mentioned in the will — son William Field, son Fobes Field, son Daniel
Field, son Barzillai Field, son Bethuel Field, son Richard Field, son Ephraim Field,
son Waldo Field, daughter Susanna Gary, wife of Moses Gary. The will was
proved and sons Fobes and Daniel appointed executors, Jan. 7, i3o5. — Plymouth
County Probate.
He d. 1804, aged ninety- two. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
790. i. JABEZ FOBES, b. March 25, 1747; d. unm. 1826. Field, Fobes,
Bridgewater. Private, Gapt. Josiah Hayden's company ot Min-
utemen, Golonel Bailey's regiment, which marched on the alarm
of April 19, 1775; service, four days; also private, Capt. Nathan
Packard's company, Gol. Edward Mitchell's regiment; service
five days; company ordered to Squantum, March 4, 1776, on an
alarm; also Captain Snell's company. Colonel Mitchell's regi-
ment; marched Dcc. 8, 1776; service two weeks, two days; com-
pany marched to Providence, R. I., on the alarm of Dec. 8, 1776;
'^ also Gapt David Packard's company, Golonel Gary's regiment ;
service eleven days; company marched to Rhode Island on the
alarm of July 22, 1780. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary
Records.
7651. Fobes Field, of North Bridgewater, left a will written
Aug. 5, 1826. Legatees mentioned in will : Daniel Field, Jr.,
and George Field, sons of Lieut. Zopher Field ; Melinda Field,
brother Daniel Field, widow Rebecca Field, widow of his
brother, Richard, deceased. To her he gives land and build-
ings, which he (Fobes) owns in Glaremont, N. H. He mentions
children of his brother, Richard, but no names. He mentions
brothers Barzillai, Bethuel and Waldo, and sister Susanna Gary.
He mentions children of his brother, William, deceased (names
not given), and three children of his nephew, Waldo Field,
deceased (their names not given). The above named Melinda was
unmarried at that time, but her relationship to the deceased not
given. Executor appointed Sept. 5, 1826.— Plymouth County
Probate.
791. ii. SUSANNA, b. Nov. 9, 1748: m. April 13, 1773, Moses Gary, son of
Jonathan, b. 1744; d. 1839. Gh. : i. Lucius, b. 1776. 2. Bar-
zillai, b. 1780. 3. Susannah, b. 1783. 4. Polly, b. 1785. 5.
Gassandana. b. 1788.
RICHARD, b. July 22, 1751; m. Rebecca Harris.
WILLIAM, b. July 28, 1753; m. Jemima Keith.
EPHRAIM, b. Oct. 19, 1755; m. Ruby Brett.
DANIEL, b. Sept. 20, 1758: ra. Hannah Snell.
BARZILLAI, b. Dec. 6, 1760; m. Patty Packard.
BETHUEL, b. Aug. 28, 1763 ; d. unm. in 1849. 7643- Bethuel Field,
of North Bridgewater, yeoman, left a will written Sept. 6, 1831 ;
codicil written Aug. 27, 1832; legatees mentioned, John Field,
Lucius Field and Chloe Field, children of his brother Barzillai.
Executor appointed April 3, 1849. — Plymouth County Probate.
798. ix. WALDO, b. ; went west
392. DOCTOR DANIEL FIELD (Daniel, John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Oct 5, 1712; m. July 3, 1733,
792.
111.
793-
IV.
794-
V.
795.
VI.
796.
vu.
797.
Vlll.
240 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Susanna Thayer. He made his will in 1737. Went into the French war and d.
prob. at Crown Point.
7646. Daniel Field, of Bndgewater, physician, ' 'beinpr in sound mind & good
health, thanks be to God, but bound in the expedition against Crown Poiht have
dependence on living no longer than divine providence shall wisely order," etc.
Legatees mentioned: Wife Susanna, three daughters, Rachel, Anna and Susanna
(last names not given). Will written May 7, 1756; proved and widow Susanna
appointed executrix Jan. 11, 1757. His estate was thought to be "greatly insolv"
ent" at first, but proved to be otherwise. — Plymouth County Probate.
He d. in 1756. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
799. i. ANNA, b. about 1734; m. Jan. 30, 1769, Eleazar Hill, b. 1729; d., s.
p., 1 791. Res. Bridgewater.
800. ii. SUSANNA, b. about 1736; m. 1769, Capt. Jesse Perkins. Ch. : i.
Zadock, b. 1771. 2. Rachel, b. 1776; m. Shepherd Perkins. Sus-
anna d. about 1777-89, and he m., 2d, Bliss Phinney.
801. iii. RACHEL, b. .
395. JOSEPH FIELD (Daniel, John, John, William, John, Richard, William,
William), b. Bridgewater, Mass. ; m. 1748, Rachel Pray. 7661. Joseph Field, of
Bridgewater, yeoman, left a will written March 11, 1754. Legatees mentioned in
the will: Wife Rachel, eldest son John, a minor; youngest son Joseph, a minor,
and daughter Abigail Field. Will proved June 3, 1754. Charles Biswick was one
of the witnesses. In an account filed in this case the executor charges himself with
legacies paid Daniel and Everton Beswick, but the will does not mention these. —
Plymouth County Probate.
7660. John Field et als. Isaac Packard was appointed guardian of John Field
and Abigail Field, minor children of Joseph Field, of Bridgewater, deceased. Ap-
pointment made Dec. i, 1755. — Same.
He d. 1754. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
802. i. JOHN, b. 1750.
803. ii. ABIGAIL, b. 1752; m. 1776, Elkanah Palmer.
804. iii. JOSEPH, b. 1753.
398. ZACHARIAH FIELD (Zachariah, Zachariah, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., about 1706; m. in Rehoboth, Mass.,
Sept 20, 1727, Lydia Titus, of Rehoboth. Res. Providence, R. I.
805. i. EZRA, b. Sept. 21, 1730, m Rehoboth.
506. li. ZACHARIAH, b. .
507. iii. JOHN, b. April 10, 1728.
808. IV. ELIZABETH, b. .
399. CAPTAIN JOHN FIELD (Zachariah, Zachariah, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., 1708; m. there Jan. 12, i735;
Elizabeth Snow, dau. of Joseph. Administration of his estate was granted his
widow, Elizabeth, July 15, 1738. Admitted freeman in 1734. His widow afterward,
Sept. 13, 1743, m. Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Conn., and had two daughters. She d.
before Jan. 12, 1765.
B. 9, 18. From Daniel Abbott, Oct. 26, 1731, son of Zachariah Field, Jr.,
deceased, land near Waybosset bridge, originally Daniel Brown.
B. 9, 139. From Joseph Brown, Oct. 6, 1732, land "on the neck of land near
Waybosset Hill, being a little Northerly of the place called the Ship Yard."
Probate Records 3, p. 244. Widow Elizabeth. Book 3, p. 246. Inventory ;,^668
las. taken July 25, 1738, by John Field and Eleazer Metcalf. Book 4, p. 149. Ezra
FIELD GENEALOGY. 241
Dean appears and reports that his wife (who was widow of John Field) had paid
out Dec. 24, 1744, the sum of ^^580, and had ;,^88 left.
He d. St, Eustaceus. April 5 173S. Res. Providence, R. L
S09. i. JOHN, b. 1738; m. Abigail Corey.
400. JOSEPH FIELD (John. Zachariah, John, William, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b. Providence, R. 1., about 1715; m. July 3, 1768, Susannah Hamble-
ton.
42. Joseph Field, Jr., cordwamer, in deeds; b. about 1715-23; d. after 1754.
Arnold 10, 162. Married Susannah Hambleton, July 3, 1768,
Council Records. Feb. 3, 1737-38. Father John, dead, he chooses Richard
Waterman, Jr., for guardian.
B. II, 246. To Uncle Joseph (16), Oct. i, 1744; interest in Uncle James estate;
no wife.
B. II. 331. To Uncle Joseph (16), March 14, 1745; interest in Uncle James
estate ; no wife.
B. 12, 365. From Edward Manton (34). 1750. To Benjamin Waterman, 1750.
B. 13, 327. To Anthony Olney, Dec. 21, 1753, wife Susannah.
B. 14, i4g. From Edward Tripp. March 10, 1753.
B. 14, 203. To William Lockwood, Oct. 13, 1753-
B. 15, 80. To Anthony Olney, Nov. 4. 1754, wife Susannah.
B. 14, 149. Land bought of Edward Tripp.
He d. after 1754. Res., s. p.. Providence, R. I.
401. CAPTAIN ISAAC FIELD (Joseph, Zachariah, John, William, John,
Richard, William, W'illiam), b. Providence. R. I., Nov. 18, 1743; m. Aug. 9, 1764,
Martha' Hartshorn, b. 1745; d. Oct. 10, 1828. Administration allowed to widow,
Martha Feb. 19, 1781.
B. 18, 432. To Gideon Comstock, March 15, 1771, Archibald Young's land.
Cranston, B. 6, 308. Probate Records, March 31, 1781; inventory £iiT, widow
Martha administrator.
Providence, B. 19, 535. Sept. 10. 1785, Martha Field, widow, of Providence,
to town of Providence, land at Hawkins' Cove, for pest house.
He d. June 8, 17S0. Res. Providence, R. I.
810. i. MARY, b. May 6, 1766; m. July 17, 17S3, Isaac Manchester. She
d. November, 1865. He was b. July 28, 1760. Ch. : i. L3'dia
Sheldon, b. February, 1791; d. unm. 2. Joseph Field, b. March
2, 1793; d. unm. 3. Patty, b. Nov. 17, 1795; d. young. 4. Mary
A., b. April 4, 1798. 5. Sally M., b. Feb. 19, 1800; d. young. 6.
Cyrus B., b. Jan. 11, 1802. 7. Albert H., b. Dec. 18, 180S. 3.
Abby W., b. Sept. 6, 1806. 9. Roby W., b. Januarv', 1809; m.
Caleb Whipple. Ch. : Martha.
JOSEPH, b. Aug. 24, 1768; d. 1786.
ISAAC, 'b. Aug. 3, 1770; d. in infancy.
ISAAC, b. Sept. 12 1772; d. Aug. 3, 1790, in North Carolina.
GEORGE, b. 1774; m. Mary Green.
SARAH b. prob. 1775-76; m., 1st, Jan. 9, 1783, Samuel Waters; m.,
2d, Jeremiah Eddy. Ch. : i. Abby Waters. 2. Isaac Waters.
3. Eunice Eddy. 4. Barnard Eddy. Res. Providence, R. I.
Sarah Eddy, wid. of Jeremiah Eddy; she was a United States
pensioner as wid. of Samuel Waterous. At the time of her death
the record says her only living children were Eunice Shaw,
widow, and Abby Hoes, wife of Lucas Hoes, of Kinderhook,
811.
11.
812.
iii.
813.
iv.
814.
V.
815.
VI.
242 FIELD GENEALOGY.
N. Y. Arnold lo, 206, M. Aug. 23, 1795, Jeremiah Eddy and
Sarah Field.
816. vii. ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 4, 1777; d. in infancy, aged six months.
403. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William. John, Richard.
William, William), b. Providence, R. I , about 1696; m. there Abigail . In 1742
Thomas Field. Jr., speaks of his grandfathers, Thomas Field and William Hop-
kins. He is then forty-six years old. In 1752 Thomas Field asks for a summons
to cause his mother, Abigail Fields (stepmother), to appear before the administrator.
He was freeman of colony in 1720.
B. 8, 500, From Thomas Field, June 7, 1725.
B. 9, 414. From Thomas Field, Feb. 13, 1734-5.
B. A to, 399. From Thomas Field, 1738-39.
B. Aio, 400. To Richard and Phebe Knight, land in lot ot father Thomas,
1741.
B. An, 264. To son Silas, 1743-44, half of farm.
B. A13, 22. From Elisha Brown, 1750.
B. A13, 203. To Jeremiah, May 12, 1753.
B. A13, 353. From Peter Bateman, 1754.
Scituate Probate 2, 309. Will of Thomas Field, dated April 21, 1774, proved
May 20, 1777. To daughter Phebe Knight. To heirs of son Silas. To daughters
Lois Field, six acres. To son Chad Field, residue. Stephen Leach, executor.
He d. in 1777. Res. Scituate, R. I.
817. i. THOMAS, b. 1723; m. Abigail and Sarah Manchester.
818. ii. SILAS, b. ; m. Freelove Barnes and Sarah Collins.
819. iii. PHEBE, b. ; m, Richard Knight, Jr. Will of Thomas Field,
1774, leaves Phebe Knight pewter platter.
820. iv. LOIS, b. ; n. f. k.
821. v. CHAD, b. after 1762, before 1769: m. April 20, 1783, Urana Rob-
bins, gr. dau. of Samuel.
Scituate Probate. Asked, March 24, 1783, to have Benjamin
Wight his guardian, he being a minor.
Scituate 8, 108. Oct. 23, 1788. To James Andrews, wife
Urana, and mother Abigail, release dower.
Scituate 8, 109. Oct. 23, 1788, from James Andrews.
405. JEREMIAH FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., before 1706; m. Dec. 27, 1725, Abigail
Waterman, dau. of Justice Richard. In 1752 Jeremiah Field and William Dean are
sureties to Mrs. Abigail Field, widow ot Thomas (3). Freeman in 1720.
B. Aio, 105. From Thomas Field, March 30, 1737.
B. Aio, 266. From Timothy Carpenter, Feb. 21, 1738-39.
B. Aio, 407. From Edward Arnold, Jan. 12, 1740, Starve Goat Island.
B. Aio, 408. From Elisha Arnold, 1740, Starve Goat Island.
B. Aio, 409. From Joseph Williams, Jr., 1740, Starve Goat Island.
B. 10, 145. From Nathaniel (10), Nov. 3, 1743, Ponagansett Neck.
B. 10, 137. From Nathaniel (10), Thatch at Ponagansett Neck.
B. II, 2. From Toleration Harris, Sept. 6, 1740, Starve Goat Island.
B. II, 51. From Silas Carpenter, March 10, 1741-42, Starve Goat Island.
B. II, 54. From Benj. Carpenter, March i, 1741-42, Starve Goat Island.
B. II, 147. From Waterman Bros., 1742-43, Starve Goat Island.
B. II, 162. From Waterman Bros., 1743, Starve Goat Island.
B. II, 147. To William Carpenter, 1743.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 243
B. II, 187. To Archibald Young, Aug. 9, 1743.
B. II, 303. From Thomas, May 21, 1744.
B. II, 260. From Amaziah Waterman, 1744.
B. II, 273. To Joseph Field, 1744.
B. II, 306. To Elisha Baker, 1744.
B. 12, 186, Mortgage, Thomas, 1746.
B. 13, 203. From Thomas, quitclaim, May 12, 1753.
B. 13, 138. From Nathaniel, 1752, homestead.
B. 13, 140. To Nathaniel, May, 1753.
B. 13, 282, 283, 2S6. Will, dated Dec. 5, 1765; proved at Cranston, Sept. 29,
1768.
B. 13, 289. First wite, Abigail; second, William; third, James; fourth grand-
son, Pardon, son of James; fifth sons Daniel and Jeremiah; sixth son Thomas;
seventh Hannah; eighth Sarah; ninth James, Thomas, Daniel, Jeremiah, Abigail,
Gorman and Hannah.
Smithfield, 6-20. April 26, 1763, to Jeremiah Smith, 13 acres; no wife.
Smithfield, 6-33. Dec. 11, 1762, to James Brown, 15 acres; no wife.
Scitiiate 3, 409. May 17, 1744, to Job Randal, 120 acres; no wife.
Scituate 3, 451. March 2, 1749, to Joseph Slater; no wife.
Scituate 4, 41. Aug. 9, 1750, to son William, near Sunhangansett river.
Scituate 4, 300. Dec. 2, 175 1, to Henry Harris, 55 acres; no wife.
Scituate 5, 265. Nov. 26, 1763, to son Thomas, 150 acres; no wife.
Scituate 5, 314. Oct. 27, 1763, to Charles Walker; no wife.
Jeremiah Field made his will Dec. 5, 1765, and d. Sept. 2, 1768; will proved
Sept. 29, 1768. By first item he provides for support of his widow, in lieu of her
dower, but the widow declines to accept the will. By fifth item he gives his home-
stead farm in Cranston to his sons, Daniel and Jeremiah, in equal shares, "but as
my son Daniel Field is now absent on a voyage at sea, and at present unheard of,
and in case my said son, Daniel, should never return home from said voyage, then
my will is, and I do hereby give and devise what I have herein given to my said
son Daniel unto my son Jeremiah he providing for and maintaining his mother in
Manner and under the restrictions as aforesaid and to be and remain unto him my
said son Jeremiah his heirs and assigns forever." By another clause he gives the
"farming tackle" and cows and sheep and horses to Daniel and Jeremiah, or to
Jeremiah alone in case Daniel does not return. And by another clause gives some
furniture, etc., to Daniel, but to go to Jeremiah in case Daniel does not return; and
finally divides the residue among his children, including Daniel, but Daniel's por-
tion to be divided among all sons in case Daniel does not return. There is no
record of a Daniel Field at this period on the Cranston land and probate records.
Son William was named as one of the executors, but declined to act. The widow
declined to accept the conditions of the will. There is no record of any division of
the property. But on April i, 1777, appear some important real estate transactions,
in relation to the homestead farm, which was given to Daniel and Jeremiah. Jer-
emiah appears to be sole possessor, as Abigail, widow of his father, conveys to him
her right of dower in that farm, and in another piece of property in his (her son's)
possession. Jeremiah gives bond for ;^i,3ooto his mother, conditioned on his agree-
ment to pay her £29 annually during her life. Jeremiah (and wife Lydia) conveys
for ;{ri,950 the homestead farm and other lands to his brother William. April 2,
1777. William Field mortgaged the homestead farm to Zephaniah Brown.
He d. Sept. 2, 1768. Res. Providence and Cranston, R. I.
822. i. WILLIAM, b. April 30, 1728; m. Waite Westcot.
823. ii. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 27, 1730; m. Oct. 7, 1743, Benjamin Gorham,
244 FIELD GENEALOGY.
who was son ot Jabez, son of Capt. John Gorham, of Gorham-
burg, England, and Desire Rowland, who came to America in
the Mayflower. Ch. : i. Bethia, b. 1761; d. unm. 2. Amey, b.
1762. 3. Abigail, b. 1769. 4. William, b. 1771; d. young. 5.
Samuel. 6. Benjamin. 7. Jabez. Arnold Vit. Sta. has it: Prov.
Oct. 4, 1753, Jabez Gorham m. Abigail Field. This I think is
correct.
824. iii. SARAH, b. March 16, 1735; d. in Chester, Vt. ; m. January, 1758,
George Rounds. Ch. : i. One dau. ; ra. Greene. 2. Oliver.
3. Jeremiah. 4. William had ch. : George, William, Nathan and
two daus. Sarah received by will from her father but $1. B.
20, 23. To Jeremiah Field, 1772.
825. iv. JAMES, b. July 31, 1738; m. Hannah Stone and Jane Stone. ,_
826. V. THOMAS, b. Sept. 7, 1741; m. Deliverance Hammon.
827. vi. DANIEL, b. Aug. 30, 1743; m. Hannah Whitman.
828. vii. JEREMIAH, b. July 14, 1746; m. Lydia Colwell.
829. viii. HANNAH, b. Nov. 13, 1749; m. Jeremiah Randall. She d. in
Cranston, R. I. ; had ch. ; a desc. is Dudley Randall.
' 406. CAPTAIN NATHANIEL FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., before 1702; m. in Reho-
both, Mass., Dec. 11, 1729, Margaret Barstow, of Rehoboth. Admitted freeman in
1723.
B. Aio, 255. From Thomas (3), April 14 .1737, homestead estate.
B. Aio, 145. To Jeremiah (9), Nov. 3, 1743, Ponagansett Neck.
B. Aio, 137. From Jeremiah (9), Thatch at Ponagansett Neck.
B. An, 194. To R. Waterman, Jr., 1743.
B. An, 339. To John Thornton. 1745, Thatch.
B. All, 339. From Joseph Brown, 1746; wife Abigail.
B. A12, 186. From Thomas (3), 1740, assignment of mortgage.
B. A13, 140. From Jeremiah (9), May, 1753, mansion house.
B. A13, 138. To Jeremiah (9), 1752, homestead.
B. 4, 313. Probate records; inventory, ;^i,448 i6s., but insufficient to pay his
debts; widow Margaret administratrix.
He d. Jan. 31, 1753. Res. Providence, R. I.
MERCY, b. Nov. 3, 1739; ™- June 12, 1763, William Warner.
SUSANNA, b. Sept. 21, 1742.
MARGARET, b. April 11, 1744.
LYDIA, b. Oct. 7, 1746; m. Nov. 3, 1769, Lieut. Samuel Carpenter,
of Rehoboth; d. in Rehoboth, Feb. i, 1786.
MOLLY, b. July 22, 1736; d. May 9, 1748.
MOLLY, b. Jan. 22, 1748; d. May 9, 1758.
407. ANTHONY FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas. William, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., before 1712; m. June 12, 1732, Mehi-
table Whipple. She was living in 1774. Admitted freeman in 1732.
B. Aio, 205. From Jonathan Sprague, March 3, 1737-3S.
B. A12, 132. Power of attorney, Oct. 22, 1745, to wife. Mehitable.
B. A12, 132. Mehitable to William Autram, 1747, Sprague lot.
B. A13, 84. From Roger Williams, 1752, Scituate lands.
B. A13, 365. Mehitable to O. Sprague, 1754.
Probate 3, p. 246. Ridley Cady, of Stonington, apprenticed to Anthony Field,
mariner, for one year.
830.
i.
831.
11.
832.
iii.
833-
iv.
834.
v.
835.
VI.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 245
Probate 5, 348. Will mentions children ; see below.
Providence 9, 109. From father Thomas, April 2, 1732, land in Scituate and
Smithfield.
Scituate 4, 123. Dec. i, 1750, to Joseph Field, land which was grandfather
Thomas (2); wife Mehitable.
Will of Anthony Field. — Providence Probate Docket, vol. i, No. A816; will
book 5, p. 348. — In the Name of God Amen I Anthony Field of Providence in the
County of Providence and Colony of Rhode Island &ct. in New England House-
wright, being Sick and weak in body, but (blessed be God) of sound mind and
memory and now Considering my Mortality and the Uncertainty of Humane Life,
do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form follow-
ing vizt —
Principally and first of all I Commend my Soul to God who gave it and my
Body to the Earth, to be Decently Interred at the Discretion of my Executrix herein
after Named
And all the Worldly Estate God hath blessed me with in this Life I Give and
Dispose of the Same as Follows vizt
Imprimis my Will is that all my Just Debts and funeral Expenses be first Paid
by my Executrix out of the Rents arising on my Dwelling house in Said Providence
wherein I Now Dwell which I hereby order to be Let by my Executrix for that
Purpose, till the whole is Discharged saving to her Self a Convenient appartment in
said House
Item I Give unto my beloved Wife Mehitabel Field the Possession Issues And
Profits of all my Dwelling House Situate in said Providence for Ten full years Com-
mencing as Soon as my Debts are Discharged by the Rents thereof as is above
expressed. Together with the Use of All my Household Goods and Furniture for
her Life, if she Remains my Widow. But if she Marries again, my Will is that the
above Rents Be thenceforward null and void, and instead thereof I give her in
Lieu of Dower the Occupation Issues and Profits of one Third Part of my said
House for the Term of her Natural Life, and one half of all my Household Goods
and Furniture forever
Item I Give and Devise to my Daughter Lucy Sterrey Mehitabel Hawkins
Amey Field and Ruth Field and to their Heirs and Assigns respectively forever, by
equal Portions or Dividens, all my Estate Real and Personal Whatsoever not herein
before Disposed of, to be by them entered upon as Soon as my said Wife shall be
divested thereof, either by her Death or Intermariage, according to the Tenor of
the Bequests made unto her as above Expressed
Item I Constitute appoint and make my said Wife Mehitabel Field Sole Exe-
cutrix of this my Last Will and Testament
And I do hereby utterly revoke disannul and disallow all former and other
Wills. Testaments, Legacies & Devises by me heretofore made Given or Devised,
ratifying and confirming this and no other as my Last Will and Testament
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Twenty Ninth
Day of Marcn in the Second year of his Majesty's Reign George the Third King of
Great Britain &ct. AD: 1762
Signed sealed Published pronounced and Declaired by the sd Anthony Field as
his Last Will and Testament in Presence of us
Samuel Thurber Anthony Field seal
Benjamin Thurber
Geo: Taylor
Proved January 31st. 1763.
He d. April 19, 1762. Res. Providence, R. I. . , ...
246 FIELD GENEALOGY.
836. i. LUCY, b. about 1740; m. Oct. 22. 1759, Thomas Sterry.
837. ii. MEHITABLE, b. ; m. Hawkins.
838. iii. AMEY, b. ; rn. May 15, 1768, Stephen Carpenter.
839. iv. RUTH, b. between 1735 and 1740; m. Thomas Page.
410. JOSEPH FIELD (William. Thomas, Thomas, William, John. Richard,
William, William), b. Providence, R. L, about 1720; m. there April i, 1750, Sarah
Harding. He was a cooper.
Scituate 5, 701. May 30, 1766, to daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas Lindsay, of
Providence, no wife, land in Scituate.
Providence B. 12, 331. To Stephen Hopkins, Nov. 30, 1749, interest in Nathan's
land. This deed recites "Joseph, son of William, deceased," land given by Father
William, to Brother Nathan, "also supposed to be dead;" no wife named.
B. 13, 324. To Paris Hernden, of Newport, May 27, 1754, lot on S. Main street;
wife Sarah.
Probate. Inventory of Joseph Field (cooper) taken Sept. 9, 17S9, ^^41 2s. 6d. ;
Christopher Sheldon and James Arnold appraisers.
B. 23, 20. Daniel Cooke, administrator of Joseph Field (cooper), to William
Harding and Joseph Field (cooper) land on Powers Lane, which Joseph Field bought
of Joseph Whipple; dated March 29, 1791.
B. 14, 161. From Joseph Whipple, Jan. 10, 1756, land on Power street.
B. 25, 42. Asher Robbins, administrator of Joseph Field (cooper), April S, 1795,
to William Harding, land and dwelling on South Water street.
In 1794 Sarah Field willed the house she then lived in to her granddaughter,
Sarah Hopkins, subject to life interest to her daughter, Zerviah Charlotte Wheaton.
Sarah died before May 4, 1795, leaving will, dated July i, 1794; proved May 4, 1795,
in which she gives to "daughter Zerviah C. Wheaton, "the house where I now dwell
and land on which it stands," and after her decease "to go to my granddaughter
Sarah Hopkins."
He d. 1 791 to 1795. Res. Scituate, R. I.
840. i. SARAH, b. ; m. Capt. Thomas Lindsay, of Providence. He
was probably master of the "Hannah," who led the "Gaskee"
aground. Scituate 5, 701. May 30, 1766. Mrs. Brownell says,
176 — , Joseph Field, of Providence, deeds to daugher Sarah, wife
of Thomas Lindsay, seventy-five acres of land, laid out to
Thomas Field, deceased, in first division of land, northerly on
Punagansett river and southerly on land purchased of Anthony
Field.
840'^. ii. JOSEPH, b. (cooper).
8401^. iii. ZERVIAH C, b. ; m. August, 17S1, Samuel Hopkins. He was
lost at sea in December, 1782; son of Com. Ezek Hopkins, m.,
2d, 1789, Calvin Wheaton; m., 3d, in 1804. Samuel Staples. She
d. Oct. 26, 1848. Ch. : I. Sarah Hopkins, b. 1782; m. Gen.
Joseph Harris; d. Oct. 30, i860.
413. WILLIAM FIELD (William, Thomas, Thomas, William, John. Richard,
William, William), b. Providence, R. I., after 1708; m. there Jemima . She
was living in 1774. He was a cooper. Administration of his estate was granted to
his widow, Aug. 10, 1742. Jemima outlived her son. I think her name was Bent-
ley, as her administrators were Caleb Bentley and Caleb Greene, who m. a Bentley.
Probate records, B. 4, 47; inventory, ;,^I33 15s. 6d. Probate records, B. 4, 48;
Jemima appointed administratrix. Not of age when his father's will was made,
Oct. 16, 1729.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 247
Axo, 296. To John Crawford, April 19, 1739, east side Main street.
Aio. 350. From Thomas, Aug. 23, 1740, father's mansion.
Aio, 360. Trom Thomas, Oct, 21, 1740, one-half of homestead lots.
Aio. 397. To John Angell, Nov. 4, 1740.
Aio, 415. To brother John, June 9, 1741, homestead.
Aio, 416. From John Angell, quitclaim.
All, 6. To Thomas Harding, 1741.
An, 187. Widow Jemima, fi'om Charles (15), January, 1742-43.
An, iSS. Widow Jemima, from Charles (15), January.
A20, 276. Widow Jemima to Joseph Brown, July 10, 1774.
A8, 241. Probate Records. Jemima Field, mventory, Feb. 4, 1800; estate
insolvent. Caleb Bentley, of Warwick, Caleb Greene, of East Greenwich, appointed
administrators. Inventory, $2,979.16, including dwelling and lot, which is valued
at $2,800.
He d. April 15, 1742. Res. Providence, R. I.
841. i. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 30, 1740; prob. d. unm. 1772.
Record Deeds, B. 17, 274. To Stephen Hopkins. Aug. 4, 1762, Snailes' Hill.
B. 18, 461. To Joseph Brown, April 16, 1771.
B. 19, 130. To J. Burrows Hopkins, April 11, 1771.
B. 20, 50. To Joseph Brown, March 31, 1772.
B. 20, 50. To Joseph Brown, Feb. 12, 1772.
B. 21, 113. From Munro and Allen, June 3, 1784.
Will of William Field. — Providence docket, vol. i. No. A917. Will Book No.
6, p. 43. — In the Name of God Amen I William Field of Providence In the County
of Providence and Colony of Rhode Island &c. Spermicite Manufactor being
indisposed in Body but of sound mind and Memory calling to mind the uncertainty
of this lite, Do make this my last Will and Testament, in manner Following, And
first of all I Resign my Soul unto God the great Author of Nature, and my body I
Resign to the Earth to be buried within convenient time after my Decease at the
Discretion of my Executors hereafter Named, Jtem, I give and devise unto my
Honrd Mother Jemima Field and to her Heirs and Assigns forever, all my Estate
both Real and personal I Constitute and make my said Mother and Joseph Brown
of said Providence Joint Executors of this my Last Will and Testament I do
hereby revoke and Disannul all former Wills Testaments Legacies and Devises by
me heretofore made
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set ray Hand and seal the Twenty Fifth Day
of March one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Two
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the said William Field
as his Last Will and Testament In Presence of us who at the same time Subscribed
as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each Other
William Field (seal)
John Jenckes
James Angell
Jabez Bowen
Proved April 21, 1772.
414- THOMAS FIELD (William, Thomas. Thomas, William, John. Richard,
William, William), b. about 1708; m. Margaret . Austin Diet., p. 275, in will
of Elizabeth Arnold, of Providence, a daughter, Margaret Field receives
her share of estate. Elizabeth's first husband was William Case. Freeman of
Gloucester in 1742. Not of age Oct. 16, 1729, date of father's will. Settled in
Gloucester.
248 FIELD GENEALOGY.
B. Aio, 216. To brother John, Nov. 17, 1738, one-half of homestead of lather's
estate.
B. Aio, 350. To brother William, Aug. 23, 1740, mansion of father's estate.
B. Aio, 360. Oct. 21, 1740, one-half of homestead lots.
B. An, 346. From Joseph Brown, April 15, 1746.
B. A12, 152. To Stephen Hopkins, interest in Nathan's land.
B. A12, 105. To John Applin, 1746, Brown lot.
He d. after 1746. Res. Gloucester, R. I.
842. i. CHARLES, b. 1730; m. Mrs. Amy (Winsor) Colwell.
415. JOHN FIELD (William, Thomas, Thomas, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Providence, R. I., about 1712; m. before Oct. 12, 1738. Debo-
rah ; she m., 2d, Oct. 9, 1751, David Jackson, of Providence, R. I. Known as
John, Jr. Austin gives date of birth as 171 2.
B. 9, 341. To Daniel Smith, May i, 1734.
B. Aio, 153. To Joseph Brown, Jan. 3, 1737-38.
B, Aio, 213. To Charles Field, Oct. 12, 1738; v^ife Deborah joins.
B. Aio, 216. From Bro. William, Nov. 17, 1738.
B. Aio, 374. To William Walker, Sept. 3, 1740.
B. Aid, 375. To William Walker, April g, 1740; wife Deborah joins.
B. An, 4. To Thomas Rice (mtg.), July 11, 1741; release.
B. An. 116. To Thomas Harding, 1741.
B. An, 204. To Archibald Young, May, 1743.
B. An, 209. To Stephen Hopkins, 1742.
B. An, 210. To Stephen Hopkins, 1743.
B. An, 257. To Daniel Abbott, 1741.
B. An, 350. To Stephen Hopkins, 1743; lease.
B. An, 155. From Thomas Rice, 1743.
B. A12, 520. Widow Deboorah to Stephen Hopkins, Sept. 15, 1751; interest in
Nathan's estate.
He d. between 1743 and 1747; res., s. p., Providence, R. I.
416. CHARLES FIELD (William, Thomas, Thomas, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Providence, R. I., Feb. 6, 1714; m. Aug. 6, 1741, Waite
Dexter, dau. of Stephen and Susannah (Whipple), b. 1721, d. Aug. 26, 1808. He
was a mariner, and d. on the Island of Jamaica, West Indies. I am unable to find
much concerning Charles Field. The home lot of his great-grandfather Thomas
Harris extended from Main street east to Hope street, and north of the street which
now bears his name, viz., Charles Field street, in Providence, R. I. This home lot
(undivided) was given to his father William by his mother Martha Harris, and from
him it descended to his daughter Waitstill who m. John Brown. Said Waitstill
Field was the only surviving child of Charles Field. Admitted Freeman, 1735; d.
at Island of Jamaica; was a mariner. Austin gives date of birth, Feb. 6, 1714.
B. Aio, 213. From John Field (Bro.), Oct. 12. 1738.
B. An, 98. From Thomas Harding, Sept. 28, 1742.
B. An, 187. Power of attorney to wife Waite.
B. An, 187. Waite to Jemima, January, 1742-43; Harding lot.
B. An. 188. Waite to Jemima.
B. A12, 152. To Stephen Hopkins, Sept. 28, 1747; Nathan's land.
Probate Records, Book 4. p. 252. Widow Waite appointed administratrix. In-
ventory, ^4,938 19s. 8d.
He d. April 28, 1749; res. Providence, R. I.
843. i. WAITSTILL, b. in Providence, May 24, 1744; m. Jan. 25, 1772,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 249
John Brown, son of Deputy Gov. Elisha and Martha (Smith), a
descendant in the fifth generation from John Smith (miller) who
came with Roger Williams. They had one child, Martha
Brown, b. Sept. 5, 1772; d. Feb. 14, 1851, in Providence; she
m. Oct. 17, 1793, Jeremiah Brown Howell, her second cousin.
Her husband, Jeremiah B. Howell, was b. Aug. 28, 1771, and d.
Feb. 6, 1S22, in Providence, R. 1. ; he was a graduate of Brown
University, class of 1789; he served one term as United States
senator for Rhode Island, 1811-1817; he was son of David Howell
and Mary (Brown). David Howell was one of the greatest jurists
of his time. A graduate of Princeton, 1766, he came to Rhode
Island with President Manning and founded what is now Brown
University. He was a member of the Continental Congress, 1782-
83-84-85; United States judge, district of Rhode Island; United
States commissioner for settlement of the northeastern boundaries ;
tutor, professor and president pro tem., and for fifty-two years a
member of the board of fellows of Brown University. He was b.
Jan. I, 1747, in Morristown, N. J., and d. July 31, 1824, Provi-
dence, R. I. Ch. : I. Mary Brown, b Aug. 11, 1794; d. Jan. 10,
1795. 2. Elizabeth Bowen, b. Feb. 9, 1796. 3. Martha Brown, b.
Aug. 5, 179S. 4. Mary Brown, b. Sept. 2, 1800; d. March 3, 1801.
5. Waity Field, b. Dec. 28, 1801. 6. John Brown, b. Dec. 6, 1803.
7. Mehitable Dexter, b. Feb. 17, 1806; d. Dec. 19, 1806. 8.
Charles Field, b. March 23, 1807. 9. Sally Brown, b. May 14,
1808. 10. David, b. Sept. 19, 1809; d. Feb. 28, 1814.
2. Elizabeth Bowen Howell, b. Feb. 9, 1796; d. Dec. 2, 1866, in
Providence; m. March 4, 1818, Benjamin Cowell, of Major Samuel
and Jemima (Metcalf). He was b. Dec. 9, 1781, Wrentham, Mass. ;
d. May 6, i860, Providence, R. I. He was graduated from Brown
University in 1803; was collector of the port of Providence under
Polk; chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Rhode Island;
author of "The Spirit of Seventy-six in Rhode Island." Judge
Cowell devoted much of his time in his later years to preparing
and substantiating pension claims, which required extensive re-
search and examination of old muster rolls, marriage records.
Bibles and gravestones, and he accumulated an amount of infor-
mation concerning the rev-^olutionary history of the State of Rhode
Island, greater probably than that of any man of his time. A
small part of this store he incorporated in his book, and such is his
reputation for accuracy, that the presence of a name on one of his
lists of muster rolls is sufhcient to substantiate the claim of a de-
scendant to membership in any of the patriotic societies. Ch. :
IX. Benjamin, b. Dec. 28, 181S. 2x. Samuel, b. July 3, 1820. 3x.
Elizabeth Howell, b. Nov. 22, 1821. 4X. Martha Brown, b. Feb.
27, 1823; d. March 16, 1844. unm. sx, Sarah Dwight, b. April 30,
1824. 6x. Olivia George, b. Sept. i, 1828.
3. Martha Brown Howell, b. Aug. 5, 1798; d. Aug. 9, 1870; m.
Sept. 10, 1832, Charles Lippitt, Jr.; b. Jan. 30, 1798; d. July 15,
1856. He was a cotton broker in Providence; an uncle of Gov.
Henry Lippitt, and a great-uncle of Gov. Charles Warren Lippitt,
of Rhode Island. Ch. : lO. Sarah Howell, b. April 12, 1834. 2O.
Martha, b. July 16. 1835. 3O. Charles, b. March 2. 1837; d. Aug.
260 FIELD GENEALOGY.
22, 1838. 4O. Julia, b. Oct. 8, 1842; d. Jan. 27, 1844. 5O. Frances,
b. Oct. 8, 1842; d. Jan. 4, 1844.
5. Waity Field Howell, b. Dec. 28, 1801 ; m. Oct. 15, 1823, Apple-
ton Walker, son of Timothy and Olive (Arnold) ; he was b. May 3,
1796; d. May 15, 1833; lived in New York city. She d. Jan. 6, 1S28.
Ch. : la. George Appleton, b. Feb. 26, 1825; d. June 20, 1825. 2a.
George Appleton (2d), b. March 16, 1826; d. Sept, 5, 1826. 3a.
Martha Howell, b. Dec. 25, 1827.
6. John Brown Howell, b. Dec. 6. 1803; d. Aug. 3, 1870; m.,
ist, Nov. 24, 1847, Sarah Miller, b. May 9. 1814; d. May 27, 1848;
m., 2d, April 29, 1851, Elizabeth Underbill. Ch. : Elizabeth Ida,
b. March 16. 1852; unm.
7. Charles Field Howell, b. March 23, 1807; d. May 28, 1S46;
m. Sept. 27, 1838, Maria Valentine ; no children.
g. Sally Brown Howell, b. May 14, 1808; m. May 14, 1835, Rev.
Horace Alexander Wilcox, b. March 6, 1807; d. April 15, 1865. She
d. March i, 1861. Ch. : ib. Candace Goodell, b. April 10, 1836;
m, Dec. 6. 1866, Charles T. G. Tappan, who d. Dec. 31, 1881. She
lives in Brooklyn; no children. 2b. John Howell, b. April 10,
1838; d. Aug. 6, 1840. 3b. Everett Pattison, b. June 22, 1839. 4b.
Charles Howell, b. Aug. 13, 1842; d, June 20, 1843. 5b. Juliet
Lavinia, b. July 24, 1843. 6b. Charles Field, b. Jan. 8, 1845. 7b.
Henry Jackson, b. June 4, 1847; d. Sept. 12, 1848. 8b. Horace
Alexander, b. Dec. 20, 1848.
Ix. Benjamin Cowell, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Howell),
b. Dec. 28, 1S18, Providence, R. I ; d. Oct. 14, 1873, Peoria, 111.;
m. Oct. I, 1S45, Providence, R. I., Amey Wilkinson Harris, of
Samuel Bunker and Amey (Wilkinson). She is of Field descent
as follows: John Field d. Providence, 1686; Ruth Field m. John
Angell, James Angell; Ruth Angell m. John Wilkinson; Oziel
Wilkinson, Abraham Wilkinson ; Amy Wilkinson m. Samuel
Bunker Harris. She was b. in Smithfield, now Lincoln, R. I.,
May 24, 1826; lives in Peoria, 111. Benjamin Cowell was one of
the "Argonauts of '49," making two trips to California during the
gold excitement. In the great fire in San Francisco, May 3, 1851,
it was by his advice that a successful efiort was made to save the
great store of Cook Brothers & Co. At the head of a few volun-
teers he shut himself in the building, cutting off all chance of
escape, as the flames quickly surrounded them. For six hours
they labored at a force pump in the cellar, with the outer iron
doors and shutters often at a white heat, and by heroic exertions
saved the building and themselves. In this fire more than fifty
large stores and some hundreds of smaller buildings were destroy-
ed. On his return from San Francisco in 1854, he suffered ship-
wreck on the ill-fated steamer Yankee Blade. In 1856 he removed
to Chicago and with the late C. S, Halsey established the homce-
opathic pharmacy of Cowell & Halsey, the oldest in the west. He
sold out in 1858, and removed to Peoria, 111., where he lived the
remainder of his life. He was one of the first stockholders and
treasurers of the Peoria Street Railroad Co. Ch. : ic. Joseph Har-
ris, b. April 4, 1847. 2C. Elizabeth Howell, b. Oct. 18, 1848; d.
April 20, 1895, unm. 3c. and 4c. Benjamin and Henry (twins), b.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 251
May 9, 1853; the latter d. Sept. i, 1853. 5c. Amy Adeline, b. Dec.
30, 1861; d. May 26, 1890; she m. June 19, 1889, Gardner Everett
Angier; no children.
2x. Samuel Cowell, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Howell), b.
July 3, 1820, Providence, R, I.; d. Jan. 15, 1892, Kenosha, Wis;
m., 1st. Sept. 16, 1846, Annie Sweitzer, Brownsville, Pa.; shed.
June 16, 1848; m., 2d, Oct. 5. 1S52, Margaret Marshall, Washing-
ton, Pa. ; she d. May, 1884; m., 3d, Oct. 25, 1885, Aletha Arnold,
Wilmot, Wis. b. 1S45; d. 1S97. Samuel Cowell was a graduate
of Brown University, class of 1840; studied in the General Theo-
logical Seminary, New York, and entered the ministry of the Epis-
copal church in 1S44. His first parish was Brownsville, Pa. He
spent the greater part of his ministerial life in Lockport, 111. He
was for a time chaplain of the Illinois State prison at Joliet. Ch.
by first wife: id. Henry Sweitzer, b. June 16, 1848; d. Aug. 19,
1848. Ch. by second wife: 2d. Elizabeth Howell, b. Feb. 19, 1854;
d. Aug. 5, 1871. 3d. Walter Marshall, b. Sept. 28, 1856; m. 1888,
Vinnie Harrison; no children. 4d. Herbert, b. Oct. 7, 1858; m.
Abby Harris; no children, sd. Anna Sweitzer, b. Nov. 24, i860.
6d. James Henry, b. March 2, 1863; m. 1S88, Mattie Frazer; no
children.
3x. Elizabeth Howell Cowell, dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Howell), b, Nov. 22, 1821, Providence, R. L; d. Nov. 8, 1899,
Saginaw, Mich. ; m. April 9, 1872, Edward Peck Knowles, of Ed-
ward and Amey (Peck); he was b. April 13, 1805; d. Oct. 6, 1S81;
he was mayor of Providence in 1854; no children.
5x. Sarah Dwight Cowell, dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Howell), b. April 30, 1824; d. March 2, 1855; m. Oct. 10. 1848,
Rev. Andrew Mackie, of Dr. Andrew and Hettie (Bradford); he
was b. Feb. 21, 1823; graduated at Brown University, 1845; grad-
uated General Theological Seminary, New York, and entered the
ministry of the Episcopal church. His first parish was at Glass-
boro, N. J. He preached in Schuylkill Falls, near Philadelphia,
in Newark, N. J., and at the Church of the Advent, Boston. At
the time of his death in 1S78 he was rector of St. Paul's church. La
Porte, Ind., and dean of the Northern Deanery. Ch. : le. Olivia
Hitchcock, b. Oct. 13, 1850. 2e. Andrew, b. Aug. 29, 1S52; d.
Jan. 30, 1S53.
6x. Olivia George Cowell, dau. of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Howell), b. Sept. i, 1828; d. Feb. 19,1865; m. July 20, 1847,
Charles Hitchcock, an artist, son of Prof. Samuel Hitchcock, of
New Haven; he was b. 1823, and d. Dec. 10, 1858, New York.
Ch.: if. Charles, b. May 12, 1848, Providence. 2f. George, b.
Sept. 29, 1850, Providence. 3f. Amelia Swift, b. Aug. 7, 1852.
lO. Sarah Howell Lippitt, dau. of Charles and Martha B.
(Howell), b. April 12, 1834; d. Oct. i. 1873; m. Oct. 21, 1857, Asa
Arnold, Brown University class of 1853. Ch. : ig. Isabelle, b.
July 7, 1858; res. Red Bank, N. J. 2g. Charles Lippitt, b. Jan. 5.
1861 ; d. June 24. 1870.
2O. Martha Lippitt, dau. of Charles and Martha B. (Howell),
b. July 16, 1835; d. Dec. 16, 1887, Providence; m. Oct. 27, 1858,
252 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Eben Knight Glezen, his second wife; he d. Oct. 27, 1868; they
had one son, Frank Lippitt, b. May 13, 1862.
3a. Martha H. Walker, dau. of Appleton and Waity Field (How-
ell), b. Dec. 25, 1S27; d. Nov. 25, 1893; m. June 12, 1856, Robert
Sterry Burrough, b. Dec. 13, 1814; d. Sept. 28, 1877. Ch. : ih.
Waity Howell, b. and d. Sept. 30, 1863. 2h. Martha Walker, b.
Dec. 10, 1867.
3b. Everett P. Wilcox, son of Rev. Horace Wilcox and Sally B.
(Howell), b. June 22, 1839; m. July 31, 1872, Maria M. Owens,
who d. without issue; he m., 2d, June 23, i88o, Lucy E. Mills.
Ch. : li. Susan Everett, b. Sept. 29, 1881 ; d. Aug. 17, 1883. 2i.
Reina Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1885; d. Dec. 8, 1888. 3!. Grace
Nesta, b. Oct. 23, 1889; d. Nov. 2, 1898; res. in Boston, Mass.
5b. Juliet L. Wilcox, dau. of Horace and Sally B. (Howell), b.
July 24, 1843; m. Dec. 6, 1866, James P. Reynolds, who d. Jan.
ir, 1S80. Ch.: ij. James William, b. Oct. 18, 1867. 2j. Sarah
K., b. Oct. iS, 1869. 3J. Annie E., b. Oct. 24, 1872. 4J. Candace
W., b. Feb. 7, 1875. 5J- Everett P., b. April 29, 1877; lives in
Walton, Eaton county, Mich.
6b. Charles F. Wilcox, son of Horace and Sally B. (Howell), b.
Jan. 8, 1845; ra. April 2, 186S, Lucy Wilson, of George Wade and
Lucy (Wilson) Smith; she was b. Aug. 6, 1S41. Ch. : ik. Sarah
Brown, b. March 23, 1S69. 2k. Alice Wilson, b. June 25, 1871.
3k. Edith Field, b. Nov. 3, 1872. 4k. Howell George, b. Jan. 7,
1877. Mr. Wilcox is an architect; lives in Providence.
8b. Horace A. Wilcox, son of Horace and Sally B. (Howell),
b. Dec. 20, 1848; removed in 1868 to Melbourne, Australia; m.,
jst, July 30, 1873, Louisa E. Owen; she d. July 27, 1874; m., 2d,
Aug. 16, 1877, Emma Nodin; she d. Oct. 23, 1884; m., 3d, Alice
M. Maplestone, half sister of Emma Nodin, Aug. 5, 1886. Ch. by
first wife: il. Nellie Henrietta Owen, b. June 29, 1874; m. March
24, 1898, Frederick Stokes, and has a son, b. Jan. 7, 1899. Ch. by
second wife: 2I. Charles Gilbert, b. Feb. 15, 1883. 3I. Emma
Nodin, b. Oct. 8, 1884. Ch. by third wife: 4I. David Howell, b.
Nov. 20, 1888. 5I. Harold, b. June 9, 1892. 61. Marian Frances
Howell, b. Aug. 5, 1895.
ic. Joseph Harris Cowell, son of Benjamin and Amey W.
(Harris), b. April 4, 1847, in Providence, R. L; removed to Peo-
ria, 111., 1858; United States military service, 1S64; graduated,
A.B., Brown University, 1869; M.D., University of Michigan,
1871; professor of Pathology, Lansing Homoeopathic Medical
School, 1871-73; member State of Michigan Homoeopathic Medical
Society; member American Institute of Homoeopathy; physician
and surgeon, Saginaw, Mich.; m. May 23, 1878, Clarissa, dau. of
Mark A. and Hannah J. (Stark) Child; she was b. May 29, 1849.
Ch. : im. Mary Child, b. June 17, 1880, Saginaw, Mich. 2m.
Elizabeth Howell, b. Aug. 20, 1883, Saginaw, Mich. 3ra. Amey,
b. June 16, 1886, Saginaw, Mich.
3c. Benjamin Cowell, son of Benjamin and Amey W. (Harris),
b. May 9, 1853, Providence, R. I.; removed to Peoria; graduated
at Peoria High School with valedictory honors; a merchant in
Peoria; in December, 1899, he published an historical novel of the
FIELD GENEALOGY. 253
time of Belal., entitled "The Hungarian Exiles; he m. Feb. 5,
1880, Mary Anne Goss, of Mark Wentworth and Mary E. (Mayo)';
she was b. Oct. 10, 1S56. Ch. : in. Ruth, b, July 23. 1881, Peo-
ria, 111. 2n. Mark Wentworth, b. July 30, 1883, Peoria, 111. sn.
Joseph Goss. b. Dec. 4, 1S86, Peoria, 111. 471. Benjamin', b. Nov.
I. 1894, Peoria, 111.
5d. Anna S. Cowell, dau. of Rev. Samuel and Margaret (Mar-
shall), b. Nov. 24. i860; d. Jan. 28, 1898, St. Paul, Minn.; m. June
II, 1891, Albert Edward Fortune, Chicago, 111. ; they had two chil-
dren; the eldest. John Walker, b. 1893.
le. Olivia Hitchcock Mackie, dau. of Rev. Andrew and Sarah
D wight (Cowell), b. Oct. 13, 1850; m. September, 1880, Benjamin
Powell Walker. Ch. : i. Bradford Hastings, b. Nov. 11, 1882.
Charles Hitchcock, son of Charles and Olivia George (Cowell),
b. May 12, 1848; graduate of Brown University, B.P., 1869; grad-
uate of College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1872; m. Nov. 27,
1872, Fanny Lapsley. of Philadelphia; physician and surgeon. 61.
W. 36th street, New York city. Ch. : lO. Ethel, b. June 27. 1877.
2O. Margaret, b. April 13. 1879; d. April 14, 1879. 3O. Charles, b.
Aug. 25, 188 1. 4O. Howard Lapsley, b. Sept. 3, 1883. 5O. Olive
b. 1886.
2f. George Hitchcock, son of Charles and Olivia G. (Cowell), b.
Sept, 29, 1850; A.B., Brown University, class of 1872; LL.B.,
Harvard, 1874; went abroad to study art, 1879; was a pupil of
Mesdag; in 1882 he studied in Paris, "Atelier Julien," under Lefe-
bre and Boulanger; first exhibited in oils. New York Academy of
Design, 1884; in Paris, 1887, he met his first great success with
his picture, "Tulip Culture." which received "honorable mention"
at the Salon. He lives in Egmond am Zee, Holland ; has contrib-
uted several illustrated articles to Scribner's and other journals;
received the gold medal of the American Art Association in 1887:
he exhibited "Tulip Culture" and "The Scarecrow" in Chicago,'
1893; in 1897 the former picture was purchased for the Royal Gal-
lery, Dresden. He ra. July, 1881, Henrietta Richardson; no
children.
3f. Amelia Swift Hitchcock, dau. of Charles and Olivia G.
(Cowell), b. Aug. 7, 1852; m. June 24, 1884, Herbert Maynard, of
Dr. John J. and Caroline. Ch.: ip. Herbert, b. April 18. 1S85.
2p. Howell Hitchcock, b. Sept. 24, 1877; live in Dedham. Mass.
ig. Isabelle Arnold, dau. of Asa and Sarah H. (Lippitt). b. July
7, 1858 ; m. April 30. 1878. Johann Christian Graepel ; he was b. May
10,1848, Hamburg. Germany. Ch. ; iq. Sarah Theresa, b. May
17, 1879- 2q. Johann Julius, b. Oct. 12, 1882; d. Jan. 29, 1883.
3q. Christian Adolph. b. April 9. 1885. 4q. Isabella Arnold, b.
June 8, 1889. 5q. Marie Christel. b. Nov. 9, 1893; lives in Red
Bank, N. J
2h. Martha Walker Burrough dau. of Robert and Martha
(Walker), b. Dec. 10, 1867; m. June 17, 1890, Edward Allen Swain.
Res. Charles Field street. Providence, R. I. Ch. : ir. Leonard,
b. March 18, i8gi. 2r. Robert Burrough. b. March 24, 1893. 3r.
Charles Field, b. May 22, 1896.
ij. James W. Reynolds, son of James P. and Juliet (Wilcox), b.
254 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Oct. i8, 1867; tn. Dec. 23, 1892, Marian Louise Dimmick. Ch. :
IS. Lila Estelle, b. March 12, 1894.
2j. Sarah K. Reynolds, dau. of James P. and Juliet (Wilcox), b.
Oct. 18, 1869; m. Dec. 19. 1888, Oscar Butterfield. Ch. : it. Alvie
Pearl, b. Oct. 11, 1893. 2t. Reynolds Hunt, b. May 9, 1898.
Providence Records give marriage, Jan. 26, 1770. Providence
Gazette gives marriage, Jan. 31, 1772.
417. JOHN FIELD (John, Jeremiah, Joseph, Edward, William, John, John,
William), b. Bradford, England. 1701; d. Jan. 21, 1772. Administration granted at
York, Feb. 22, 1772. He m. Mary, only dau. of Joshua Eamonson, of Seacroft;
marriage settlement dated 1733. She d. Feb. 5, 1750, in her forty-first year, and
was buried at Bradford. Res. Bradford, England.
844. i. MARY, eldest dau., d. Jan. 11, 1747, aged 16; buried at Bradford.
845. ii. ANNE, b. Aug. 2, 1735; buried at Bradford, July 2, 1736.
846. iii. JOHN, eldest son and heir apparent, bap. Aug. 25, 1738; d. unm.
Dec. 16, 1758; buried at Bradford.
847. iv. ANNE, b. Jan. 18, 1739; d. unm. at Bristol, May 31, 1760, and
buried in St. Augustine's church there.
848. V. SARAH, bap. Nov. 20, 1741; d. unm. Oct. 29, 1758; buried at
Bradford.
849. vi. JOSHUA, of Heaton, youngest son, bap. at Bradford, Dec. 31,
1742; m. Mary Wilmer.
424. WILLIAM FIELDE (Samuel, William, William, Edward, Edward, Chris-
topher, John, Christopher, John, Richard, Thomas, Adam, Richard, Roger), b.
London, England; m. Elizabeth . In the Wakefield registers are recorded the
following baptisms of children of William:
1656. July I, William, son of William Field, woolen draper, and Elizabeth, St.
Paul's churchyard, b. June 30.
1656-57. March 20, Elizabeth, dau. of same, b. 19th.
1657-58. March 4, Daniel, son of same, b. Feb. 25.
1659. Oct. 15, Nathaniel, son of same, b. nth.
1661. July 2, Elizabeth, dau. of same, b. June 28.
Under the head of burials are the following:
1657. April 7, Elizabeth, dau. William Feild, woolen draper, and Elizabeth, St.
Paul's churchyard.
1657. May 4, Mrs. Feild, out of St. John's chancel.
1661. July 22, Nathaniel and Elizabeth, son and dau. of William and Eliza-
beth Feild.
1664. April 7, Samuel, son of same.
Probably the parish registers of Wakefield, which begin in 161 3, and those of
Crofton, which date from 161 7, may affcrd additional information of the Fields re-
siding in these localities after the dates named. Those of Sandal do not commence
till 1652. The writer would mention, before completing his account of the different
members of the family, formerly living in these three parishes, that an old house
on the south side of the street at Crofton has on it the arms of the Fields of Wake-
field Manor, viz., a chevron, between three garbs. Doubtless this dwelling was the
abode of one of the family, and was probably built by him. Res. London,
England.
850. i. WILLIAM, b. June 30, 1656.
851. ii. ELIZABETH, b. March 19, 1657; d. April 7, 1657.
852. iii. DANIEL, b. Feb. 25, 1658.
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856.
857.
ii.
858.
111.
859-
iv.
S53. iv. NATHANIEL, b. Oct. 11, 1659; buried July 22, 1661.
854. V. ELIZABETH, b. June 28, 1661 ; buried July 22, 1661.
855. vi. SAMUEL, b. ; buried April 7, 1664.
426. ELNATHAN FIELD (Robert, Elnathan, Robert, Robert, William, Wil-
liam, John, John. William), b. Newtown, L. I.; m. Mary Willet. Elnathan Field
was named in his father's will and in that of his great-aunt, Phoebe Field, 1742.
He emigrated to Middletown, N. Y., in 1760, and purchased lands there in 1762.
which are still in the possession of the Field family. He was a Quaker. Res.
Newtown. L. I., and Middletown. N. Y.
THOMAS, b. Jan. 18. 1760; m. Rebekah Shepherd.
ELNATHAN. b. ; m. .
ELIANA, b. .
MARY, b. .
427. ROBERT FIELD (Robert, Benjamin, Robert, Robert, William, Christo-
pher, John, Christopher, John), b. May 9. 1723, White Hill, N. J.; m. there Mary
Peale, dau. of Oswald and Lydia. Robert Field was the son of Robert Field and
Mary Taylor. He was b. May 9, 1723. He lived at "White Hill," on the Delaware
river, in the county of Burlington, N. J., a plantation which had been in possession
of the family from their first settlement in the State. In 1774 he was chairman of
a public meeting of Burlington county, which sent delegates to the State convention
held in New Brunswick in that year, to devise means to resist British oppression,
and favored both a provincial and a continental congress. He m. Mary, dau. of
Oswald and Lydia Peale. He d. Jan. 29. 1775. His death has always been involv-
ed in mystery. He was going down to Philadelphia from his home at White HilL
on a sloop, Jan. 29, 1775. He left the sloop for a few hours during a calm, and went
on shore to call on a pioneer; when the wind arose at twelve o'clock at night, the
captain sent a rowboat for him attended by one man. When the boat reached the
sloop he was missing, and was never heard from again, although every effort was
made to recover his body. He was distinguished for the respectability of his char-
acter and fortune, and as one of the earliest asserters of the rights and liberties of
his country. He d. Jan. 29, 1775; res. White Hill, Burlington county, N. J.
860. i. ROBERT, b. April 5, 1775 (posthumous) ; m. Abigail Stockton.
861. ii. LYDIA, b. Oct. 10, 1766; m. Adam Hubly.
862. iii. MARY, b. Oct. 10, 1766; m. Richard Stockton. He was son of
Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence,
and Annie Boudinot, and one of a family of eight children.
Richard Stockton was b. near Princeton, N. J., April 17, 1764;
d. there March 7, 1828; was graduated at Princeton in 1779; stud-
ied law in Newark with Elias Boudinot ; was admitted to the bar
in 1784, and began to practise in his native place. He was a pres-
idential elector in 1792 and 1796; was chosen to the United States
Senate as a Federalist for the unexpired term of Frederick Fre-
linghuysen resigned, serving from Dec. 6 of that year till March
3, 1799, when he declined to be a candidate for re-election. He
served in the lower house of Congress in 1813-15, and again declin-
ed further candidacy. During his service in the House of Repre-
sentatives he had a debate with Chas. J. IngersoU, of Philadel-
phia, on free trade and sailors' rights. In 1825 he was appointed
one of the commissioners on the part of New Jersey to settle a
territorial dispute with New York, and he was the author of the
able argument that is appended to the report of the New Jersey
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commissioners. Mr. Stockton possessed profound legal knowledge
and much eloquence as an advocate, and for more than a quarter
of a century held the highest rank at the bar of his native state.
He received the degree of LL.D. from Queen's (now Rutgers) Col-
lege in 1815, and from Union in 1816. He was often called "the
Duke." His son, Robert Field Stockton, was b. in Princeton,
N. J., Aug. 20, 1795; d. there Oct. 7, 1866; studied at Princeton
College, but before completing his course, he entered the United
States navy as a midshipman, Sept. i, 1811. He joined the frigate
"President" at Newport, Feb. 14, 1812, and made several cruises
in that ship with Commodore Rodgers, with whom he went as aide
to the "Guerriere" at Philadelphia; but as the ship was unable to
go to sea, Rodgers took his crew to assist in defending Baltimore.
Before the arrival of the British, Stockton went to Washington and
became the aide of the secretary of the navy, after which he re-
sumed his post with Commodore Rodgers, and took part in the
operations at Alexandria. He then went with Rodgers to Balti-
more and had command of 300 sailors in the defence of that city
against the British army. He was highly commended, and pro-
moted to lieutenant Sept. 9, 1814. On May 18, 1815, he sailed in
the "Guerriere," Decatur's flagship, for the Mediterranean after
the declaration of war with Algiers, but he was transferred soon
afterward to the schooner "Spitfire" as first lieutenant, m which
vessel he participated in the capture of the Algerine frigate
"Mahouda," and led the boarders at the capture of the Algerine
brig " Esledio" in June, 1815. In February, 1816, he joined the
ship-of-the-line "Washington," and made another cruise in the
Mediterranean, in the course of which he was transferred to the
ship "Erie," of which he soon became executive officer. The
American officers very often had disputes with British officers, and
frequent duels took place. At one time in Gibraltar, Stockton had
accepted challenges to fight all the captains of the British regi-
ment in the garrison, and several meetings took place. In one
case after wounding his adversary, he escaped arrest by knocking
one of the guards from his horse, which he seized and rode to his
boat. Stockton came home in command of the "Erie" in 1821.
Shortly after his return the American Colonization Society obtam-
ed his services to command the schooner "Alligator" for the pur-
pose of founding a colony on the west coast of Africa. He sailed
in the autumn of 1821, and after skilful diplomatic conferences ob-
tained a concession of a tract of territory near Cape Mesurado,
which has since become the Republic of Liberia. In November,
1821, the Portuguese letter of marque "Mariana Flora" fired on
the "Alligator," which she mistook for a pirate. After an engage-
ment of twenty minutes the Portuguese vessel was taken and the
capture was declared legal though the prize was returned by
courtesy to Portugal. On a subsequent cruise in the "Alligator"
he captured the French slaver "Jenue Eugenie," by which action
the right to seize slavers under a foreign flag was first established
as legal. He also captured several piratical vessels in the West
Indies. From 1826 until December, 1838, he was on leave, and
resided at Princeton, N. J. He organized the New Jersey Col-
STOCKTON COAT-OF-AKMS.
COMMODORE ROBERT FIELD STOCKTON.
See page 250.
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onization Society, became interested in the turf, and imported
fom England some of the finest stock of blooded horses. He also
took an active part in politics, and became interested in the Dela-
ware and Raritan canal, for which he obtained the charter that
had originally been given to a New York company, and vigorously
prosecuted the work. His whole fortune and that of his family
were invested in the enterprise, which was completed, notwith-
standing the opposition of railroads and a financial crisis by which
he was obliged to go to Europe to negotiate a loan. He retained
his interest in this canal during his life, and the work stands as an
enduring monument to his energy and enterprise. In December,
1838, he sailed with Commodore Isaac Hall in the flagship "Ohio"
as fleet captain of the Mediterranean squadron, being promoted to
captain on Dec. 8. He returned in the latter part of 1839, and
took part in the presidential canvass of 1S40 in favor of Gen. Wil-
liam Henry Harrison. After John Tyler became president, Stock-
ton was ofltered a seat in the cabinet as Sec. of the Navy, which he
declined. The U. S steamer "Princeton" was built under his super-
vision at Philadelphia early in 1844. He was appointed to command
the ship, and brought her to Washington for the inspection of offi-
cials and members of Congress. On a trial trip down the Potomac
river, when the President, Cabinet and a distinguished company
were on board, one of the large guns burst and killed the Secretary
of State, Secretary of the Navy, the President's father-in-law, and
several of the crew, while a great many were seriously injured.
A naval court of inquiry entirely exonerated Captain Stockton.
Shortly after this event he sailed in the "Princeton" as bearer of .
the annexation resolutions to the government of Texas. In
October, 1845, he went in the "Congress" from Norfolk to serve as
commander-in-chief of the Pacific squadron, on the eve of the Mexi-
can war. He sailed around Cape Horn to the Sandwich Islands,
and thence to Monterey, where he found the squadron in posses-
sion under Commodore John D. Sloat. whom Stockton relieved.
News of the war had been received by the squadron before his
arrival, and Monterey and San Francisco were captured. Stock-
ton assumed command of all American forces on the coast by
proclamation, July 23, 1846. He organized a battalion of Ameri-
cans in California and naval brigades from the erf ws of the ships.
Col. John C. Fremont also co-operated with him. He sent Fre-
mont in the "Cyane" to San Diego, while he landed at Santa Bar-
bara and marched thirty miles with the naval brigade to the Mex-
ican capital of California, the city of Los Angeles, of which he
took possession on Aug. 13. He then organized a civil government
for the State, and appointed Col. Fremont governor. Rumors of a
rising of the Indians compelled him to return to the north in Sep-
tember. The force that he left at Los Angeles was besieged by
the Mexicans in his absence, and Stockton was obliged to sail to
San Diego. He landed at that place, drove out the enemy, and
sent a force to the rescue of Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, who had
been defeated by the Mexicans on the way to San Diego. Gen.
Kearny, with sixty dragoons, then served under Stockton's orders,
and the force .proceeded to Los Angeles, 150 miles distant. An
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engagement took place at San Gabriel on Jan. 8, 1847, followed by
the battle of La Mesa the next day, in which the Mexicans were
routed. Col. Fremont had raised an additional force of Califor-
nians, by which the force under Stockton amounted to more than
1,000 men. Negotiations were opened with the Mexican governor,
and the entire province of California was ceded to the United
States and evacuated by the Mexican authorities. The treaty with
Mexico was subsequently confirmed. Gen. Kearny raised a dispute
with Stockton for his assumption of command over military forces,
but Stockton's course was sustained by virtue of his conquest. On
Jan. 17, 1847, he returned to San Diego, and then sailed to
Monterey, where he was relieved by Commodore Wm. B. Shu-
brick. Stockton returned home overland during the summer.
He was the recipient of honors by all parties, and the legislature
of New Jersey gave him a vote ot thanks and a reception. The
people of California, in recognition of his services, named for him
the city of Stockton, and also one of the principal streets of San
Francisco. On May 28, 1850, he resigned from the navy in order
to settle his father-in-law's estate in South Carolina and attend to
his private interests. He continued to take part in politics, was
elected to the United States senate, and took his seat Dec. i, 1851,
but resigned Jan. 10, 1S53, ^^^ retired to private life. During his
brief service in the Senate he introduced and advocated the bill
by which flogging was abolished in the navy. He also urged
measures for coast defence. After he resigned from the Senate
he devoted himself to the development of the Delaware and Rar-
itan canal, of which he was president until his death. He contin-
ued to take an interest in politics, became an ardent supporter of
the "American" party, and was a delegate to the peace congress
that met in Washington, Feb. 13, 1861. (See his "Life and
Speeches," New York, 1856.)
He m. Harriet Maria Potter, and d. at Princeton, N. J., in 1866.
His wife d. there in 1862.
In December, 1S99, the United States Government built a tor-
pedo boat at Richmond, Va., and it was named Stockton, in honor
of the Commodore. The Stockton is a sister ship of the Shubrick,
and is of the following dimensions: Length, 175 feet; beam, 17
feet; graft, 4 feet 8 inches; displacement on trial, 165 tons; speed
expected on trial, 26 knots; diameter of H. P. Engine cylinder, 14
inches; diameter of I. P. Engine cylinder, 22 inches; diameter
each L. P. Engine cylinder, 25X inches; stroke of engine, 18
inches; grate area of boiler, 136 8 square feet; heating surface of
boiler, 7,548 square feet; indicated horse-power, 3,000; number
revolutions of engine, 350; boiler pressure, 250 pounds square
inch. The Stockton is to have twin screws, vertical engines,
placed in separate water-tight compartments each with a con-
denser and bunker capacity for at least forty tons of coal. It will
be lighted throughout with electricity and furnished with one
searchlight of an approved pattern. It is to have two conning
towers, the forward one to be of one-half inch nickel steel plates.
The battery will be composed of three rapid-fire guns and
mounts, weighing about two tons with three and a half tons of
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ammunition. There will be mounted on deck in approved posi-
tions three 15-foot torpedo tubes with torpedoes and storage space
below for two additional torpedoes and five war heads. All
ordnance weights will amount in total to about thirteen tons.
Berthing space will be provided for a crew of twenty-six men and
three officers, and provision space for twenty days.
John Potter Stockton was son of Robert Field Stockton, and
was b. in Princeton, N. J., Aug. 2, 1826; was graduated at Prince-
ton in 1843 ; studied law ; was licensed to practise as an attorney in
1847, and came to the bar in 1850. He was appointed by the leg-
islature a commissioner to revise and simplify the proceedings and
practise in the courts of law of the State, and was for several years
afterward reporter to the court of chancery. In 1857 he was ap-
pointed United States minister to Rome, but in 1861 he was recall-
ed at his own request. In 1865 he was chosen United States sen-
ator from New Jersey by a plurality vote of the legislature, a res-
olution changing the number necessary to elect from a majority to
a plurality having been passed by the joint convention that elected
him. On this ground, after he had taken his seat in the Senate,
several members of the legislature sent to the Senate a protest
against his retaining it. The committee on the judiciary unani-
mously reported in favor of the validity of his election, and their
report was accepted by a vote of 22 to 21, Mr. Stockton voting in
the affirmative. His vote was objected to by Charles Sumner, and
on the following day, March 27, 1866, he withdrew it and was
unseated by a vote of 23 to 21, He then devoted himself to the
practice of his profession, but in 1869 was re-elected to the Senate,
and served one term till 1875. "While in that body he advocated the
establishment of life-saving stations on the coast, and procured on
the appropriation bills the first provision for their maintenance.
He served on the committees on foreign affairs, the navy, appro-
priations, patents, and public buildings and grounds, and took
part in the debate on reconstruction, and in the discussion of
questions of international law. In 1877 he was appointed attorney
general of New Jersey, and he was chosen again in 1882 and 1S87.
In this office he has sustained by exhaustive arguments the sys-
tem of railroad taxation, reversing in the court of errors the de-
cisions of the supreme court against the State. Mr. Stockton had
been a delegate-at-large to all the democratic national conventions
since that of 1864, where, as chairman of the New Jersey delega-
tion, he nominated Gen. Geo, H. McClellan for the presidency.
He was also a delegate to the Unionists convention at Philadel-
phia in 1866. Princeton gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1882.
He has published "Equity Reports," being the decisions of the
courts of chancery and appeals (three volumes, Trenton, 1856-60).
He d. in New York city in January, 1900.
Another son of Robert Field Stockton was Richard ; m. April
23, 185 1, Caroline Bayard Dod, b. December, 1832, dau. of Prof.
Albert Baldwin Dod, d. 1859. He m. again and d. in 1876. Rich-
ard Stockton was b. at Morven, Princeton, N. J., Jan. 2, 1824. He
graduated from Princeton University in the class of '49, taking the
degree of A.B. In the year '52 he took the degree ot A.M. He
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studied law in the oiiice of his cousin, Judge Robert Field, and was
admitted to the bar of New Jersey a few years later. He was
treasurer of the Camden and Ambay railroad for many years*
After his father. Commodore Stockton's, death, he was the only
one of his children to live in Princeton. Trinity Church, of which
he was a member, speaks of him in the parish record as follows:
"Mr. Richard Stockton continued to reside in Princeton until his
death, which occurred on April 5, 1876. An inheritor of the
knightly traits of his ancestors, he died lamented by our whole
community." Ch. : i. Caroline Bayard Stockton, d. 1895. 2.
Mary Stockton, m. 1880, Rev. Arthur B, Conger, of Rosemont, Pa. ;
d. 1897. 3. Bayard Stockton, b. Princeton; m. May 19, 1881,
Charlotte Julia Shields; d. Jan. 13, 1891. He was a lawyer ; res.
Princeton, N. J. Ch. : (a) Bayard Stockton, Jr., b, 1884, at Spring-
dale, (b) Richard Stockton (the tenth in direct male line), b. 1885,
Morven, Princeton, N. J. Bayard Stockton was b. at Springdale,
Princeton, N. J., June 22, 1853. He was prepared for Princeton
University by private tutors, and graduated in the class of '72.
He studied law in the Columbia Law School, New York, and was
admitted to the bar. For ten years he was prosecutor of the pleas
for Mercer county, N. J. He m., ist. May 19, 1881, Charlotte
Julia, dau. of Prof. Charles W. Shields, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton
University, and Charlotte Elizabeth Bain.
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. — Princeton, N. J.,
Dec. 25, 1899. — Colonel S. W. Stockton, 67 years old, dropped dead
of heart disease this afternoon at his home in Stockton street. Five
days ago he received news of the death of his son, Charles Stock-
ton, a civil engineer with the Nicaragua Canal Company. Since
then he had been ill, and it is believed worry hastened his death.
Colonel Stockton was a descendant of Richard Stockton, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence. He was one of the largest
land owners in Princeton. His estate includes the land on which
the battle of Princeton was tought. He is survived by Mrs. Stock-
ton, three daughters, and one son, Samuel Stockton, Jr., who was
one of the rough riders at San Juan Hill.
FROM MORE COLONIAL HOMESTEADS.
[By Marion Harland (Mrs. Mary V. Terhune).]
"The History of Princeton, by John Frelinghuysen Hageman,"
Counsellor-at-Law, Princeton, N. J., diverges from the dusty road
of historical and statistical details to give us a passage which is
poetical in spirit and graceful in wording;
"The long row ot large, though knotted and gnarled, catalpas,
still in vigorous life, along the whole front of Morven, on Stockton
street, having survived the less ancient pines which alternated
them, were planted by him" (Richard (IV.) Stockton). "This
row of catalpas in front of Morven can only be viewed as a sacred
memorial to the signer of the Declaration. The Fourth of July is
the great day in Mr. Stockton's calendar, as it is in that of our
country, and these catalpas, with the undeviating certainty of the
seasons, put on their pure white blooming costume, every Fourth
of July. For this reason, they have been called, very fitly in this
FIELD GENEALOGY. 261
country, the 'Independence Tree.' For one hundred years (this in
1S76) have these trees pronounced the annual panegyric upon the
memory of the man who planted them."
Richard (V.) Stockton, surnamed by college mates and towns-
men "the Duke," while lacking his father's unfailing courtesy of
mien and affability to lofty and low, won and held the respect of
his fellow citizens. "He was a gentleman of a lofty sense of honor
and the sternest integrity," testifies an eminent lawyer who stud-
ied his profession in Mr. Stockton's office. "He had a great
abhorrence of everything mean and unworthy."
From the same authority, Mr. Samuel J. Bayard, of Princeton,
we have a characteristic anecdote of "the Duke." When Lafay-
ette made the tour of America in 1324-26, the master of Morven
was appointed by the committee of reception to act as their mouth-
piece in welcoming the distinguished visitor to Princeton. Mr.
Bayard writes:
"In the morning of the day on which Lafayette was to arrive,
the council assembled to hear Mr. Stockton read his address. He
commenced by saying 'Monsieur le Marquis de la Fayette.' After
he concluded, I suggested timidly that Lafayette had renounced
his title in the National Assembly and that he would prefer in this
country to be called 'General.' Mr. Stockton sternly said, 'Once
a marquis, always a marquis. I shall address him by what was
his title before the infamous French revolution.' And he did so
address him."
Mr. Stockton was elected twice to Congress, once to the Senate,
and once to the House, and stood for a quarter century in the
front rank of American jurists. He d. at Morven in 182S.
His eldest son Richard (VI.) who should have come after him in
the proprietorship of the now ancient homestead, removed to
Mississippi before his father's death, and continued there the prac-
tice of law he had begun with flattering promise of success in New
Jersey. He was attorney general of his adopted State when he
was killed in a duel with a brother judge.
Morven, with two hundred and seventy acres of surrounding
land, together with fifteen thousand acres in North Carolma and
other tracts in New Jersey and elsewhere, composed the fortune
Robert Field Stockton, "the Duke's" second son, found waiting
for him when called to take the place left vacant by his father's
death.
He had entered Princeton College in the thirteenth year of his
age. Mr. Hageman relates that "in his boyhood he was charac-
terized for his personal courage, a high sense of honor, a hatred
of injustice with unbounded generosity, and a devoted attachment
to his friends." Added to these were ambitions that seemed
audacious in a boy, and a thirst for adventure rarely developed in
American youths born to "expectations." These aspirations
begat such restlessness in the high-spirited boy that he left col-
lege before the time for graduation, and entered the navy, a serv-
ice then mightily stimulated by the prospect of another war with
Great Britain. Robert Field Stockton received his midshipman's
commission in 1811, and was sent on board the frigate "President,"
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then preparing for a patrol cruise along the coast threatened by-
British vessels. In the war of 1812, his dauntless courage and
keen delight in the excitement and danger of battle earned for
him the nickname of "Fighting Bob," a title that stayed by him
all his life.
Ten years, crowded with perils and happenings, elapsed before
he was again at Morven. His parents were living, and had, be-
sides himself, seven other children. The young falcon had tried
his wings and knew their strength and the joys of flight. At
twenty-eight he had fought under Decatur at Algiers, cruised and
explored and battled under Bainbridge, Rodgers and Chauncey,
and risen to the rank of lieutenant. Philanthropy entered into the
next project that fired his ardent young soul. In 1821 he sailed
for the coast of Africa, commanding officer of a new vessel, and,
as actuary of the American Colonization Society, commissioned to
select a location for the colony of liberated negroes they purposed
to establish near the British settlement of Sierra Leone. The his-
tory of the expedition belittles, in stirring incident, hairbreadth
escapes, and daring enterprise, the most improbable of Steven-
son's, Hope's and Weyman's fictions.
After his party of three white men and an interpreter had forced
their way through morass, jungle and forest to the village of the
African chief, "King Peter," they were confronted by a horde of
murderous savages, infuriated by the rumor that the object of the
strangers' visit was to convict the tribe of supplying slavers with
prisoners taken in internecine warfare, and women and children
stolen from their enemies' villages. I extract from Hageman's
History a partial account of the scene given by Dr. Ayres, an eye-
witness-.
"Stockton instantly, with his clear, ringing tone of voice, com-
manded silence. The multitude was hushed as if a thunderbolt
had fallen among them, and every eye was turned upon the
speaker. Deliberately drawing a pistol from his breast and cock-
ing it, he gave it to Dr. Ayres, saying, while he pointed to the
mulatto- 'Shoot that villain if he opens his lips again!' Then,
with the same deliberation, drawing another pistol and leveling it
at the head of Kmg Peter, and directing him to be silent until he
heard what was to be said, he proceeded to explain the true object
of his refusal to execute it, threatening the worst punishment of
an angry God if he should fail to perform his agreement.
"During this harangue, delivered through an interpreter, the
whole throng, horror-struck with the danger of their king and
awed by the majesty of an ascendant mind, sunk gradually, cow-
ering prostrate to the ground. If they had believed Stockton to
be an immediate messenger from heaven they could not have
quailed and shrunk and humbled themselves to more humiliating
postures. Like true savages, the transition in their minds from
feroci'.y to abject cowardice was sudden and involuntary. King
Peter was quite as much overcome with fear as any of the crowd,
and Stockton, as he perceived the effect of his own intrepidity,
pressed the yielding mood only with more sternness and vehe-
mence."
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The territory purchased for the American Colonization Society
by Lieutenant Stockton is now the Republic of Liberia.
As the determined opponent of the slave trade, he chased and
captured a number of slave-ships sailing under false colors; feret-
ted out more than one nest ot pirates, and dragged the offenders
to justice. He had crowded the events and perils of a lifetime
into his thirty-one years of mortal existence when he seemed con-
tent to settle down to the peaceful pursuits of a country gentleman
in the home and town his forefathers had founded. For sixteen
years he had never asked for a furlough, and now, while holding
himself in readiness to respond to the recall to active service, he
engaged with characteristic energy in the duties that lay nearest
his hand. He was the president of the Colonization Society; the
importer of blooded racers from England ; the eloquent supporter
of Andrew Jackson's claims to the presidential chair; the largest
shareholder and most active promoter of the Delaware and Rar-
itan Canal Company, making a voyage to England to effect a loan
in behalf of the scheme.
Jackson's advocate was not Van Buren's. Captain Stockton
"stumped" New Jersey for "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," in 1840,
and, when Harrison's death made John Tyler president, was
offered and declined the secretaryship of the navy. "Fighting
Bob's" tastes did not lie in the direction of state desks, portfolios
and audiences of office-seekers.
One of the great honors and the great catastrophe of his event-
ful life came to him Feb. 28, 1844. At his earnest request the
Navy Department authorized him to construct the first steamship-
of-war ever successfully launched. The marvel was named by
her gratified inventor— The Princeton. The trial trip was made
down the Potomac. The passengers were the President and Cab-
inet, many members of Congress and distinguished residents of
"Washington. The two great guns were fired amid wild enthusi-
asm. They were still at table when some of the company were
seized with a desire to have one of the big guns fired a second
time. The captain objected, smilingly. "No more guns to-
night!" he said, decidedly.
The request was pressed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the
captain fired the gun with his own hand. A terrific explosion en-
sued. The iron monster had burst, and five of the guests, includ-
ing the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Navy, were
killed instantly. Although the court of inquiry absolved Captain
Stockton from all blame, he carried the awful memory of the day
all his life, and could never allude to it without profound emotion.
We have not room for more than a hasty summary of other
achievements ot this eminent scion of a noble race. He took pos-
session of ^California for the United States, and formed a provis-
ional government there in 1846, thus securing the jurisdiction for
his nation before the close of the Mexican war. The first printing
press and schoolhouse in Calitornia were his work. He resigned
his command in the navy. May 28, 1850; was United States sena-
tor from New Jersey, 1851-53: was the nominee of the "American
264 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Party" for the presidency in 1856, a ticket withdrawn, at his in-
stance, before election day.
In 1861, he wrote to Governor Olden "to consider the best means
of preserving our own State from aggression.
"You remember it is only the River Delaware that separates
New Jersey from the Slave States. If you should see fit to call
upon nie for any aid that I can render, it is freely rendered. This
is no time to potter about past difierences of opinion, or to criti-
cise the administration of public affairs. I shall hoist the Star-
Spangled Banner at Morven, the former residence of one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence — that flag, which,
when a boy, I nailed to the frigate 'President.' "
Commodore Stockton drew his last breath where he had drawn
his first— in Morven. He saw the July blossoming of the catalpas
in 1866. Catalpas were in the sere, elms, chestnuts, and maples
in the yellow leaf, when the keen eyes closed upon earthly change
and glory. He d. Oct. 7, 1866, in his seventy-first year, "full of
vigor and energy. No infirmity of body had given a premonition
of his death," writes the historian. "His health had been pre-
served by his abstemious habits of life and general care of him-
self. ... He was impulsive, yet self-possessed, generous and
noble, with a wonderful magnetism over men when he came into
personal contact with them."
In 1824, when twenty-nine years old, he married a South Caro-
lina belle, jMiss Marie Potter, daughter of Mr. John Potter, then of
Charleston, S. C, afterwards a prominent citizen of Princeton.
Commodore Stockton survived his excellent wife for several years.
Their sons were Richard (VII.), a lawyer of note, and treasurer
of the Delaware and Raritan Company; John Potter Stockton,
who became attorney-general of the State and an active and pop-
ular United States senator; Gen. Robert Field Stockton, comp-
troller of the State of New Jersey — all men of rare ability, and
useful citizens of State and nation. Six daughters grew to wom-
anhood—Mrs. F. D. Howell, Mrs. Admiral Howell, Mrs. W. R.
Brown, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. W. A. Dod, and Miss Marie Stockton.
Morven lapsed out of the straight line of succession at Commo-
dore Stockton's death. It remained in the family until it was
bought by Rev. Dr. Shields, of Princeton. His daughter, the
wife of Bayard Stockton, Esq., a grandson of Commodore Stock-
ton, is now the graceful mistress of the venerable mansion. The
venerable homestead is therefore restored to the lineal succession
of the founders.
Front and back doors of the wide hall stood open to let in spring
sunshine and airs when 1 visited Morven in the present year. A
tall Japan apple-tree (pyrus floribunda) on one side of the porch
flamed red and clear as the bush that burned on Horeb ; other
clumps of flowering shrubber3% pink, white and yellow, lighted up
the grounds, laid out one hundred and thirty years ago after the
pattern of Mr. Pope's at Twickenham. Horse-chestnuts still stand
in line to indicate the course of ancient avenues, and the rugged
catalpas defiant of the centuries, mount guard upon the outskirts
of the lawn. At the left of the entrance hall is the dining room,
/
BAYARD STOCKTON, ESQ.
See page 260.
WILLIAM J. STRONG.
See page 311.
REV. WM, HENRY BEARD.
See page .316.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 265
where Washington and his generals — Lafayette and Rochambeau
and Viscount de Chastellux — Cornwallis and his officers, grave and
reverend seigniors from every land under the sun, and nearly
every president of the United States, have broken bread and
quaffed the generous vintage for which the Morven cellars have
always been famous.
A scarf wrought by the deft fingers of the present lady of the
manor is thrown over a sideboard, and bears this legend: "Sons
of Morven spread the feast, and send the night away in song."
The drawing-room is across the hall, and we pass up the stair-
■ case to the chamber where Cornwallis "lay" — in archaic phrase
— during the four weeks in which Washington was making ready
to dislodge him. The carved mantel in this room was in place
then, and the logs blazed merrily below when the Delaware and
Raritan were frozen over, and the deposed master of Morven was
being done to his death in common jail and prison ship.
The giant horse chestnut at the rear of the house sprang from
a nut planted by one of the Pintard brothers when they were court-
ing the sisters. Abigail and Susannah Stockton, more than a hun-
dred and fifty years ago. The patriarch tree is eleven feet in
girth, and upbears his crown far above the ridge-pole of the house
it has shaded for seven generations of human life. Upon the
circular platform at its root Commodore Stockton used to arrange
dancing parties on moonlight nights, when the branches were
heavy with blossoms and the summer air sweet with their odor.
"And do not ghosts walk here?" I say incredulously, pausing
for a long look at the portrait of "the Commodore" against the
wall in the dining-room, his sword suspended under it.
The hostess, so slight of figure, so girlish in the riante face and
clear, youthful tones that — set in the storied spaces of the old
colonial homestead — she reminds me of nothing so much as the
poet's "violet by a mossy stone," makes laughing reply:
"None! That is, none that trouble this generation."
S63. iv. ROBERT, b. July 10, 1769; d. young.
864. V. GRACE, b. Oct. 10, 1770; d. young.
865. vi. SUSAN, b. April 20, 1772; d. young.
366. vii. SAMUEL, b. July 14, 1773; d. young.
428. BENJAMIN FIELD (Ambrose, Robert, Robert, William, William,
John, John, William), b. Chesterfield, N. J., ; m. in 1734, Mary Barton. Ben-
jamin Field was a well known citizen, and a man of respectability and education.
In 1774 he was appointed to draw up memorials of several deceased friends and
elders. Res. near Bordentown, N. J, H
867. i. JOSEPH, b. ; m. Rebecca Shreve.
S67>^. ii. AUSTIN, b. ; m. Mary .
442. WILLIAM FIELD (Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
Christopher, John. Christopher, William), b. April 15, 1721. New York, N. Y. ; m., ist.
May 20, 1750, Deborah Boyd, b. June 2, 1728; d. Aug. 31, 1762. She was dau. of
Peter and Mercy (Coles). Mercy was dau. of Joseph Coles, of Mosquito Cove, L. I.
m.. 2d, July II, 1764, Hannah Van Wyck. dau. of William and Martha, b. Jan. 9,
1741. After Mr. Field's death, in 1792, she was m. to Oliver Hull, and d. in i8ii.
Her will was as follows:
18
266 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Be it Remembered that on the 30th day of the 5th month 18 ri, that I Hannah
Hull widow of Oliver Hull of New York, being in bodily health and sound mind
and memory, do think fit to make and ordain this instrument of writing to be my
last will & testament in manner following.
First that my funeral charges and just debts be paid out of my estate by my
Executors here after named.
zdly. I give to my Daughter Catharine Underwood all my household goods
and all my wearing apparel not here of too disposed of.
Thirdly I give to my grandson Wm Field son of Wm Field and to my grand-
Daughter Hannah Field Daughter of Stephen Field and unto my grandson Wm
Field Son of Chas Field and unto Maria Field daughter of Peter Field Each of them
$15, to be paid them out of my Estate by my Executors, and to my grandaughter
Hannah Pierce daughter of John Pierce I give my feather bed, bedding and bed-
stead.
4 th. And the residue of my estate not heretofore disposed of I give and
bequethe in equal dividend unto my two Daughters Deborah Pierce and Catherine
Underwood and in case of the death of my Daughter Deborah at any time before
her oldest Child arrives at the age of 18 years then it is my will that her part
of this legacy be equally divided between all her children. And so also in case of
the death of my Daughter Catherine at any time before her eldest Child arrives at
the age of 18 years then it is my will that her part of this above legacy be equally
divided between all her children. And for the fuUfilment and true performance of
this my last will and testament, I do nominate and appoint my son Wm Field and
Son-in-law Samuel Titus and my trusty friend Joseph Underwood of Deruyter to
be executors of this my last will and testament. Witness my hand and Seal the
year first above written. Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of
Hannah Hull (Seal.)
Stephen Cornell ^^
Anthony B. Haviland
Benjamin Cornell Jr
He d. Feb. 13, 1792. Res. New York, N. Y.
MARY, b. July 30, 1751; d. Aug. 11, 1752.
PETER, b. July 14, 1753; m. Phebe Doty.
ELIZABETH, b. April 3, 1755; d. Aug. 10, 1756.
MARY, b. Aug. 31, 1765; m. Aug. 28, 1783, Samuel Titus; d. April
I. 1795-
872. V. WILLIAM VAN WYCK, b. May 21, 1767; m. Mary Vail and
Sibylla Akin.
STEPHEN, b. Jan. 5, 1770; d. Oct. 2, 1771.
JOHN VAN WYCK, b. March 4, 1772; d. Sept. 2, 1775.
STEPHEN, b. Feb. 7, 1774; m- Molly Hunt and Phebe Whitman.
JOHN VAN WYCK, b. Aug. 9, 1776.
DEBORAH, b. Aug. 22, 1778; m. Feb. 8, 1797, John Pearce, son of
William and Deborah Pauling.
CHARLES, b. April 21, 1782; m. Martha Carpenter.
GEORGE, b. May 6, 1786.
CATHERINE, b. Feb. 12, 1789; m. Oct. 6, 1809, John Underwood.
Res. New York City. She d. April 22, 1859. He was b. Oct. 16,
1788; d. April II, 1851.
443. COLONEL JOHN VAN WYCK FIELD (Samuel. Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. Nov. 13, 1729; m.
868.
1.
869.
ii.
870.
Ill,
871.
IV.
873-
Vll.
874-
VIU.
875.
IX.
876.
X.
877-
XI.
878.
xii.
879.
xm.
880.
xiv.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 26-3
; m. 2d, Charity Coles. He was a colonel in the Revolutionary war and
a very large land owner. His will was proved Sept. 8, 1794. He d. in 1794. Res.
South East, N. Y.
8S1. i. SAMUEL, b. ; unm. ; was lost at sea.
S82. ii. PHEBE, b. ; m. Vail.
883. iii. JOSEPH COLES, b. Aug. 22, 1768; m. Cornelia Bull.
451. BENJAMIN FIELD (Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John. William), b. Newtown, L. 1., 1732; m. Jerusha Sutton. He
was co-executor of his father's will. He d. 1818. Res. Harrison Purchase, N. Y.
452. JOHN FIELD (Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William. William,
John, John, William), b. Westchester county. New York, 1731; m. Jamestown, R.
I., June 8, 1763, Lydia Hazard, dau. of William, of Jamestown. She d. Jan. 15,
1795. He was co-executor of his father's will.
Their union is recorded in the Friends' register of Newport, R. I., as follows:
"John Field of the purchase in the County of Westchester, in the province of New
York, son of Anthony and Hannah Field and Lydia Hazard, daughter of William
Hazard and Phoebe his wife of Jamestown rnarried 8th of 6th 1763 at the meeting
house in Jamestown." John Field removed from Harrison to Yorktown, which is
also in Westchester county, and lies a few miles back of Peekshill, and died there
in 1815.
The Hazard family of Rhode Island has been a numerous one, and it has
always held a prominent position in that state. William Hazard, the father of
Lydia Field, was son of Caleb Hazard and Abigail Gardner, great granddaughter
of Joseph Gardner, one of the first settlers of Rhode Island. Caleb Hazard was
son of George, grandson of Robert, and great grandson of Thomas Hazard, who
was in Rhode Island about the time of its settlement by Roger Williams. This
Thomas is supposed to be the person of that name who was admitted freeman at the
Massachusetts general court. May 25, 1636, and his son Robert is said to have been
four years old when they arrived in America, probably not long before this date.
The ancestry of Thomas Hazard has not been satisfactorily traced, as far as the
author knows. Some accounts say that he came from Wales ; but this statement
does not seem to rest on any solid foundation, and the writer is disposed to think
that he belonged to the family of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. It is also said that he
was a shipbuilder, a branch of industry which flourished at the place named, at the
time of his emigration. Unfortunately the parish registers of Lyme Regis contain
but one entrj' between 1572 and 1649. The family of this town were descended
from a John Hazard, or Hassard, lord ot the manor of Seaton in 1469; which place
is about seven miles from Lyme. John Hazard, b. in 1531, was chosen seven times
mayor ot Lyme, and was its representative in three parliaments. His son Robert,
b. in 1582, was also returned member from Lyme in 1614 and 1620. William Hazard,
the father of Lydia Field, married Phoebe, daughter of Capt. John Hull, who com-
manded a ship usually trading between Newport. R. 1., and England. Sir Charles
Wager was apprenticed to him when a lad, and an anecdote of these two will be
found in the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" of April, 1877. x
Captain Hull married, m London, Alice Tiddeman, Aug. 23, 1684. He was the son
of Tristam Hull, of Barnstable, Mass., and Blanche, his wife, and born in March,
1654. Tristam's father was the Rev. Joseph Hull, who was born in 1595, matricu-
lated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, May 22, 1612, and took his B. A. degree there
Nov. 14, 1614. He was instituted to the rectory of North Leigh, Devon, April 4,
1621, and resigned this living in 1632, probably from conscientious motives. He
sailed from Weymouth for New England on March 20, 1635, with his wife Agnes,
268 FIELD GENEALOGY.
885.
ii.
886.
iii.
887.
iv.
888.
V.
889.
vi.
890.
vu.
891.
VIU,
892.
IX.
893-
X.
894.
XI.
895-
xu.
seven children and three servants ; his third child, Tristam, being three years old
at the time. The Rev. Joseph Hull is described in the passenger list of the vessel
in which he embarked as of "Somersetshire." He was minister in two or three
different places after his arrival in America, the last of which was the Isle of Shoals,
Maine, where he died a poor man, on Nov. ig, 1665. Savage mentions, as a touch-
ing circumstance, that, although the value of his whole estate was but £s2 5s. sd.,
' ';^io of it is put down for books."
He d. in 1815. Res. Yorktown, N. Y.
HAZARD, b. Nov. 11, 1765; m. Fanny Wright and Mary Bailey.
JOHN, b. May 6, 1766; m. Fanny Perry.
JOSIAH, b. ; d. unm., New York City, Feb. 27. 1806.
DANIEL BIRDSALL, b. July 28, 1770; m. Elizabeth Field.
SEAMAN, b. Feb. 2, 1794; m. Louise Marie Eliza Du Bourg de
Ste. Colombe.
ABIGAIL, b. ; d. infancy.
JAMES, b. ; d. infancy.
SARAH, b. Aug, 7, 1775; m. Caleb Horton, of Yorktown, N. Y.
WILLIAM B., b. Dec. 2, 1777; m. Fairchild,
MOSES, b. Oct. 4, 1779; m. Susan Kittredge Osgood.
ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 16, 1782; d. March 11, 1808.
PHOEBE, b. Jan. 16, 1784: m. Henry Fowler, of Yorktown. She
d. 1862. Moses Field Fowler, Esq., was a son of Henry and
Phebe (Field) Fowler; was born in Yorktown, Westchester
county, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1819. His paternal grandfather was Jesse
Fowler, who died in 1851, at the age of ninety-one, and who had
lived in Yorktown, as several generations of the Fowler family
had done before him. The emigrant ancestor came from York-
shire, or Staffordshire. Moses Field was educated in the home
schools, and at the North Salem Academ5% in Westchester county.
In 1834, he entered the office of his uncle, Hickson W. Field, in
Burling Ship, N. Y., and there received his training for the
importing and commission business, in the line of manufacturers'
drugs and chemicals. He went to Boston in the autumn of 1841,
and established himself in India street, afterward removing to
Central Wharf, as a commission merchant, and acting as agent
for Peter Cooper, Daniel F. Tiemann and other well-known man-
ufacturers. In 1854 he admitted his cousin, Edmund B. Fowler,
to partnership, under the firm name of M. Field Fowler & Co. In
1856 another cousin joined him, Maunsell B. Field, afterward as-
sistant treasurer of the United States in New York, and during Mr.
Lincoln's administration assistant secretary of the treasury. The
firm was very enterprising, and did a large business, both at home
and abroad. It suffered severely, however, after the disaster of
1857, which tell upon the cotton and woolen manufacturers of
New England, and in 1859 suspended payment. In i860 Mr.
Fowler, with his nephew. Frank Field Fowler, formed the firm
of Fowler & Co. The latter removed to New York in 1866 and
he continued the business alone. Mr. Fowler's activity and pub-
lic spirit manifested itself in various directions, but he deserves
special remembrance as one of the projectors and builders of the
Metropolitan horse railway. He was induced to undertake this
work by a conversation with Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, who had just
FIELD GENEALOGY. 269
supplied the rails for the Sixth Avenue railway. New York, A
charter, based upon a draft prepared by Sidney Bartlett and the
city solicitor, Peleg W. Chandler, was granted by the legislature in
1853; but so strong an opposition had developed itself in certain
quarters, to the scheme of "the New York Conspirators" for the
ruin of Boston after they had got her in their "iron embrace,"
as Rufus Choate said, that the petitioners were obliged to go to
the State House in 1854, and obtain an amendment to their char-
ter providing for taking up the rails where required by the alder-
men to do so. We have not space here to follow Mr. Fowler and
his associates through all the stages of this work, which after-
ward proved so successful, but it is enough to say that they did
not reap any adequate reward for their foresight and labor, and
for the risks which they assumed. Mr. Fowler was at one time a
director in the Mattapan Bank, Dorchester; he was a member of
the school board of the city of Boston, and of the parish of St.
Paul's Episcopal church. He was a director in the Boston Young
Men's Christian Association, but he declined to be nominated to
public office. His death took place in Boston, Nov. 15, iSSS.
Mr. Fowler was twice married — in 1S45, to Mary Louisa, eldest
daughter of James M. Blaney; she died in 1S68; in 1869, to Ella
Lizette, daughter of John and Ann (Burrows) Gilbert, who sur-
vived him,
JERUSHA, b. March 14, 1786; d. Dec. 28, 1877.
HICKSON WOOLMAN, b. Oct. 17, 1788; m. Eleanor De Forrest
and Catherine Bradhurst.
SAMUEL, b. ; d. infancy.
JAMES, b. Jan. 15, 1795; d. May 22, 1795.
453. WILLIAM FIELD (Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John, William), b. Westchester county. New York; m. Mary Hat-
field. He was named in his father's will. Res. New York.
455- ANTHONY FIELD (Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John, William), b. Westchester county. New York, about 1734; m.
about 1755, Mary French. He was named in his father's will. Anthony and his
•wife, Mary, went from White Plains, N. Y., to Ferrisburgh, Vt., at an early day.
They took five boys and two girls with them. Res. White Plains, N. Y., and Fer-
risburgh, Vt.
900. i. ANTHONY, b. Oct. 24, 1755; m. Sarah Franklin.
goi. ii. GILBERT, b. in 1760; m. Eleanor Morton.
901 X lii. STEPHEN, b. ; m. Mary Washburn.
90i>^. iv. BENJAMIN, b. about 1770; m. Polly Champlain and .
901K. V. GEORGE, b. about 1758; m. .
901%. vi. MARY, b. White Plains; n. f. k. ; prob. d. young.
901?^. vii. ELIZABETH, b. White Plains; n. f. k. ; prob. d. young.
456. SAMUEL FIELD (Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William.
William, John, John, William), b. Westchester county. New York; m. Abigail
Haight. He was named in his father's will. Res. New York.
459. SOLOMON FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, ' Robert. William,
Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. Flushing, L. I.; in 173S; m. Oct. 7, 1758,
Betty Vail (m. under the name of Elizabeth Vail). He d.in 1815. Res. Dingle, N. Y.
896.
xiii.
897.
xiv.
898.
XV.
89Q.
XVl.
270
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902. i. ISAAC, b. 1759; m. Deborah Lobdell.
903. ii. THOMAS, b. ; m. Susan Angevine.
904. iii. SARAH, b. April 19, 1761; m. Gilbert Bailey, son of Levi, oi:
Somers, N. Y., b. Sept. 16, 1759; d. March 20, 1831. She d. Oct.
10, 1836. Ch. : I. Jane; ra. near Croton Falls, N. Y., Isaac
Hall, b. South East, N. Y. He d. 1840, in North Salem, N. Y.,
and she d. in 1857. Ch. : i. James Hall, b. 1817; d. March 20,
186S. 2. Elizabeth Hall, b. 1822; m. Edmund Smith, and d.
August, 1897, and left one son only, Edmund Smith, of Jolley,
Iowa. (3) Susan Ann, b. Sept. 20, 1827; m. July 3, 1844, Elijah
Field Fowler, b. Aug. 6, 1820; d. Feb. 27, 1898. Res. Brewster,
N. Y. ; was a farmer. Ch. : (a) Carolyne Fowler, b. Jan. 9, 1848.
Address, Brewster, N. Y. (b) George Bailey Fowler, b. April
30. 1849; m. Dec. 14, 1880, Gertrude Pratt. Address, 757 Wash-
ington St., Boston, Mass. (c) James Hall Fowler, b. March 27,
1852; m. Feb. 14. 1877, Minnie Fleeman. Address, City Mills,
Mass. (d) Clarence Fcwler, b. Sept. 2, 1856; d. Nov. 2, 1862.
(e) Mary Amelia Fowler, b. July 28, i860; d. Sept. 11, 1862. (f)
Jennie Bailey Fowler, b. Jan. 31, 1863; m. Jan. 26, 1887, Wash-
ington P. Mabie. Address, Pawling, Dutchess county, N. Y.
(g) Fannie Beatrice Fowler, b. Oct. i, 1S64; m. March 18, 1885,
Le Grand Hughson; d. Oct. 17, 1SS6. Address, Brewster, N. Y.
905. iv. STEPHEN, b. March 11, 1770; m. Betsey Brown.
462. GILBERT FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Dingle, N. Y. ; m. March 17,
1791, Hepsibeth Ryder, b. in 1761; d. June 15, 1831. She was dau. of John and
Hepsibeth (Sprague), of South East. Hepsibeth was the dau. of John Ryder, who
enlisted three times in the Revolutionary army. In 1777 in Waterbury's company
of the Seventh Dutchess county regiment ot Levies, commanded by Col. Henry
Ludington. In 1778 m Haight's company of the Third Westchester county regiment
ot Levies, commanded by Col. Gilbert Drake, and finally, Sept. 7, 1778, for three
years in the Fourth company of the Second regiment of the New York line of the
Continental army, commanded by Col. Philip Cortlandt, receiving his discharge
Jan. 12, 17S0. He was the only son and youngest child of John Ryder, and was b.
in 1732, and early removed to Putnam, where he reared his family. His wife was
Sarah Sprague. He leased various lands in South East, and after the death of his
wife resided with his son, John, Jr., in Bovina, Delaware county.
Gilbert was one of three brothers, Nehemiah and Comfort; who together, on
account of their youthful looks and actions in old age, were tamiliarily called "The
Three Old Boys." They accumulated considerable wealth, which eventually
went to Gilbert's children. He was a prosperous farmer and highly esteemed
and respected.
He d. . Res. Dingle Ridge, N. Y.
906. i. SAMUEL, b. Feb. 8, 1792; m. Charlotte Crane, Julia M. Sim and
Amelia Sim.
907. ii. POLLY, b. May 31, 1793; m. Moses Adams. She d. April 5, 1SS2,
s. p.
908. iii. ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 30, 1794; m. Sept. 16, 1815, Aaron Purdy Denton.
Res. Dingle Ridge, N. Y. She d. March 29, 1865. He was b.
Jan. 20, 1793 ; d. May 21, 1834. He was son of Solomon and Lydia
(Husted), of Horseneck, Conn. Seven children. Ch. : i. Mary,
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911.
912.
11.
913.
111.
914.
IV.
b. 1818; m. Seth Abbott, of Pound Ridge, N. Y. ; three children.
I. Charlotte A. 2. Joseph G. 3. Mary E., b. April i, 1850; m.
Haleyon G. Ryder.
909. iv. COMFORT, b. Jan. 16, 1799; m- Polly Crane.
910. V. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 18, 1803 He was quite well off ; never married;
was Colonel of the State militia, and erected an excellent house on
the ancestral estate. He d. March 14, 1878.
465. ELNATHAN FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Dingle Ridge, N. Y. ; m. Jane
Palmer. Res. Danbury, Conn.
JOSEPH, b. Jan. 30, 1779; m. Mary Randle.
MOLLY, b. ; m. Samuel Cole.
ELIAS, b. m. Sally , and had son Joseph.
HEPSIBETH, b. ; m. Hendrick Weed, b. Jan. 31, 1791; d.
Sept. 17, 1875. Res. South East, N. Y.
915. V. BETSEY, b. ; m. Elisha Gage, b. 1776; d. June 6, 1834. Res.
South East, N. Y.
470. URIAH FIELD (Robert, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, Christo-
pher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Flushing, L. I.; m. Jan. 18,' 1764, Mary
Quimby. She was dau. of Aaron Quimby and Mrs. Elizabeth (Cornell) Palmer, and
granddaughter of Josiah Quimby and Mary Mullenix. Aaron's wife was a dau. of
Richard and Hannah Cornell. Uriah Field traveled yearly to Vermont from West-
chester county. New York, his home. So punctual were his habits that he would
make appointments along the road for his meals a year in advance, and hotel-keep-
ers always knew to a day when he was coming. Res. Greenwich, Conn., and West-
chester county, New York.
479. BENJAMIN FIELD (Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert, William, Chris-
toplier, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., Feb. 19, 1725;
m. Dec. 5, 1750, Margaret De Groot, of Bound Brook, N. J. Benjamin Field
and Margaret De Groot, his wife, lived in Middlesex county, near Bound Brook,
N. J. He died and was buried in the old Field burying ground, on the banks of the
Raritan river. His widow lived on the old place during the war of the Revolution, and
must have been a brave patriotic woman, as out of her five sons four served
in the war as private minutemen, viz: Jeremiah, John B., Michael— who was killed
at the battle of Monmouth— and Benjamin, who was only 20 years old at the close
of the war (p. 494, of History of Union and Middlesex counties in New Jersey,
also Field Family Bible). Miss Margaret De Groot was a daughter of Jacob De
Groot, a French emigrant, who built a house in Bound Brook, N. J., in 1700. He
owned a large track of land, which was in possession of the De Groot family for 143
years.
in 1790. Res. Bound Brook, N. J., on the Michael B. Field place.
MICHAEL, b. Aug. 30, 1758; was killed in the Revolutionary war
in the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778.
JOHN B., b. April 2, 1756; m. Phoebe Brokaw and Ann Terhune.
JACOB, b. Oct. 15, 1751; d. Nov. 10, 1765.
JEREMIAH, b. Nov. 15, 1753. He was in the Revolutionary war,
serving with his brothers in the New Jersey militia, and was
granted a pension for such service in 1833. He received $240
back pay.
920. V. JEAN, b. Jan. 7, 1761 ; d. Nov. 29, 1765.
Hed,
. in
916.
i.
917.
ii.
918.
Ill,
919.
IV.
272 FIELD GENEALOGY.
924.
925.
11.
926.
Ill
927.
IV.
928.
V.
929.
VI
930.
VI
921. vi. BENJAMIN, b. April 7, 1763.
922. vii. JACOB, b. Feb. 6, 1767.
923. viii. RICHARD, b. Oct, 17, 1770.
480. RICHARD FIELD (Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert, William, Chris-
topher, John. Christopher, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., Oct. 31, 1726; m.
Nov. 23, 1749, Elizabeth Smock, b. Jan. 28, 1728; d. Sept. 2, 1808 He had four sons
in the Revolutionary war. He d. Sept. 21, 1800. Res. Bound Brook, N. J., on the
John D. Field place.
HENDRICK, b. Sept. 4, 1751; m. Hannah Lane.
JEREMIAH, b. Nov. 17, 1753; m. Jane Tenerick or Ten Eyck.
RICHARD, b. Dec. 5, 1755; m. Dinah Vermule.
ANN, b. Dec. 11, 1757; m, Tenerick and Wortman. She
d. Feb. II, 1830.
JOHN, b. Jan. 2, 1760; d. in infancy.
DENNIS, b. May 12, 1761; m. Mary Boice and Cynthia French.
MARY, b. June 27, 1768; d. Feb. 28, 1789.
490. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Rich-
ard. William, William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. Cockernhoe,
Hertfordshire, England, Nov. 26, 1703; m. Jan. 11. 1728, M. Rudd. He d. Oct. 26,
1759. Res. Cockernhoe, England.
931. i. HENRY, b. April 16, 1733; m. N. Pearson.
932. ii. ISAAC, b. April 18, 1735; m. E. Rudd.
933. iii. OTHER children.
492. DOCTOR JOHN FIELD (John, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John,
Richard, William, William, Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas, Roger), b. January,
1719, Cockernhoe, England; m. Oct i, 1753, Anne Cromwell, great great grand-
daughter of Oliver Cromwell, b. 1730; d. Aug. ig, 1797. Anne, only surviving
daughter of Thomas Cromwell, of Bridgewater Square, by his first marriage, mar-
ried in 1753, at Edmonton, John Field an apothecary, at that time ot Newgate
street, but afterward of Stoke, Newington. There is reason to think that this was a
union prompted by cordiality of religious sentiment, the Fields being of a Puritan
stock, and Mr. Field himself attached to Stoke, Newington society. Mr. Field,
whose medical practice was extensive, was the founder, in 1765, of the London
Annuity Society, established for the benefit ot the widows of its members. This
institution, now located at 3 Serjeants' Inn, possesses half-length portraits of
himself and of his son, Henry, who succeeded him professionallj'. His living
presence we are told was a familiar and grateful object to all the dwellers in and
about Stoke, Newington, who believed his good nature to be inexhaustible, the
capacious coach in which he performed the daily joume}- into town, being appar-
ently at the service of the public, tor while his personal friends occupied the interior,
some poor neighbor was generallj^ to be seen on the box. Mr. Field's intercourse was
with their succeeding generation. His own ancestry derived from Cockernhoe, in
Herts, where he was born in 17 19. His death occurred in 1796, the year before that
of his wife. Their children are nine in number.
He d. Aug. 26, 1796. At his death he was of Stoke Newington, Middlesex.
Res, London, England.
HENRY, b. Sept. 29, 1755; m. Esther Barrow.
OLIVER, b. Dec. 6, 1761; m. Elizabeth Gittings.
JOHN, b. Oct. I, 1764; m. Mary Pryer.
WILLIAM, b. Jan. 10, 1768; m. Mary Wilkins.
ANNE, eldest dau. of John Field and Anne Cromwell; b. 1756; d.
934-
935.
11.
936.
111.
937.
IV.
938.
V.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 273
1820; having m., in 1787, Thomas Gwinnel, of Worcester, mer-
chant. Mr. Gwinnel, who d. in 181 8, aged sixty-eight, lett five
children, namely: i. Thomas Cromwell, a solicitor at Worces-
ter; d. 1835. 2. Anne Sophia, m. her cousin, Henry Cromwell
Field. 3. Amelia, lived at Hastings with her cousin, Letitia
Field. 4. Diana, m. Mr. Roberts, of Worcester. 5. Eliza, m.
Patrick Johnston, of a firm of well known bankers in
Fleet St. Their children are: i. Patrick, a solicitor. Both he
and his wife died July, 1884, and were buried at Thames Ditton.
2. Janet Eliza. 3. Henry Cromwell, in holy orders, subsequently
of 163 Ladbroke Grove Road, and chaplain of Kensal Green
cemetery; he d. 1892, aged fifty-seven. 4. Thomas, of Kingston-
on-Thames.
939. vi. LETITIA, second dau. of John Field and Anne Cromwell, became
the second wife of Rev. William Wilkins, of Bourton-on-the-
Water and had four ch. : i. William, who d. young. 2. Letitia;
m. Wm. Kendall, of Bourton, solicitor, by whom she has
children: Herbert, William, Amelia, Letitia, Edmund, Agnes,
Harriett and Henry. 3. Henry Field, a solicitor at Chipping-
Norton ; m. Miss Spence, of that place. 4. Harriett, m. George
Tilsley, a solicitor at Chipping-Norton.
940. vii. ELIZABETH, b. ; unm. ; d. Dec. 9, 1781, at Stoke, Newington,
aged twenty-two; buried at Cheshunt.
941. viii. SOPHIA, b. ; unm.
942. ix. MARY, b. ; unm.; d. in 1840. Res. Worcester, Eng.
502. BENJAMIN FIELD (Isaac, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard.
William, William*), b. Cockemhoe, Hertfordshire, England, June 21, 1721; m. May
21, 1746, Ann Undershell; d. Feb. 2, 1785. Res. in England.
943. i. JOHN. b. July 6, 1748; m, G. Bennett.
944. ii. ANN, b. Sept. 24, 1749; d. Nov. 22, 1749.
945. iii. ISAAC, b. March 6, 1752; m. Oct. i, 1785, L. Blackbeard. He was
connected with the Bank of England, and d. Sept. 27, 1835, leav-
ing several children.
503. JOHN FIELD (William, Thomas, Henry. John, John, John, Richard.
William, William*), b. Cockemhoe, Hertfordshire, England, Jan. 16, 1727; m. April
5, 1753. M. Robinson. He d. in 1764. Res. Cockemhoe, England.
946. i. JOHANNA ELIZABETH, b. June 17, 1764; m. Heath.
504. WILLIAM FIELD (William, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William*), b. Cockemhoe, Hertfordshire, England, May 20, 1729; m.
in 1764, A. Bailey. He d. Feb. 5, 1812. Res. Cockemhoe, England.
947. i. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 16, 1767; m. M. Payne.
948. ii. OTHER children.
505. SAMUEL FIELD (Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., Jan. 17, 1737, where he d. Feb.
12, 1812. He m. Oct. i, 1764, Submit, dau. of Jared Willard, of East Guilford,
Conn., b. July i, 1739; d. Aug. 19. 1794. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
949. i. BETHIA, b. May 10, 1765; d. unm., Feb. 10, 1835.
950. ii. EDWARD, b. Nov. 2, 1766; m. Abigail Piatt and Nancy Bristol.
•Other ancestors' names omitted.
274 FIELD GENEALOGY.
952.
IV.
953-
V.
954-
VI.
955.
Vll.
956.
VIU.
951 iii. SUBMIT, b. July 22, 1771; m., 1794, Roswell Stevens, of East Guil-
ford. She d. July 29, 1828.
KIRTLAND, b. Nov. 18, 1774; m. Abigail Brooks.
JAMES, b. May 10, 1776; m. Sarah Stevens and Mrs. Lamphear.
JULIUS, b. Aug. 8, 1778; m. Julia Buell.
MARTIN, b. Jan. 9, 1781; m. Sarah Buell.
SARAH, b. July 18, 1782; d. unm. Feb. 6, 1850.
507. DANIEL FIELD (Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., Nov. 4, 1742; was a Revolu-
tionary soldier. He m., 1765, Bethsheba . Res. East Guilford, Conn.
957. i. JOHN, b. Jan. 19, 1766; m. .
. .958. ii. DANIEL, b. about 1770; m. Rhoda Salisbury.
959. iii. PLINEY, b. .
508. JOAREB FIELD (Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., April 3, 1745; m., ist, Nov.
4, 1767, Hannah Crampton, dau. of Demetrius, of East Guilford, b. May 27, 1747;
d. April 23, 1780; m., 2d, 17S1, Mrs. Anna (Spinning) Betchley, dau. of Joseph, b.
March 28, 1750; d. Jan. 26, 1829. He d. Dec. 11, 1836. Res. East Guilford, Conn.,
and Bergen, N. Y.
960. i. HANNAH, b. May 27, 1768; m. Edward Crittenden; d. February,
1851.
JOHN, b. Dec. 6, 1770; m. Ruth Munger.
JOAREB, b. March 7, 1773; m. Phebe Wellman.
ANNA, b. May 3, 1775; m. Miller.
WICKHAM, b. Nov. 13, 1777; m. Mrs. Anna (Lee) Judd. She was
b. Dec. 27, 1791; d. Oct. 4, 1869.
NATHAN, b. April 18, 1780.
LUE, b. April 6, 1782; m. Joseph Kelsey, of Clinton, Conn. Ch. :
I. Mary Ann; m. Mr. Stanard; Res. Clinton. 2. William; m. ;
Res. Clinton. 3. Joseph; m. ; Res. Clinton. 4. Clarissa; unm.
967. viii. JOSHUA, b. Feb. 8, 1785; m. Lydia Towle, Betsey Heath, Maria
Green and Delia A. Marsh.
968. ix. ESTHER, b. Feb. 2, 1787, m. Justice Parish. Res. Clarkson,
N. Y. Ch. : I. Hamilton; unm, 2. Sue; m. Frank Myers. Res.
Clarkson. One son. Justice. 3. Henry; m. and res. Michigan.
4. Emily; unm.
969. X. HARVEY, b. Aug. 25, 1789; m. Mary Parker. He d. in 1855.
Ch. : I. Ada, b. 1814; m. William Gordon. Res. Bergen, N. Y. ;
no children. 2. Annie, b. 1816; m. George Mansfield. Ch. :
(a) George ; (b) Sarah ; unm. ; address care Mrs. Jesse Dewey,
Bergen, N. Y. ; (c) Mary. 3. Mary Ann, b. 1818; m. Daniel
Arnold. Ch. : (a) Winfield. (b) Cassius. Res. Bergen, N. Y.
4. Arden, b. 1820; m. Sarah Barrett, of Brockport, N. Y. Ch. :
(a) Sarah, m. Horace Collins. Ch. : Ellen, John, and Herbert.
(b) Herbert; unm. (c) Herman; m. Helen Franklin. 5. Lucy,
b. 1822; m. Gurdou Richards, of Brockport, N. Y. Ch. : (a)
Helen; m. M. R. Hammond. Ch. : i. Mary Hammond; m.
Herbert Cary, Buffalo, N. Y. One child, named Howard. 2.
Clay, b. Maro; m. ; Ch. ; i. Fred. 2. Harold, (c) Mary
(d) Clinton. 6. Martha, b. 1825; m. Garret Van Sickle. Ch. :
(a) Fayette; m. ; Ch. : i. Mary. 2. Frank, (b) Ada, m
961.
11.
962.
HI.
963-
IV,
964.
V.
965-
vi.
966.
Vll.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 275
Frank Nicks, Ch. : i. Fred. Res. Bergen, N. Y. 7. Cynthia,
b. 1827; m. Jesse Dewer. Res. Bergen, N. Y. 8. Joseph, b.
1829; m. Clara Marcellus. 9. Elizabeth, b. 1831; m. George
Brown. Ch. : (a) Will ; unm. (b) Eliza. Address, Brockport,
N. Y. 10. Harriett, b. 1833; m. William Sherwood, of Hamilton,
N. Y. Ch.: (a) William, ra. ; Ch. ; i. Helen. 2. Harriet.
(b) Frances, m. Lester Bullard. (c) Alta, m. Mr. Gascogne.
II. Delia, b. 1835; unm.
970. xi. ANNA, b. June II, 1791; m. Melzer Turner. Ch. : i. Louisa. 2.
William. 3. Mary.
971. xii. SARAH, b. Aug. 11, 1793; unm.
509. JOSHUA FIELD (Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, John. John, Richard,
William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Feb. 20, 1750; d. Jan. 24, 1783. He
m. March 30, 1774, Mrs. Submit, dau. of Zechariah and Ann (Seward) Field, and
wid. of John T. Collins, b. March 29, 1752. She m., 3d, Russell Dowd, of East Guil-
ford; m., 4th, Moore; d. 1846. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
972. i. LYDIA, b. April 10, 1775.
973. ii. MOLLY, b. March 13, 1777.
974. iii. SYLVIA, b. Nov. 21, 1779; m. Amos Norton, of East Guilford; d.
March 5, 1812.
975. iv. LOVINA, b. Feb. 10, 1782.
510. LUKE FIELD (Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Feb. 4, 1753; d. March 5,
1826. He m. March 17, 1777, Patience Griswold, b. Jan. 21, 1759; d. Dec. 14, 1833.
Field, Luke, East Guilford, Conn. Col. John Paterson's Fifteenth regiment; age
twenty-six years; stature, five feet ten inches; complexion, light. — Massachusetts
State-Revolutionary Records. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
976. i. CHLOE, b. Sept. 29, 1780; m. June i, 1799, Samuel Kirkham; d.
in 1856.
977. ii. JOHNSON, b. July 20, 17S2; m. Polly Fowler.
978. iii. BETSEY, b. Jan. 29, 1784; m. Oct. 11. 1805, John Hart; d. Jan. 15,
1867.
979. iv. JEDEDIAH, b. April, 1786: m. Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Osgood
and Rebecca Bradley.
AARON, b. Feb. 11, 1788; d. unm., Nov. 16, 1835.
PATIENCE, b. May 20, 1790; m. ist, June 27, 1805, James Vail; m.,
2d, Ambrose Benton; d. Feb. 26, 1869.
LUKE, b. May i, 1792; d. unm.
JOEL, b. Jan. 23, 1796; settled in Philadelphia.
SAMUEL, b. April 13, 1798; drowned Nov. ig, 1815.
DAVID FIELD (David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., July 31, 1728; was a Rev-
olutionary soldier. He d. at his brother-in-law's, Neri Crampton, in Tinmouth, Vt.,
on his return from the army at Fort Ticonderoga, Nov. 25, 1778. He m. July 10,
1755, Anna Stone, of East Guilford, Vt., b. 1726. She m., 2d, Dec. 15, 1779, Tim-
othy Scranton, of East Guilford; d. March 2, 1790. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
984. i. MABEL, b. Aug. 30, 1757; m. Dec. 14, 1780, Daniel Seward, of
East Guilford.
BENJAMIN, b. June 12, 1759; m. Lucy Murray.
DAVID, b. Sept. 17, 1761; m. Lois French and Mercy Frisbie.
ANNA, b. Sept. 17,11761 ;m., ist, April 23, 1783, Benjamin Crampton,
979 >^
. V.
980.
VI.
981.
vii.
982.
vni,
983-
IX.
513-
DA
985.
11.
986.
111.
987.
IV.
276 FIELD GENEALOGY.
98S.
V.
989.
VI.
990.
vii.
991.
Vlll.
of East Guilford; m.. 2d, James Lyman; m., 3d, Russell Stevens.
She d. September, 1848.
ICHABOD, b. July 26. 1763; m. Anna French.
ELIZABETH, b. July 26, 1763; m., ist, Linus Hunger, of East
Guilford; m., 2d, Ichabod Munger, of East Guilford and Clare-
mont, N. H., where she d. Dec. 13, 1844.
JEDEDIAH, b. May 29, 1765; m. Mabel Stevens.
MINDWELL, b. Sept. i, 1769; d. Dec. 14, 1775.
516. SAMUEL FIELD (David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn.. Feb. 20, 1734. He was a
soldier in the French war, and d. at Fort Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1760. He m.
April II, 1754, Mary Dickinson. She m., 2d, Nathan Scran ton, of East Guilford;
d. Oct. 17, 1779. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
992. i. ZECHARIAH, b. June 6, 1755; m. Priscilla Crampton.
993. ii. HEPSIBAH, b. Dec. 7, 1757; m. Amos Tooley, of East Guilford.
994. iii. MARY, b. Dec. 23, 1759; m., ist, 1779, Luther Crampton, of East
Guilford; m., 2d, William Ward, of Middlefield; m., 3d, Prosper
Angel, of Madison.
517. EBENEZER FIELD (David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., April 18, 1736. He
removed to Danbury, Conn., where he d. in 1777. He was a Revolutionary soldier.
He m. March i, 1756, Rachel Scranton b. Jan. 22, 1739; d. in New York in 1813,
aged seventy-seven. Res. Danbury, Conn.
MARTIN, b. March i, 1757; d. April 4, 1764.
MABEL SCRANTON b. May 23, 1758; d. in 1758.
RACHEL, b. Jan. 30, 1761 ; m. May 3, 1789, Clarke Walton, of Nor-
folk, Conn.
MABEL SCRANTON, b. Oct. 7- 1703-
CATHERINE, b. May 8, 1769.
CHRISTIANNA, b. Dec. 13, 1771; d. April 12, 178';.
MARTIN, b. 1774.
51S. CAPTAIN TIMOTHY FIELD (David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., March 12, 1744;
m. Nov. 27, 1767, Anna Dudley, dau. of David and Anna (Tallmann), of North
Madison, Conn., b. April 13, 1752; d. Oct. 17, 1819. He lived on the old homestead
he inherited from his father. He was a man of great vigor and resolution, which
led his fellow-townsmen to look to him as a leader in troublous times. When he
was in the prime of manhood, a little over thirty years of age, the war of the Rev-
olution broke out, and he entered the army. In 1776 he joined the 7th regiment
raised in Connecticut for the defense of the state, and served under Washington,
when the great leader, rallying his forces after the disastrous defeat on Long Island,
took a position of defense on the upper part of New York Island, between Fort
Washington, and the East River, to watch the British troops, which then held the
city and took part in the battle at White Plains. He was afterwards captain of a
coast guard, organized for protection against expeditions that might attack towns
along the shore of Long Island Sound, in which he once saved Guilford from a raid
of Tories, who landed June 17, 1781, and had begun to burn the town, when, mus-
tering the farmers with their muskets, he attacked them with such spirit that he
drove them to their boats, leaving their dead and wounded behind them. Captain
Field lived many years after the war, and was a fine specimen of the old Conti-
nentals who united the character ot the farmer with that of the soldier. The older
995.
996.
u.
997.
111.
998.
iv.
gqg.
V,
1000.
VI.
lOOI.
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inhabitants of the town recall his striking figure. One who says, "he can see him
now," describes him as "a large, broad-breasted, well built man." Even while
engaged in peaceful pursuits he kept up the military style of dress of other days.
"He always wore a cocked hat, short breeches, long stockings and bright silver
shoe buckles, and I never saw him, either on the farm or abroad, that he was not
dressed in this manner."
His Revolutionary record is as follows: Sergeant Ensign Jekiel Megs' com-
pany, Guilford, Connecticut militia, Lexington alarm; private. Captain Andrew
Ward's company, First Connecticut Continental regiment. Col. David Wooster,
1775; lieutenant Seventh regiment, Connecticut militia. Col. William Worthington,
1780; lieutenant Capt. Peter Vail's company, Connecticut Coast Guards, April loth
to December, 1781.
He d. Jan. i, i8i3. Res. East Guilford, now Madison, Conn.
1002. vi. DAVID DUDLEY, b. May 20, 1781; m. Submit Dickinson.
1003. i. MINA. b. Oct. 3, 1769; d. Jan. 26, 1770.
1004. ii. LOIS, b. Jan. 29, 1771; m. March 24, 1792. Elijah Wilcox, of Mad-
ison. She d. Aug. 6, 1S52.
1005. iii. MINA, b. March 23, 1773; m. Nov. 10, 1793, Luther Dowd. She
d. Feb. 26, 1843.
1006. iv. TIMOTHY, b. Sept. 28, 1775; ra. Wealthy Bishop and Mrs.
Susannah (Pomeroy) Lusk.
1007. v. MARY, b. Nov. 19. 1778; m. April 2, 1801. John Meigs. Shed.
July 27, 1S55. Their dau. Louisa wasb. 1802; m. Nov. 18, 1824,
Zenas Wilcox, son of Joseph, Jr. She d. Madison, Conn., May
2, 1873, aged seventy-six. He d. March 14, 1893. Ch. : i.
Vincent Meigs Wilcox, b. Oct. 17, 1828; m. June 17, 1855, Cath-
erine Millicent Webb, dau. of Dr. Reynolds Webb, b. June 13,
1832; d. April I, i860. He d. May 9, 1896. Col. Vincent Meigs
Wilcox was educated at Lee's Academy, Madison, Conn. ; col-
onel One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment Pennyslvania
volunteers, 1862-63; distinguished at Antietam ; elder Philips
Presbyterian church, New York. Was president of E. and
H. T. Anthony & Co.. a corporation engaged in manufacture and
importation of photographic materials. Colonel Wilcox's son,
Reynolds Webb Wilcox, b. March 29, 1856; m. in New York City,
June 5, 1895, Frances Maud Weeks, dau. of Samuel, b. Nov. 25,
1868. Res. 749 Madison Av., New York City, s. p. Reynolds
Webb Wilcox, B. A., Yale College, 1898; M. A., Hobart Col-
lege, 1881; M. D., Harvard University, 1881; LL. D., Mary-
"ille College, 1892. House officer various hospitals in Boston,
Mass., in 1880-81 ; studied medicine at Vienna, Heidelberg, Paris
and Edinburgh in 1881-82. Professor of medicine and thera-
peutic at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hos-
pital ; attending physician to the hospital ; visiting physician at
St. Mark's hospital; co-author, "White-Wilcox's Materia Med-
ica and Therapeutics" (fourth edition), textbook in most medical
schools ; therapeutic editor of the American Journal of the Med-
ical Sciences; author of "Materia Medica for Nurses," "System
of Case Records. " Has published about two hundred papers on
medical subjects in various magazines and journals; Fellow of
the American Academy of Medicine ; Fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine (formerly chairman of medical section) ;
278 FIELD GENEALOGY.
member of New York State Medical Society ; member of Harv-
ard Medical Society (formerly president); life member of the
Harvard Medical Alumni Association ; member of Society of Col-
onial Wars; Sons of the Revolution; War of 1812, (vice-president
Pennsylvania Society) Loyal Legion; Sons of Veterans (form-
erly surgeon-general); author of the "Descendants of Wil-
liam Wilcoxson, Vincent Meigs and Richard Webb," and of
"Madison, Her Soldiers;" member of Metropolitan, Democratic
and Harvard Clubs, New York City. He m. Frances Maud,
dau. of Samuel Weeks, of New York City. Occupation, physi-
cian ; hobbies, American history and genealogy.
1008. vii. ABIGAIL, b. April 7, 1784; m. March 9, 1805, Thomas Beals, of
Canandaigua, N. Y. He was formerly a merchant and after-
wards a banker, and was one of the most highly esteemed cit-
izens in his section of the state of New York. He and his wife
both lived to a good old age. He d. April 30, 1864, aged eighty-
three, and she passed away Aug. 8, 1872, aged eighty-seven.
1009. viii. ANNA, b. April 6, 1787; m. Nov. 21, 1814, Abel Wilcox, of Mad-
ison. She d. Sept. 12, 1861.
524. EBENEZER FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., in 1739. He removed
to New Haven, Vt. He m. in 1763, Anna, dau. of Zechariah and Anna (Seward)
Field, of East Guilford, b. Oct, 26, 1744. Res. New Haven, Vt.
SIMEON, b. Nov. 4, 1764; d. Dec. 20. 1764.
SIMEON, b. Jan. 11, 1766.
PRUDENCE, b. May 15, 1768.
ROXANA, b. Sept. 23, 1770.
MARGARET, b. April 3, 1773.
EBENEZER, b. Jan. 15, 1775.
AMOS, b. Jan. 7. 1779.
HULDAH, b. April 7, 1782.
NAOMI, b. Feb. 17, 1785.
528. REUBEN FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), b. Norfolk, Conn., Jan. 9, 1762; m. .
Res. Litchfield, Vt.
ioi8>^. i. REUBEN, b, 1792; m. Eliza L. Lazaraw.
530. DEACON MICHAEL FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Zachariah, Zacha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William. William), b. Norfolk, Conn., July 9, T768; m.
Abigail Caulkins. He was b. in Connecticut, where he was educated, married and
engaged in business. He removed to Palmyra, N. Y., at an early day; was a
prominent resident and deacon in the Presbyterian church. He d. in 18 14. Res.
Palmyra, N, Y.
1019. i. MICHAEL, b. June 8, 1806; m. Ann Reynolds and Mrs. Harriet
Brackney Lee.
1019X. ii. SOLOMON, b. .
ioi9»^. iii. EBENEZER, b. .
loigj^. iv. THOMAS, b. .
loigl^. V. EARL, b. .
1019%. vi. RODNEY, b. .
1019^. vii. ELIZABETH, b. .
1019%. viii. CLARISSA, b. .
lOIO.
ion.
11.
1012.
111.
1013.
IV.
1014.
V.
1015.
VI.
1016.
VU.
1017.
viii.
1018.
IX.
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540. AMBROSE FIELD (Joareb, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard. William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., Feb. 7, 1736. Hem.
Sept. 17, 1767, Sarah Bates, of Durham, b. May 2. 1743- He was a soldier in the
Revolutionary army, enlisting at Waterbury. Conn. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
1020. i. SARAH, b. June 9, 1770; m. Feb. i, 1S07, Charles Strong. She
d. July 31, 1850. Ch. : i. Semira, b. Aug. 27, 1809; m. Daniel
Simmons. 2. Semantha, b. Aug. 23, iSii; m. Lemuel Bald-
win. 3. Juliette, b. June 5, 1813; m. James Wells. 4. Sarah, b.
May 31, 1815; m. William C. Hatchkiss. 5. Nancy, b. July 17,
181 8; m. Luke Van Vechten.
548. REUBEN FIELD (Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Enfield, Conn., Oct. 9, 1740; m. Hannah Alden; m.,
2d, in 1785, Mrs. Ann (Hall) Larabee. He was in the Revolutionary war. Reuben
Field, son of Pedajah and Abigail Pettie; came to Northfield, Mass., in 1752; in
1781 removed to Athens. Vt. ; in 1821 to Gates, Munroe county. New York; in 1830
to Sparta, Livingston county, N. Y, where he d. June 5, 1839. Was a Revolution-
ary soldier; was at the battle of Horse Neck, or White Plains, in 1776; in Capt.
Agrippa Wells' company, three months men, from September i. to Nov. i, 1779.
Res. Rochester, N. Y.
1021. i. REUBEN, b. Jan. 10. 1786; m. Mary Green Ober.
1022. ii. LUTHER, b. Sept. 17, 1787; m. Priscilla Ware.
1023. iii. POLLY, b. Dec. 12, 1789; d. unm. January, 1839.
551. BENNETT FIELD (Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., in 1745; m. in 1778, Elizabeth
Ferrin. He removed to Athens, Vt., in 1778. Res. Athens, Vt.
1024. i. PEDAJAH, b. 1779; m., Weld.
1025. ii. RUTH. b. 1781; m. Joseph Dunklee, of Newfane, Vt. ; removed
to Glenns Falls, N. Y.
1026. iii. BETSEY, b. 1783; m. Solomon Barnard, of Townshend; removed
to Newport, Vt.
1027. iv. MARY, b. 1785; m., 1805, Edward Oaks, Rockingham, Vt.
1028. V. LEVI, b. July 20, 1790; m. Experience Dean.
554. JOHN FIELD (Pedijah. John, Zechariah, Zechariah. John, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Enfield, Conn., June 9. 1751; m. in 1777, Sybil Allen, dau.
of John end Jerusha. (Hastings), b. July 17, 1759. She m., 2d, in 1804, Noah Munn;
d. Sept. 10, 1816. He d. June 2, 1800. Res. Northfield, Mass.
NABBy", b. Feb. 4, 1778.
LUCY, b. Sept. 12, 1779.
JOHN, b. June 3, 1781; m. Nancy McCarthy.
OLIVER, b. Feb. 11, 1783; m. Rhoda Loveland.
ELIHU. b. Dec. 30. 1784; m. Betsey Stratton.
FANNY, b. Nov. 14, 1788; m. Benjamin Enoch. He was one of
Burgoyoe's officers.
556. NATHAN FIELD (Pedijah, John, Zechariah. Zechariah, John, John,
Richard. William. William), b. about Sept. 21, I755, Northfield, Mass.; m. Dec. 7.
1780, Abigail Bullard, of Oakham, Mass.
Field, Nathan. List of men raised to serve in the Continental army, as
returned by Capt. Elisha Hunt; sworn to in Hampshire county, April 14, 1779;
engaged tor town of Northfield; joined Colonel Lam's (Lamb's) artillery regiment;
term, one year. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
1029.
1.
1030.
11.
I03I.
m.
1032.
IV.
1033.
V.
1034-
VI.
280 FIELD GENEALOGY.
In the matter of the estate of Nathan Field, of Oakham, whose wife was Abi-
gail, in 1792, before Joseph Dow, judge, at Worcester; will probated.
A guardian was appointed for Reuben Field, mmor, son of Nathan, late of Oak-
ham, 1799, by Joseph Dow, judge of the Worcester county probate court.
He d. in 1792. Res. Oakham, Mass.
1035. i. REUBEN, b. Aug. 2, 1782; m. Experience Burt.
1036. ii. MARY, b. Jan. 8, 1784. She prob. d. young, as there isn't any
mention of guardianship on Worcester county probate.
566. AMOS FIELD (Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah. John, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Mansfield, Conn., April 20, 1750; m. there Sept. lo, 1772,
Zerviah Baldwin, b. 1754, dau. of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Wright) Baldwin, b. Aug.
23. 1756; d. Feb. 20, 1843. He was b. in Mansfield, Conn., where he resided until
after his marriage, when he removed, in 1775, to Dorset, Vt., and settled on a
farm, two miles north of the village, still known as the Field farm. He lived and
died on the place where he first settled, leaving eleven children, one hundred and
twenty-one grandchildren and great grandchildren. By the marriage of the eldest
daughter with Justin Kellogg, and by intermarriage with the Kent family, has
sprung a numerous band of relatives in that town not inaptly represented by the —
at one time — well known marble firm of HoUey, Field & Kent, a trio of cousins, by
whose enterprise and activity thousands of dollars worth of marble was annually
quarried and prepared for market.
There is a family monument in the beautifully situated old graveyard at Dorset,
Vt. It has this inscription: "The Field family, some of whom are lying here, has
been in Dorset for a hundred years ; for the century previous the ancestors lived in
Massachusetts and Connecticut. Previous to that in England, and still further back
in Alsace, France. They have been an honest and Godfearing race." Then fol-
lows the coat of arms, and under it the motto, carefully cut, "Sans Dieu rien."
Another correspondent says : Zerviah Baldwin was the daughter of Eleazer
Baldwin, of Mansfield, formerly of Billerica, Mass., and in the spring of 1776, emi-
grated to Dorset, Vt., in company with his wife's father and young brother, Asa
Baldwin. The farms of the two families joined and together stretched from side to
side of the lovely Dorset Valley. The change to the new home in the wilderness
was not accomplished without care and sorrow. Little Rebecca Field died very
soon unable to endure such hardship; but Elizabeth, the eldest child, lived on to
grow an old woman in Dorset— the mother of the large HoUey family. In the fall
of that first year came a messenger from Woodstock, Vt., to tell them of sickness in
the families of Amos Field's sisters, Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Phinehas Williams.
Mrs. Field left her own family and set off across the Green Mountains, a perilous
horseback ride, with the messenger who had come to guide her on the wild trail,
and remained for weeks in Woodstock, helping the friends in trouble there. The
following winter, Amos Field, who was a man full of ardour and ambitions, was
actively engaged in clearing the wide plateaus, where he subsequently built his
second dwelling house, still standing there. One day, while at work felling trees,
he was struck on the head by a limb, as the tree came down to the ground. He lay
there for hours in an unconscious state, until at last a search being made, he was
found lying so close to the embers of a dying fire, that his head had been desperately
burned. Yet, after many months of heavy sickness be began to recover. And
when the rumors of troops advancing into the region came, he could manage again
to sit his horse. He started with a small company of loyalists to join the Eng-
lish forces at Bennington, for the Fields and the Baldwins in Dorset were still
Tories. Buried away among the hills they had heard little of the agitations that
FIELD GENEALOGY. 281
"had turned Conservatives into Whigs along the sea coasts and in the towns, and
raised a Continental army of revolution. But the party were overhauled in the
vicinity of Arlington by a party ot Whigs, warned of their coming by Miss Ormsby,
of Manchester, and Mr. Field, who was known to be hardly less than a very sick man
still, was sent home under guard, but the rest of the party were lodged in Benning-
ton jail, and in many instances their farms were confiscated. After a few years the
agitations of the war, the questions regarding State Rights, and the gradual settling
of more people in Vermont, assured greater comfort and no doubt life became easier.
Several daughters and three sons grew up in the new Field homestead.
Another correspondent writes: "Amos came to Vermont in the spring of 1776.
He drove up an ox team, with their goods, and grandmother and two children came on
horseback. The children, aunt Holley (Elizabeth) was the eldest, and one younger.
Rebecca, probably one year old. She died soon after. Pa thinks when she was
about two years old. Bennington battle was the next year, Aug. 16, 1777. Pa
thinks grandfather never built a log house, but a small frame and board house, the
first season — probably a kind of shanty, covered with shingles, four feet long,
instead of boards. He soon, however, built a small frame house, and soon after an
addition to it, before pa's recollection, in which most of their children were born.
The best part of that building, frame covering, is what we knew as 'the shop,'
across the road during my childhood. When used as a dwelling it stood on the
north end of the garden, near the rock. The present house, the old home and
birthplace ot our family, was built in the year 1800, when pa was thirteen years old.
The exterior of the building remained from time of building until I was some two
and a half years old, unchanged. The division of the interior the same. From
time to time rooms were lathed and plastered. Since then several additions and
various changes, interior and exterior, have been made, and a few years since very
general repairs. Several years before grandfather Field came to Dorset he drove
an ox cart for his brother-in-law, William, from Mansfield to Woodstock, Vt."
He d. June 17, 1831. Res. Dorset, Vt.
1037. i. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 29, 1773; m. June, 1790, Justus Holley, of
Dorset, Vt. ; d. Nov. 28, 1859. A son i. Justus, was b. Dorset,
July 23, 1805; m. May 29, 1832, Eliza E. Woodward, b. Dec. 22,
1810; d. May 21, 1862. She d. April 16, 1890. Res. Dorset, Vt.
Ch. : (a) Harriet E. Holley, b. Sept. 26, 1836: m. Sept. 16, 1862.
Address, Mrs. J. S. Bacon, Niles, Mich, (b) Angeline M.
Holley, b. Dec. 12, 1841 ; unm. Address, Dorset, Vt. (c) R.
Maud Holley, b. Dec. i, 1847; m. June 25, 1896. Address, Mrs.
W. B. Sheldon, Bennington, Vt. (d) William J. Holley, b.
March 18, 1852; a farmer; unm. Res. Dorset, Vt. 2. Harriet
Holley, b. Nov. 2, 1815; m., Dorset, Vt., 1839, Oliver Cheney
Gilbert, b. 1812; d. September, 1871. Their son. Rev. George
Holley Gilbert, D. D.. b. Cavendish, Vt., Nov. 4, 1854; m. June
27, 1886, Flora Louise Gates, b. May 18, i860. Res. 434 Washing-
ton Boulevard, Chicago, 111. Ch. : i. Harriet Elizabeth, ii.
Bertha Gates. iii. George Holley, Jr. iv. Wilfred Charles.
Dr. George Holley Gilbert is professor of New Testament liter-
ature and interpretation and is registrar at the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary. In addition to his "Student Life of Jesus"
and "The Student Life of St. Paul," he has published some
translations on biblical subjects and written other shorter articles.
He has been a professor at the Chicago school for fourteen
years, coming here in 1886. Graduated a bachelor of arts from
282 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Dartmouth College in 1878, he entered the Union Theological
Seminary in 1880, and after three years of study he was made a
fellow for two years. In 1885 he received the degree of doctor
of philosophy at the University of Leipsic, and the following
year found him installed in the Congregational school here. In
1894 Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of doctor
of divinity. Dr. Gilbert has quite a reputation as an author,
and it is said has very liberal views on religious questions.
Charges of heresy were first brought against Dr. George H.
Gilbert, May, 1899. The charges were preferred by Rev. Dr. E.
S. Carr at the meeting of the board of visitors of the seminary.
Attention was first drawn to the attitude of Dr. Gilbert on certain
doctrinal points through books written and published by him in
1898. One was a student's life of Jesus and the other was a
student's life of Paul. They treated of documents and theories
of theologians in a free and scientific manner — entirely too free
to be orthodox, some claimed. It was also said by some that
he had invaded the field of the New Testament. In his books
for students and in his addresses his critics say that Dr. Gilbert
takes this position :
That Christ was a human being; that the story of the Old
Testament as to the death of Christ is not authoritative ; that
the writers of the book .were imperfect; that the religion of the
Congregational church is a religion of reflection, and false
reflection at that; that Paul was an enthusiastic man, but
; imperfect, and that as to Christ's death being in itself a pardon
for sin, we must look to the words of Jesus himself for proof or
disproof of that.
A few months after the books were published Dr. Gilbert read
a paper before the Congregational ministers' meeting of Chi-
cago, which was thought by many to be exceedingly unortho-
dox. At the visitors' meeting at the seminary when Dr. Carr
made the charges he proposed that an investigating committee
be appointed to review the works of Dr. Gilbert. The com-
mittee reported unfavorably and referred the whole matter to
the board of directors of the seminary. Dr. Carr presented a
long minority report. In it he intimated that he would bring
up the charges at a meeting of the Illinois Association of Con-
gregational churches, to be held at Kewanee the following week.
The minority report of Dr. Carr was also sent to the board of
directors. The matter was brought up by Dr. Carr at the
Kewanee convention May i6th. He criticised the character ot
theology taught at the Chicago Theological Seminary in an
inferential way, not mentioning any names of institutions or men.
He was not allowed to complete his address of denunciation,
and the association adjourned without taking any actions on the
resolutions he had intended to present.
1038. ii. REBECCA, b. Feb. 10, 1775; d. 1775.
1039. iii. RHODA, b. Aug. 4, 1778; m., 1803, Cephas Sheldon^Kent, of Dor-
set, Vt. ; d. in Hannibal, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1844. He was son of
Cephas, Jr., b. 1780; d. June 4, 1874. Ch. : i. Amos, s. p. 2.
Jason, s. p. 3. Ahira, of Augusta, Mich.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 283
I04I.
V.
1042.
VI.
1043.
vii.
1044-
viu.
1045.
IX.
1040. iv. ZEORIAH, b. June 13, 1780; m., 1801, Oliver Sheldon, of Milton,
Vt. ; d. 1804.
AMOS, b. Nov. 12, 1782; m. Sophia Clary.
HANNAH, b. March 17, 1785; m., 1820, Walter Jennings, of Man-
chester, Vt. ; m., 2d, 1841, Dr. John Sargeant, of Dorset, Vt. ; d.
Dec. 27, 1849.
ZEORIAH, b. ; d. young.
HULDAH, b. ; d. young lady.
OLIVE, b. Sept. 21, 1793; m. in 1820, Joel Taylor, of Rupert, Vt.
Removed to Royal ton, N. Y. She d. Dec. 2, 1861.
1046. X. EMILY, b. May 30, 1796; m. Sept. 21, 1819, Daniel Hawks, of
Hannibal, N. Y. ; m., 2d, Oct. 2, 1851, James Stevenson, of
Hannibal; d. Aug. 31, 1862.
1047. xi. ALFRED, b. March 15, 1787; m. Sophronia Gilbert.
1048. xii. SPAFFORD, b. March 28, 1789; m. Sally C. Collins.
1049. xiii. HULDAH, b. June 19, 1791; d. June 30, 1815.
567. BENNETT FIELD (Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. April 12, 1752, Mansfield, Conn. ; m. March
10, 1774, Elizabeth Pierce, dau. of Seth, of Mansfield, Conn., b. June 2, 1748; d.
May II, 1S32. Bennett Field, son of Bennett and Elizabeth (Spafford), b. in Mans-
field, Conn. He removed in 1798 to Berlin, Washington county, Vt., where he d.,
Jan. 31, 1835. Res. Berlin, Vt.
MOLLY, b. Feb. 9, 1775; m. Zebulon Gurley, of Berlin, Vt.
BETSEY, b. Nov. 25, 1776; m. Benjamin Strickland, of Berlin, Vt.
BENNETT, b. Oct. 12, 1778; m. ^^cinda Fox.
OLIVE, b. Jan. 31, 1781; m.,y^TS^ Sawyer, of Berlin, Vt. ; removed
1050.
I05I.
11.
1052.
111.
1053-
IV.
1054.
V.
I055-
VI.
1056.
vii,
to western New York.
GURDON, b. Aug. 23, 1783; d. Sept. 27, 1793.
ALPHEUS, b. Dec. 4, 1785; m. Rhoda Emerson.
ELIZABETH, b. March 17, 1788; m. ist, Flagg, of Berlin,
Vt. ; 2d, David Nye, of Berlin, Vt.
1057. viii. SETH PIERCE, b. March 9, 1791; m. Sarah Closson and Nancy
Lane.
568. SAMUEL FIELD (Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. May 6, 1754, Mansfield, Conn.; m. Eunice Dunham,
b. 1752: d. Aug. 23, 1834. Samuel Field, son of Bennett and Elizabeth (Spafford),
b. in Mansfield, Conn. He removed in 1777 to Woodstock, Vt., where he d. Dec. 7,
18 17. He was an independent farmer and a valued citizen. Res. Woodstock, Vt.
1058. i. EUNICE, b. 1781; m. Gains Perkins, of Woodstock, Vt. ; d. June
25, 1858. aged 77.
1059. ii. CHARLOTTE, b. 1783; m. Abram P. Mather, of Woodstock, Vt. ;
d. July 9, 1856, aged 73.
569. ELIJAH FIELD (Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah. John, John, Rich-
ard. William, William), b. April 20, 1756; m. Jan. 26, 1774, Tamison Crane, dau. of
Hezekiah, of Mansfield Elijah Field, son of Bennett and Elizabeth (SpafTord), b.
in Mansfield, Conn. He settled in 1774 in Woodstock, Vt. ; in 1806 he removed with
his whole family to Houndsfield, Jefferson county, N. Y., where he d. in October,
1828. His location is still known as the Field Settlement. He was a drummer
through the Revolutionary war.
Another correspondent says: "Elijah Field, father of twelve children, lived
many years in the town of Woodstock, near the village of Woodstock, Vt., and
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1.
I06I.
ii.
1062.
iii.
1063.
iv.
io6d.
V.
1065.
vi.
moved hence m 1806 to Jefferson county, N. Y., accompanied, or followed, by his
family, some of whom were married. The eldest of the twelve children lived until
the youngest had grandchildren. Three of these twelve children were clergymen.
There are at the present time living immediate relatives of this family: John M.
Field, of Washington, D. C. ; J. Wallace Field, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; Warren
Field, Mrs. A. A. Hughes, Jennie M. Field, of Decorah, Iowa; Eugenie Smith,
Humboldt, Iowa; John Field, of East Houndsfield, N. Y. ; Mrs. A. E. Adams, of
Dwight, 111.; A. A. Mattesoon. of Hermon, N. Y."
The Field settlement in Watertown was in the west part of the town adjoining
Houndsfield. It derives its name from Elijah Field from Woodstock, Vt., who,
with a family of nine sons and three daughters, mostly of mature years and some
of them with families, settled there in 1805. Elijah, Jr., was an assistant justice
under the first constitution in 1S15, and coroner in 1S31. He d. October, 1828; res.
Woodstock, Vt., and Houndsfield, N. Y.
HEZEKIAH, b. Sept. 3, 1774; m. Keturah Ransom.
ELIJAH, b. Feb. 2. 1776; m. Esther Butler.
PHILIP CRANE, b. June 15, 177S; m. . b. in Woodstock,
Vt. He removed in 1S06 to Houndsfield, Jefferson county,
N. Y., where he d. March 15, 1S60; no issue.
LEBBEUS, b. Feb. 2, 1780; m. Eunice Warren.
THADDEUS, b. Nov. 15, 1781; m. Clarissa Norton.
TAMSON, b. Aug. 23, 1783; m., ist, Robinson, of Hounds-
field; 2d, Belgar, of Hannibal, N. Y. She was the mother
of Major Belgar, U. S.'A. ; she d. Aug. 9, 1840.
1066. vii. FILANA, b. Aug. 27, 1785; m., ist, Henry Brown; ra., 2d, George
Frisbie; d. April 16, 1864.
1067. viii. HANNAH, b. March 19, 1787; m., ist, Thomas Randall; m., 2d,
Jesse Stone, of Pillar Point.
ALPHEUS, b. Feb. 10, 1789; m. Betsey Wood.
SPAFFORD, b. April 10, 1790; m. Hannah Russagie and Alice
Moore.
SAMUEL, b. Jan. 17, 1793; m. Phoebe Allen.
BENNETT, b. June 17, 1795; m. Fanny Waite.
570. MEDAD FIELD (John, John, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. in Hatfield, Mass., Aug. 8, 1734. He settled in Whately. Mass.,
where he d. June 27, 1801. He was a Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Salmon
White's company from May 10 to July 10, 1777; in Capt. Seth Murray's company
in the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777; at Bemis Heights, and a: the capture of
Gen. Burgoyne, Oct. 17, 1777. He m.ji767 Martha, dau. of Simeon and Morton,
of Hatfield, b. March 13, 1747; d. Jan. 13, 1824, aged 76. Whately. where Medad
Field settled, was originally the northern part of the town of Hatfield. The larger
part of the first inhabitants were branches of families belonging to the parent town.
Settlements are believed to have been made as early as 1750, at the "straits" (so
called) by Joseph Belding, Sergt. John Wait, Elisha Smith, David Graves and
Joseph Scott. Here they erected the first dwelling in the territory. A few years
afterwards, houses were built on "Chestnut Plain Street" by Lieut. Ebenezer
Bardwell, Thomas Crafts and Deacon Joel Dickinson, Vv'hich were the first buildings
in the central part of the town. The permanent settlers immediately following
these were Daniel Morton, Oliver Graves, Oliver Morton, Salmon White, Moses
Dickinson, Nathan Graves, Peter Train and Edward Brown. Through all the
period of the early settlement, the people belonged in Hatfield. On April 24, 1771,
1068.
IX.
1069.
X.
1070.
xi.
I07I.
Xll.
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1.
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11.
1074.
111.
I075-
IV.
1076.
V.
1077.
VI.
1078.
vn.
the settlement was set off, and incorporated with the name of Whately; The first
meeting for the choice of town officers was held at the tavern house of Daniel Mor-
ton May 0 succeeding the incorporation. Res. VVhately, Mass.
MARTHA, b. Sept. 29, 1768; d. Oct. — , 1769.
ELIJAH, b. Aug. 12, 1770; d. Feb. 14, 1843.
MARTHA, b. July 13, 1774; d. July, 1776.
EDITHA. b. June 22, 1777; m. May 23, 1805, Luther Graves, of
Whately; d. Feb. 22, 1854.
MOSES, b. Sept. 10, 1779; d. Jan. 4, 1841.
AARON, b. Oct. 19, 1783; d. April i, 1788.
HANNAH, b. Dec. 2, 17S9; m. Elisha Warner, of Hatfield; d.
March 16, 1836; no issue.
573. ZECHARIAH FIELD (Amos, John, John, Zechariah, John, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Hatfield, Mass., Jan. 6, 1744; d. 1825. He m., ist,
Nov. 28, 1776, Mehitable, dau. of Nehemiah and Mary (Moody) Dickinson, of Hat-
field, b. Oct. 28, 1747; 2d, Rachel, dau. of Daniel and Experience (Allen) Clark, of
Sunderland, Mass., b. Aug. 30, 1748. Field, Zechariah. Private, Capt. Seth Mur-
ray's company. Col. Ezra May's regiment; enlisted Sept. 20. 1777; discharged Oct.
14, 1777; service, i month, travel included, on an expedition to Saratoga. Res.
Sunderland, Mass.
1079. i- SETH, b. .
576. ZENAS FIELD (Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Aug. 10, 1753; m. March 12, 1778, Sarah Bur-
roughs, b. 1757; d. Sept. 10, 1810; m., 2d, June 11, 1 81 1, Lydia Cathcart, of Whately ;
she d. May 2, 1S50, aged 85. Zenas Field, son of Eliakim and Esther (Graves),
b. in Hatfield, Mass. He removed in 1760 to Whately, where he d. July 3, 1819.
He was a Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Israel Waite's company, April 20, 1775;
in Capt. Salmon White's from May 10 to July 10, 1777; in Capt. Seth Murray's
company, Aug. i, 1777, and was in the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777; at
Bemis Heights and capture of General Burgoyne, October, 1777.
Field, Zenas (also given Ezenous), Hatfield, Capt. Israel Chapin's co. of Minute-
men, Col. John bellows' regt., which marched April 20, 1775, in response to the
alarm of April 19, i775; service to April 26, 1775, 7 days, also Capt. Israel Chapin's
(2d) CO., Col. John Fellows' (Sth) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted
April 27, 1775; also order for bounty cost or its equivalent in money dated Dorches-
ter, Dec. 6, 1775; also private, Capt. Salmon White's co.. Col. David Wells' regt.;
marched May 10, 1777; discharged July 10, 1777; service, 2 mos., 10 days, travel
included, on expedition to Ticonderoga; also Cap. Seth Murray's co., Col. Ezra
May's reg. ; enlisted Sep. 20, 1777; discharged Oct. iS, 1777; service, i mo., travel
included, on expedition to Saratoga.— Massachusetts State Revolutionery
Records.
Zenas, of Whately, yeoman ; wife, Lydia; dated June 12, 1S16. Daughters:
Lydia Judd, Rhoda Burroughs, Sarah Field and Ester Field. Sons: Orange Field,
John Field, Zenas Field. Executors approved July 13, 1S19. — Franklin Co.
Probate.
He d. July 3, 1819. Res. Whately, Mass.
LYDIA, b. Sept. 17, 1782; d. June 12, 1787.
ORANGE, b. Dec. 2, 1784; d. June 14, 1787.
JOHN, b. Sept. 10, 1786; d. May 27, 1787.
LYDIA, b. June 8, 1788; m. Dec. 6, 1810, Eli Judd, of Northamp-
ton; she d, Dec. 23. 1875; removed to Huntsburg. Ohio.
1080.
1.
I08I.
ii.
1082.
iii,
1083.
iv.
286 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1085.
VI.
1086.
vii.
1087.
viii.
1088.
ix.
1089.
X.
10S4. V. ORANGE, b. Feb. 22, 1790; m. Rhoda Graves, Esther Collins and
Hulda Boynton Tyler.
JOHN, b. Oct. 10, 1792; m. Abigail Warner.
RHODA, b. Nov. 21, 1794; m. Oct. 14, 1813, Joel Burrows, of
Williamsburg.
ZENAS, b. Sept. 22, 1796; m. Chloe Drake.
SARAH, b. Nov. 11, 1798; m. Nov. 23, 1820, Heber Eggleston.
ESTHER, b. Sept. 21, 1800; m. John Bridgman, of Northampton;
she d. July 22, 1859.
1090. xi. THREE children; d. young.
580. JOHN FIELD (Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., Aug. 25, 1760; m. in 1789, Lucy Look, of
Conway, b. 1768 in Edgartown, Mass.; d. July 29, 1854. He moved from Hatfield
to Conway. The territory of Conway originally belonged to Deerheld, and had no
settlers previous to 1763. During that year Cyrus Rice became the first settler,
and his daughter Beulah, born the next year, was the first child born in the town.
Other early settlers were Israel Gates, Ebenezer AUis, Consider Arms, Elias
Dickinson, Jonathan Whitney, Thomas French, Israel Wilder, Elisha Amsden,
Solomon Field and John Boyden, whose son John, was the first male child born
in Conway. Deerfield, Grafton, Barre, Leicester and Rutland furnished the first
settlers. On June 16, 1767, "Southwest," as it was known, was incorporated as a
town with the name of Conway. The first town meeting was held at the house of
Thomas French, Aug. 24 of the same year, when Thomas French, Consider Arms
and Samuel Wells were chosen selectmen, and Consider Arms, clerk. At a meeting
held at Joseph Catlin's, three weeks later, measures were taken to procure preach-
ing, and "to purchase law books." A committee was also appointed to find the
center of the town, with reference to building a meeting house. The committee
made a report at a subsequent meeting, which was "excepted," but it was not until
after much contention, and the passage of nearly two years, that the site was fixed
uDon — about eighty rods south of the present Congregational church. Dec. 28,
1767, the first appropriation was made for a public school, to be kept five months by
"a. dame," which dame, Ebenezer Allis, Nathaniel Field and Benjamin Pulsifer
were instructed to provide. There was no schoolhouse until 1773, when one was
built a few rods northeast of the meeting house. The annual appropriation of
money for schools, for the first six or eight years, was about ten pounds. In 1774,
thirty pounds were voted, but the next year no appropriation was made, doubtless
in consequence of war. This is the only instance, however, of failure to provide
annually for schooling. The amount has been increased, from year to year, until,
in 1854, the appropriation amounted to $1,200 for public schools, with an additional
provision of scholarships in the academy, bestowed upon the most deserving pupil
selected from the common schools. The town is divided into fifteen school districts.
A select school has been maintained in the town for many years, and was taught
through twenty-nine terms, by John Clary. In 1853, a handsome building was
erected by subscription, and is now occupied by a large and flourishing school.
The first meeting house, to which reference has already been made, was erected
during the summer of 1769, but remained for a long time unfinished, except with a
pulpit and a pew for the family of the minister. The internal arrangements of the
house were not completed within twenty years. As the house was not warmed, a
lodge was constructed within a short distance, at which a prodigious fire was kept
on Sundays that was resorted to in the morning and at noon. Previous to the
erection of the building, the town meetings were usually held at the houses of
FIELD GENEALOGY. 287
I09I.
1.
1092.
11.
IC93-
iii.
1094.
IV.
1095.
V.
Jonathan Whitney, near where Charles Parsons lived, and Capt. French ; while the
religious meetings were held at the houses of Jonathan Whitney, Nathaniel Field
and Joseph Catlin.
The Franklin County Probate Records have this: Lucy of Conway. 1854,
Aug. 22, will filed. Dau., Nancy F. Page; Lucinda, wife of Franklin Childs,
Sons: William and John.
He d. Jan. 19, 1824. Res. Conway, Mass.
POLLY, b. April 27, 1790; d. Oct. 25, 1S16.
NANCY, b. Oct. 30, 1791; m. January, 1820, Elijah Page; shed.
Dec. 2, 1856; removed from Conway to Ballston Spa, N. Y.
WILLIAM, b. Dec. 8, 1793; m. Submit Hamilton.
JOHN, b. June 28, 1796; m. Fidelia Nash.
LUCINDA, b. June, 8, 1798; m. July 24, 1828, Franklin Childs, of
Conway; she d. March 4, 1868. They resided in Conway and had
one child, Justus, b. Sept. 11, 1831; d. Sept. 7, 1865; he m.
Sept. 2, 1856, Susan I. Brown.
1096. vi. PRUDENCE, b. Oct. 20, 1800; d, Nov. 30, 1829.
1097. vii. EDITHA, b. May 6, 1803; d. Aug. i, 1804.
582. DAVID FIELD (Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Hatfield, Mass., April 11, 1764; m. Sept. 20, 1790, Tabitha
Clark, dau. of Elisha and Hannah (Hopkins) of Harwich, b. Nov. i, 1771: d. Nov. 6,
1847. He was b. in Hatfield, and soon after his marriage moved to Conway, and
with his brother John settled in that town. He was a farmer all his life.
On the conquest of Canada the times were ripe tor changes. In 1763 the terri-
tory of Conway was surveyed and allotted to the owners in severalty. Thirty acres
were laid to the common; 100 acres were reserved in the center for the "minister's
lot"; with these arrangements were drawn 149 lots. In this division Daniel Field
drew lot No. 6 and had 204 acres.
David of Conway. Feb. i, 1848, filed. David, Jr., administrator. Sons: Otis,
Almeron, David Jr., Eliakim, Oliver. Daughters: Lucretia, Esther Haskell,
Louisa Wells, Sophia Childs, Tabitha Graves. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. Jan. 12, 1848; res. Conway, Mass.
1098. i. SALLY, b. March 27, 1791; m. Jan. 13, 1813, Capt. Otis Childs, ot
Conway, b. 1790; d. March 22, 1864; she d. in Conway, Oct. 25,
1816.* Ch. : I. Edward, b. Dec. 31, 1813; m. May 6, 1841, Sarah
Ann Adams, and May 6, 1852, Emily Porter. 2. William S., b.
May 28, 1816; m. June 4, 1839, Lydia Frary; res. Montreal,
Canada. 3. Henry, b. Jan. 28, i8i8; m. Mary A. Graves, Esther
L. Kinsley and Mary D. Phillips; res. Northampton. 4. Sally
Field, b. Dec. 21, 1819; m, Oct. 5, 1842, Samuel W. Barker; res.
Heath.
1099. ii. LOUISA, b. May 6, 1793; d. June 23, 1798.
iioo. iii. ELIAKIM, b. Oct. 26, 1794; m. Clarissa Ross.
iioi. iv. SOPHIA, b. July 14, 1796; m. April, 1818, Henry Childs, of Hat-
field, b. May 15, 1796 in Rutland, Vt. ; d. March 18, 1876. She d.
Feb. 9, 1864. Res. Canandaigua, N. Y. Ch. : i. Louisa H., b.
March 15, 1819; m. Charles Mosher; d. Dec. ii, 1840. 2. Hannah
Field, b. March 13, 1821; m. Eliot Green; d. April 22, 1873;
2 ch. Res. Canandaigua. 3. Henry H., b. March 20, 1825; m.
Mary K. Amoux ; 3 ch. Res. New York City.
♦Town Clerk's record.
288 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1 1 02.
V.
1 103.
vi.
1 104.
vii.
HANNAH, b. March 29, 1798; d. Jan. 20, 1815.
OLIVER, C. b. March 9, 1800; m. Laura Nash and Electa
Sanderson.
LOUISA, b. Nov. 4, 1S02; m. Jan. 14, 1823, Elisha Wells, of Hat-
field,; shed. Aug. i, 1878; hed. Aug. 8, 1873; res. Hatfield, Mass.
Ch. : I. D.avid Field, b. Jan. 12, 1824; m. Dec. i, 1849, Harriet
Dickinson; d. May 27, 1866, in Hatfield; 2 ch. 2. Eunice W.,.
b. March 20, 1S25; m. Col. Henry W. Banks; d. Feb. 6, 1861 in
St. Paul; 4 ch. 3. Otis C, b. Oct. 3, 182S; m. Lucilia Loomis;.
, d. July 24, 1885; 2 ch. 4. Hannah G., b. Sept. 29, 1829; unm. 5.
J^ Joseph Si,, b. April 17, 1842; m. Emma R. Phelps; res. Hatfield;
*^ 2 ch. 6. Daniel W., b. April 17, 1842; m. Hannah A. Belden;.
was in Civil war in 52d Regt. Mass. Vols.; res. Hatfield; i ch.
1105. viii. OTIS. b. Aug. 5, 1804; m. Harriet M. Markle.
1106. ix. LUCRETIA, b. Dec. 21, 1805; d. unm. Feb. 28, 1851.
1 107. X. DAVID, b. Oct. 24, 1807; m. Angeline Sylvester and Mary
Margison.
1 108. xi. ALMERON, b. Aug. 15, 1809, m. Mary C. Bassford and Rose
Finn.
1109. xii. ESTHER GRAVES, b. May 6, 1811; m. Feb. 9, 1832, Edward
Haskell; she d. Feb. S, 1872. He was of Kendall, and d. in
Deerfield July 3, 1S60. Ch. ■ i. Henry Clark, b. Oct. 25, 1837;
m. Rhoda McClellan ; res. Deerfield. 2. John Gamber, b. April
2, 1845; m. Ruth I. Ellis; res. Hennepin, 111.
mo. xiii. TABITHA CLARK, b. Feb. 12, 1814; m. Nov. 9, 1836^ Levi
Graves, 2d; she d. July 25, 1876. He was b. Jan. 13, 1810, at
Hartford, Conn.; d. Oct. 28, 1867. Ch. • i. Louisa Field, b.
Oct. 16, 1838; d. Dec. 7, 1850. 2. Myron Clark, b. June 13, 1841;.
m. Hattie C. Davis; res. Springfield; 4 ch. 3. Maria Catherine,
b. June 13, 1S41 ; m. Charles H. Ouimby and Edwin F. Putnam,
s. p. 4. Mary Louise, b. Feb. iS, 1S57; was a missionary under-
A. B. C. F. M. to Japan.
5S5. JOHN FIELD (John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John, John, Richard..
William, William), b. Amherst, Mass., May 18, 1740. He removed in 1798 to Brat-
tleboro, Vt., where hed. Jan. 15, 1811. He m., ist, Jan. 15, 1767, Elizabeth Hender-
son, of ; d. April 6, 1783 ; m., 2d, 1785, Rachel, dau. of and Waite and
widow of Wells, b. 1753: d. in Lancaster, N. H., Aug. 29, 1829. Res. Brattle-
JOHN, b. 1768; m. Silence Lincoln.
SALLY, b. 1770; m. Feb. 10, 1791, Joseph Smith, of Hadley, and
removed to Lancaster, N. H.
ESTHER, b. 1773.
ELIZABETH, bap. March 17, 1775; m. Watson Crosby, of Brat-
tleboro, Vt., and removed to Lancaster, N. H.
ABEL WAITE, bap. Nov. 4, 1787; m. Sally Stebbins.
DAVID, b. Nov. 10, 1788; m. Patty Wood.
PAMELIA, bap. July 25, 1790; m. Simpson Goodenough, of Brat-
tleboro; d. Jan. 28, 1826.
MOSES, b. Feb. 22, 1792; d. Feb. 17, 1S64.
AARON, bap. June i, 1794; d. May 23, 1843.
CLARISSA, b. Sept. 25, 1795; m. June 10, 1817, Hiram Chamber-
boro, Vt.
iiii.
i.
1112.
11.
III3-
iii.
1114.
IV.
III5-
V.
1116.
VI.
1117.
VU.
1118.
viii,
1119.
IX.
1 120.
X,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 289
lain Kingsbury, of Guilford, Vt. ; removed to Wadsworth, O. She
d. March 21, 1853. He was b. July 21, 1794; d. Waymouth, Ohio,
Nov. iS, 1867; was an axe manufacturer. Ch. : i. George
Kingsbury, deceased. 2. Wallace K. , his son; address Waterloo,
Iowa. 2- Mrs. Sophie Kingsbury Reeder, Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
children of Mrs. Reeder, Charles, Spokane, Wash., George and
Herman, Craig, Mont. 4. Helen M., b. Dec. 18, 1826; m. Oct.
18, 1849. Thomas W. Painter, b. Jan. 23, 1S20; d. Aug. 9, 1886;
was a farmer and miller; she res. at Galva, 111. Ch. : (a) Rev.
Hobart Kingsbury Painter, b. Aug. 8, 1850; res. Galva, 111. (b)
Winthrop Downs Painter, b. June 2, 1852, is an attorney , res.
Binghamton, N. Y.
591. EBENEZER FIELD (John, Zechariah. John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard. William, William), b. Amherst, Mass., ^Slarch 22, 1752; m. in Conway,
Oct. 31, 17S2, Sarah Gould.
Field. Ebenezer, Amherst. Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Benjamin Rug-
gles Woodbridge's (25th) regt. ; receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 22,
1775; also private, same co. and regt.; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted
May 2, 1775; service, 3 mos. 7 days; also company return (probably October. 1775);
also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money. Dated Prospect Hill, Oct. 25,
1775. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Amherst, Mass. , and removed to Phelps, N. Y.
592. CORPORAL SAMUEL FIELD (John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), bap. Amherst, Mass., Jan. 20, 1754; he settled in
Conway; removed to Brattleboro, Vt., where he d. ; hem. June 15, 1779, Miriam,
dau. of John and Sarah (Clapp) Nash, of Hatfield, b. 1759; d. .
Field, Samuel, Amherst. Private. Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Ruggles
Woodbridge's regt., which marched to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 7 days;
also Capt. Noadiah Leonard's co.. Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's (25thj regt. ;
company receipt for advance pay for i mo., dated Cambridge, June 24, 1775; also
Corporal, same co. and regt. ; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted April 27, 1775;
service, 3 mos. 10 days; also company return (probably October, 1775); also Cor-
poral, Capt. Moses Harvey's co.. Col. David Wells' regt.; engaged May 10, 1777:
discharged July 10, 1777; service, 3 mos. 10 days, travel included, in northern
department; roll dated Montague. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Brattleboro. Vt.
LUCRETIA, b. ; m. Samuel Herrick, of Brattleboro.
SAMUEL, b. May 11, 1787; m. Jerusha Graves.
ELECTA, b. ; m. Jonathan Horton, of Brattleboro.
LUTHER, b. , 1786; m. Rachel Austin and Sarah P. Hubbard.
LUCINDA, b. ; m. Jonathan Horton, of Brattleboro.
MIRIAM, b. ; d .
CAROLINE, b. ; d. March, 1876.
TYLER, b. ; m. Fanny Dean, Mary Dean and Isabella Cun-
ningham.
POLLY, b. .
DEXTER, b. in Brattleboro; he went to sea; d. unm.
ELIZABETH, b. ; d. Sept. 25, 1877, aged 70.
JONATHAN FIELD (John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of John and Abigail (Boltwood), b. in Amherst,
Mass. ; bap. Dec. 9. 1759. He m. Sally Smith; d. ; m., 2d, Johnson.
II2I.
II22.
11.
II23.
iii.
1124.
IV.
1125.
V.
II26.
VI.
II27.
vii.
II28.
viii.
1 129.
ix.
1130.
X.
II3I.
XI.
594.
JON.
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1132. i. LUCY, b. Sept. 23, 1791; m. Nov. 19, 1812, Moses Dickinson
Cooley, of Amherst; d. Sept. 5, 1851.
597. REV. SAMUEL FIELD (David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Sept. 14, 1743; m. April 26, 1769,
Sarah Childs, dau. of Samuel, b. 1742; d. Dec. 31, 1831. Samuel Field, son of David
and Thankful (Taylor), b. in Deerfield, Mass. He graduated at Yale College in
1762, when he commenced the study of divinity with the Rev. Jonathan Ashley, of
Deerfield. That not being to his taste, he subsequently entered the oftice of Daniel
Jones, Esq. , of Hmsdale, N. H. , as a student at law. After being admitted to the
bar he returned to Deerfield and was for some time engaged in mercantile business.
In 1 771 he removed to Greenfield ad opened a law ofiice and engaged also in trade.
In 1774 he removed to Conway and passed two years upon a farm (the house in
which he resided was in 1S80 still standing), when he returned to Deerfield, where
he resided until May, 1794, when he returned to Conway and continued to
pursue his profession. In November, 1798, he received a stroke of palsy which
deprived him of speech and much impaired his constitution. He had four fits
of epilepsy within the year previous to his death, in the last of which he
expired, Sept. 17, 1800, aged 57, being until three hours before in as good
health and possession of his faculties as at any period of the two preceding
years. In his person he exceeded the ordinary height of man, thick set, without
inclining to corpulency. His face exhibited a relaxed appearance, and his natural
countenance an unusual gravity and sternness, but when enlivened by conversation
a complacency and thorough good nature that was highly pleasing, and could
scarcely fail of persuading a stranger of the excellence of his heart. He was care-
less in pecuniary matters as well as m dress, but in domestic life was much beloved
by all. The hearts of parents were grateful for a son so worthy, brethren and sisters
participated in the happiness which his distinguished virtues inspired ; the children
of his love found in him a faithful instructor and friend; and the wife of his youth
every joy and the balm of every sorrow. His naturally pacific disposition led
him to regret the late war with its multiplied evils resulting to all parts of social and
political society. He did not take an active part in the Revolution. No man rejoiced
more sincerely in the establishment of the independence of his country, nor had the
republican institutions which were the result of that glorious struggle any more
heartfelt friend. His republicanism did not rest in name only, it pervaded his whole
character ; it appeared in plainness and aflfability of manners, contempt of show
and parade, and at the frivolous distinctions of society which fascinate so many
little minds that are either slavish or despotic ; in his love of courtesy and abhor-
rence of all ecclesiastical establishments or the slightest infringements of the right
of conscience of any and all persons or creed whatsoever. He represented the town
of Deerfield in the general court several years, and was a member of the convention
that adopted the Constitution of the United States, besides holding various other
oflBces. In religious matters he was a firm believer in the doctrines of Swedenborg
and Sandeman and was known as a Sandemanian upon which he lectured and wrote
quite a treatise upon them which is embodied in his work. He was also quite a
political, prose and poetical writer. Part of his writings were collected and pub-
lished in 1 818 by the late Rev. Rodolphus Dickinson, of Deerfield. His religion was
not an idle fancy that dwelt upon the exterior of the mind ; it was an enlivening
and active faith in that Gospel which has brought life and immortality to light; a
repentance that worked by love and purified the heart ; a holiness of life without
which no man can see the Lord, and a charity without which he was assured he was
nothing. He coveted no man's gold, or silver, or apparel. He possessed a mind
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always contented with his present condition, and he could tread with equal tenor
the adverse or prosperous path. He was just and upright in all his dealings; quiet
and peaceable, full of compassion ; and ready to do good to all men according to
his abilities and opportunities. His faults were such as might exist in the best of
men ; in those faults there was no mixture of avarice, deceit, hypocrisy, intrigue,
ferocity, despotism or want of feeling for the distresses of mankind. He deserves
the honors of a virtuous and well spent life, and they will surely be paid to his
memory when the false distinctions of society shall be swept into oblivion. The
rough and rugged paths of life through which he traveled contributed to prepare
him for that higher existence, where no trouble shall pass across his peaceful
breast. He m. April 26, 1769, Sarah, dau, of Deacon Samuel and Sarah (Wright)
Childs of Deerfield, b. Sept. 27, 1742; d. Dec. 31, 1831, aged 89 years, 3 mos., 4
davs.
A MODEST REQUEST.
BY REV. SAMUEL FIELD.
Heaven indulge me to request
What will make a mortal blest,
Give me first an honest soul,
Subject to no base control,
To no sordid vice a slave,
But to deeds of virtue brave.
So much learning as to rise
'Bove a pedant vainly wise.
So much wisdom as to see
What I am, and ought to be;
And discern the good from ill,
That my circle I may fill;
So much courage as to choose
What is right— the wrong refuse;
So much honor to disdain
Thoughts and actions that are mean;
Health, my powers to employ
And my portion well enjoy.
Grant me next a virtuous wife.
Sweet companion of my life,
In my joys to take a share,
Partner too in every care.
But from pride and meanness free.
Cheerful to my friend and me.
Pure in manner, and discreet.
In her dress and person neat,
One, who innocently gay,
Can my vapors charm alway;
Ever studious how to please,
Not perversely apt to tease;
In her temper calm and meek,
Who can hear as well as speak.
To my humor always kind,
To my foibles seeming blind,
Yet with faithful hints of love.
Wise my follies to reprove.
In my pains to give relief
And the flatter off my grief.
Babes that prattle round and smile
Shall the heavy hours beguile
Blooming like the vernal flowers.
Ripening into manly powers
Into virtue ripening too.
As to manly age they grow.
Let me ask a handsome plat,
Not too small nor very great.
292 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Watered with meand'ring stream,
Blest with Phebus' rising beams,
Let there be a shady grove
Where the muse and I may rove.
Here devotion too shall come,
For the muse will give her room.
I would have a verdant mead,
Where a cow or two may feed;
And a little rising ground,
Where my flocks may sport around.
An enclosure for my trees.
Where variety will please;
And a garden set with flowers,
To amuse my vacant hours.
Filled with various kinds of fruit,
That my health or taste may suit.
A well cultivated field
Which a competence shall yield,
Not to fill a miser's hoard.
But to feed my little board.
Entertain a friend or so,
Something on the poor bestow.
Give me too a prettj' seat,
Not superb, but simply neat.
Where to lead a harmless life.
Free from envy and from strife.
Till I close this mortal scene
And a better life begin,
(irant me but these, no other prize
I ask or wish below the skie.s.
He d. Sept. 17, iSoo; res. Deerfield, Greenfield and Conway, Mass.
ROBERT RUFUS, b. Aug. 22, 1771; m. Patty Hoyt.
SAMUEL EDWARDS, b. Oct. 2, 1773; d. Sept. 1775.
SAMUEL EDWARDS, b. July 31, -1775: m. Clarissa Clapp.
SARAH, b. April 11, 1777; d. Sept., 1778.
SARAH, b. June 12, 1779; d. unm. Oct. 8, 1841.
GEORGE PLUMB, b. July 22, 1781; m. Sylvia Hawks.
TIRZA, b. Feb. 13, 1784; m. Crow, of Halifax, N. S.
599. DOCTOR DAVID FIELD (David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., May 4, 1747; m- December,
1771, Hannah Childs, dau. of Samuel, b. 1749; d. Sept. 22, 1815. David Field, son
of David and Thankful (Taylor), b. in Deerfield, Mass. He graduated at Yale
College, a physician, and settled in Conway, Mass., where all his children were
born. In 1796 he removed to Greenbush, N. Y., where he followed his profession.
In May, 1806, he removed to Albany; in 1815 to Geneva, N. Y., and continued his
practice for a few years; d. Sept. i, 1837, aged ninety. He d. April i, 1837. Res.
Conway, Mass., and Geneva. N. Y.
1140. i. WILLIAIM, b. in 1775; m. P'llana Field.
1141. ii. SARAH, b. in 1779; ^- John Epes, of Albany. Removed to
Geneva, N. Y. , where she d. July 29, 1859.
1142. iii. DAVID, b. July 25, 1782; m. Hannah Crittenden and Electa Hast-
ings.
1143. iv. FILANA, b. in 17S5; m., ist. May, 1817, Caleb C. Moody, of
Albany; m., 2d, Aug. 31, 1826, Erastus Hastings, of Hatfield,
Buffalo and Detroit, Mich.
1144. V. JA^NIES, b. July i, 1787; m. Cynthia Hathaway.
1145. vi. SOPHIA, b. 1790; d. unm., Geneva, N. Y., July 12, 1812.
II33-
!•
II34-
11.
1135.
111.
1 136.
IV.
II37-
v.
1138.
VI.
II39-
Vll.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 293
6oi. OLIVER FIELD (David, Samuel. Samuel, Zechariah, John, John. Rich-
ard, William. William), b. Deerfield. Mass., Sept. 13, 1751; m- June 20, 1772. Ketura
Hoyt, dau. of Jonathan and Experience (Childs), of Cheapside, b. Feb. 18, 1753; d.
January, 1814. Oliver Field, son of David and Thankful (Taylor) (33), b. in Deer-
field, Mass., Sept. 13, 1751. During the Revolutionary war he was engaged in mer-
chandise and the manufacture of nails. About 1783 he removed to Conway, and
engaged in farming. His house was located where the line between Conway and
Deerfield passed through it, and some of his children were born in each town. In
1796 he removed to Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., where he carried on the manu-
facture of nails in connection with farming. In 18 19 he sold his farm and removed
to Sodus, N. Y., where he d. May 11, 1S21. He was something of a poet, and a
few of his pieces are preserved. A few years after he removed to the state of New
York it was subject to malarial fevers and other diseases and was visited with
several epidemics, from which his family were sufferers with others. In the an-
nouncement of the death of his wife, in January. 1814, he wrote there were not well
people enough to properly care for the sick. He was taken sick on returning from
the funeral of his wife, and was not able to leave his bed for several weeks. He
was for a short time out as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was assistant to
his father as commissary general at the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777. He
d. May 11, 1S21. Res. Sodus, N. Y.
1146. i. POLLY, b. Nov. 18, 1772: m., 1S02, Oliver Gustin, of Phelps. She
d. Dec. 15, 1S51.
1147. ii. RUFUS, b. Jan. 17, 1774; m. Lydia Davis and Mrs. Hannah Web-
ster. '
HORACE, b. Nov. 2, 1775; m. Myers.
JONATHAN, b. 1777; m. .
HANNAH, b. Jan. 7, 1779; m. Asher Warner, of Sodus. He was
killed in the battle of Sodus Point, July 12, 1813. She d.
August, 1810.
OLIVER, b. 17S1; m. Mrs. Olive Crandall Keys.
CHILD, b. 17S3; d. same year.
CEPHAS, b, Sept. 17, 1785 : m. Elizabeth Taylor.
THANKFUL, b. Jan. 23, 1787; m. March 10, 1S05, Charles Joslyn,
of Phelps. She d. there April 17. 1872.
RUDOLPHUS, b. July 10, 1790; m. Rachel Williams.
EXPERIENCE, b. 1792; m. 1813, David Moorehouse, of Sodus.
They had a large family. She d. September, 1S32.
1157. xii. CHARLES, b. Nov. 21, 1796; m. Polly Hewett.
602. MAJOR ELIHU FIELD (David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Oct. 16, 1753; m. Dec. 29,
1774, Hepzibah Dickinson, dau. of Captain Thomas. Elihu Field, son of David
and Thankful (Taylor), b. in Deerfield, Mass. He was interested with his father in
business and real estate, which from depreciation and losses during the Revolution,
left him at its close poor and without means. After settling up his affairs as well
as he could he removed, in March. 1787, to Guilfordj Vt., and settled near
the center of the town. In 1791 he built a house and set out maple shade trees;
the house is still standing, and some of the trees. On this purchase stood the
old Tory tavern, kept by Hezekiah Stowell, who being a Yorker, so-called,
went with others to Bainbridge, N. Y., on to land appropriated by the state of New
1 148.
111.
1 149.
iv.
1 1 50.
V.
1151.
vi.
II52.
vii.
II53-
viu,
1154-
ix.
II55-
X.
1156.
xi.
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York for its adherents, on the settlement of the difficulties between that state and
Vermont, in 1791, regarding the validity of the New Hampshire grants. New York
claiming the territory as belonging to the grant of the Duke of York, Vermont pay-
ing to the state of New York $30,000 in full for her claim to the present state of
Vermont. He was a soldier of the Revolution, on what was called the alarm, which
was to give notice of the approach of any enemy and to look after Tories. He was
at the battle of Bennington. Aug. 16, 1777, assisting his father, who was commis-
sary general, under General Stark, but was not in the engagement. He was a
prominent man in Guilford, holding various town offices. A major of the first
organized militia of Vermont ; a justice of the peace for twenty years ; United States
deputy marshal for taking the census of 18 10, and United States assessor of internal
revenue at the time of his death. He was a firm and liberal supporter of religion,
but favored the doctrine of the Church of England. He was somewhat positive in
his opinions, but had very few enemies. He was often called upon to settle dis-
putes between persons in religious matters. He was a man who was not desirous
of great riches, but was satisfied with his situation in life, and was charitable to all
in need. In 1803 tie sold at the center to Jeremiah Graves, from Conway, Mass.,
and removed to the east part of the town, where he died.
Field, Elihu. Private, Capt. Amasa Sheldon's company. Col. Elisha Porter's
regiment; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged July 18, 1777; service, fifteen days,
travel included, on expedition to northern department. Roll sworn to at Deerfield.
— Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Hepsibah was dau. of Capt. Thomas and Prudence (Smith) Dickinson, of Deer-
field, b. May 10, 1753; d. March 30, 1843. She was a woman of good abilities, and
was conversant with the early history of the country, with the early Indian wars,
and most of the events of the war of the Revolution, and was acquainted with many
of its noted persons, and could give in detail many of its most interesting events.
She took great interest in the prosperity of the country. She could adapt herself
to any society, old or young, and had the respect of all who knew her.
He d. Aug. 23, 1 8 14. Res. Guilford, Vt.
1158. i. GRATIA, b. April 11, 1776; m. Dec. 9,1799, Thomas Lynde, of
Guilford; in 1822 removed to Geneva, N. Y. ; about 1850 to New
Haven, Oswego county, N. Y., where she d. Sept. 3, i860; no
issue.
1159. ii. RECTINA, b. Nov. 6, 1777; m. Dec. 3, 1795, Richardson Houghton,
of Guilford; in 1842 removed to Milwaukee, Wis. She d. Aug.
23, 1846, while on a visit to her daughter, in Worthington, Mass;
interred in Milwaukee. Richardson Houghton, son of Edward
and Lucretia, b. in Holden, Mass., April 16, 1774. (His father
came to Guilford, Vt., the same year, where he d. before 1783.)
He removed, in 1835, to Charlemont, Mass. ; in 1844 to Mil-
waukee, Wis., where he d. Jan. 30, 1846. Ch. : i. Gratia Field, b.
Sept. 18, 1796; m. Jan. i, 1822, Emory Greenleaf, of Guilford; d.
in Milwaukee, Dec. 2, 1871. 2. Royall, b. Feb. 12, 1798. 3.
Rectina, b. Nov. 23, 1800; m. Thomas Lynde, of Guilford; d.
May 29, 1864. 4. Richardson, b. July 4, 1804. 5. Augusta
Lucretia, b. March 26, 18 10; d. Sept. 9, 181 3. 6. George W., b.
July 30, 1812; d. Sept. 5, 1813. 7. Miranda A., b. Dec. 21, 1S15;
m., ist, J. W. White, of Heath, Mass.; m., 2d, Timothy N.
Brown, of Worthington, Mass. ; m., 3d, Samuel Ball.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 295
1 1 60.
111.
II6I.
iv.
II62.
V.
II63.
vi.
Royall Houghton, son of Richardson and Rectma (Field), b.
in Guilford, Vt, Feb. 12, 1798; settled in 1820, in Halifax, Vt.,
in 1824; removed to Whitingham. Vt. ; in 1831 to Troy, N. Y. ;
in 1834 to New York; engaged in merchandise; was burned out
in the great fire, December, 1836; afterward was engaged in the
broker business with Edward Houghton, Jr. He gave up the
broker business and engaged in real estate, in which he was
successful. He d. at St. Augustine, Fla., while on a visit for his
health, March 22, 1833. His remains were brought to New York
and interred in Greenwood cemetery. He m., ist, June 6, 1822,
Sarah Ferrill, of Wilmington, Vt., b. 1815; d. Nov. 14, 1850; m.,
2d, Virginia, dau. of John and Ann (Smith) Patton, of New
York. Ch. : (a) Charles H., b. March 6, 1823. (b) Frank R..
b. March 7, 1852. (c) Herbert, b. June 26, 1853. (d) Ella Isabel,
b. Aug. 2, 1858; d. July 3, 1861. (e) a daughter, b. ; d.
young,
HENRY, b. Aug. 18, 1779; m. Lucinda Frisbee.
ELIHU, b. June 6, 1781; m. Parmelia Burt.
PLINY ASHLEY, b. June 2. 1783; m. Olivia Babcock.
MATILDA KING, b. May 14, 1785; m. July 11, 1811, Robert Stev-
ens, of Camillus, N. Y. His father was one of the celebrated
"Indians," who made tea in Boston Harbor. They removed to
Jordan, N. Y., where she d. April 13, 1858. Ch. : i. Mrs. C. C.
Gorham, Pawnee City, Neb. 2. Alonzo Robert Stevens, b.
March 7, 1S18: m. Dec. 15, 1847, Harriet Adelle Farley, b. April
6, 1822; d. Feb. 6, 1894. He d. Feb. 2, 1899. Res. Oswego,
N. Y. Ch. : (a) Herbert Alonzo Stevens, b. Oct. 10, 1848 ; d.
April 30, 1868. (b) Frances Adelle Stevens, b. April 27, 1S50.
(c) Mary Alice Stevens, b. Feb. i, 1852; d. Sept. 23, 1S68.
(d) Robert Benton Stevens, b. Feb. 28, 1854. (e) Harriet Eliza-
beth Stevens, b. Dec. 15, 1856. She is a teacher in the Oswego
State Normal school, (f) Beecher Stevens, b. Oct. 6. 1S58.
(g) Gratia Stevens, b. Feb. 20, 1861 ; d. Feb. 23, 1863. (h) Florence
Grace Stevens, b. March 13, 1863.
1164. vii. FILANA, b. Dec. 12, 1787; m., 1813, William Field, of Albany
and Geneva, N. Y. ; d. in Cleveland, O., Jan. 5, 1857.
1165. viii. CHARLOTTE, b. Oct. 29, 1791; d. Aug. 22, 1794.
1166. ix. CHARLOTTE, b. Feb. 8. 1795 ; d. in Belleville, Iowa. Nov. 5, 1870.
607. CAPTAIN OLIVER FIELD (Moses, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Nov. 15, 1752; m. Nov.
4, 1773, Ann Cooley, dau. of Caleb and Mary, of Longmeadow; d. Aug. 23, 1831.
Field, Oliver, Springfield. Private, Maj. Andrew Colton's company, of minute-
men, which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775;
service to May 4, 1775, two weeks, one day. Also descriptive list of nine months'
men, raised in Hampshire county, agreeable to resolve of June 9, 1779, ^^ returned
by Noah Goodman, superintendent; Captain Burt's company. Colonel Bliss' regi-
ment ; age, twenty-six years ; stature, five feet ten inches ; complexion, dark ; hair,
dark ; engaged from town of Springfield ; delivered to Lieut. William Storey. Also
list of men returned as received of Noah Goodman, superintendent for Hampshire
county, by Justin Ely, commissioner, at Springfield, Oct. 19, 1779. Also Captain
Flower's company ; entered service July 13 (also given July 15th and July loth).
296 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1779; discharged April 13, 1780; term, nine months. Also private, Capt. Samuel
Flower's company. Col. John Greaton's Third regiment; muster roll for August,
1779, dated Camp Highlands. Also muster roll for September, 1779, dated Camp
Bedford. Also muster roll for October, 1779, dated Camp near Peekskill. Also mus-
ter roll for November and December, 1779, dated Contmental Village. Also (late)
Captain Flower's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment; muster roll for January to
June, 1780, sworn to at "Orange Town;" reported discharged. Also descriptive list
of men raised to reinforce Continental army for the term of six months, agreeable
to resolve of June 5, 1780, returned as received of Justin Ely, commissioner, by
Maj, Peter Harwood of Sixth Massachusetts regiment, at Springfield, July 6,
1780; aged twenty years; stature, five feet ten inches ; complexion, light; engaged
for town of Springfield; arrived at Springfield, July 5, 1780, marched to camp July
6, 1780, under command of Lieutenant Taylor of Second Massachusetts regiment.
Also list ot men raised for six months' service and returned by Brigadier-General
Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780.
Also pay roll for six months' men raised by the town of Springfield for service m
the Continental army during 1780, marched July 5, 1780, discharged Dec. 13, 1780;
service, five months, fifteen days. Also private (late) Capt. Samuel Flower's com-
pany, Col. John Greaton's Third regiment; muster roll for July, 1780. Also same
company and regiment; muster roll for August and September, 1780, dated Camp
Orringtown; enlisted July 6, 1780. Also Capt. Joseph Crocker's company, Colonel
Greaton's regiment; muster roll for October, 1780, dated Camp Totoway; also same
company and regiment; muster roll for November and December, 1780, dated
camp at West Point. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
The family records have it that "He served five years in the Revolutionary
army and rose to the rank of captain." He inherited the old homestead; a success-
ful farmer.
15, r8oi. Res. Longmeadow, Mass.
ANN, b. Dec. 3, 1774; m. Jan. i3, 1797, Justin Smith, of Hadley.
NAOMI, b. Feb. 27, 1779; m. Aug. 31, 1798, Noah Ashley; d. Oct.
21, 1807.
ELIJAH, b. Dec. 29, 17S0; m. Cynthia Terry.
POLLY, b. June 20,1784; m. Sept. 12, 1805, Stephen Ashley;
d. July 24, 1858.
CALEB COOLEY. b. March 29, 1787; ni. Sarah L. Colton.
JOHN, b. April 6, 1790 (name changed to Moses); m. ; d. Sept.
I, 1861.
608. MOSES FIELD (Moses, Thomas, Samuel. Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Feb. 9, 1755; m. Nov. 23, 1780,
Lydia Champion, dau. of Dr. Reuben and Lydia, of West Springfield; d. Jan. 19,
1831. He was in the Revolutionary war and was a successful farmer. He d. Jan.
14, 1831. Res., s. p.. Longmeadow, Mass.
610. DOCTOR AARON FIELD (Moses, Thomas, Samuel. Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., June 24. 1761; m.
Feb. 10, 1784, Flavia Burt, dau. of Capt. David and Mary (Colton). She was b.
in Longmeadow. March 12, 1764, and d. Aug. 20, 1787. He was graduated at
Yale College and in 1790 went South and d. there.
Field, Aaron, Springfield. Surgeon's mate, Lieut.-Col. Barnabas Sear's regi-
ment; marched Aug. i, 1781; discharged Nov. 15, 17S1; service, three months,
twenty-one days, travel included ; regiment raised for three months ; roll sworn to
at Greenwich. — Mass. State Revolutionary Records. Res. Richmond, Va.
Hed.
Jan,
1167.
i.
1168.
ii.
1169.
iii.
1 1 70.
IV.
1171.
V.
1172.
VI.
HORACE FIELD HOBART.
See page 298.
HON. LUCIUS G. FISHER.
See page 299.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 291
1173. i. SOPHIA, b. Dec. 24, 1784; m. Nov. 8, 1806, Dr. Perez Kingsley,
of Tolland, Conn. She d. April 8, 1808.
611. COLONEL ALEXANDER FIELD (Moses, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Feb. s, 1764; m.
Oct. II, 1787, Flavia Colton, dau. of Samuel and Lucy; d. Aug. 4, 1815; m., 2d,
March 11, 1816, Jerusha Burt, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel and Experience (Chapin), b.
Aug. 10, 1780; d. Oct. 26, i86o. Alexander Field, son of Moses and Rebecca
(Cooley), b. in Longmeadow, Mass. He was a Revolutionary soldier; was two
years in the service ; afterward a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. He was a
man of very strong personal convictions, and of the most sterling integrity of
character, disdaining all underhanded or mean action of any person whatsoever.
He was a man of a commanding and prepossessing personal appearance, and was
held in great esteem by his townsmen. He liked occasionally to dress in ancient
costume, and always rode with his wife in his carriage to church. He was a large
and successful farmer. Having no children of his own, he adopted a young man
named Alexander Field Stebbins, to whom he left his large estate, who soon spent
it. He d. July 3, 1831. Res., s. p., Longmeadow, Mass.
618. DEACON PETER REYNOLDS FIELD (Simeon, Thomas, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Enfield, Conn., Feb. 28, 1774;
m. Nov. I, 1801, Hannah N. Prudden, b. Milford, Conn., Sept. 30, 1777; bapt. April
5, 1778; d. Oct. 30, 1854, Beloit, Wis. A worthy descendant of her renowned
ancestors, Governor Treat, Governor Webster, Revs. Thomas Hooker, Roger
Newton, Peter Prudden, Thomas Buckingham and Benjamin Wilmot. He was
born in Enfield, Conn., where he resided some time after his marriage. Later he
moved to Lebanon, N. H., and soon after to Colebrook, N. H. While living in the
latter place he joined the New England company, which had surrendered extensive
tracts of land in the Territory of Wisconsin. This land was located adjacent to
Rock river, near the Illinois line, at New Albany. The company at once erected a
public house, and Mr. Field, with others, located there in 1838, where he afterward
resided. Mr. Field was descended also from Revs. Henry Whitfield, Edward
Taylor, Matthew AUyn and Thomas Newberry. He d. Oct. 20, 1856. Res. Beloit,
Wis.
1174. i. CHARLOTTE, b. July 15, 1803; d. July 21, 1803.
1175. ii. CHARLOTTE PRUDDEN, b. Sept. 14, 1809; m. June 15, 1831,
Dea. Horace Hobart, of Beloit, Wis. Horace Hobart was born in
Columbia, N. H., Aug. 12, 1803, and was married at Colebrook,
N. H. He died in Beloit, Wis., Nov. 5, 1S60, aged fifty-seven.
He went to Beloit in 1837 or 1838 and immediately took a leading
part in founding religious and educational institutions; was
deacon in the First Congregational church during his entire life
there.and was trustee and a liberal giver to Beloit College. No
man left a stronger impress for good upon that community than
Deacon Hobart. His wife, Charlotte Prudden Field Hobart,
lived in Beloit forty-six years, and died while visiting her son
at Los Vegas, New Mexico, Feb. ii, 1884, aged seventy-five
years and five months. Ch. : i. Edward Field Hobart, b.
Columbia, N. H., Oct. 9, 1833; m. in 1859, at Beloit, Wis.,
Marion Cunningham. He graduated at Beloit College in
1855; was a civil engineer, engaged in city and railway work;
principal of public school at Beloit and of Academy, at Baraboo,
Wis. ; conducted a book and stationery business at Beloit ;
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298 FIELD GENEALOGY.
served in Civil war as first lieutenant ot a Wisconsin regi-
ment; carried on school furniture and printing business in
St. Louis, Mo., for several years; removed to Los Vegas,
N. M., and engaged in manufacturing; was appointed sur-
veyor general of New Mexico by President Harrison, serving
four years, and was appointed by President McKinley receiver
of public moneys at Santa Fe, N. M., where he now resides. Is
extensively engaged in agriculture, fruit growing and mining.
2. Horace Reynolds Hobart, b. in Beloit, Wis., May 22, 1840;
m. Dec. 3, 1873, Emma Hastings, at Madison, Wis., dau. of
Hon. Samuel D. Hastings, state treasurer of Wisconsin; gra-
duated at Beloit College in i860; served in Civil war as private
and non-commissioned officer; severely wounded in battle in
Arkansas ; edited a daily paper in Janesville, Wis. ; removed to
Chicago in 1866, and has been reporter on Tribune, city editor
Evening Post, managing editor and president Evenmg Mail,
editor Morning Courier, and editor for twenty-two years and
vice-president of the Railway Age; was for one year, 1874-75,
editor and part proprietor Jacksonville, 111. , Daily Journal ; has
written various books and pamphlets on railway topics ; was for
three years member board of trustees village of Hyde Park, and
for two years president of board ; has been school director, also
vestryman and warden in the Reformed Episcopal church ; is a
member of Christ Church. Res. at No. 51 10 East End Ave.,
Chicago. 3. Henry Field Hobart, b. Beloit, Wis., July 15, 1843;
m. June 14, 1870, Abbie Cleveland, He carried on book and
stationery business (Hobart Bros.) at Beloit; was editor and
proprietor Beloit Daily Free Press; removed to Los Vegas
N. M., to engage in manufacturing; died at Santa Cruz, Cal.,
Feb. 11,1885.
1176. iii. ELIZA D., b. Dec. 31, 1S06; d. unm. At one time she kept a
young ladies' seminary in Erie, Pa., in connection with her
sister, Caroline.
1 1 77. iv. ALFRED LORENZO, b. April 16, 1809; m. Elizabeth Lusk.
1178. V. CAROLINES., b. Nov. 15, 1S13; m. June 28, 1842, Hon. Lucius
G. Fisher, of Chicago, 111.
He was b. in Derby, Vt., Aug. 17, 1S08; d. in Chicago, March
9, 1886. She d. March 11, 1850. He was born on his father's
farm, which was later known as the Bert farm. His mother
was a woman of unusual executive ability, and well educated.
He was well educated at the common schools, especially in the
English branches. Assisting his father on his farm, he attended
the academy as opportunity presented. He taught a govern-
ment school in Stanstead, Canada, and later taught in Derby,
Vt., in the school where he received his preliminary education.
In 1833 he was appointed by Sheriff Jameson a deputy for Derby
and vicinity. At that time the office was quite an important
one, as the country was infested by smugglers from the Canadian
side. He resigned the office after having been appointed three
times, and became connected with the Fairbank's Scale company,
at St. Johnsbury. In 1837 he arrived in Chicago, when there
was a population of 3,000 persons.' Everything was in a terrible
LUCIUS G. FISHEK.
See page 299.
LUCIUS G. FISHER, JR.
See page 300.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 299
panicy condition, owing to the financial crisis. Lots which a
short time before had readily sold for $i,ooo, had depreciated to
$200. From the corner of State and Washington streets — where
Marshall Field & Co.'s mammoth dry goods buildings stand — to
the Lake, corn was growing of the small yellow kind. Mr. Fisher,
not liking the looks of the place, went to Milwaukee, and later
to New Albany. He made a short stop at Janesville, where
there were only three houses. He was much pleased with the
appearance of Beloit (then called New Albany). Soon after
arriving there and purchasing land, a meeting of the settlers was
called to select and adopt a name for the town and village. He
was chosen one of a committee to select a name, and it was at his
suggestion that Beloit was selected. In 1839 he was appointed
sheriff of Rock county by Gov. Henry Dodge, and later by
Governor Doty, and still later elected by the people. In 1840 he
was appointed by the territorial legislature one of a board of
commissioners to lay out roads from Beloit to Milwaukee and to
Madison. In 1842 he was married to Miss Field and began busi-
ness, which was continued under the firm name of Fisher &
Bundy, and later Fisher, Cheney & Co. He was largely instru-
mental in inducing the Northwestern railway company to extend
their line to Beloit. raising the money, $80,000, and personally
pledging its collection. He was director of the railway from
Beloit to Madison. He was president of the first bank in Beloit,
and also started the Beloit Journal, the first paper there. Mr,
Fisher was identified with every enterprise that was for the
benefit of the place. With others he built the first paper mill
there, and was largely identified with other institutions. After
Beloit was a city he was for several years an alderman, and was
elected to the legislature. He was largely instrumental in organ-
izing Beloit College ; was for years a trustee and also of Rock-
ford Seminary. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster at Beloit,
which office he held for five years. In 1866 he moved to Chi-
cago and leased the southeast corner of State and Washington
streets in 1870 and erected a six story building, which was
destroyed by the fire of 1871. He immediately rebuilt, and in
1875 purchased the corner for $140,000, which he sold in 1881 for
$412,500. In 1870 he was elected supervisor of Hyde Park. In
1883 he took an extensive trip on the continent with his wife,
and from that time until his death in 1886, spent most of his
time in travel and looking after his property interests. Ch. :
I. Lucius George, Jr., b. Nov. 27, 1843; ni- April 20, 1870,
Katherine Louise Eddy, dau. of Rev. Alfred Eddy, b. Febru-
ary, 1848. Res. 4036 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. He was educated
m Beloit and Stockbridge, Mass., and had passed examination
preparatory to entering the Freshman class in Beloit College,
when the Pikes Peak gold fever broke out. His father sent one of
the first quartz mills to the mountains, and he persuaded him to
let him accompany the train. He was given a wagon and six yoke
of oxen, and so crossed the plains and roughed it until the war
commenced. He went to New York City in the fall of 1861 and
clerked in a hardware store until 1863 ; enlisted in the Eighty-
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fourth N. G. S. N. Y. ; went through a short campaign in the
Shenandoah Valley ; was made color-sergeant and returned in
time to assist in quelling the riot in New York City. Their
time having expired (it was a ninety-day regiment), was dis-
charged, and he at once enlisted in the navy, and was sent to
the receiving station, at St. Inigoes, Md., where he was assigned
to duty in the paymaster's department. At the close of the war
he went to Chicago and started with the Rock River Paper com-
pany; was rapidly promoted, and in 1870 was given the man-
agement of the business. In 1S71 he bought an interest in the
paper bag manufacturing firm of Wheeler & Hinman, which
name v/as changed to Wheeler, Fisher & Co., and soon after
was incorporated under the name of the Union Bag and Paper
Co. Of this company he was secretary, but had the entire
management. In 1894 they increased the capital stock from
$500,000 to $2,000,000, and absorbed the bag business of Hol-
lingsworth & Whitney, of Boston, Smith & Dixon & Co., of
Baltimore, and Chatfield & Woods, of Cincinnati. As president
of this company he had the general management of its business
until March, 1899, it sold its interests to the Union Bag and Paper
Co., of New Jersey, a company which Mr. Fisher organized, and
of which he is president. This company purchased all the busi-
ness and good will and patents of the leading bag manufacturers
of the country. Its capital is $27,000,000. It owns large tracts
of timber lands, eighteen paper mills, several wood pulp mills
and makes about 20,000,000 bags a day. He has started and
successfully run several maiTufacturing companies in diiTerent
lines, but as his bag business grew, he sold his interests in the
other companies. In 1 886 he bought a large amount of real estate
in Chicago. It has taken much ot his time to improve and manage
it. Four years ago he built the "Fisher Building," an eighteen
story office building, on the corner of Van Buren and Dearborn
streets, Chicago. He is a member of the Union League, Wash-
ington Park and Athletic and Midlothian Clubs, of Chicago, and
of the Engineers and New York Clubs, of New York Citj'. Ch. :
(a) Lucius George, Jr., b. March 4, 1877. He was educated at
the public schools of Chicago, and the high school of that city.
Studied for three years at the Manual Training School; was
fitted for college at Phillips, Andover, where he remained for
four years ; entering Yale College, he took a full course of four
years, graduating in the class of 1897. He is now manager for
Wheeler, Fisher & Co., who are western agents for the Union
Bag and Paper Co., with offices in the Fisher Building, Dearborn
street, Chicago. He is unm. and res. with his father, (b) Alice,
b. April 19, 1874; m. Oct. 28, 1897, Alexis Foster, of Denver,
Col. (c) Ethel Field, b. July 19, 1882. (d) Kathryn Eddy, b.
March 9, 1886. 2. Annah Field, b. Oct. 31, 1848; m. May 9, 1871,
Dr. Samuel Reed Ward, b. Aug. 7, 18 — . Res. Richmond, 111.
Ch. : (a) Caroline Fisher Ward, b. May 3, 1872. (b) Henry Nichols
Ward, b. Jan. 10, 1874; d. March 22, 1880. (c) Philip Clark
Ward, b. Nov. 15, 1876; d. Jan. 10, 1880. (d) Lucine Fisher
Ward, b. March 20, 1878; d. Dec. 30, 1880. (e) Elizabeth Bates
FIELD GENEALOGY. 301
Ward, b. May 23, 1884. (f) Katharine Louise "Ward, b. Sept.
25, 18S5.
619. DOCTOR EDWARD FIELD (Simeon, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b, Enfield, Conn., July i, 1777. He grad-
uated at Yale College ; a physician ; settled in Waterbury, Conn. , where he d. Nov.
17, 1840. He m. April 30, 1807, Sarah, dau. of Dr. Isaac and Sarah (Leavenworth)
Baldwin, of Waterbury, Conn., b. May 24, 1785; d. Aug. 8. 1808; m., 2d, Jan. 4,
1810. Esther, sister of first wife, b. Aug. 21, 1789; d. May 15, 1843. Dr. Edward
Field, son of Dr. Simeon and Margaret Reynolds, was b. in Enfield, Conn. He
began his medical studies at home and continued them with Dr. Coggswell, at Hart-
ford. In 1799 he received a commission in the navy as surgeon's mate, and
embarked for a three years' cruise in the East Indies. The voyage proved a dis-
astrous one. The ship was dismasted, there was mutiny on board, and the young
physician in assisting to subdue the mutineers, was wounded in the right wrist.
The voyage lasted hardly a year, but its experience destroyed the charm of a sea-
going life for Dr. Field. In 1800 he established himself as a village doctor in
Waterbury, and labored there the remaining forty years of his life. Doctor Field
was received as a member of the First Church, July 5, 1840. Res. Waterbury, Conn.
1179. i. JUNIUS LEAVENWORTH, b. Feb. i, iSoS; m. Mrs. Maria
(Briggs) Packard.
1180. ii. HENRY B., b. Jan. 11, iSii; m. Sarah Ann Bulkley.
iiSi. iii. SARAH ARIETTA, b. Aug. 27, 1813; d. Sept. 9, 1815.
1182. IV. _ MARY MARGARET, b. March 12, 1S17; m. June 30, 1841,
Hon. Charles B. Merriman, of Waterbury, Conn. ; d. Oct. 5,
1866. Charles Buckingham Merriman, son of William Henry
and Sarah (Buckingham) Merriman, was b. at Watertown, Oct.
9, 1809. He was educated at the village school, and at Leonard
Daggett's school, in New Haven. He lived in Watertown, in a
house near the present site of the Warren House, until 1S39,
when he removed to Waterbury. He was in business with his
father, as a merchant, while in Watertown, and on his removal
to Waterburv formed a partnership with Ezra Stiles in the dry
goods business, which was conducted in the building on the cor-
ner of Centre square and Leavenworth street. His connection
with Julius Hotchkiss in the Hotchkiss & Merriman Manufac-
turing company, and the relations of this organization to the
American Suspender company, of which he became president,
are well known. Mr. Merriman was a member ot the common
council for several years, and was mayor of the city in 1869.
He was president of the Waterbury Gas Light company, and
was for many years a director in the Citizens" National bank,
and president of the Waterbury Savings bank. He was a prom-
inent member and a vestryman of St. John's churcn. He was
noted for his equanimity of temper and kindness of heart, and
was an enthusiastic supporter of every enterprise that contrib-
uted to the well being and upbuilding of Waterbury. Mr. Mer-
riman m. Mary Margaret, dau. of Dr. Edward Field. Ch. : i.
Charlotte Buckingham, b. Aug. 21, 1S43. 2. Sarah Morton, b.
Aug. 7, 1845. 3. Helen, b. Jan. 19, 1848. 4. Margaret Field, b.
March 16, 1850; m. Sept. 30, 1875, Dr. Frank E. Castle, s. p.
5. William Buckingham, b. June 11, 1853; m., Nov. 17, 1886,
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Sara Kingsbury Parsons, dau. of Guernsey Smith Parsons and
Eliza (Brown). Ch. : (a) Buckingham Parsons Merriman. (b)
William Buckingham Merriman. 6. Edward Field, b. Sept. i,
1854. Mr. Merriman d. March 15, 1889.
1183. V. CHARLOTTE ARIETTA, b. Dec. 6, 1819; m. Feb. 25, 1851,
Samuel G. Blackman. of New Haven, Conn. He d., s. p., May
24, 1886. She res. in Waterbury.
1184. vi. EDWARD G., b. Dec. 7. 1822. Dr. Edward Gustavus Field, the
youngest child of Dr. Edward and Esther (Baldwin) Field was
born in Waterbury. He was educated in the schools of the town
and at the Hartford grammar school. When about fifteen
years of age he made a voyage to Europe, in a sailing packet,
"before the mast," with some idea of making navigation the
business of life. But one voyage was sufficient; he did not
find it to his taste. After his father's death he attended
medical lectures in New York City, but took his degree at
Castleton, Vt., whose medical school at that time was mainly
conducted by professors of New York schools (a sort of summer
school of medicine). He settled in New York City, but early in
the California excitement — in 1849 or 1850 — he went to San
Francisco, and after practicing medicine a short time engaged in
other pursuits. He returned to New York about 1S55, and a
little later purchased a seat in the broker's board. He remained
in active business until 1872, when he retired a.nd spent some
time in Europe. He resided in New York, where he died Jan.
8, 1899. He never married.
620. DOCTOR SAMUEL FIELD (Samuel, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Saybrook, Conn., in 1759. He grad-
uated at Yale College; a physician. He removed about 1805 to Coxsackie, N. Y.,
where he d. March 13, 1813. He m. in 1783. Margaret Shipman, of Saybrook, b.
1764; d. Jan. 14, 1820. (See gravestone in Saj'brook.) Res. Coxsackie, N. Y.
1185. i. SAMUEL, bap. June 12, 17S5. A physician; settled on Long
Island, N. Y., and d. there in 1838.
1 186. ii. ELIZABETH, bap. Sept. 24, 1786; m. John Sylvester. All her
family died years ago.
1187. iii, ABIGAIL, bap. June 15, 178S; m. Reynolds, of Norwich,
Conn., and d. in 1824.
1188. iv. WILLIAM HENRY, bap. Sept. 26, 1790; d. 1794.
1189. V. MARGARET MARIA, bap. March 10, 1793; m. Henry Vander-
burg. She d. in 1874, aged eighty-two. Children, six boys and
four girls. One daughter, Mrs. Catherine Van Bergen, now,
1900, aged eighty, is living on the old homestead, built by Dr.
Samuel Field in 1800. Her address is Climax, Greene county,
N. Y.
THOMAS, bap. Oct. 5, 1794; m. Mariah Van Slyke.
HENRY WILLIAM, b. Aug. 8, 1790; bap. Nov 27, 1796; m. Jane
Thompson, Catherine Emily Newell and Mable Close.
RICHARD, bap. Nov. 4, 1798.
FANNY, bap. Feb. 22, 1801; d. in 1811.
624. SERGT. GEORGE FIELD (Selh, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Dec. 22, 1742, Northfield, Mass. ; m. July 5,
1 1 90.
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1769, Martha Smith, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Morton) Smith, b. about 1749; d.
March 13, 1830. He was sergeant in Revolutionary war, and was in the battle of
Oct. 7, 1777 and present at the surrender of Burgoyne.
Field, George. Private, Capt. Timothy Paige's company. Col. James Con vers'
regiment; enlisted Aug. 21, 1777; discharged Aug. 31, 1777; service, 10 days;
company marched to Bennington on an alarm ; also sergeant, Capt. Samuel Merri-
man's company, Sixth Hampshire county regiment; engaged Sept. 22, 1777;
discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, i month 3 days, travel included, on an expedition
to the Northward. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Martha, of Northfield ; June 15,1830; husband, George; ch. : Francis, Roswell,
George, Malinda, wife of Bernice Foot ; Pattee, wife of Adrastus Doolittle ; Polly,
wife of Edward Banks; Jesse, Seth, Elihu. — Probate Records.
He d. Jan. 22, 1S03; res. Northfield, Mass.
1 194. i. MALINDA, b. July 20, 1770; m. Dec. 8, 1791, Bernice Foot; res.
Greenfield.
1195. ii. FRANCIS, b. April 28, 1772; m. . Did he go to Va.?
1196. iii. PATTEE, b. May 26, 1775; m. Adrastus Doolittle. He was son
of Lucius ; was b. Aug. 10, 1771 ; was a tavern keeper, and d. Jan.
27, 1830; she d. Sept. 29, 1843. Ch. : i. Lydia, b. Aug. 4, 1800;
m. Aaron Lord and Otis Everett. 2. George, b. Oct. 2, 1803 ; m.
Dorothy Doolittle. 3. Charles, b. Jan. 6, 1806; d., s. p., Oct. 3,
1848. 4. Lucretia, b. Aug. 24, 1808; d. unm. Jan. 15, 1851. 5.
Martha, b. Sept. 16, 18 10; m. George Wheeler. 6. Fanny, b.
Feb. 10, 1813; m. George E. Scott. 7. Jerusha, b. Nov. 4, 1815.
8. Margaret, b. Feb. 19, 1820; d. March 10, 1826. 9. Margaret,
b. Sept. 3, 1817; d. July 29, 1819.
1197. iv. ROSWELL, b. March 19, 1777; m. Eunice Alexander.
1 198. V. POLLY, b. Feb. 28, 1779; m. May 28, 1806, Edward Banks, b.
Dec. 24, 1779, Keene, N. H. ; d. March 23. 1859, at Wind-
ham, Vt. ; she d. Sept. 21, 1851. Ch. : i. Edward Banks, b.
May 21, 1809; m. March 20, 1838; address, Brattleboro, Vt. 2.
John Lawton Banks, b. Oct. 27, 1820; m. Oct. 26, 1845, Sarah
Abby Sargent, b. June 9, 1819; d. Jan. 13, 1892; res. Brattleboro,
Vt. Ch. : (a) Sarah Helen Banks, b. June 16, 1846; present ad-
dress, Mrs. Samuel Hale, Attleboro, Mass. (b) Charles Lawton
Banks, b. April 30, 1853; m. Nov., 1876; present address,
Northfield Farms, Mass. (c) Mary Alice Banks, b. April 30, 1858;
present address, Mrs. Marshall Mead, Attleboro, Mass.
GEORGE, b.June 16, 1781 ; m.Phila Holton and Ruth(Holton) Scott.
LUCRETIA, b. July 9. 1783; d. Oct. 4, 1807.
JESSE, b. Oct. 5, 1787; m. Experience Smead.
SETH, b. Aug. 26, 1791; m. .
ELIHU, b. Nov. 10, 1794; m. Elizabeth Stratton.
625. RUFUS FIELD (Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah. John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 24, 1744; m. in 1764, Elizabeth
Field, dau. of Moses and Anna (Dickinson), b. March 30, 1748; res. Northfield, Mass.
1204. i. CLARISSA, b. Aug. 25, 1765; born blind.
1205. ii. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 16, 1768; m. Jan. i, 1789, Edward Nettle-
ton. He was from Hartford county. Conn., and was in North-
field in 1787. Shed. June 21, 1830. Ch. : i. Sobriety, b. July
18, 1789; m. Joseph Perry. 2. George, b. July 30, 1791; m.
1 199.
VI.
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VUl,
1202.
IX
1203.
X.
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1206.
iii.
1207.
iv.
1208.
V.
i2og.
Vl.
1210.
vii.
1211.
viii.
1212.
ix.
1213.
X.
1214.
xi.
Lucy Wood. 3. Elizabeth F,, b. Sept. 30, 1794; m. David
Wright and Willard Allen. 4. Edward, b. March 26, 1796; m.
Lucretia Wood. 5. Hannah M., b. Oct. 22, 1802; m. Ebenezer
Childs.
SYLVESTER, b. July 13, 1770; m. Jemima Freeman.
CHARLOTTE, b. Dec. 3, 1772; d. Dec. 21, 1835.
KATE, b. Jan. 31, 1776; m. Dec. 12, 1795, John Tiffany. He was
son of Edward L. ; was b. Aug. 11, 1773; he d., and she m., 2d,
Feb. 26, 1801, John Robbins, and had four children — Amanda,
Catherine, Miriam and Charlotte.
HOLLIS, b. Jan. 22, 1778; m. Betsy Jennings.
RUFUS, b. June 16, 1780; m. Harriet Jennings.
ALICE, b. Jan. 28, 1783; m. Daniel Kenney, of Gill, Mass.
LYDIA T., b. Jan. 22, 1785; m. Nov. 28, 1805, John Holbrook, of
Northfield, Mass.
FANNY, b. Jan. 11, 1788.
SETH, b. May 13, 1791; m. Polly Coy.
632. HENRY FIELD (Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Sept. 2, 1759 in Northfield, Mass.; m. Feb. 3, 1783, Rhoda
Stratton, b. Oct. 28, 1761; d. Nov. 21, 1833; dau. of Hezekiah and Molly (Smith).
Was a Revolutionary soldier in 1779.
Henry of Northfield, Feb. 17, 1813, filed. Ch. : Chas. F., Zenophon, Erasmus
Jarvis, minors; mother, Rhoda Field, guard. Rhoda Field, Northfield, 1833,
widow. Charles F. Field and Zenophon Field, administrators, filed their bond
Dec. 17, 1833. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. Jan. 4, 1813; res. Northfield, Mass.
SOPHIA, bap. Sept. 7. 1783.
RHODA, b. Feb. 6, 1785; m. Aug. 19, 1806, Dr. Cyrus Washburne,
of Vernon, Vt.
HENRY, b. Oct. 3, 1789; m. Mary Simonds.
CHARLES F., b. April i, 1794; m. Electa Mattoon and Mary H.
Alexander.
ZENOPHON, b. April 18, 1797; m. Clarissa Harris.
MARY S., b. Sept. 16, 1799; d. Sept. 16, 1803.
ERASMUS J., b. Feb. 4, 1808; d. Aug. 20, 1827.
633. DR. SETH FIELD (Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 6, 1761. He removed in
to Brookfield, Mass., where he d. A Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Seth
Pierce's company. Col. Seth Murray's regiment, at Claverack and West Point, from
July 4 to Oct. 10, 1780; was at West Point at the time of Arnold's treachery. He
was a physician. He m. Martha , b. 1762.
Field, Seth, Northfield. Descriptive list dated Warwick, Aug. 4. 17S0, of men
detached from Sixth Hampshire county^ regiment ; agreeable to order of General
Court of June 22, 1780, to serve for the term of 3 months from the time of their
arrival at Claverack; Capt. Seth Pierce's company, Col. Seth Murray's (Hamp-
shire county) regiment; age, 18 years; stature, 5 ft. 7 in. ; complexion, dark; res.,
Northfield; rank, private ; mustered July 20, 1780; also corporal, Capt. Seth Pierce's
company, Col. Seth Murray's (Hampshire county) regiment; enlisted July 15, 1780;
discharged Oct. 10, 1780; service, 3 months 6 days, travel included; company raised
to reinforce Continental army for 3 months; roll dated Leverett. — Massachusetts
Revolutionary Records.
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ii.
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iii.
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iv.
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V.
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1221.
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11.
1224.
111.
1225.
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V.
1227.
vi.
1228.
vii.
Seth Field, of West Brookfield, his oldest son, appointed administrator. Seth W.
Field, 1 851. Thomas Kennicutt, judge. — Worcester, Mass., Probate.
He d. July 21, 1850; res. Brookfield, Mass.
1222. i. CORDELIA PARSONS, b. July 12, 1797.
DAVID HITCHCOCK, b. Aug. 25, 179S; m. Harriet J. .
MARY ANN, b. Oct. 11, 1799.
SETH W., b. April i, 1S02; m. .
MARTHA KEYES, b. July i, 1804.
ADDIE ORVILLA, b. July 5, 1807.
CHARLOTTE BEMIS, b. Feb. 27, 1811.
636. THEODORE FIELD (Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., May 7, 1769; m. Feb. 24, 1793,
Catherine Parker, dau. of Nathaniel and Hannah (Chamberlin); d. Feb. 2, 1846.
Was a farmer. He d. April 8, 1841. Res. Brimfield, Mass.
1229. 1. ELVIRA, b. Dec. 28, 1793; m. Dec. i, 1814, Samuel Alexander, of
Northfield; d. July 2. 1859. Ch. : i. George Field; res. North-
field Farms, Mass. 2. Samuel; res. Hartford, Conn. 3. Caleb
D., d. Nov. 17, 1893; res. Springfield, Mass.
1230. ii. EMILY, b. Oct. 2, 1795; m. Oct. 22, 1815, James Brown, of Brim-
field, Mass. ; d Oct. 29, 1876. He was son of Deacon David, and
wasb. July 30, 1790; d, March i8, 1859; she d. Oct. 29, 1S76; res.
Brimfield. Mass. Ch. : i. Henry Field, b. Dec. 15, 1S16; m.
Sept. 25, 1839, Lucy G. Tarbell; he d. June 25, 1892; res. Brim-
field. 2. Catherine Parker, b. March 18, 1820; m. April 28, 1863,
Paul W. Paige; res. Brimfield and Springfield; she d. Oct. 2,
1894. 3. James Tyler, b. Nov. 22, 1823; m. Nov. 29. 1849, Gather-
ine W. Miller; he d. Sept. 25, 1899; res. Maynard, Mass. 4.
Charles Frederic, b. April 13, 1827; d. Oct. 5, 1827. 5. Charles,
b. Oct. 22, 1828; d. Nov. 6, 1828. 6. Geo. Alexander, b. Dec. i,
1830; m. Jan. 26, 1854, Susan E. C. Miller; he d. Jan. 30, 1S97;
res. Peoria, 111. 7. Emily Jane, b. May 7, 1833; m. Sept. i, 1S75,
Warren H. Wilkinson; res. 20 Bradford street, Springfield,
Mass. ; he was b. July 9, 1824; d. March 21, 1892, s. p.
1231. iii. LUCY, b. Dec. i, 1797; m. May 30. 1820, Samuel A. Groves, of
Southbridge, now in Bradford, Pa. Ch. : i. George Austin;
res. Bradford, Pa. 2. Samuel Albert. 3. Ann.
1232. iv. THEODORE, b. Oct. 28, 1799; m. Almira Allen and Elizabeth
Barr.
CHARLES FREDERICK, b. Sept. 11, 1802; m. Emily P. Field.
ORUS, b. Nov. 8, 1804; m. Catherine Fish.
THOMAS JACKSON, b. Aug. 13, 1S07; m. and d. s. p.
GEORGE PARKER, b. July 13, 1810; d. Aug. 17, 1813.
CATHERINE, b. July 11, 1814; d. Sept. 11. 1816.
637. JAMES FIELD (Gaius, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Winchester, N. H. He removed to Surry or
Keene, N. H.. from there to Nelson, where he d. He was a soldier in the battle of
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1777, and at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777, and was some time
in the service. He m. Mary Woodcock. Res. Nelson, N. H.
1238. i. NATHAN, b. Aug. i, 1765; m. Lucina Sumner.
1239. ii. ROBERT, b. .
1240. iii. WILLIA.M. b. .
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1241. iv. JAMES, b. ; m. Betsey Johnson.
1242. V. LUCY, b. ; m. Mathews, of Vershire, Vt.
1243. vi. PHEBE, b. ; m. Dec. 14, 1804, William Jennison, of Walpole,
N. H.
1244. vii. POLLY, b. ; m. Gaylord, of Walpole. N. H.
1245. viii. LYDIA, b. ; m. .
639. DEACON JOSHUA FIELD (Gains, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Winchester, N. H., June 5, 1746. Here-
moved in 1786 to Brandon, Vt., where he d. March 26, 1S37. A Revolutionary
soldier from New Hampshire; was in the battle of Bennington Aug. 16, 1777, and
was some time in the service. A deacon in the Congregational church, a very influ-
ential man in town, noted for his integrity and love of truth and honest in his con-
victions and opinions. The society having trouble with their minister concerning
church government, believing him exercising power over them not delegated to
the pastor, Mr. Field, meeting the pastor, was asked by him to state what the diffi-
cult es were, when he frankly replied: "There are many, but one in particular is,
we think you have lorded over God's heritage too much." "Father Field," as he
was familiarly called, was fully sustained in his charge by an ecclesiastical council,
afterwards called, by whom the pastor was dismissed. A story is told of the dea-
con and his wife. The deacon wishing to take one of the children to church to have
it baptized, his wife hid the baby in the garden among the currant bushes, where
he could not find it, she being a Baptist. He m. 1770, Thankful Robbins, of
Petersham, Mass.; b. Nov. 17, 1747; d. July i, 1832. The following note is copied
from his pension rolls at Washington, D. C. :
"I, Joshua Field of Brandon, in the county of Rutland, State of Vermont, cer-
tify that during the War of the Revolution, I resided most of the time in the town
of Winchester, in the State of New Hampshire, and in the spring of the year dur-
ing the season that General Sullivan marched the troops from Canada to Ticonde-
roga, the year I can't remember, but 1 know I enlisted under Capt. Humphrey for
5 months and joined Col. Wingate's regiment and marched to Ticonderoga, where
I served out my time under General Gates' Command and received an honorable
discharge. The redcoats came down " the lake and Captain Humphrey called for
volunteers to engage them and I turned out with others, but we did not get near
enough to fight them. I returned home to Winchester after receiving my discharge,
where I afterwards was several times impressed and compelled to serve on alarms,
to take the Tories up to Keene where they were tried, and from there we conveyed
the Charlestown or No. 4. The precise time I served in each of the alarms I
cannot tell, but it is my prevailing opinion I served as much as four months in all
besides my five months enlistment. I made my former declaration before R. Pier-
pont, Judge of Probate for the District of Rutland, but I cannot now tell how long ago
but I believe something like three years ago. I am very forgetful, you see I am
8q years old. I draw only twenty dollars a year and drew my last pension last Sep-
tember.
Monday February 17th, 1835. his
Joshua X Field,
mark
On the 31st day of July A. D. 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before
the Justice of the Probate Court of Rutland District now setting, Joshua Field a
resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 86 years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration,
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 4, 1832.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 307
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named
officers, and served as herein stated :
In 1776, he resided in Winchester, county of Cheshire, New Hampshire, and in
the spring of that year he enlisted with Capt. Company, Col. Wingate's
Regiment for five months, his lieutenant was Simonds, and marched to Ticonderoga,
through Charlestown, No. 4 and Rutland.and served out his time and was discharged
at Ticonderoga in December, he thinks, but has lost his discharge. He was called
out frequently on alarms, one when Royalton was burnt, one after the battle of
Bunker Hill, one guarding Tories at Keene and Charlestown No. 4, in all verily he
believes more than one month. He was born in Winchester, April 5, year 1746,
and resided there until about 45 years ago he removed to Brandon in this county,
where he has ever since resided, his age is recorded in his bible. He knew Gens.
Stark, Poor, Gates, Arnold, and others. He is known to the Rev. W. Ingraham and
most of the inhabitants ot Brandon. He does not know of any evidence to prove his
stories.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of
any Siate.
Sworn to and subscribed the ) ^^^
Day and year aforesaid. I ■' mark
Res. Brandon, Vt.
OTHNIEL, b. April iS, 1771; m. .
SARAH, b. Nov. 16, 1783; m. March 28, 1797, Joel Parmenter,
of Brandon; d. April 11, 1848.
THANKFUL, b. Nov. 16, 1783; d. Sept. 7, 1S47.
JOSHUA, b. Sept. 21, 1775; d. in infancy.
CALVIN, b. Nov. 21, 1777; m. Nancy Rice and Asenath Strick-
land.
PAUL, b. April 10, 1779; m. Mary Stearns.
GEORGE, b. June 12, 1781; d. unm.
RODOLPHUS, b. June 17, 1783; m. Matilda Allen.
FELIX, b. Aug. 20, 1785; d. in infancy.
DENNIS, b. April 14, 17S8; d. unm. in Batavia, N. Y.
641. WAITSTILL FIELD (Gaius, Zechariah. Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Winchester, N. H., Sept. 4, 1749; m. there
Anna : res. Winchester, N. H.
1255X. i. LEONARD, b. Sept. 11, 1781.
I255>^. ii. SPENCER, b. Sept. 26, 1783.
I255>^. iii. ERASTUS, b. July 28, 1785.
1255%. IV. CAROLNE, b. May 2. 1787.
i255?^- V. SALLY, b. Feb. 24, 1790.
1255%. vi. AMBROSE, b. Oct. i, 1791.
1255-1. vii. CHESTER, b. May 21, 1794.
1255-2. viii. ANNA, b. April 20, 1796.
644. WILLIAM FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel. Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 25, 1744; m. Nov. 13,
1769, Sarah Petty, b. Aug. 15, 1741; d. Nov. 11, 1806. Was a farmer. He d. Jan.
II, 1813; res. Northfield, Mass.
1256. i. NABBY, b. Sept. 8, 1774: d. Sept. 23. i775-
1257. ii. EBENEZER, b. Aug. 3, 1776. He was in the war ot 1812; was a
1246.
1.
1247-
11.
1248.
iii.
1249.
IV.
1250.
V.
1251.
vi.
1252.
Vll.
1253.
VUl,
1254.
IX.
1255-
X.
308 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1258.
111.
1259-
IV.
1260.
V.
soldier under General Harrison, and participated in the battle of
Tippecanoe; d. unm. 1858.
NABBY. b. Dec. 6, 1779; d. Nov. 20, 1785.
SALLY, b. March 18, 1782; d. unm. May 2, 1807.
BILLY (WILLAM), b. Nov. 23, 1785; m. Mary Woodward.
646. DEACON JESSE FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Northfield, Mass., Nov. 23, 1749. He
settled about 1770 in Bennington, Vt , where he d. Nov. 5, 1830. He was educated
for the ministry, but never ordained. A deacon and a very useful man in town, and
he had the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and townsmen. The day before
the battle of Bennington, the Rev. Jedediah Dewey, in his prayer, made the fol-
lowing remarks: "All you who are liable to be engaged in the forthcoming battle,
be sure and make your peace with God without a moment's delay, for should you
go into battle without a converted heart and be killed, you would be eternally lost."
As soon as Parson Dewey had ended his prayer, Col. Robinson rose to his feet
and proclaimed in a loud voice: "All ye who go into the battle and fight valiantly
for your country, if you are killed, will go to heaven ; but those of you who are
cowards and turn your backs upon our enemies, if you are killed, you will surely
go to h 1 and be eternally damned." Deacon Jesse Field stood during the prayer
of Parson Dewey and the remarks of Col. Robinson, and trembled like a leaf, but
went into the engagement the next day, and fought with great bravery through the
whole of it. He was in Capt. Elijah Dewey's company in the battle of Bennington.
Mrs. Field's father, Lieut. Martin Dewey, was son of Jedediah 2d, b. May 18,
1716, at Westfield, Mass.; d. June 10, 1763, near Amenia, Dutchess county, N. Y.
He was a blacksmith by trade; he was selectman in Westfield in 1757-8; he volun-
tarily enlisted into his Majesty's service for reinforcing the army destined for
Crown Point, out of the southern regiment in Hampshire county. He served in the
garrison at Fort William Henry, and later moved "to the Oblong," Dutchess
county, N. Y., a gore of unincorporated land southeast of Sheffield, Mass., called
Shawanon purchase.
He m. about 17S2, Anna, dau. of Jesse Dewey, of Amenia, N. Y., and Benning-
ton, b. June 17, 1760; d. March 10, 1829, in her 68th year. Res. Bennington, Vt.
1261. i. NANCY, b. March 14, 17S3; d. Oct. 22, 1829.
1262. ii. SOPHIA, b. Feb. 27, 1785; d. July 7, 1841
1263. iii. FANNY, b. Aug. 4, 17S7; m. William Seymour, of Bennington;
d. January, 1859.
1264. iv. MARTIN, b. May 31, 1789; d. Aug. 14, 1809.
1265. v. BETSEY, b. Dec. i, 1793: d. July 7, 1841.
1266. vi. ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 22, 1797; d in Burlington, Vt., April, 1877.
648. DOCTOR LEVI FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Northfield, Mass., April 25, 1755. He was
a physician, a Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Peter Proctor's company, Col. Israel
Williams' regiment, from July 10 to Aug. 12, 1777; in Capt. Samuel Merriman's
company. Col. Israel Williams' regiment at Claverack, from Oct. 15 to Nov. 21,
1779. He m. .
Field, Levi. Private, Capt. Peter Proctor's company, Lieut. Col. Williams'
regiment; enlisted July 10, 1777: discharged Aug. 12, 1777; service, i month 9 days,
travel included; company marched to reinforce Northern army; also sergeant, Capt.
Samuel Men-iman's (2d) compaii}', Col. Israel Chapin's (3d) regiment; enlisted
Oct. 15, 1779; discharged Nov. 21, 1779; service, i month 14 days, travel included;
roll endorsed "service at Claverack." — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 309
649. ASA FIELD (Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 9, 1757; m. 1783, Anna Dig-
gins, of East Windsor, Conn. He was b. in Northfield, Mass.; settled in 1781 in
Wethersfield. Vt. ; in 1790 removed to Pawlet, Vt. ; in 1811 to Lancaster, Erie
county, N. Y., where he d. Dec. 6, 1831. A Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Samuel
Merriman's company. Col. Israel Chapin's regiment., at Claverack, from Oct. 15 to
Nov. 21, 1779. He was a very useful man in Pawlet, being liberal in support of
the gospel and holding various town offices. Anna Diggins, of East Windsor, Conn. ,
b. May 9, 1764; d. April 14, 1829.
Field, Asa. Private. Capt. Samuel Merriman's (2dj company, Col. Israel Cha-
pin's (3d; regiment; enlisted Oct. 15, 1779; discharged Nov. 21, 1779; service, i
month, 14 days, travel included; roll endorsed "service at Claverack." — Massachu-
setts State Revolutionary Records.
He d. Dec. 6, 1S31, in Lancasier, X. Y. Res. Weathersfield, Vt.
1267. i. ANNE, b. May 9. 1784; m. Jan. 31, 1S04, Hon. Phinehas Strong,
son of Return Strong, of Pawlet, Vt., and Hannah Harman. He
was b. Oct. 14, 1 781; was a trader and extensive operator in
marble, potash, butter, cheese and cattle, living at Pawlet and
making New York and Philadelphia his business points. He was
early in life a farmer; was several times a member of the Ver-
mont Legislature; he was a genial, friendly man; d. May 7, 1S39.
She d. Oct. 5, 1851, at Utica, N. Y. Ch. : i. Justin Smith, b.
April 4, i8o6; d. unm. at Fort Plain, N. Y., May 18, 1833, burnt
to death in an attempt to save property at the burning of a hotel
in the place. 2. RoUin Field, b. Feb. 18, 1S08; graduated Mid-
dlebury College in 1828; studied law with Judge Isaac McConihe,
of Troy, N. Y., and practised in Middleport, N. Y., where he d.
unm. Feb. 14, 1835. 3. Martin Dewey, b, Dec. 23, 1809; m. Aug.
19, 1S35, Betsey Shepherd Fitch, b. Oct. 11, 1815, dau. of Doras-
tus, of Pawlet, Vt, ; d. Oct 31, 1839; m., 2d, Feb. 24, 1841, Delia
Maria Short, b. May 14. 1818, dau. of Joseph, of Granville, N. Y.
Hon. Martin Dewey Strong was a merchant for twenty-one years
in Pawlet, 1833-54. Since then he resided in Michigan, where
he was probate judge of Calhoun county, and late cashier of the
National Bank of Michigan at Marshall, Mich. He resided in
Battle Creek, and d. 1879. Ch. : (a) Charles Wallace, b. July 8,
1836; d. March 13, 1858. (b) James Augustus, b. April 2, 1838;
enlisted in Chicago in April, 1861, in Barker's Dragoons; re-
enlisted in Second Michigan Cavalry, and later in Eighth Michi-
gan Cavalry, of which he was major; m. Louise ; res.
Chicago; was connected with the Tribune, (c) Mary Elizabeth,
b. June II, 1842; d. Oct. 11. 1843. (d) Julia, b. Dec. 10, 1844.
(e) Henry Martyn, b. Aug. 13, 1847; res. Battle Creek, Mich.
(f) George Frederick, b. Oct. 4, 185S. 4. Gustavus Adolphus
Strong, b. March 12, 1812; early went to sea and nothing further
heard of him. 5. Return George Strong, b. March 16, 1814; d.
unm. in Mexican war, July 8, 1848. 6. John Wales Strong, b.
Sept. 10, 1815; m. May 15, i860, Margarette Jeanette Knox, b.
London, England, Feb. 22, 1820. a lineal descendant of the cele-
brated John Knox. He was graduated at Norwich University,
Vt. ; res. Cincinnati, Ohio; a teacher. 7. Phmehas Harmon
Strong, b. Aug. 16, 1817; studied medicine at Castleton, Vt.,
310 FIELD GENEALOGY.
and Albany, N. Y., graduating in 1839; practised in Pawlet for
seven years, and after 1846 in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1869 was ap-
pointed professor in the medical department in Howard Univers-
ity, Washington, D. C. ; was a deacon in the Presbyterian church in
Buffalo, N. Y. ; m. Sept. 4, 1844, Eliza Ann Andrus, of Pawlet, b.
July 15, 1823; d. June 22, 1869; m., 2d, Mrs. Kate Edgerton Allen;
she d. in Buffalo in 1890. Ch. : (a) Anna Hawley, b. Dec. 9, 1845;
m. W. J. Mann; res. Buffalo, (b) RoUin McDaniels, b. Aug. 18,
1847; d. June 24, 184S. (c) Mary Landie, b. Jan. 13, 1850; d. Jan.
II, 1857. (d) Rollin Field, b. June 5, 1852; m. and res. in Buffalo.
(e) Catherine Maria IngersoU, b. Dec. 17, 1858; d. Aug. 24, 1859.
(f) William James, b. July 4, i860; m. and res. in Buffalo.
(g) Irving Edward, b. April 13, 1862. (h) Parker Jones, b. Nov. 14,
1864; d. Sept. 14, 1865. 8. Anne Field, b. Oct. 22, 1819; m. Sept.
16, 1845, Prof. William Franklin Bascom, b. Jan. 17, 1817, son of
Artemedorus Bascom and Chloe (Hubbard). He was graduated
at Middlebury College in 1838; tutor therefor six years; also
taught at Potsdam, N. Y., and later returned to Middlebury,
where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855 and
practised there; was a member of the Constitutional Convention
in 1856, and State's attorney for four years; in February, 1863,
he opened a claim agency for the United States Sanitary Com-
mission at Washington, and Oct. i, 1865, was appointed general
agent for the army and navy claim agency of the Commission,
and held the office until the agency was closed in 1867. Later he
was professor of Latin and Greek in the Howard University at
Washington. Ch. : (a) William James Bascom, b. May 11,
1847; d. Jan. 14, 1853. (t>) Edith Maud Bascom, b. Nov. 4, 1849;
m. May i, 1873, Dr. Joseph Taber Johnson, 924 Farragut Square,
Washington, D. C. (c) Gertrude Bascom, b. May 19, 1855; m.
Nov. 25, 1880. Charles Carlyle Darwin, librarian United States
Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. Charles Carlyle Darwin,
son of Charles Ben Darwin and Mary Abigail Piatt (b. at Mil-
ford, Conn.), was b. at Paris, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1848. Prepared for
college by his parents, he entered Oberlin College, Ohio, and
graduated at the head of his class in 1868, when twenty years
old. He removed to New York for further study and preparation,
and afterwards entered the library of Congress in 1872, remaining
there ten years. He m. Gertrude Bascom (dau. of William
Franklin Bascom and Anne Field Strong), Nov. 2',, 18S0, at
Shenford, Ransom county, N. D., then Dakota Territory. In
1882, he was asked to take in charge the formation of a library
for the United States Geological Survey. He therefore resigned
from the library of Congress and began work in the Survey
library. His knowledge of all languages has enabled him to
build up for the Geological Survey a rare scientific library by ex-
changes with the best foreign libraries and scientific societies. It
is said to be the finest of its kind in the country, if not in the
world, and numbers about 160,000 books, maps and pamphlets.
Mrs. Gertrude Bascom Darwin was educated chiefly at home
until 1874, when she entered Vassar College. She graduated
there in 1878, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 311
After graduation she spent some time in Europe studying
painting. Ch. : Charles Bascom Darwin, b. April i8, 1882;
Ruth Darwin, b. Feb. 5, 1884; Mary Darwin, b. Jan. 3, 1888;
Gertrude Darwin, b. March 7, 1890. Mrs. Darwin is No. 168
among the charter members of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, now numbering about
32,000 women. In 1897 she was elected librarian general of
that society, and was re-elected in 1898. In 1899 she was
elected to be treasurer general for two years, which office she
now holds, (d) Franklin Bascom, b. Dec. 23, 1856; d. Aug. 14,
1857. (e) Ruth Bascom, b. April 27, 1858; d. June 12, 1859. 9-
Guy Chandler, b. Jan. 22, 1822; he was graduated at Middlebury
College in 1847 and at the Union Theological Seminary in New
York in 1850. He was b. nearly blind, with cataract in his eyes,
and always had to overcome the difficulty of very imperfect
vision, both as a' student and a preacher. He m. at Fort
Covington, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1851, Fanny Erwin, b. 1822; d.
July 8, 1853; m., 2d, Sept. 19, 1853, Mary Jane Roberts, b. Sept.
22, 1832. He was supply at Moira, N. Y., for nearly three years,
and for about four years at Grandville, Mich. From i860 he was
settled at New Boston, Mich. , as pastor of the Congregational
church. Ch. : (a) Phinehas Lawrence, b. March 16, 1853; d.
soon, (b) Jenny Mary, b. April 8, 1856. (c) Ralph Wheeler, b.
Nov. 26, 1857. (d) "William James, b. July 29, 1854. William
removed to Michigan when a small boy ; high school education
at Ionia, Mich. ; studied law at Paxton. Ford county. 111. ; admit-
ted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in June, 1879;
went immediately to Kansas City, Mo. , and commenced practice
of his profession; was elected city attorney of Kansas City, Mo.,
April, 1881; re-elected April, 1882; m. Frances Warren Goodell in
September, 1882, dau. of Hon. Addison Goodell, of Loda, 111. ;
continued practice of his profession at Kansas City, Mo., until
Feb., 1891, when he went to Nicaragua and Costa Rica as confi-
dential attorney and agent of a syndicate for which he obtained a
valuable land grant from the Government of Nicaragua ; formed
partnership with Wm. K. Carlisle, son of Hon. John G.Carlisle,
in 1893, and commenced practice of law in Chicago; among
celebrated cases he has tried are the blacklist conspiracy cases
against the combined railroads of the United States, and the case
of John M. Maxwell vs. Nat. C. Goodwin, for piracy of the play
"Congress." Always Republican in politics until 1896, when he
supported Wm. J. Bryan for President, being chosen by the
democratic committee to deliver the address of welcome to Mr.
Bryan at the opening of the campaign Aug. 8, 1896. Being an
ardent bi-metallist, he wrote a pamphlet on the money question
entitled "The Dollar We Promised to Pay," which had a circula-
tion of over one million during the campaign of 1896; also wrote
the leading article published in the Arena for March, 1899, en-
titled "Blacklisting the New Slavery," which the editor of the
Arena said editorially in the May number attracted more atten-
tion than any article ever published in the Arena. Strong advo-
cate and believer in public ownership of all public utilities, and
312 FIELD GENEALOGY.
thinks private corporations for carrying on any mercantile or
manufacturing business should be absolutely prohibited by law.
Accomplished musician, which is his chief recreation.
1268. ii. JESSE, b. Dec. 27, 1802; m. Harriet A. Wakelee.
1269. iii. SOPHIA, b. May 30, 1785; m. Sept. 17, 1814, Jedediah D. Com-
mins; she d. Akron, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1865. He was b. July 7,
1790, in Charlotte, Vt. ; in 1832 he moved to Akron. Ohio; he was
the earliest druggist to settle in that county ; he was during all
the years of his life there a leading townsman of Akron, acquir-
ing there great prominence; he left one son, Alexander H. Com-
mins, a prominent citizen of the place, b. June 21, 181 5; m. i860,
Addie H. Stark, b. Feb. 8, 1836; d. June 29, 1884; she d. Aug.
17, 1880. Ch. : I. Cora C. Commins, b. July 14, 1862; m. April
18, 1894, Chas. W. HoUister; now lives in Pasadena, Cal.
2. Augusta Commins, b. July 16, 1861; d. Sept. 7, 1861. 3. Kittie
C, b. April 13, 1866; m. June 21, 1807, Smithers; res.
Akron, Ohio. 4. Gertrude P. Commins, b. June 15, 1868, now
living at 8 East 46th street. New York city. 5. Addie C. Com-
mins, b. Oct. 20, 1869; m. Sept. 12, 1895, Fred M. Shiras. now
livmg in Ottawa, Kan. 6. Daisy C. Commins, b. Mar. 31, 1871;
m. April 29, 1898, Elias L. Toy, now living in Akron, Ohio.
7. Augustus J. Commins, banker, Akron, Ohio, b. Feb. 6, 1875.
8. Alexander H. Commins, b. Akron, Ohio, Nov, 19, 1872; he
is a lawyer, unm ; res. Akron.
POLLY, b. Aug. 12, 1787; d. Dec. 20, 17)3.
BETSEY, b. May 12, 1789; d. Dec. 16. 1793.
ASA, b. March 7, 1791; d. Dec. 21, 1793.
WILLIAM, b. Oct 17, 1792; m. .
ASA, b. Aug. 13, 1794; m. Betsey Cady and Mary A. C. Cady.
POLLY, b. June 25, 1796; d. Jan. 13, 181-I.
OLIVER, b. Sept. 17, 1798; res. Lancaster, N. Y.
BETSEY, b. Dec. 7, 1800; m. March i, 1827. Dr. H. H. Bissell, of
Clarence and Buffalo; son is L. F. Bissell, 127 West 78th street,
New York city.
CHARLES BOWEN, b. May 8, 1805; d. July 25, i8o6.
CHARLES BOWEN, b. Aug. 28. 1807; went with his father in 1811
to Lancaster, N. Y. ; later removed to New York city; d. 1865.
1280. xiv. MARTIN DIGGINS, b. July 16, 1813; res. Buffalo.
651. SILAS FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 16, 1747; m. Aug. 16, 1773,
Azubah Root; d. April 20, 1774, b. in Northfield, Mass. ; always resided there. His
wife Azubah, was dau. of Samuel and Mary (Alexander) Root, of Northfield, b.
March 8, 1741. He d. Nov. 20, 1773. Res. Northfield, Mass.
1281. i. AZUBAH ROOT, b. Mar. 25, 1774; posthumous; m. April 4, 1794,
Gilbert Stacy. He was a ferryman ; d. in Gill, March 23, 1813. She
d. Feb. II, 1S43. Ch. : i. Silas F., b. Sept. 10, 1796. 2. Sally B.,
b. March 25, 1800; d. July, 1803. 3. Charles, b. May xo, 1802; d.
May 12, 1833. 4. Harrison G., b. July 9, 1804. 5. Marianne, b.
July 26, 1806; m. Abidale Mattoon. 6. Harriet, b. May i, 1809.
7. Almira, b. Sept. 27, 1812; m. Rev. C. Hayward.
1282. ii. BOY, b. March 25, 1774, posthumous; d. same day.
1270.
IV.
I27I.
V.
1272.
VI.
1273.
vn.
1274.
vm.
1275-
IX.
127b.
X.
1277.
XI.
1278.
xii.
1279.
xiu.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 313
1283.
1.
1284.
ii.
1285.
iii.
1286.
iv.
1287.
V.
I2S8.
vi.
1289.
vii.
1290.
Vlll.
654. CAPTAIN SAMUEL FIELD (Samuel, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John. John, Richard, William. William), b. Northfield, Mass., March 3, 1755; tn.
May 14, 1776, Elizabeth Mattoon, dau. of Samuel, b. Feb. 15, 1760; d. Aug. 23,
183S. Was an adjutant in the Revolutionary war. Born in Northfield, Mass. ; d.
there. A Revolutionary soldier in Captain Leonard's company. Colonel Shepherd's
regiment, at Ticonderoga, from May i to Dec. 31, 1779; afterward promoted to
adjutant. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Samuel and Abigail (Bardwell) Mattoon,
of Northfield. Elizabeth, of Northfield, April 20, 183S, aged seventy-eight, made
declaration before judge of probate to obtain benefit of act of Congress passed July
4, 1836, i. e., "she is widow of Samuel Field, who served in war of Revolution, and
received pension; was m. to said Samuel, May 14, 1776; said Samuel d. May 30,
1837, and that she has remained widow since." He d. May 30, 1837. Res. Northfield,
Mass.
RHODA, b. May 17, 1777: d. unm. Jan. 13, 1852.
SILAS, b. April 12, 1779; m. Ruth B. Faxon.
ELISHA, b. Jan. 28, 1781; m. Miriam Hancock.
CALEB, b. Dec. 8, 1782 ; went to Georgia.
JUSTIN, b. Dec. 22, 1784; m. Harriet Powers.
BETSEY, b. Jan. 14, 1787; d. July 20, 1787.
BETSEY, b. July 12, 1788; d. Jan. 26, 1796.
FANNY, b. Sept. 26, 1790; m. Dec. 31, 1812, Isaac Gregory, of
Northfield ; was a farmer.
1291. ix. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 2, 1792; m. Martha Bagnell. They went to
Georgia.
1292. X. SUBMIT, b. Nov. 6, 1794; m. Oct. 13, 1825, Capt. Samuel Hunt,
bap. Aug. 23, 1772; d. Nov. ^9, 1832; m., 2d, Hon. Samuel C.
Allen, Jr. Res. Northfield. She d. March 5, 1856. Ch. by
Hunt: I. Martha P., b. April 29, 1828; d. unm., Aug. 16, 1861.
Allen was a farmer ; was a representative in the legislature from
Northfield ; removed to East Boston, where he was postmaster
at his death, April 7, i860.
i.;93. xi. BETSEY, b. Jan. 26, 1797; d. unm. Nov. 28, 1851.
1294. xii. TIMOTHY, b. Aug. 18, 1799; m. September, 1838, Louisa, dau.
of Obadiah and Sophia (Pomeroy) Dickinson, of Northfield, b.
Dec. 10, 1807; d. Nov. 8, 1848; no issue.
Timothy, Northfield, 1887; d. Nov. i, 1887; no widow. Joseph
W. Field, of Weston, child of deceased brother Silas, adminis-
trator. Makes bequests to Thomas B. Field, of Amherst, Mass. ;
Benj. F. Field, of Boston, Mass. ; Susan H Cushing, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y. ; Mary P. Mattoon, of Clinton, Mass., and Henry and
Miranda Williams, of Boston. — Franklin County Probate.
1295. xiii. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 11, 1802.
1296. xiv. MARY, b. June 10, 1808; d. June 13, 1808.
657. DOCTOR SPENCER FIELD (Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John. John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Sept. 26, 1754; m.
Sept, 28, 1776, Betty Frink. He was b. in Northfield, Mass. ; graduated at college;
a physician. He settled in Oakham, Mass., where he was unfortunately killed by
being run against in the early evening, while on his way to visit a sick lady, by
two men named BuUard and Hagar, who were returning from a muster at New
Braintree, riding at gjeat speed, throwing him from his horse, although he had
turned out nearly into the ditch, hitting his head against a large rock by the
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314 FIELD GENEALOGY.
side of the road, breaking his skull, from which injury he survived but a short time.
He was a celebrated physician, and a man highly esteemed by his townsmen, who
honored him with many town offices. His death was deeply deplored, and a mark
placed where the accident occurred was standing until a few years since, but has
now fallen to decay. The house which he built and in which he resided is now
(1900) still standing and in good repair. He m. Betsey, dau. of Dr. John Frink, of
Rutland, Mass. She m., 2d, Locke, Esq., of Ash by. She is said to have been
a very lovely and genteel woman, charitable to the poor. On the spot where he
was killed his townsmen erected a wooden monument, on which were these words:
Stop Passengers.
Behold this fatal rock.
Here from the wound
The crimson blood did flow
Here Dr. Field rec'd his fatal shock
That hastened death
And proved his overthrow.
Field, Spencer, Rutland. Official record of a ballot by the House of Representa-
tives, dated Jan. 23, 1776, of officers chosen to command the six regiments raised
to serve before Boston until April i, 1776; said Field chosen surgeon's mate. Col.
Josiah Whitney's Worcester county regiment; appointment concurred in by coun-
cil Jan. 23, 1776. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Spencer Field, late of Oakham, 1801; will, wife, Betty; daughters, Betsey
Beard, Isabel Field ; son John executor ; a physician. Nathaniel Paine, judge of
Probate.
He d. Nov. II, 1 801. Res. Brookfield and Oakham, Mass.
1297. i. JANE DAY, b. Sept. 14, 1776.
1298. ii. JOHN, b. Nov; 3, 1777; m. Phebe Bowman.
1299. iii, BETSEY, b. 17^; m. Oct. 5, 1798, Dr. Daniel Beard, of Bridge-
port, Conn. She d. October 26, 1833: in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Dr. Daniel Beard was b. in 1767; d. in Stratford, Connecticut,
Oct. 26, 1815; practiced in West Brookfield, Mass., in Trumbull,
Conn., and Stratford, Conn., where he died. Ch. : i. Algernon
► Edwin Beard, b. Oakham, Mass., June 11, 1801; m. May 7, 1828,
Mary Esther Mallory, b. June 26, 1804: d. Oct. 10, 1857. He was
a manufacturer and d. May 27, 1870. Her mother was of the Gov-
ernor Seymour family; she d. Oct. 10, 1857. Upon his marriage
he settled in Norwalk and engaged in manufacturing. He repre-
sented the town in the state legislature several years in succession,
and was prominent in various public enterprises. He was president
of the Fairfield County bank, of Norwalk. He d. May 27, 1870,
aged sixty-nine. Ch. : (a) Edwin Lewis Beard, d. Feb. 9, 1829.
(b) Isabella Francis Beard, m. James Nale; d. February, 1899.
(c) Harriet Elizabeth Beard, d. April 9, 1889. (d) Edward Beard,
(e) Augustus Field, b. May 11, 1833; m. Aug. 19, 1861, Eliza
Payson Goddard; d. Jan. 27, 1863; m., 2d, Jan. 2, 1865, Annie
Deming Barker. He is a clergyman and at present correspond-
ing secretary of the American Missionary Society. He graduated
(A. B.) Yale College, 1S57; (B. D.) Union Theological Seminary,
New York, i860; took degree A. M. Yale i860; was married to
Eliza Payson Goddard, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., Aug. 19, 1861,
who d. Jan. 27, 1863, leaving a daughter, Eliza Isabel Beard,
b. in 1862; was pastor of Central church (Congregational),
Bath, Me., from 1863 to 1869; m. 2d. to Miss Annie Deming
REV. AUGUSTUS FIELD BEARD, D. D.
See page 314.
See page 326.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 315
Barker, of Calais, Me., Jan. 2, 1865; called to Plymouth church
(Congregational), Syracuse, N. Y., in 1S69; accepted and continued
pastor there until fourteen years ago. During this time was also
president of the New York State Home Missionary Society. He
was called, in 1862, to the pastorate of the American Chapel, in
Paris, France, also to be foreign secretary of the American and
Foreign Christian Union for Protestant evangelization; was
director in the McAU Missionary Society. In 1SS5 accepted call
to the corresponding secretaryship of the American Missionary
Association, which has schools, colleges and churches among the
whites and blacks of the South under its care; also schools and
churches among the N. A. Indians, and now in Alaska and Porto
Rico. He has at present charge of educational work in the South
and in Porto Rico. At the present time is a Fellow of Yale
University and member of the Yale University corporation. He
is also a trustee of Fisk University, Nashville, 'Tenn. ; Straight
University, New Orleans, La. ; Tongaloo University, Tongaloo,
Miss.; Howard University, Washington, D. C, and Talladega
College. Talladega, Ala. Has written pamphlets upon Protest-
antism in France (republished in France) and upon educational
and missionary topics. Res. 179 East Ave., Norwalk, Conn. Ch. :
i. Eliza Goddard Beard, ii. Annie Beatrice Beard, iii. Mary
Esther Beard, iv. Harriet Elizabeth Beard, v. Ethel Forrest
Beard ;d. vi. Emma Patten Beard. 2. Rev. Spencer Field Beard,
the eldest son of Dr. Daniel Beard and Betsey Field, of Oakham,
Mass. , was born in West Brookfield, Mass. , July 4, 1 799 ; fitted
for college at Stratford and Bridgeport, Conn., and entered
Yale, but owing to ill health suspended study for a time ; after-
ward entered Amherst, where he graduated in 1824. Graduated
from Andover Theological Seminary in 1S27. For two years
thereafter he was an agent of the A. B. C. F. M., labor-
ing principally in Massachusetts. He was pastor of the
Congregational church in Methuen, Mass., 1S29 to 1832;
stated supply at Norton, Mass., 1832 to 1836; Greenville,
Conn., 1836 to 1837; pastor at Montville, Conn., 1836 to 1846;
stated supply at East Falmouth, Mass., 1S48 to 1853; resided
thereafter at Andover, Mass, July 26, 1831, he married Lucy
Allen Leonard, ot Paxton, Mass., dau. of Jonas Leonard, b. at
Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 10, 1767; d. at Oakham, Mass., April
18, 1812; and Chloe Allen, b. (I think at Bridgewater, Mass.)
1779, and d. in Paxton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1857. After the death of
Jonas Leonard she m. Oct. 17, 1813, Rev. Gains Conant, ot Pax-
ton, Mass. She d. in Montville, Conn.. May 23, 1842, leaving
three sons and a daughter. Mr. Beard m., 2d. Mary Ann Fel-
lowes, of Montville, Conn., May 4, 1843, at the home of her
brother, Hon. Francis Fellowes, ot Hartford, Conn. She was a
daughter of Dr. Ephraim Fellowes, of Montville; b. March 18,
1808; d. Oct. 4, 1891, at Andover, Mass. There were no children
by this marriage. Mr. Beard d. at Andover, Mass., Jan. 8, 1876.
The children of Spencer Field Beard are: (a) Edwin Spencer
Beard, b. at Methuen, Mass.. May 15, 1832; d. at Brooklyn,
Conn, Dec. 25, 1891. He graduated at Phillips Academy, An-
316 FIELD GENEALOGY.
dover, Mass., in 1855; studied two years at Amherst; graduated
at Yale in 1859 and at Andover Seminary in 1S62; ordained to
preach at Riverhead, L. I., April 2, 1863; preached at the
Presbyterian church, East Hampton, L. L, 1S63-4; pastoral
Warren, Me., 1864 to 1873; at Brooklyn, Conn., 1873, till death.
He m. Mary Emma Bard, ot Brooklyn, Conn., June 2, 1884. She
d. Oct. 29, 1895, at Brooklyn. There were no children. (b)
Susan Huntington Beard, b. Feb. 15, 1834, at Norton, Mass.
She m. William Augustus Conrith, of Bridgehampton, L. I., at
New York City, Aug. 2, i860. Both are still living. Ch. : i.
Anabel Jerusha Conrith, b. at Bridge Hampton, L. I., Aug. 15,
1861. ii. Eliza Miller Conrith, b. at same place, Sept. 23, 1862;
d. in infancy, iii. William Spencer Conrith. iv. Lucy Miller,
b. at same place, Feb. 14, 1866. William Spencer d. in infancy, six
months old. v. Cornelia Edgar Conrith, b. at same place, March
19, 1870; all unm. (c) William Henry Beard, b. at Norton, Mass.,
April I, 1836, d. at South Killingly, Conn., Oct. 2, 1896; graduated
at Phillips Academj', Andover, Mass. ; did not go to college ; at
Union Theological Seminar3% in New York City, in 1865 ; resident
licentiate at Andover Seminary in 1866; ordained Nov. 19, 1S67;
acting pastor Freedom, Me., in 1866-69; Harwich, Mass., 1869-71;
Wilton, Me., 1872; South Killingly, Conn.. 1873 till death. He
m. June 10, 1869, Mary Adelaide Parker, of Montville, Conn. ,
dau. of Abishai Alden and Caroline (Fellows — dau. also of
Ephraim Fellows) Parker. She was b. in Montville, Conn., Aug.
20,1842. Ch. : i. William Spencer Beard, b. at South Killingly,
Conn., June 9, 1870; graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., 1890; Yale College, 1894; Yale Theological Seminary, 1897;
ordained at Durham, N. H., Sept. 28, 1897; stated supply at
Worcester, Conn., April and September, 1895; at South Kil-
lingly, Conn., October, 1896; June, 1897; pastor at Durham, N.
H., July, 1897. ii. Edward Chester Beard, b. at South Killingly,
Conn., July 11, 1874; graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., 1894; entered Yale '97 S , but left next April on account
of illness. Is now in business at 91 Bedford St., Boston, iii.
Morris Lyon Beard, b. Jan. 26, 1884; at South Killingly, Conn.,
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N H., 1902. None of the above are
married, (d) George Miller Beard, b. at Montville, Conn., May
8, 1839; d. in New York City, Jan. 23, 18S3; graduated at Phillips
Academy, Andover, Mass., 1S58; at Yale College, 1862; studied
medicine one year at Yale Medical School, and graduated from
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1866 ; was eighteen
months, 1863-64, assistant surgeon on gunboat. New London, in
Western Gulf Pickading squadron ; returned to New York City
and became specialist in nervous diseases and electro-therapeu-
tics. (See Encyclopedia for list of works.) He m. on Dec. 25,
1866. Elizabeth Ann Alden, dau. of William Alden. of Westville,
Conn. ; b. 1838. She d. in New York City, Jan. 31, 1883. Ch. : i.
Edith May Beard, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1873; d. in infancy,
ii. Grace Alden Beard, b. at Westville, Conn., Sept. 28, 1874.
Her home is with her grandmother, Mrs. William Alden, West-
ville, Conn; graduated from Vassar in 1895 with high honor.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 317
She is now teaching in Rome. N. Y. 3. John Fink Beard, b.
March 6, 1803: d. July 8, 1888; m. Lois Ann Wiklman, June 12,
1826. She d. Jan. 12, 1880. He d. July 8. 1888. Ch. : (a) Edwin
Wildman Beard, b. June 24, 1827; d. Aug. 8, 1043; unm. (b)
William Spencer Beard, b. April i, 1826; d. Oct. 3, 1848; unm.
(c) Martha Maria Beard, b. Feb. 21, 1833; m, Philip W. Sommers,
Feb. 4, 1858. Ch. : i, George Farnum Sommers, b. Dec. 19,
1858; d. April 7, 1859. ii. Annie Weldon Sommers, b. April 27,
1869; m. Charles W. Dunn, of Galesburg, July 2, 1885. Ch. : i.
Theodore Sommers Dunn, b, June 22, 1886, 2. Charles F. Dunn,
b. April 6, 1890. 3. Martha Angeline Dunn, b. June, 1892. 4,
Emma Cornelia Dunn, b, Feb. 14, 1894. 5. Harold Dunn, b. ;
d. . iii. William Beard Sommers, b. Aug. 30, 1863; living;
unm. (d) John Pason Beard, b. March 21, 1836; m. May 9, 1861,
Susan Higby; living; no children, (e) Mary Ann Beard, b. Sept.
16, 1839; m. Samuel Closson Holley, Oct. 6, 185S; d. Oct. 28, 1897.
Ch. : i. Harriet Beard Holley, b. Sept. 10, 1S61, m. Sept. 13, 1892,
Harry Robert Williams, of Hartford, Conn. Res, 836 Prospect
Ave. Ch.: i. Beatrice Holley Williams, b. July 21, 1893. 2. Lois
Paulding Williams, b. Aug. 16, 1895. 3. Elizabeth Wolcott Wil-
liams, b. Oct. 30, 1896; all living, ii. Mary Louise Holley, b.
Nov. 29, 1863; m. George Raymond Tweedy, May 24, 1888. Ch. :
I. Raymond Holley Tweedy, b. Sept. 3. 1889. 2. Margery
Beard Tweedy, b. April 18, 1892; all living. Res. 160 Deer Hill
Ave., Danbury, Conn. iii. Alfred Wildman Holley. b. Aug_
31, 1865; m. Jennie Perry Robinson, June 3, 1895. Ch. : i. Mary
Beard Holley, b. Dec. 2, 1896. Res. 8 Terrace Place, Danbury,
Conn, (f) James Bradley Beard, b. April 30, 1842; m, Julia M.
Dodge, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 29, 1868. Ch. : i. Edwin
Spencer Beard, ii. Greenville Dodge Beard ; both unm. 4. Eliza-
beth Field, b. March 8, 1805; m. Sept. 29, 1829, William B. Wild-
man,of Danbury, Conn. He wasb. Dec. 8, 1797; d. Jan. 15, 1859.
She d. Dec. 15, 1842. Ch. : (a) Isabella Beard Wildman, b. Oct. 15,
1831; m, Oct. 3, 1853, Morris W. Lynn, of Fairfield, Conn; is
still living; no children, (b) John William Wildman, b. Aug. 8,
1834; m. Nov. 22, 1865, Alice L. Rockwell, of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Ch. : I. Isabell L. Wildman, b. July 30, 1868. All living, (c)
Alfred Nirum Wildman, b. Dec. 21, 1838; m. Dec. 19, 1867, Ellen
Watkins Dellicker. Ch. : i. Leonard Dellicker Wildman, b.
Oct. 12, 1868. Res. Danbury, Conn. He is president of the
National Pohquioque bank. 5. Catharine Jane Beard, b. Jan.
II, 1808; d. Jan. I, 1885; m. Oct. 5. 1831, Levi Hopkins, of He-
bron, N. Y. She d. Jan. i, 1885. Levi Hopkins, her husband,
was b. April 19, 1807; d. Dec. 2, 1874. Ch.: (a) Mary E. Hop-
kins, b. Jan. 15, 1835; m. Feb. 26, 1856, Samuel Chapman, Jr.,
M. D., of Saratoga county, New York. He was b. Aug.
29, 1825; d. June 19, 1876. He was a graduate of Union Col-
lege and Albany Medical College. For many years prior to
his decease he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian
church of Burlington, N. J. It may also be of interest to note
that Dr. Chapman was a lineal descendant of Robert Chapman,
of the original settlers of Saybrook, Conn. Ch. : i, Samuel
318 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Spencer, b. Feb. 5, 1S57; m. Dec. 19, 18S9, Elizabeth Ireton
McDonough. Ch. : i. Jessie Chapman, b. Nov. 17, 1890; d.
Nov. 21, 1890. 2. Walter Hopkins Chapman, b. Sept. 13, 1892.
ii. Howard H. , b. Nov. 3, 1864; d. June 26. 1889. iii. Edwin
Hendrie, b. Oct. 20, 1865. iv. Herbert, b. March 9, 1867; d.
Aug. 13, 1867. V. Francis, b. Aug. 19, 1 869. vi. Sarah and
Catherine, b. April 9, 1871. Sarah d. Sept. 22, 1871; Catharine
d. Oct. 3, 1871. vii. William E., b. March 6, 1873. Samuel
Spencer Chapman, Francis Chapman and William E. Chap-
man are all members of the Philadelphia bar, all having
received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Pennsyl-
vania. S. Spencer Chapman and Francis Chapman are attorneys-
at-law, at looi Chestnut Street, rooms 515 and 516, Philadelphia,
Pa. (b) Levi Hopkins, Jr., b Aug. 15, 1837; d. Oct. 4, 1S37.
6. Isabella Maria Beard, b. June 20, 1810; d. about 1827.
7. William Otis Beard, b. Aug. 22, 1812; d. June 24, 1S66, at
Philadelphia, Pa. 8. Mary Ann Beard, b. March 10, 1816; m.
Charles Hendrie; d. November, 1850.
1300. iv. ISABELLA, b. 1781; m. Grey, of Salem, N. Y.
659. WALTER FIELD (Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 24, 1758; m. in 1782, Plana
Pettee, b. June 16, 1762; d. May 21, 1800. She was dau. of Reuben and Lydia.
Walter, of Northfield, Aug. 11, 1817; widow Plana Field. Children, Gratia,
minor, above fourteen years; Walter and Eloisa, minors, under fourteen years;
grand-daughter Lucretia Field, minor, under fourteen years, dau. of James D.
Janes. — Franklin County Probate. He d. May 4, 181 7. Res. Northfield, Mass.
1301. i. NANCY, b. July 14, 1783; m. Sept. 13, 1810, Levi Stoddard, of
Brattleboro. She d. Dec. 26, 1839.
1302. ii. PAUL, b. Jan. 22, 1785; d. Sept. 28, 1810.
1303. iii. ROXANNA, b. July 2, 1787; m. Oct. 28, 1807, James D. Janes.
He was son of Ebenezer, b. 1782; d. Aug. 30, 1829. She d. Nov.
5, 1810. Ch. : I. Lucretia F., b. Dec. 17, 1808; m. Daniel L.
Callender. 2. Roxanna, b. Sept. 28, 1810; d. March 20, 181 1.
He m., 2d, Joanna Holton, and had two children.
1304. iv. PHILINDA, b. Sept. 18, 1789; d. unm. June 22, 1813.
1305. V. ERASTUS, b. Dec. 24, 1791; m. Hannah Callender.
1306. vi. SARAH, b. Dec. 4, 1793; d. Oct. 23, 1794-
1307. vii. SARAH, b. Sept. 11, 1795; m. Sept. 24, 1821, John G. Mudge, of
Winchester. He was son of Joseph and Lois, b. Needham,
Mass., Jan. i, 1791; d. Winchester, N. H., Sept. 20, 1833. He
went from Needham to Westminster with his parents when
about seven years of age. At the age of thirty he was located at
Winchester in trade. He dealt largely in cattle, having extensive
pastures in Chesterfield, and accumulated considerable property.
Sarah d. Aug. 18, 1829, and he m., 2d, March 15, 1831, Mary
Mattoon, who was s. p. Ch. : i. John Green, Jr., b. March 26,
1823; m. Dec. 7, 1848, Eliza A. Witherell, b. April 1, 1826. After
the death of his father he resided with his uncle, Walter Field,
in Northfield. Received a liberal education and became a
farmer ; married and moved to Petersham and engaged in busi-
ness. He was representative a number of times, and senator for
FIELD GENEALOGY. 319
1308.
Vlll.
1309.
IX.
I3I0.
X.
I3II.
XI.
1312.
xii.
1313-
xm.
two years. He was a man of much public spirit, and during the
Civil war raised a company^of volunteers; received a captain's
commission, and served nine months as captain of Company
F, Fifty-third regiment; was wounded while in the service.
Ch. : (a) Arthur Charles, b. Jan. i, 1850. (b) Mary Eliza, b.
Dec. 7, 1853. (c) Ruth Witherell, b. April 21, 1857. 2. Augustus,
b. March 13, 1825; d. Oct. 5, 1827. 3. Mary Augusta, b. Sept.
3, 1827; d. Feb. 3, 1837. 4. Sarah Field, b. June 19, 1829; d.
Oct. 7, 1829.
GRATIA, b. March 3, 1798; m. Albro Blodget, of Claremont, N. H.
PIANA, b. April 30, 1800; d. Aug. 15, 1803.
ELOISA, b. Sept. 19, 1802; d. Sept. 19, 1803.
WALTER, b. Oct. 22, 1805; m. Mary Holton, Anna Lyman and
Lydia J. Smith.
ELOISA PIANA, b. June 4, 1808; m. John Mallord, of Georgia.
WALTER, b. June 30, 1804; d. July i, 1804.
663. ZECHARIAH FIELD (Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Sept. 27, 1768; m. Nov. 26, 1789,
Abigail Mattoon, dau. of Dr. Samuel, b. Sept, 2, 1769; d. Nov. 13, 1853. He was a
thoroughgoing and enterprising business man. Before 1800 he built a mill for the
manufacture of castor and linseed oil on Miller's brook, just east of the home lot.
In 1 814 he removed to Athol, Mass., where he kept a noted tavern, which was fav-
orably known throughout the surrounding country, and Uncle Zach, as he was
familiarly called, was sure of his share of custom. He afterward returned to North-
field, where he died. He m. Abigail, dau. of Dr. Samuel and Abigail (Bardwell)
Mattoon, of Northfield. His life was an uneventful one. A farmer by occupation,
a stalwart representative of the early English colonists, he spent most of his life in
Northfield, the place of his nativity, where he died in his ninetieth year, leaving
behind him the fragrance of an upright life, and a strong and loving nature. He
d. May 9, 1858. Res. Northfield, Mass.
SON, b. June 2, 1791; d. same day.
LUCIUS, b. March 29, 1792; m. Lucia Hubbard.
SOPHIA, b. Aug. 12, 1794; m. Sept. 29, 1817, Joseph Young.
CHRISTIAN H.. b. Oct. 12, 1796; m. Feb. 19, 1819, James Jones,
of Athol.
ABIGAIL, b. May 23, 1799; d. unm., Nov. 4, 1863.
CATHERINE, b. Nov. 25, 1801 ; d. unm., March 3, 1864.
SON, b. March 30, 1804; d. same day.
SPENCER, b. March 31, 1805; d. Sept. 6, 1805.
SPENCER, b. Oct. 8, 1806; m. Clara Humphrey.
MARIA, b. Oct. 3, 1808; d. April 10, 1811.
ZECHARIAH, b. June 26, 1811; d. unm., Troy. N. Y., July 22,
1849.
CHARLES, b. June 9, 1815; m. Caroline C. Alden.
SON, b. June 15, 1813; d. June 16, 1813.
665. DOCTOR HUBBARD FIELD (Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Northfield, Mass., Sept. 20, 1775; he
graduated at college, and was a physician; he settled in 1802 in Lyndon, Vt. ; he
m. Abby .
1327. i. GEORGE, b. 1825 in Lyndon- m. Louisa Rawson.
1328. ii. DAUGHTER.
1314-
1.
I3I5.
11.
I3I6.
111.
I3I7.
IV.
I3I8.
V.
1319-
VI.
1320.
vu.
I32I.
Vlll,
1322.
IX.
1323.
X.
1324.
XI.
1325.
xii.
1326.
XIU.
320 FIELD GENEALOGY.
668. EBENEZER FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Oct. ii, 1744; m. July 21,
1767, Eunice Wright, dau. of Benoni and Martha (Sheldon), b. Jan. 26, 1752; d. July
6, 1826; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Ebenezer Field, son of Ebene-
zer and Sarah Mattoon, b. in Northfield, Mass. (set off to Gill in 1805): res. some
time in Western; returned to Gill, where he d. in iSii. He was a soldier in the
Continental army, one of the company of Minute men, with the rank of corporal ;
on the Lexington alarm roll; Capt. Reuben Read's company, Col. Jonathan War-
ner's regiment, which marched April 20 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775,
from Western to Roxbury. He was sergeant in Capt. John Granger's company.
Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment; Oct. 7, 1775, enlisted in Western; he was in
Colonel Shepard's regiment from Jan. i, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also from Jan. i to
April 14, 1780; lieutenant; rolls dated at Providence, Nov. 13, 1778, and May 5,
1771; reported furloughed May 4 for ten days by Colonel Shepard. Hem. July
21, 1767, Eunice, dau, of Benoni and Martha (Sheldon) Wright, of Northfield, Mass.,
b. Jan. 26, 1752; d. July 6, 1826. By occupation, Mr. Field was a farmer; he ovvned
several hundred acres in what is now known as Gill, and was for years known as
the richest man in that section. The farm was a fine one, and always under admir-
able cultivation ; it was portioned off to various sons and davighters. The old home-
stead was years afterward sold. Mr. Field was an excellent townsman, kind,
benevolent and much beloved. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian
church. Rev. Josiah Canning's, a prominent minister of their time. Mr. and Mrs.
Field had nine children.
Eunice, of Gill, Oct. 10, 1826, recorded, widow, daughter-in-law, wife of Loring
S. Field, my own son; grandchildren, sons and daughters of Loring S. Field.
Ebenezer Field, filed June 22, 1813, yeoman; wife Eunice; sons, Rodolphus Dwight,
Bohan Prentiss, Ebenezer, Asaph W., Loring Sheldon; daughters, Aurelia, Eunice,
Gratia, Filena. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. in 181 1. Res. Northfield, and Gill, Mass.
AURELIA, bap. Oct. 16, 1768; d. Nov. 13, 1768.
RODOLPHUS WRIGHT, bap. Oct. 22, 1769; m. Hannah D. Hol-
lister.
BOHAN PRENTICE, bap. April 26, 1772; d. young.
EBENEZER SERENO, bap. May 7, 1775; m. Amelia Connable.
AURELIA, bap. March 11, 1778; m. in 1793, Deacon Elisha Hol-
lister, of Gill. He was b. Sept. 3, 1767, son of Deacon Elisha;
he d. in Glastonbury, Conn., Dec. 3, 1833; he studied medicine
in the office of his brother-in-law. Dr. Asa Coleman ; he settled in
Gill and was prominent in his profession. Ch. : i. Daughter, b.
1794. 2. Perez Graves; m. Oct 8, 1835, Clarissa R. McKee, dau.
of Judge Thomas; four children. 3. Dr. Dwight; res. Bristol-
ville, Ohio. 4 and 5. Bohan and Horace, d. together in childhood
and buried in one grave. 6. Chandler Chauncey, b. Aug. 4,
1804; m. Delany Stebbins; d. Dec. 10, 1881; six children. 7.
Hiram Strong, b. . 8. Charles. 9. Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 4,
1810; m. July 4, 1835, Rev. Louis Clark, of Northampton; he d.
in Glenville, Ohio, March 5, 1876; was a descendant of Lieut. W.
Clark; member of the Methodist Episcopal Conference,
Northampton, Mass; she d. in Glenville in 1881 ; six children.
1334. vi. EUNICE, bap. April 3, 1780; m. Zephaniah Pitts, of Gill, and re-
moved to western New York.
1335. vii. ASAPH WARREN, bap. June 5, 1783 ;d. unm.
1329.
1.
1330.
11.
I33I.
iii,
1332.
IV.
1333.
V.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 321
1336. viii. LOREN SHELDON, bap. April 9, 1786; m. Mary Hubbard.
1337. ix. GRATIA, bap. Oct. 11, 1789; d. unm.
1338. X. FILENA, bap. Jan. 7, 1794; m. Leonard Jacobs, of Guilford, Vt.,
from whom she procured a divorce, and m. John Warner, ot
Greenfield.
1339. xi. BOHAN PRENTICE, b. May 23, 1773; m. Abigail Davis.
fjo. ABNER FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., May 27, 1750; m. Dec. 17. 1776,
Mary Mattoon, dau. of Dr. Samuel and Abigail (Bardwell), b. Feb. 9, 1762; d. Dec.
19, 1840.
Abnerof Northfield, insolvent intestate, Aug. 24, 1832, administratrix, widow
Mary Field; children, Ebenezer Field and Polly H. Alexander.— Franklin County
Probate.
He d. July 17, 1S32; res. Northfield, Mass.
1340. i. GEORGE P., b. April 10, 1779; d. March 23, 1794.
1341. ii. TIRZA PHILENA. b. April 6, 1781; m. April 4, 1816, Caleb
Lyman, of Northampton, b. Aug. 7, 1750; d. Aug. 18, 1822; m.,
2d, John Huntington. Lyman was a hatter by trade ; was dep-
uty sheriff at Northampton, Mass., for forty years; he d. s. p. by
Tirza, Aug. 18, 1S22; Huntington was of Sudbury.
1342. iii. POLLY H., b. April 2, 1783 ; m. May 31, 1804, Major Elijah Alexan-
der. He was b. Sept. 9, 1780, son of Elisha; was a major and
blacksmith; d. April 7, 1854. She d. May 21, 1848. Res. North-
field. Ch. : I. Harriet, b. Dec. 31, 1806; m. Charles Field. 2.
George, b. May 8. 1S08; m. Eliza Colton. 3. Charles, b. June 17,
1810; m. Amanda Colton. 4. Elijah, b. April 12, 1812; went
south. 5. Arad, b. Feb. 14, 1814; m. Adelpha Davis and Mary
Thompson. 6. Sally E., b. April 23, 1815; m. Hopkins Wood. 7.
Sophia, b. Nov. 17, 1817; m. Noah Moody. 8. Fanny, b. May
30. 1820; m. Chauncey Merriam. 9. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1823;
m. Elijah Howe. 10. Isabella P., b. March 18, 1826; d. Aug. 16,
1831.
1343. iv, CHARLES L., b. March i, 1785; he settled in 1800 in Bridgeport,
Vt., where he m. and moved to New York State, and d. s. p.
SALLY E., b. March 2, 1786; d. unm. May 7, 1812.
ROSWELL. b. July 17, 1788; d. Dec. 24, 1788.
ROSWELL, b. Dec. i, 1789; m. Peace Cook.
LUCY, b. Feb. i, 1792; m. March 11, 181 3, Henry Lyman. He
was son ot James, b. Dec. 18, 1787; removed to Hartland, Wis.,
and d. there June 24, 1845. Ch. : i. Senah, b. Jan. 8, 1814; m.
Albert Field. 2. Henry, b. Aug. 19, 1816; m. Morgan. 3.
George, b. Jan. 24, 1819. 4. Lucy, b. March 16, 1821. 5. Marilla,
b. Oct. 30, 1S22. 6. Mary A., b. Nov. 22, 1824; d. unm. 7. John
F., b. Nov. 2, 1826. 8. Abner F., b. Alarch 8, 1829. g. Waldo_F.,
b. July I, 1S31. 10. Juliette, b. March 16, 1833.
GEORGE P., b. April 19, 1794; m. Pamelia Bardwell.
MISILLA, b. Aug. 30, 1796; m. Oct. 23, 1S22, James Anderson, of
Charlestown, N. H.
ABNER, b. July 5, 1798; m. .
EBENEZER, b. April 4, 1800; m. .
ADELAIDE, b. Dec. 11, 1802; m. .
1344-
V.
1345.
VI.
1346.
Vll.
1347-
Vlll.
1348.
IX.
1349-
X.
1350.
xi.
1351.
Xll.
1352.
XUl.
322 FIELD GENEALOGY.
675- LIEUTENANT MOSES DICKINSON FIELD (Moses, Ebenezer,
Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Feb. lo,
1742. He settled in Surry, N. H., where hed. Sept. 8, 1828, aged 85 years, 6 months,
15 days. He was a celebrated hunter and marksman. At the age of eleven he went
across the Connecticut river with his father to plough a piece of ground he had there,
taking his gun with him tor the purpose ot hunting partridges in the month of
March. In crossing a swale where a skunk cabbage grew, he noticed some of it had
been eaten off. Knowing that no animal would eat it but the bear, he concluded
one was in the vicinity; putting a small dog that was with him on the track, he fol-
lowed it to a hemlock tree that had fallen down. Looking in among the brush, he
saw a black object, and putting a couple of bullets into his gun, fired, when a bear
sprang out wounded and made off followed by the dog. Loading his gun again,
he followed, overtaking the bear who was retained by the dog; getting sufficiently
near, he aimed at a vital part and fired, killing him. He then went for his father
who was ploughing near by to assist him in carrying the bear home. His father,
rather incredulous about bears being about, did not readily go with him, but upon
his persistence that he had really killed one, went with him and took the bear
home, complaining that it had lost him a day's work ploughing. He was a lieuten-
ant in Captain Mack's company of New Hampshire militia at the battle of Benning-
ton. The day before the battle, Aug. 15th, was a rainy day; as he and Captain
Mack (of Gilsum) were on a reconnaissance, they came to a puddle of water in the
road when they parted to the right and left to avoid it; just before they closed
again, a bullet struck in the water in the middle of the road. As they were passing
on, Lieutenant Field discovered an Indian crawling along on the ground in the
woods not far from them. Apprising Captain Mack, they watched until they saw
him raise his head, when both fired and the Indian fell. The day after the battle
Lieutenant Field found where the Indian was buried, near the place where he was
killed. He opened the grave, hoping to find his musket or some article, but noth-
ing had been buried with him. It was ascertained that he was a sachem, and was
shot through the breast. When marching on to the ground the next day, he observed
several British officers looking through their glasses, scanning the American troops ;
he left his company, filling his mouth with bullets and getting a position where
he was somewhat protected by an oak tree ; he fired several shots in quick succession
until his gun got hot, which caused them to move away, when he hastened on and
regained his company. On examination after the battle the ground was found to
be very bloody. It was said that General Baum was one of the party and probably
received his fatal wound at that time. While the British were retreating. Lieuten-
ant Field followed their track, seeing a soldier stoop to pick up something he had
dropped, fired at him, when he pitched forward and fell to the ground. Of this
particular act he always spoke with regret. His grandson, Mr. Jonathan R. Field,
living in Surry, says: "My grandfather never related the incidents of that battle
without shedding tears." He found upon the ground after the battle a small trunk
containing several fine Holland shirts, also a silver ornament about the weight of a
dollar, representing the Savior on the cross, about three inches in length. The
ornament, together with his grandfather's powder horn marked with his initials,
were stolen from Mr. Jonathan R. Field a few years since. He m. March 13, 1767,
Patience, dau. of Jonathan Smith, of Surry, b. Aug. 16, 1748; d. July 2, 1833,
aged 84 years, 10 months, 14 days.
1353. i. MOSES, b. July 9, 1769; m. Molly Hay ward.
1354. ii. LUCINDA, b. Jan. 26, 1772; m. Oct. 27, 1791, Calvin Hayward, of
Surry; d. Jan. 16, 1849.
1355. iii. SARAH, b. Feb. 6, I774; ni. Abner Howard, of Surry.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 323
1356.
iv.
1357-
V.
1358.
VI.
1359-
Vll.
1360.
vni.
1361.
IX.
1362.
X
1363.
XI.
LEWIS, b. March i, 1776; d. in infancy.
JERUSHA, b. Dec. 19. 1778; m. Dr. Calvin Haskins, of Surry.
ISAAC, b. March 28, 1781; m. Dolly Robinson.
ELIPHAZ. b. Feb. 20, 1784; m. Susanna Robinson.
RHODA. b. May 4, 1787; na. Smith, of Surry.
CYRUS, b. Nov. 20, 1789; m. Nancy Baxter and Sarah Joslyn.
EUNICE, b. Feb. 7, 1792; m. William Thayer, of Rockingham, Vt.
ZENAS, b. 1795; m. Follett.
677. SOLOMON FIELD (Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Northfield, Mass., June 28, 1746. He settled in
Deerfield; in 1770 removed to Conway, where he d. April 20, 1828. A Revolution-
ary soldier in Capt. Israel Waite's company April 20, 1775; in Capt. Seth Murray's
company at Moses Creek and Fort Edward from July 9 to Aug. 12, and in the battle
of Bennington Aug. 16, 1777, and was some time longer in the service. He m. Oct.
25, 1770. Mary, dau. of Asahel and Lucy (Waite) Wright, of Deerfield (Wapping),
b. Aug. 12, 1752; d. June 24, 1821. Res, Conway, Mass.
1364. i. PERSIS, b. Sept. 9, 1771 ; d. May 12, 1853. Persis Field, of Con-
way, spinster, 1853; recorded Aug. 23, 1853; nephew, Consider
Field; brothers, Silas Field, Bro. Horace Field's heirs, Bro.
Reuben Field; sisters, Electa, Anna Childs; brothers, Elijah,
Chester, Solomon and Joachim (?) ; sister, widow Philena Field ;
Consider Field, executrix.— Franklin County Probate.
13C5. ii. ANNA, b. Jan. 14, 1774; m. probably Sept. '9, 1804, Samuel Childs,
of Deerfield; d. July 31, 1854.
SOLOMON, b. Nov. i, 1776; m. Ruth Porter.
REUBEN WRIGHT, b. April 4, 1779; m- Polly White and Abigail
L. White.
SILAS, b. Sept. 3, 1781 ; m. Gratia Catlin,
HORACE, b. April 14, 1784; m. Zerviah Burnham.
JOEL, b. Oct. 27, 1786; m. Philinda Wilder.
CHESTER, b. Dec. 27, 1788; m. Sophia Loveridge and Rebecca
Johnson.
1372. ix. ELIJAH, b. Nov. 13, 1791; m. Filana Arms and Nancy Grey
Ranney.
1373. X. ELECTA, b. Feb. 17, 1794; m. David Edson, of Buckland, Mass. ;
d. Jan. 8, 1868.
1374. xi. ONE OTHER.
679. SERGEANT NOAH FIELD (Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 29, 1750; m.
Aug. iQ, 1773, Mary Brown, dau. of Edward and Hannah (Thomas), b. 1748; settled
in Whately, Mass., where he d. A Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Israel Waite's
company, April 20, 1775; a sergeant in Capt. Seth Murray's company at Fort
Edward and Moses Creek from July 9 to Aug. 12, and in the battle of Bennmgton
Aug. 16, 1777, and in the service at other times.
Field, Noah, Whately. Private, Capt. Israel Chapin's company. Col. John Fel-
low's regiment, which marched April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19.
1775; service to April 26, 1775, 7 days; also Capt. Israel Chapin's (2d) company.
Col. John Fellows' (8th) regiment; muster roll dated Aug. i, i775 ; enlisted April 27,
1775; service, 3 months, 12 days; also company return dated Oct. 8, I775; also
order tor bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Dorchester, Nov. 25, 1775;
also sergeant, Capt. Seth Murray's company, Maj. Jonathan Clap's regiment; en-
1366.
111.
1367.
IV.
1368.
V.
1369.
VI.
1370.
Vll.
1371-
VIU
324 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1375.
1376.
11.
1377.
Ill,
1378.
iv.
1379-
V.
1 3 So.
VI.
gaged July 9, 1777; discharged Aug. 12, 1777; service, i month, 10 days, travel
included, on an expedition to Fort Edward and Moses Creek. — Massachusetts State
Revolutionary Records.
He d. July 8, 1797; res. Conway and Whately, ]\Ia£s.
NOAH, b, Aug. 13, 1775; d. July 19, 1813.
EDWARD, b. Feb. 6, 1780; m. Nancy Ingalls.
OBED, b. 1782; m. Tabitha Aldridge; he joined the Shakers at
Shelby, N. Y.
POLLY, b. 1784; m. John Clapp, of New York.
CHARITY, b. 1786; m. .
FANNY, b. 1788; m. Sept. 20, 1803, Silas Smith, of Buckland.
Mass.
1381. vii. LUCINDA, b. May 11, 1790; m. April, 1812, Pliny Graves, of
Whately.
1382. viii. CONTENT, b. 1792; m. Sylvanus Clark, of Florida, Mass.
1383. ix. LUCY, b. 1795; m. M. Ware, of Buckland.
683. MEDAD FIELD (Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., April 25, 1759; m. in 1795, Phoebe
Gould, of Petersham, b. 1765; d. May 17, 1841.
Field, Medad. Private, Capt. Salmon White's company. Colonel Woodbridge's
regiment; enlisted Aug. 17, 1777; discharged Aug. 19, 1777; service, 4 days, at the
Northward by order of Gen. Horatio Gates. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary
Records.
Medad, of Northfield; 1848, May 9; filed; wife Phoebe; ch., Achsah, wife of
Elisha Wells; Solomon; latter, executor.
He d. Feb. 18, 1848. Res. Northfield, Mass.
1384. i. ACHSAH, b. Feb. 6, 1797; m. May 28, 1816, David Endy, of Ley-
den; m., 2d, Elisha Wells, of Deerfield.
1385. ii. SOLOMON, b. Jan. 6, 1801; ro. Prudence Gould.
684. FIFER PHINEAS FIELD (Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John. Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 29, 1760; m. ist, Jan.
6, 1785, Diadama Morgan, dau. of Reuben and Editha (Chapin), b. 1767, d. Aug. i,
1788; m., 2d, Nov. 14, 1790, Eunice Lyman, dau. of Capt. Seth and Eunice
(Graves), b. April 17, 1770; d. Sept. 18, 1830. A Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Seth
Pierce's company. Col. Seth Murray's regiment, as fifer at Claverack and West
Point from July 4 to Oct. 10, 1780. Was at West Point at the time of Arnold's
treachery. His mother was unwilling he should go. When the Northfield men
returned unnoticed into the village by the people, they came to the big rock when
he struck up a lively tune. His mother on hearing it, exclaimed, "Phinne has got
back," going quickly out to meet him, and a general jubilee was held in the village
for their safe return.
Field, Phineas, Northfield. Private, Capt. Elihu Lyman's company, Col.
Elisha Porter's (Hampshire county) regiment; enlisted July 25, 1779". discharged
Aug. 31, 1779; service, i month, 13 days, travel included, at New London, Conn.
Also descriptive list dated Warwick, Aug. 4, 1 780, of men detached from Sixth
Hampshire county regiment, agreeable to order of court of June 22, 1780, to serve
for the term of three months from time of arrival at Claverack; Capt. Seth Pierce's
company, Col. Seth Murray's regiment; enlisted July 15, 1780; discharged Oct. 10,
1780; service, 3 months, 6 days, travel included; company raised to reinforce Con-
tinental army for 3 months; roll dated Leverett. —Massachusetts State Revolution-
ary Records.
MAJ. CHARLES H. HITCHCOCK.
See page 325.
DR. ARTHUR E. PRINXE.
See page 33.5.
MOSES FIELD.
See page 345.
HENRY C. IIAKDOX.
See page 3.52.
DR. LUCIUS C. HERRICK.
See page 371.
DR. S. S. HERRICK.
See page 370.
JOH.N b. BU.S.SING.
See page 389.
S. R. BINGHAM.
See page 406.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 325
Phineas, of Northfield; Dec. 17, 1833. recorded; wife. Eunice; sons, Sharon.
Lucius. Phineas. Moses; daughters, Electa, Diadcma. Mary; granddaughter. Lucy
Smith.
He d. Oct. 18, 1833. Res. Northfield, Mass.
1386. i. SHARON, b. Oct. 17, 1785; m. Betsey Hastings.
1387. ii. ELECTA, b. July 23 1787; m- Dr. John Topliff, of Westfield.
Mass. ; res. Quincy, 111. She d. in 1S38 in Quincy, 111.
Dr. John Topliff. b. Sept. 6. 1784; m. Electa Field Oct. 9, 1808;
d, March 3. 1816: Electa Field Topliff, b. 1787; d. Nov. 10,
1838. He was descended from Clement Topliff, who came to
Dorchester in 1636. For many years his ancestors were deacons,
selectmen and men of high standing in the community. His
immediate ancestors had settled in Connecticut, but his tather
lived at the time of his son's birth near Westfield, Mass. Dr.
John was a student at Williams College. Mass., says his geneal-
ogist, but did not graduate. He m. Electa Field Oct. 9. 1808, and
shortly after removed to Warren, Mass., where, after a brief but
happy union of eight years, he d, Ch. : i. Mary, b. Aug. 19.
1809; m. m Westfield, Mass., November, 1832, Porter Smith, b.
Blandford. Mass., June, 1S09; d. Quincy, 111., June, 1872; she d.
there March 13, 1878; he was the youngest child of William and
Sally (Anderson) Smith; William d. Blandford, Mass., in 1825,
and Sally Anderson passed away in Chester. Mass., in 1848.
Ch.: (a) Charlotte T. Smith, b. July, 1836; m. 1862, Milton S.
Kimball. Res. 282 Ontario street, Chicago, 111 (bj Mary J., b. Nov.
7, 1833; m. May 12, 1855. Henry S. Hitchcock, b. Dec. 24, 1830;
d. July, 1866; m., 2d, Dec. i, 1S70, Hon. Paul Selby, b. July 20,
1825 ; res. 38 13 Rhodes avenue, Chicago. 111. Ch. : i. Frederick S.
Hitchcock, b. March, 1856; d. February, 1857. ii- Charles Henry
Hitchcock, b. Nov. 12, 1857, Binghamton, N. Y. ; m., ist, Jennie
K. Brown, who d. same year, 1886; m., 2d, Estelle Heath, 1891;
address, Binghampton. N.Y. iii. Sidney C. Hitchcock, b. October,
1859; d. December. 1871. iv. Charlotte S. Hitchcock, b. Quincy.
111.. July 20, 1863; m. Sept. 14, 1887. Dr. Arthur E. Prince; ad-
dress. Springfield, 111. Ch. : i. Lucy Virginia, b. Oct. 5. 1888.
2. David Chandler, b. Feb. 5, 1891. 3. Mary, b. Nov. 24, 1892.
v. Pauline Selby, b. January, 1873; <3- 1877. vi. Clarence P,
Selby, b. 1875; d. 1877-
Henry Samuel Hitchcock, son of Simon C. Hitchcock and Eu-
phrasia Jackson Hitchcock, was b. at Cazenovia. N. Y.. Dec. 24,
1830; m.. ist, Emily Greenland, May i, 1852, at Cazenovia. who
d. May 17, 1853. In 1853 he removed to Binghamton, N. Y.,
where he engaged in mercantile business; m., 2d, Mary Jane
Smith, May 12. 1855. In i860, he removed to Quincy, 111., where
he resided at the time of his death, which occurred at St. Louis,
Mo., July 27, 1866. No children were born of the first marriage.
The following children were born of his second marriage: i.
Frederick Smith Hitchcock, b. 1856; d. about a year later. 2.
Charles Henry Hitchcock, b. Nov. 12. 1857- Graduated with
degree of A. B. at Hamilton College in 1879; was instructor in
classics and higher mathematics at De Garmo Institute, Rhine-
beck, N. Y.. 1879-87; studied law at Binghamton, N. Y.. and
326 FIELD GENEALOGY.
admitted to the bar January, 1885; m., ist, Jennie K. Brown, of
Rhinebeck, N. Y., April 19, 1886; she d, Sept. 20, 1S86; m., 2d,
Estelle Heath, of Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 20. 1891; resides and prac-
tices law at Bingham ton, N.Y., firm Hitchcock & Seymour, rep-
resenting several important local corporate and business interests.
Served in National Guard, New York, since 1882; served in
Spanish-American war as captain of First New York Volunteer
Infantry, May i, 1898. to Feb. 26, 1899; served with regiment in
Hawaiian Islands with credit and recommended for promotion;
now major commanding, battalion ot First Infantry, National
Guard, New York. No children.
Paul Selby, editor, was b. in Pickaway county, Ohio, July
20, 1825; removed with his parents, in 1837, to Van Buren
county, Iowa, but, at the age of 19, went to southern
Illinois, where he spent tour years teaching, chiefly in
Madison county. In 1848 he entered the preparatory department
of Illinois College at Jacksonville, but left the institution during
his junior year to assume the editorship of the Morgan Journal, at
Jacksonville, with which he remained until the fall of 1858, cov-
ering the period of the organization of the Republican party, in
which the Journal took an active part. He was a member of the
Anti-Nebraska (afterwards known as Republican) State Conven-
tion, which met at Springfield, in October, 1854 (the first ever
held in the State), and. on Feb. 22, 1856, attended and presided
over a conference of Anti-Nebraska editors of the State at Deca-
tur, called to devise a line of policy for the newly organizing
Republican party. This body appointed the first Republican
State Central Committee and designated the date ot the Bloom-
ington Convention of May 29, following, which put in nomination
the first Republican State ticket ever named in Illinois, which
ticket was elected in the following November. In 1859 he pre-
pared a pamphlet giving a history of the celebrated canal scrip
fraud, which was widely circulated. Going south in the fall ot
1859, he was engaged in teaching in the State of Louisiana until
the last of June, 1861. Just two weeks before the fall of Fort
Sumter he was denounced to his Southern neighbors as an "abo-
litionist" and falsely charged with having been connected with
the "underground railroad," in letters from secession sympathiz-
ers in the North, whose personal and political enmity he had
incurred while conducting a Republican paper in Illinois, some
of whom referred to Jefferson Davis, Senator Slidell of Louisiana,
and other Southern leaders as vouchers tor their characters. He
at once invited an investigation by the Board of Trustees of the
institution of which he was the principal, when that body — al-
though composed, for the most part, of Southern men — on the
basis of testimonials from prominent citizens ot Jacksonville and
other evidence, adopted resolutions declaring the charges prompt-
ed by personal hostility, and delivered the letters of his accusers
into his hands. Returning North with his family in July, 1861,
he spent some nine months in the commissary and transportation
branches ot the service at Cairo, and at Paducah, Ky. In July,
1862, he became associate editor ot the Illinois State Journal at
FIELD GENEALOGY. 327
Springfield, remaining until November, 1865. The next six
months were spent as assistant deputy collector in the custom
house at New Orleans, but, returning North in June, 1866, he
soon after became identified with the Chicago press, serving, first
upon the staff of the Chicago Evening Journal, and, later, on the
Republican. In May, 1868, he assumed the editorship of the
Quincy Whig, ultimately becoming part proprietor ot that paper,
but, in January, 1874, resumed his old place on the State Journal,
four years later becoming one of its proprietors. In 1880 he was
appointed by President Hayes postmaster of Springfield, was
reappointed by Arthur in 1884, but resigned in 1886. Meanwhile
he had sold his interest in the Journal, but the following year
organized a new company for its purchase, when he resumed his
former position as editor. In 18S9 he disposed of his holding in
the Journal, finally removing to Chicago, where he has been
employed in literary work. In all he has been engaged in edito-
rial work over thirty-five years, of which eighteen were spent
upon the State Journal. His last and most important literary
work has been as editor and, in considerable part, author of the
"Historical Encyclopaedia of Illinois," issued by the Munsell
Publishing Company early in 1900. In i860, Mr. Selby was com-
plimented by his alma mater with the honorary degree of A.M.
He has been twice married, first to Miss Erra Post, of Springfield,
who died in November, 1865, leaving two daughters, and, in
1870, to Mrs. Mary J. Hitchcock, of Quincy, by whom he had
two children, both of whom died in infancy.
2. Electa Field. 3. Charlotte, b. Nov. 4, 1811, Mrs. Robert Till-
son, deceased, Quincy; she d. April 29, 1890; Ch. : (a) Mrs. Emily
Boon, Mrs. Maitland Boon, Watertown, N.Y. (b) William, not mar-
ried, Quincy, 111. (c) Robert, not married, Colorado, (d) Sarah M.,
Mrs. Daniel G. Brinton, Media, Pa. Her husband. Prof. Daniel
Garrison Brinton, was born in Chester county, Pa., May 13, 1837;
graduated at Yale, 1858 (A.M., LL.D.); graduated at Jefferson
Medical College, 1861 (Sc.D. , University of Pennsylvania), assist-
ant surgeon, surgeon and medical director Eleventh Army Corps,
1862-65; editor Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867-87; he pub-
lished many books, and at his death in the summer of 1899 was
professor of American archaeology and linguistics in the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, A Philadelphia paper has this: "'In other
fields than medicine, Dr. Brinton left the imprint of his person-
ality. He was editor of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, and
of the Compendium of Medical Science. He was also a contribu-
tor to a valuable work on therapeutics. He was an expert in
native Americana and was well known as a writer and authority
on the aboriginal races of this country. In 1886 he was awarded
a medal for his researches in American ethnology by the Societe
Americaine de France. Dr. Brinton was professor of ethnology
and archaeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences of this city,
and of American archaeology and linguistics in the University of
Pennsylvania. He was president of the Numismatic and An-
tiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and vice-president in 1886 of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, pre-
328 FIELD GENEALOGY.
siding over the section on anthropology. Dr. Brinton established
a library of original American literature. Each work is the pro-
duction of native minds, and is printed in the original. The
series, most of which were edited by Dr. Brinton, include 'The
Maya Chronicles,' 'The Iroquois Book of Rites,' 'A Migration
Legend of the Creek Indians,' 'The Lenape and Their Legends,'
and the 'Annals of the Cakchiquels.' He contributed valuable
reports on his examination of mounds, shell heaps, rock inscrip-
tions and other antiquities. He was the author of 'The Floridan
Penmsula,' 'The Myths of the New World,' 'The Religious Senti-
ment,' 'American Hero Myths,' 'Aboriginal American Authors
and their Productions,' and a 'Grammar of the Cakchiquel Lan-
guage of Guatamala.' Not long ago Dr. Brinton presented to
the University of Pennsylvania his entire collection of books and
manuscripts relating to the aboriginal languages of North and
South America. It embraces about 2,000 titles, in addition to
nearly 200 volumes of bound and indexed pamphlets, bearing on
the ethnology of the American Indians. Many of the manu-
scripts are originals, and several are the only copies in existence.
A number of the printed volumes are rare or unique. It will be
designated and marked as 'The Brinton Collection.' " 4. Emily,
b. 1S13; d. 1838; Mrs. Dunsmore; left no children. 5. Margaret,
b. 1S16; Mrs. Farmer; d. 1845; left no children.
138S. iii. DIADAMA, b. Jan. 23, 1791; m. Oct. 29, 1815, Silas Jewell, of
Guilford, N. Y. ; she d. Feb. 24, 1864.
LUCIUS, b. Dec. 22, 1792; d. Jan. 9, 1793.
LUCY, b. Dec. 22, 1792; d. April 3, 1793.
LURA, b. Dec. 22, 1792; d. unm. May 25, 1S21.
LUCY, b. Aug. 21, 1796; m. March 5, i3i6, Deacon Josiah Smith,
of Gill,
1393. viii. LUCIUS, b. Aug. 21, 1796; m. ; he graduated at Williams
College in 1821 ; a clergyman; settled in 1833 in Tyringham,
Mass.; d. June 1, 1839.
Lucius, of Northfield, Aug. 27, 1839, filed; Phineas Field, exec-
utor; brother, Sharon Field; children of deceased sister Electa
Topliff, late of Westfield; sister, Diadama Jewell, of Mason-
ville, N. Y. ; Lucy F. Smith, dau. of deceased sister Lucy Smith;
deceased sister Eunice Field; brothers, Phineas and Moses;
sister Mary Field living. — Franklin County Probate.
PHINEAS, b. April 14, 1799; m. Chloe M. Leavitt.
EUNICE, b. June 27, 1802; d. Aug. 2, 1S25.
MARY, b. May 9, 1805; m. Jan. 2, 1S61, David Allen, of Putney,
Vt. ; she d. Dec. 27 1868, s. p.
1397. xii. MOSES F., b. Aug. 11, 1808; m. Catherine S. Alexander.
685. DOCTOR JOHN MONTAGUE FIELD (Moses. Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., July 2,
1764; m., ist, Jan. 19, 1794, Martha Harris, b. 1772; d. July 5, 1801; m., 2d, June 15.
1802, Olive Clark, of Sullivan, N. H., b. 1778; d, Feb. 4, 1838. A physician. He
settled in Sullivan, N. H., and afterward removed to Philadelphia, Pa. Res.
Northfield, Mass., Sullivan, N. H., and Philadelphia, Pa.
1398. i. JOSEPH R., b. Oct. 5. 1794. He graduated at D. C. in 1822;
1389.
IV.
1390.
V.
1391-
VI.
1392.
Vll,
1394.
IX.
1395-
X.
1396.
XI.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 329
1399.
11.
1400.
Ill,
I40I.
iv.
1402.
V.
ordained in 1827 as an evangelist in St. Lawrence county, New
York; returned to Northfield; d. Aug. 9, 1828.
ELIJAH H., b. Oct. 3. 1796; m. Ann Taylor.
ELVIRA, b. Aug. 19, 1798; m. March 8, i3i8, John Presson, of
Mexico, N. Y. He was son of Lemuel; was b. 1789. Res. War-
wick, Mass.
JOHN, b. April 17, 1803; m. Olive C. Morse.
LYDIA. b. Jan. 2, 1805; m. Jan. 14, 1840, Charles Barber, of Win-
chester, N. H. He was son of David, b. 1802; was a farmer;
removed to Winchester. Ch. : i. Emily L., b. Nov. 14, 1840.
2. Charles J., b. July 13, 1842. He is a physician; m. Adeline
Lawin. She d. Dec. 14, 1843.
1403. vi. LUCY, b. June 16, 1807; m. June 28, 1848, Charles Barber, of
Winchester, s. p. by Lucy.
690. JESSE FIELD (Aaron, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
;ard, William, William), b. in Bernardston, Mass., March 15, 1749; d. Jan. 6, 1823.
He m. Lydia, dau. of Maj. John and Sarah (Hoyt) Burke, of Bernardston, Mass.
-A story of this marriage as told is too good to be lost. Mrs. Burke, when she found
Lydia was receiving the addresses of Mr. Field, was greatly displeased, thinking
Lydia ought to look higher. The major being away in the war of the Revolution,
Mrs. Burke could not prevent the young folks meeting. On the major's return
from the army for a short vacation, his neighbors met and escorted him home to
have an evening's enjoyment, and stayed later at the social board than his wife
desired. Being impatient to inform the major of the attentions between Lydia and
:Mr. Field, she informed him privately of their intimacy, and wished he would
■put a stop to it. The major bringing his hand down upon the table, making the
;glasses rattle, said, "Do you remember one Sarah Hoyt that came down a ladder
and ran away with one John Burke and got married?" From this she was satisfied
there would be no opposition from him to the marriage. Res. Bernardston, Mass.
LETITIA, b. ; d. May 20, 1864.
AARON, b. 1780; m. Lovina Scott.
EUNICE, b. 1782; m. John R. Slate, of Bernardston.
FARCIA, b. 1785; m. Bethan Dickinson, of Bernardston.
LUCINDA, b. Jan. 11, 1787; m. 1804, Josephus Slate, of Bernard-
ston.;
LYDIA, b. 1789; d. Aug. 7, 1871.
JESSE, b. Aug. 25, 1792; m. Lurancy Scott.
SARAH, b. 1795; d. Aug. 11, 1871.
LOVINA, b. 1798; m. Thaddeus Parmenter, of Bernardston ; d.
1872.
698. SAMUEL FIELD (Daniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Bolton, Conn., Oct. 31, 1756. He removed to
Vernon, Conn.; in 1795 to Ellington, Conn., where he d. Jan. 23, 1815. Hem. in
Bolton, April 18, 178 1, Huldah Millard, of Bolton. Res. Ellington, Conn.
700. DANIEL FIELD (Daniel, Joshua, Samuel. Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Bolton, Conn., May 3, 1761. He m. Mary Reed (?)
Res. Bolton, Conn.
I4i2>^. i. NATHANIEL REED, bap. April 8. 1784; m. Ruth Noyes.
701. THOMAS FIELD (Daniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bolton, Conn., Nov. 13, 1763; m. July 4, 1786, Lucy,
22
1404.
1.
1405.
11.
1406.
111.
1407.
IV.
1408.
V.
1409.
vi.
I4I0.
Vll.
I4II.
VUl.
I4I2.
IX.
141 5.
1.
I4i6.
11.
1417.
iii.
1418.
IV.
1419.
V.
1420.
VI.
1421.
Vll.
1422.
viii.
1423.
IX.
330 FIELD GENEALOGY.
dau. of Elisha and Mary Bissell, of Bolton, Conn., bap. May lo, 1761. Res. Bolton,
Conn.
1413. i. INFANT, b.- January, 1787; d. Jan. 30, 1787. '
1414. ii. LUCY, bap. Aug. 24, 1788.
Seven others, all daughters.
702. DAVID FIELD (Daniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Bolton. Conn., April i, 1766. He removed, in 1791, to
Tolland, Conn. ; in 1801 to Somers, Conn., where he d. He m. Dec. 23, 1790, Betty
Squires, of Bolton. Res. Somers, Conn.
JOHN, b. July 3, 1791; m. Anna Gowdy.
CAROLINE, b. Aug. 25, 1792; m. Dec. 7, 1815, Jedediah Kibbee,
of Somers, Conn. ; d. May 14, 1840.
DANIEL, b. Aug. 9, 1794; m. Cherry Wood.
BETSEY, b. Feb. 16, 1797; m. Orrin Wood.
CHESTER, b. Aug. 9, 1802; m. Rhoda Tiffany.
CHAUNCEY, b. July 20, 1804; m. Dolly Smith.
EUNICE, b. May i, 1806; m. May 12, 1825, Edmund Warner, of
Coventry, Conn. ; d. Sept. i, 1874.
AMELIA, b. April 17, 1808; m. Erasmus Calkins.
CHARLOTTE, b. Jan. 9, iSio; m. Feb. 24, 1831, Edmund
Loomis, of Coventry, Conn.
703. NATHANIEL FIELD (Daniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Bolton, Conn., Nov. 23, 1768; m. Nov. 27, 1794,
Clarinda King, of Bolton. Res. Bolton, Conn.
707^' JAMES FIELD (Nathaniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Connecticut about 1750; m. . He enlisted
in the Revolutionary war at Woodbury, Conn. , in Capt. Elijah Chapman's company.
He had prior to this time seen three years active service. After the war he moved
to Niagara county. New York, and while living there, in 1818, was granted a pen-
sion for services as a private in the Connecticut Continental line. He d. near
Niagara Falls, N. Y. Res. Woodbury, Conn., and Niagara, N. Y.
1423X. i. SPENCER, b. ; res. and d. near Niagara, N. Y.
1423^^. ii. EDAD, b. ; res. and d. in Michigan.
1423 >^. iii. ANNA, b. ; res. and d. in Niagara, N. Y.
708. GEORGE FIELD (Nathaniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Connecticut in 1758; m. in Vermont, Eunice .
He served in the Revolutionary army as a private, enlisting Jan. i, 1777 for the term
of the war, in Captain Roberton's company, First Connecticut regiment. Col.
Zebulon Butler commanding. Later he was in Stoddard's company in Col. John
Chandler's regiment. After the war, having been paid in land in Vermont, he
moved there and located at Sandgate, which was settled in 1761 by a colony from
Connecticut. While living there, in i8i8,.then in his seventy-third year, the gov-
ernment granted him a pension. Paid him $1,523.16 and $96 a year.
State of Vermont, Bennington county, ss. : On this twenty-third day of April,
A. D., 1 81 8, before me, the subscriber, one of the judges of the county court, within
and for the county of Bennington aforesaid, personally appears George Field, aged
sixty-two years, resident in the town of Sandgate, in said county of Bennington,
who being by me duly sworn, accordingly, doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress,
entitled ' 'an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service
FIELD GENEALOGY. 331
of the United States in the Revolutionary war." That he, the said George Field,
enlisted in the month of August, A. D., 1777, in the town of Woodbury, and state
of Connecticut, for and during the war, in the company commanded by Captain
Stoddard, and in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler, in the Connecticut
line ; that he continued to serve in said corps until the close of the war, when he was
discharged by Gen. George Washington, in the month of June, A. D., 1783, at the
Highlands, in the State of New York, and that he was in the battles of Fort Mifflin,
Stony Point and at the capture of Cornwallis, and that he is in reduced circum-
stances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he
has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Edmund Graves.
District of Vermont, ss. : On this twentieth day of June. 1820, personally
appeared in open court, being a county court and court of record, which has power
to fine and imprison, and is constituted a court of record by a special act of the Leg-
islature of the state of Vermont, George Field, aged fifty-nine years, resident in
Sunderland, in said county of Bennington, who being first duly sworn according
to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as fol-
lows:
I served in the company, commanded by Captain Stoddard, in the
regiment, commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, as will appear
by my original declaration on file in the war office, dated the twenty-third day of
April, 1818, on which original declaration I have received a pension certificate, and
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eight-
eenth day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift or sale, or
in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby
so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress,
entitled ' 'an act to provide tor certain persons engaged in the land and naval service
of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day
of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
property, or securities, contracts or debts, due me; nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
The following is a schedule of all real and personal estate, to-wit: One cow,
I calf, 3 sheep and 2 lambs, 2 small pigs, i iron kettle, i pot, i spinning wheel,
I woolen wheel, 6 knives and forks, i table, 6 earthen plates, 2 earthen milk pans, i
meat barrel. My occupation is that of a farmer. I am unable to do much labor in
consequence of the rheumatism and lameness occasioned by a fever sore. My fam-
ily consists of my wife, Eunice, aged fifty-three years, in comfortable health ; three
children, the oldest named Clarissa, sixteen years old, in good health ; the second
Lovinia, aged fourteen, in good health ; the third eleven years of age, named Mary
Ann, is a cripple and unable to labor. The above cow I paid for out of my pension
money. his
George X Field
mark.
County of Washington, ss. : On this fifth day of June, 1837, before me. the sub-
scriber, a justice of the peace for the said county of Washington, personally appeared
George Field, who on his oath, declared that he is the same person who formerly
belonged to the company commanded by Captain Stoddard, of Woodbury, Conn.,
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler, of Newtown, Conn., in the service
of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of
Vermont, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of
New York, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable
332 FIELD GENEALOGY.
in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the state of Vermont
to New York: That he formerly resided in the town of Sandgate, in the said state
of Vermont, that he removed from there to the town of Jackson, in the state of
New York for the purpose of living with one of his children, in the said town ot
Jackson, and that it is more convenient for him to draw his pension money in the
state of New York than in the state of Vermont.
(Signed) Georg6 Field.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
James Thompson, Justice Peace.
Res. Woodbury, Conn., Sandgate, Vt, and Annaquapacook, Washington county,
N. Y.
1423%. i. CLARISSA, b. 1804.
14231^. ii. LOVINIA, b. 1806.
1423^. iii. MARY ANN, b. 1809; a cripple.
708K. FRANCES FIELD (Nathaniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Nov. 29, 1757; m. Sandgate, Vt., Naomi Wakelee,
b. Nov. 9, 1756: d. Dec. 22, 1812. Frances Field was born in Connecticut. At the
breaking out of the Revolutionary war he was residing in Woodbury. He enlisted
July 13, 1775, and served to December 20 in the Fifth company, in the Seventh
regiment from Connecticut, Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle and Col. Charles Webb. The
following year he was in the same regiment, in Captain Bostwick's company, and
on the evening of Dec. 25, 1776, crossed the Delaware to Trenton. He re-enlisted
for three years, May 15, 1777, in Stoddard's company, in Col. John Chandler's
Eighth Connecticut regiment. After the war he moved to Vermont and died there,
in Manchester, Vt., Dec. 18, 1812. Res. Bennington, Vt.
1423-2. i. ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Peter A. Story. She d. Nov. 27, 1844.
Res. Bennington, Vt. Ch. : i. Naomi. 2. Hazen. 3. Dan-
iel. 4. Ruth.
1423-3. ii. JOHN, b. . Res. and d. Sept. 20, 1828, in Buffalo, N. Y.
John was a witness on a very important trial in Buffalo. He
went to Buffalo and died the night he got there, and it was
always supposed he was poisoned, as he was the main witness in
the trial.
1423-4. iii. EUNICE, b. ; m. Joseph Olin. Res. Shaftsbury, Bennington
county, Vt. She d. Feb. 21, 1853.
1423-5. iv. SARAH ANN, b. May 21, 1787; m. Abel Selah Squire. She d.
Sept. 17, i860, in Arlington, Vt. He was b. Woodbury, Conn..
" Nov. 26, 1786; d. Sunderland, Vt., April 8, 1S67. He was a
farmer and blacksmith. Ch. : i. Katherine Bentley, b. Dec,
27, 1810; d. March 8, 1830. 2. Angeline Goldthwait, b. July 17,
1817; d. September, 1892. Des.. A. G. Goldthwait, 181 8th
St., Troy, N. Y. 3. Margaret Houghton, b. Feb. 3, 1819; d.
May 28, 1896. Des., Mrs. A. Y. Rogers, Schuylerville, N. Y.
4. Elizabeth Ursula Holt, b. June 9, 1821; m. Jan. 19, 1841, Tim-
othy H. Holt, b. Oct. 14, 1815: d. Nov. 11, 1897, in Sunderland.
Ch.: (a) Winfield Selah, b. Feb. 25, 1852; m. Aug. 11, 1880. Res.
Sunderland.
1423-6. V. FRANCES, b. ; m. Diadema Bolton.
1423.7. vi. WILLIAM SYLVESTER, b. May 29, 1791; m. Orphia Haskell.
1423-8. vii. MIRANDA, b. ; m. Squiers. She d. in 1865, in Royal
Oak, Mich.
1423-9. viii. ALBERT, b. March 26, 1795; m. Azubah Jackson.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 333
1426.
in.
1427.
IV.
1428.
V.
1429.
VI.
1430.
Vll,
1423-10. ix. HENRY, b. ; res. andd. July 9, 1835, in Poland, Chautauqua
county, N. Y. Henry was crossing a river near Buffalo with a
yoke of cattle, got into a deep hole and was drowned.
1423-11. X. ABEL WAKELEE, b. July 26, 1802; m. Zilpha Witter.
713. ELISHA FIELD (Elisha, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Bennington, Vt., March 3, 1763. He settled in Corn-
wall, Vt., where he d. Feb. 18, 1852. He was one of the burial party after the battle
of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777; was also one of the guard placed over the Hessian
prisoners in the old Bennington meeting house and over the captured military
stores. He was a man very much respected by his townsmen, receiving from them
many town offices, the duties of which he performed satisfactorily. He m. March
10, 1790, Ruth, dau. of Elijah and Molly (Webster) Kirkham, b. in Marlboro, Mass.,
May 10. 1770; d. June 21, 1835. Res. Cornwall, Vt.
1424. i. CLARISSA, b. Dec. 20. 1790; m. 180S, Rev. Elihu B. Baxter;
removed to Iowa; d. April 12, 1S6 — •
1425. ii. ORRIN, b. June 12, 1792; m. Maria Atwood, Hannah Drury,
Alraira Scott and Mrs. Rhoda Weeks.
LUMAN, b. March 28, 1794; m. Abigail De Long.
HIRAM, b. Aug. 19. 1796; d. Julj^ 26, 1799.
LOYALL C, b. Dec. 13, 1799; d. Sept. 20, 1802.
NORMAN, b. Sept. 28, 1802; m. Happalonia Chatterton.
ELISHA C, b. April 5, 1813; m. Lovina Bartlett.
715. DEACON ASAHEL FIELD (Elisha Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Bennington, Vt., March 25, 1765. He
settled in Cornwall, Vt., where he d. April 28, 1830. A deacon m the Congrega-
tional church, influential and very much respected in church and town matters.
He m. 17S8, Martha, dau. of Israel Field, of Brattleboro, Vt., b. 1768; d. in child-
birth, Oct. 31, 1789, aged twenty-one; m., 2d, Sept. 15, 1796, Betsey, dau. of
Parker, of Saybrook, Conn. ; b. Oct. 9, 1762; d. March 16, 1831. Res. Cornwall, Vt.
1431. i MARTHA, b. 1797; m. Chester Fenner, of Cornwall.
1432. ii. LYDIA, b. 1799; ^- ^^ infancy.
1433. iii. ANTHY, b. Oct. 15, 1802; m. Chesterfield Hooker, of Poultney,
Vt. ; d. Jan. 22, 1S74.
1434. iv. BETSEY, b. 1805; m. David Hooker, of Poultney, Vt., later of
Middlebury, Vt.
716. CAPTAIN ELIJAH FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Feb. 2, 1754. He
removed, in 1785, to Hawley, Mass., where he d. Feb. 4, 1822. He m. Sept. i, 1783,
Tryphena, dau. of Oliver and Jerusha Cooley, of Sunderland, b. Aug. 18, 1756; d.
Oct. 23, 1833.
Field, Elisha, Sunderland. Private, Capt. Noadiah Leonard's company,
Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April
19. 1775 ; service, seven days. Also list of men returned as serving on picket guard
under Maj. Loammi Baldwin, dated May 11, 1775. Also Capt. Noadiah Leonard's
company. Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment (Twenty-fifth); receipt
for advance pay dated Cambridge, June 24, 1775. Also private, same company and
regiment; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted April 27, 1775; service, three
months, twelve days. Also company return (probably October, 1775); also order for
bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Cambridge, Oct. 31, 1775; also cor-
poral, Capt. Reuben Petty's company, Lieut-Col. Samuel William's regiment;
334 FIELD GENEALOGY.
engaged Dec. i6, 1776; discharged March 19, 1777; service, three months, fifteen
days, travel included. Also sergeant, Capt. Moses Harvey's company. Col. David
Well's regiment; engaged May 10, 1777; discharged July 10, 1777; service, two
months, ten days, travel included, in northern department ; roll dated Montague.
Also private, Capt. Moses Harvey's company, Colonel Woodbridge's regiment;
enlisted Aug. 22, 1777; discharged Nov. 29, i777; service, three months, seventeen
days, travel included ; company raised to reinforce northern army ; roll endorsed
"service at Saratoga." Also assistant at the scale, under Timothy Leonard; assist-
ant commissary of issues, northern department, in Brigadier-General Warner's
brigade; enlisted Oct. 9, 1777; discharged Nov. 30, 1777; service, one month,
twenty nine days, six days travel included. Also private, Capt. Samuel Merriman's
(2d) company. Col, Israel Chapen's (3d) regiment; enlisted Oct. 15. 1779; dis-
charged Nov. 21, 1779; service, one month, fourteen days, travel included; roll
endorsed "service at Claverack. " — Massachusetts Revolutionary Records.
Elijah, of Hawley, March 12, 1822; gentleman; wife, Tryphena; sons, Pindar,
Theodore; daughters. Wealthy, Olive, Rosamond, Tryphena; speaks of son Pindar
as taking a classical education at college, and gives him money to complete payment
for same. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Hawley, Mass.
1435. i. WEALTHY, b. March 4, 1785; m. William Ferguson; removed to
Sangersfield, N. Y.
1436. ii. OLIVE, b. Jan. 27, 1787; m. Sept. 26, 1805, Edmund Longley, of
Hawley, Mass. ; d. Dec. 10, 1879.
THEODORE, b. Sept. 22, 1788; m. Deborah Tobey.
ROSAMOND, b. Nov. 29. 1790; m. Calvin Cooley, of Hawley.
PINDAR, b. May i, 1794; m. CifFonette Le Grass Milton and
Mary Sewall.
1440. vi. TRYPHENA, b. May 28, 1797; m. Zephaniah Lathrop, of Hawley.
724. REV. JOSEPH FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., March 6, 1772. He graduated
at Dartmouth College in 1796; was ordained in 1797; a Congregational minister
and resided in 1797-98 in Fairfield, N. Y. ; in 1799 settled in Charlemont. Mass.,
where he d. June 14, 1866. He was pastor of the Congregational church in Charle-
mont twenty-three years, when he became a Unitarian, and preached occasionally
until he was eighty-five years of age. He represented the town of Charlemont in
the Legislature seven years to the satisfaction of his townsmen. He was possessed
of the Field characteristics — strong in their convictions and seldom giving up an
opinion when once convinced of its correctness. In November, 1865, when ninety-
three years of age. he walked to the polls and voted. He m. in 1798, Sabra, dau. of
Rev. John and Sabra (Cobb) Emerson, of Conway, Mass; d. 1837.
EUGENE, b. May 7, 1800; m. Abigail Hawks.
JOSEPH EMERSON, b. Nov. 12, 1802; m. Julia Jones.
CONSTANT, b. Oct. 3, 1804; a physician; d. Sept. 22, 1833.
CAROLINE, b. Oct. 15, 1806; d. Sept. 22, 1861.
LOUISA, b. Dec. 19, 1808; m. Dec. 25, 1S46, John F. Arnold, of
North Adams, Mass., manufacturer of prints.
EDWARD, b. Oct. 28, i8io; a physician; d. Jan. 8, 1S32.
ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 5, 1813.
HANNAH, b. Feb. 10, 1815; d. July 20, 1S18.
727. PARIS FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Sept. 16, 1765; a farmer; d. Dec. 27,
1437.
111,
1438.
IV.
1439-
V.
I44I.
1442.
11.
1443.
111.
1444.
IV.
1445.
V.
1446.
vi.
1447.
vu.
1448.
vni.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 335
1849. He m. Nov. 19, 1795, Cynthia, dau. of Gideon and Lucy (Ward) Lee, of Lev-
erett, b. Sept. 16, 1772; d. Aug. 11, 1837. Res. Leverett, Mass.
1449. i. SOPHIA, b. July 4, 1796; m. Sept. 30, 1819, Alvin Childs, of Deer-
field; d. July 12, 1835. He was b. Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 11,
1789; d, there Aug. 7, 1839. She d. July 12, 1835. Ch. : i.
Cynthia Childs, b. Aug. 15, 1820; m. Oct. 20, 185S, William Gay-
lord, of Sunderland, Mass. 2. Israel Childs, b. Jan. 27, 1824; m.
Jan. 12, 1859, Elizabeth J. Adams, b. June 16, 1829. He is a
farmer; res. Sunderland, Mass. He d. Feb. 11, 1883. Ch.: (a)
George Adams, b. Oct. 24, i860; m. Jan. i, 1891. (b) Isabel
Sophia, b. Dec. 28, 1864. (c) Alvin Francis, b. Jan. 2, 1869; d.
Aug. 24, 1869. (d) George A. Childs, P. O. address, Sunderland,
Mass. (e) Isabel Childs, res. 791 North Hamlin Ave., Chi-
cago; m. Oct. 24, 1888, William W. Vernon. 3. Lucy Childs, b.
March 7, 1822; d. June 10, 1824. 4. Paris Childs, b. Feb. 20,
1827; d. July, 1871. His daughter, Mrs. Augustus Temple,
res. Millington, Mass.
1450. ii. ZEBINA, b. June 22, 1797; m. Sophonia Ball.
1451. iii. REBECCA, b. June 22, 1797; m. Oct. i, 1821, Peter Hobart, of
Leverett; d. June 9, 1864.
He was b. April 8, 1796; d. April 4, 1864. Ch. : i. Louisa, b.
May I, 1822; m. Aug. 29, 1843; d- Nov. 12, 1891. Ch. : (a) Cephas
F. Fray, Leverett, Mass. 2. Albert, b. Feb. 23, 1824; m. April 7,
1847; d. March 3, 1888. 3. Thomas, b. May 15, 1S26; d. Jan. 9, 1849.
4. Caroline, b. Sept. 5, 1828; m. Nov. 18, 1851, Augustus Greenleaf
Whitaker, b. May I, 1833. Res. Leverett, Mass. Ch. : (a) Carrie
Irene, b. Sept. 25, 1854; m. April 8, 1880; present name, Carrie
Irene Taylor, Leverett, Mass. (b) Susan Isabella Whitaker, b.
May 17, 185S; Amherst, Mass. (c) Cynthia Hobart, b. April i,
i860; m. Aug. 25, 1 89 1. — Cynthia H. Tufts, care of University of
Chicago, Chicago, 111. (d) Harrison Marshall, b. Dec. 13, 1861;
m. July 28, 1886; Amherst, Mass. (e) Louise Field, b. May 11,
1865; m. May 30, 1883. Present name, Louise Field, Leverett,
Mass. (f) Hobart Karl Whitaker, b. Feb. 20, 1868; m. Dec. 24,
1896; Brattleboro, Vt. (g) Frances Jane, b. Nov. 14, 1870; Lev-
erett, Mass. (h) Edwin Thomas, b. July 8, 1872; Greenfield,
Mass. 5. Fanny, b. Feb. 17, 1831; m. April 7, 1863; d. Nov. 15,
1898. 6. Harrison, b. Aug. 11, 1833; d. March 20, i860. 7.
Cephas, b. Nov. 29, 1835; d. Nov. 25, 1857. 8. Cynthia, b. March
3, 1839; d. July 19, 1863.
1452. iv. SIMON COOLEY, b. May 7, 1799; m. Martha W. Keith.
1453. v. ASA LEE, b. Aug. 17. 1802; m. Mary W. Field.
1454. vi. CEPHAS, b. Aug. 17, 1802; d. September, 1803.
1455. vii. LUCY WARD, b. Dec. 29, 1806; m. May 20, 1841, George Hub-
bard, of Leverett.
1456. viii. CAROLINE, b. Feb. 2, 1812; m. Nov. 28, 1839, Alden Cooley
Field, of Leverett; a dau. is Caroline Matilda, b. July 12, 1842;
unm., res. East Leverett.
1457. ix. CEPHAS, b. July 3,1814; m. Editha Ball.
1458. X. _ FOUR others, d. in infancy.
336 FIELD GENEALOGY.
731. DEACON SILAS FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., April 22, 1775; d. Jan. 17,
1844; a deacon in the Congregational church and captain of cavalry. He m. Feb.
6, 1804, Mary Elizabeth Woodbury, of Leverett, b. May 26, 1782; d. Oct. 21, 1864.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1459. i- ELIZABETH COOLEY, b. Dec. 15, 1805; m. June 28, 1826, Dick-
inson Hubbard, of Leverett; m., 2d, Aug. 3, 1842, Elijah Ingram,
of Montague; d. Toledo, O., Sept. 12, 1890.
1460. ii. MARY WARD, b. Nov. 30, 1807; m. June 12, 1834, Asa L. Field,
of Leverett. She d. Feb. 25, 1883.
1461. iii. HARRISON OTIS, b. Jan. 20, 1810; m. Eleanor Pomeroy.
1462. iv. THANKFUL MATILDA, b. April 25, 1812; m. Nov. 27, 1834,
Phinehas Field, of North Hadley, Mass.
1463. V. LUCY LEMIRA, b. Dec. 15, 1815; m. May 26, 1841, Frederick Q.
Ball, of Leverett. Res. 31 Sargent St., Springfield, Mass.
1464. vi. HARRIET NEWELL, b. Dec. 18, 1817; m. June 9, 1844, William
B. Caswell, of Buckland, Mass. She d. winter 1896-97.
733. ELISHA FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Feb. 19, 1781. He settled in
1806 in Sunderland, in 1816 removed to Deerfield, where he d. Aug. 24, 1865. He
m. Nov. 18, 1806, Persis, dau. of Caleb and Calista Hubbard, of Sunderland, b.
July I, 1784; d. Feb. 4, 1857. Res. Deerfield, Mass.
1465. i, ALDEN COOLEY, b. Aug, 18, 1807; m. Lucena Adams and Car-
oline Field,
1466. ii, ELIJAH STRATTON, b. July 2, 1809; m, Mary W, Wright.
1467. iii. LUCRETIA ASHLEY, b. Aug. 25, 1811; m. Jan. 4, 1837, Alonzo
Rice, of Deerfield. She d. Aug. 31, 1891. A descendant is Mrs.
Walter C. Trask, of East Deerfield.
1468. iv. CALISTA HUBBARD, b. Nov. 5, 1813; m. Feb, 19. 1834, Charles
Stone, of Deerfield ; removed to state of New York, She d. Feb.
15, 1836, A descendant is Mrs, C, C, Furbush, of Greenfield,
Mass.
1469. V, JONATHAN SPENCER, b, Jan. 3, 1816; m. Sarah Cobb.
1470. vi. PERSIS MARIA, b. Aug. 25, 1818; m. Sept. 6, 1843. Caleb Hub-
bard Bowman, of Springfield, Mass, ; d. 187 — . He was b. March
30, 1809; d. June 3, 1873. She res. 41 Mulberry St., Springfield,
Mass. Ch. : i. Eva Maria Bowman, b, Dec. 16, 1S44; m, Jan.
I, 1867. — Mrs. R, D, Sanderson, Res. 4 Sacketts Ave., Spring-
field, Mass, 2. Ellen Augusta Bowman, b. May 18, 1847; d. May
18, 1859. 3. Henry Hubbard Bowman, b. June i, 1849; ™- Nov.
18. 1874, Gertrude Mary Ellis. She d. Nov. 25, 1893; m.. 2d, Jan.
23, 1895, Mrs, Lida Graves De Golyer, She d. Oct. 18, 1899. H.
H. Bowman is president of Springfield National bank. Res. 41
Mulberry St., Springfield, Mass. 4. Jennie Elizabeth Bowman,
b. Feb. 2, 1854, Res. 41 Mulberry St,, Springfield, Mass.
Henry Hubbard Bowman,onlysonof Caleb Hubbard and Persis
Field Bowman, was b, in North Sunderland, Mass., June i, 1849.
His parents removed when he was quite young to Springfield,
Mass., and he was educated in the public schools of that city. In
1867 he began his long and honorable career as a banker, by
entering the Springfield Institutions for Savings, as boy of all
FIELD GENEALOGY. 337
work. He filled different positions in that bank until 1873 found
him assistant treasurer. In May, 1879, he became cashier of the
City National bank. In May, 1893, he was instrumental in
organizing the Springfield National bank, and became its presi-
dent, which position he now holds. Mr. Bowman m. Nov. 18,
1874, Gertrude Mary Ellis. She d. Nov. 25, 1893, leaving two
daughters. A son died in infancy. Jan. 23, 1895, Mr. Bowman
m. Mrs. Lida Graves De Golyer. She d. Oct. 18, 1899. Nearly
the whole of Mr. Bowman's life having been spent in Springfield,
he is closely identified with its interests, and holds many posi-
tions of trust and responsibility outside the bank. He is a genial
man, with a large acquaintance and many warm friends.
Caleb Hubbard Bowman, son of William and Tirzah Hubbard
Bowman, was born in Sunderland, Mass., March 30, 1809. He was
the third of a family of nine children. When a young man he
learned the mason's trade. Soon after his marriage, Sept. 6,
1843, to Persis Maria Field, of Deerfield, Mass., he established
himself in North Sunderland, then a thriving village, and worked
at his trade there and in the surrounding towns. In 1S52 his
health made it necessary for him to give up the work of a mason,
and he removed to Springfield, Mass., where he engaged in
other business. He continued to reside in Springfield until his
death, from heart failure, June 3, 1S73. His widow and three
children survived him, another child having died young. Caleb
Hubbard Bowman was a man of sterling worth, beloved and
respected by all who knew him.
1471. vii. TRYPHENA MONTAGUE, b. Dec. 4, 1820; m. April 18, 1844,
Edwin M. Eaton, of Sunderland. She d. July 14, 1880. A des-
cendant is Mrs. Walter H. Langdon, of North Hatfield, Mass.
1472. viii. MARY JANE, b. Sept. 23, 1823; m. Jan. 10, 1S47, Nathaniels.
Graves, of Amherst. She d. Jan. 16, 1894. He was b. Paris, N.
Y., Jan. 28, 1820. Ch. : i. Daughter, b. Feb. 11, 1848; d. Sept.
12, 1864. 2. Viola Mary, b. July 10, 1851. Res. Amherst, Mass.
1473. ix. ELISHA HUBBARD, b. April 11, 1827; m. Nancy Scott.
1474. X. MARTHA MARIA, b. Oct. 6, 1829; m. Dec. 23, 1852, Alvin Sand-
erson, of Deerfield. Res. 221 Linden St., Camden, N. J.
734. WALTER FIELD (Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., March, 1788. He settled in 1813
in Sunderland, in 1834 removed to Hatfield, Mass., where he d. Nov. 7, 1858. He
m. April 13, 181 3, Elizabeth Sprague, dau. of Ebenezer and Catherine (Dunn)
Wiley, of Sunderland and Deerfield, b. 1791; d. Oct. 21, 1832; m., 2d, November,
1832, at Albany, N. Y., Fanny Stebbins, widow of Jesse Woolcott; d. April 20, 1S40.
Her remains were interred in Deerfield. Res. Hatfield, Mass.
HORACE WILEY, b. Jan. 7, 1814; m. Elizabeth M. Hillman.
ABNER, b. Dec. 27, 1816; m. Wealthy Putney.
CLARISSA, b. Jan. 4, 1818; d. March 2, 1S37.
FRANKLIN, b. March 21, 1820; m. Alma Scott.
JOHN WILEY, b. April 5, 1822; m. Julia M. Warren.
ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 15, 1824; m. 186-, Zacheus Crocker, of
Sunderland. She d. Dec. 9, 1898.
WILLIAM WALTER, b. Aug. 17, 1826; m. Mrs. Sarah S. Frary.
CATHERINE, b. 1828; d. Oct. 18, 1803.
1475.
1476-
11.
1477-
111.
1478.
IV.
1479-
v.
1480.
VI.
I481.
vii.
1482.
Vlll.
338 FIELD GENEALOGY.
739. GENERAL MARTIN FIELD (Seth, Jonathan. Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Leverett, Mass., Jan. 12, 1773; m. Feb. 21,
1802. Esther Smith Kellogg, b. Feb. 25, 1780. Amherst, Mass.; d. June 6, 1867.
Gen. Martin Field was born in Leverett, Mass. ; graduated at Williams College
in 1798, and received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1805.
He studied law with his uncle, Lucius Hubbard, Esq., of Chester, Vt., and upon
the decease of Calvin Knowlton, in 1800, and at the special instance and request of
Hon. Luke Knowlton, he went to Newfane in January, 1800, and entered upon the
practice of the law. He married Esther Smith Kellogg, daughter of Daniel Kel-
loggi of Amherst, Mass., Feb. 21, 1802, an accomplished lady of fine personal
appearance, of great goodness and exemplary piety. He was indebted in a great
measure for his success in life to her great industry, prudence and discretion. She
died June 6, 1867, aged 88 years, surviving her husband thirty-four years. He was
full of anecdotes, and could tell a story with inimitable grace. His forensic efforts
abounded with flashes of wit and occasional bursts of caustic sarcasm and biting
ridicule, which he could use with great skill and effect. These peculiar powers ren-
dered him a popular and distinguished jury advocate. His varied accomplishments
and genial temper, with a heart overflowing with an irrepressible spirit ot humor
and mirthtulness, joined to a strong passion for music, of which he was extrava-
gantly fond, rendered him an ornament to the social circle. A skilful player upon
the violin, he never abandoned its use until he became so deaf that he could not dis-
tinctly hear its tones. He was eminently successful in his profession, and for
nearly thirty years enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, which he was compelled
to abandon by reason ot his excessive deafness. On relinquishing his practice he
commenced the study of geology and mineralogy, and by great perseverance and
industry, he collected what, at that time, was regarded as the rarest and most ex-
tensive cabinet of minerals in the State. A few years since it was generously given
to Middlebury College by his widow, Mrs. E. S. Field. He was, for ten years.
State's attorney for Windham county, and repeatedly represented the town of
Newfane in the General Assembly and Constitutional conventions. In i8ig he was
elected major-general of the first division of the Vermont militia. We have copied
from the twenty-sixth volume of the American Journal of Arts and Sciences, the
following extract from an obituary notice of the subject of this sketch, written by a
distinguished lady of Baltimore, Md., who was formerly a resident of that county.
' ' On account of his incurable deafness several years before his death, he declined
the active duties of his profession, and, as a resource to an energetic mind, and as a
solace in hours that might have been tedious for want of some interesting object of
pursuit, he turned his attention to scientific investigation. When he was educated
the natural sciences were scarcely studied in the schools and colleges of this
country. He began with the elements, commencing with mineralogy, and for a
time was zealously engaged in collecting a beautiful cabinet, but he found that in
order to become a skilful mineralogist there was a kindred science to be grasped,
and one without which he could not penetrate beyond the surface. He saw that it
was beautiful and curious, and felt a desire to know those mysterious laws of com-
bination by which, from a few elements, the wonderful variety of material things is
produced. This desire led him to the study of chemistry. He purchased books and
an apparatus, and for a time he directed his inquiries to the elements of matter and
the laws by which they are governed. He was not satisfied with studying nature
in his cabinet, and with reading the observations of others. He became an outdoor
worker in science. Few points of interest were there among the romantic scenery
around him that were not familiar to him : and many a precipice, glen and lofty
summit of the Green Mountains can bear witness to his persevering research into
GEN. MARTIN FIELD.
See page 338.
MRS. ESTHER G. FIELD.
See page 339.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 339
the nature and arrangement of the rocky strata of which they are formed. His
minute observations of philosophical and scientific facts were in various ways man-
ifested in the pages of the scientific journals of this country, and particularly in the
American Journal of Science, a work in which he ever delighted, and to which he
felt himself indebted for much of that love of science and those acquirements which
enabled him to endure with cheerfulness a misfortune by which he was, m a meas-
ure, cut off from the social enjoyments of life. It is a grave thing for a man who
has been active in business to withdraw from those scenes in which his mind was
stimulated to constant effort, to see the place he has filled occupied by others, and
to feel that the world can move on without him ; but this condition is incident to
human nature. Fortunate are those who, at such a period, even, like him who is
the subject of this sketch, find, in the contemplation of the works and operations of
nature, a resource against ennuie, and a security against bitter and unavailing
regrets. He died at his residence in Fayetteville.
Esther S. Field, wife of Martin Field, whose maiden name was Esther S. Kel-
logg, was a granddaughter of Daniel Kellogg, Sr., of Amherst, Mass., who married
Esther Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Hadley. Mass., a lineal descendant of
that grim old Puritan, Lieut. Samuel Smith, who came from Ipswich, England, to
Boston in 1634, and removed from thence in 1638, with a large company, and settled
on the banks of the Connecticut in the vicinity of Hartford, the "new Hesperia of
Puritanism." In 1659, with sixty "Withdrawers or Separatists," as they were then
called, who were opposed to the liberal and latitudinarian doctrines and practices of
Drs. Hooker and Stone in relation to "baptism, church membership, and the rights
of the brotherhood," he removed to Hadley, Mass., whose rich and fertile meadows
were regarded as a paradise by the early Puritan settlers of the valley of the Con-
necticut. While residing in Hadley he occupied important positions both in
church and Sute. This stern old Puritan possessed great energy, an indomitable will
and was by profession and practice a strict Congregationalist, persistently adhering
to all the formulas, austerities, and self-denying ordinances of the Calvinistic faith.
He impressed upon his descendants to the latest generation his peculiar and marked
characteristics. The subject of this sketch was thoroughly trained in her childhood
in the discipline and religious faith of her Puritan ancestors. She early made a
profession of her faith, and at the age of fifteen she was admitted a member of the
First Congregational church in Amherst, Mass. Thrift, industry and economy were
among the peculiar and prominent characteristics of her ancestors, and for their
constant exercise she was proverbial. Possessing a vigorous constitution, she was
untiring in her labors and faithful in the discharge of her domestic duties. Distin-
guished for her prudence and discretion, she carefully avoided all allusions or sug-
gestions which would tend to excite suspicion or grieve an erring or wayward neigh-
bor. Her strong sense and excellent judgment gave her great prominence and
influence in the church of which she was a member, and the social circle in which
she moved. She was a keen and close observer of the human face, and an accurate
judge of human character, and when she fixed her dark penetrating eyes upon the
face of a stranger she rarely failed to stamp his character at once, and that, too,
with marked precision. She exercised the most perfect self-control, was familiar,
yet dignified, in her bearing, positive in her opinions, grave and serious in her de-
portment, yet was never regarded as imperious or arrogant. Her husband enjoyed
an extensive professional practice and possessed a large landed estate, a great por-
tion of which he cultivated. Her superior executive ability, united with great
energy, enabled her, during his absence, successfully to control and direct the
labors upon the homestead, and at the same time to fully discharge the onerous
duties incident to the care of a numerous household. Her husband was genial and
340 FIELD GENEALOGY.
social, full of humor and mirth, oftentimes filling the house with his "jocund
laugh." The wife, however, true to her refined womanly instincts, her sense of
propriety, rarely disturbed by his merry and harmless jests, with great discretion
pursued the even tenor of her way. Patiently and with unfaltering devotion to
the higher and nobler purposes of life she always maintained her self-possession,
studiously avoided all levity and frivolity, rarely relaxed the gravity of her deport-
ment, and never failed in the end of controlling both husband and household. She
always remembered, with a kind and grateful spirit, the favors conferred upon her
by her friends and generously repaid them. She was withal so affable, gentle and
benevolent that she won the admiration and good-will of all with whom she was
associated. She was a faithful and affectionate wife and mother, who exemplified,
in her pure and spotless life, the influence of the severe discipline and stern relig-
ious teachings of her Puritan ancestors. It affords her children great pleasure to
be able to offer this slight tribute of filial affection and respect to the memory of a
kind and loving mother. — Field pamphlet.
He d. Oct. 3, 1833; res. Newfane, Vt.
1483. i. CHARLES KELLOGG, b. April 14, 1803; m. Julia Ann Kellogg.
1484. ii. MARY HUBBARD, b. Sept. 13, 1804; m. July 27, 1824, Theodore
Francis French, of Troy; he d. Sept. 11, 182S; m., 2d, Dec. 24,
1835, Thomas Jones, of Enfield; she d. Oct. 21, 1863. "Mrs. Mary
Field French, a cousin of Eugene and Roswell M. Field, died at
her home in Amherst, Mass., in April, 1900. When the brothers
were between eight and ten years old their mother died, and
Miss French came on from the East to St. Louis to care for the
sister, Frances, and remained with the family until the boys were
old enough to enter college. It was to her that Eugene Field
dedicated his first volum.e, "A Little Book of Western Verse,"
paying her a tender tribute in these stanzas:
A dying mother gave to you
Her child a-many years ago;
How in your gracious love he grew,
You know, dear, patient heart, you know.
The mother's child you fostered then
Salutes you now and bids you take
These little children of his pen
And love them for the author's sake.
To you I dedicate this book,
And, as you read it, line by line,
Upon its faults as kindly look
As you have always looked on mine.
Tardy the offering is and weak —
Yet were I happy if I knew
These children had the power to speak
My love and gratitude to you.
It was for her that the late Eugene Field named his first child,
Mary French Field, better known as "Trotty." In an article Mr.
Field once wrote for one of the magazines he said the woman
who had the most influence on his life and the molding of his
character was his grandmoth^, but later he declared he was
sorry he had said that, for after mature thought he was certain
the woman was Mary Field French. Miss French had been an
invalid two years previous to her death. She was 75 years old
FIELD GENEALOGY. 341
and leaves a half-brother, S. Minot Jones, of Washington, D. C."
— Chicago Post.
1485. iii. ROSWELL MARTIN, b, Feb. 22, 1807; m. Frances Maria
Reed.
1456. iv. JOHN FISHER, b. Sept. 25. 1S08; he settled in 1840 in St. Louis,
Mo. ; from there to Wisconsin, where he d. Aug. 25, 1847.
740. HON. ROSWELL FIELD (Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Dec. 29, 1767; d. March
31, 1S43; he was a successful school teacher in his younger days; he was for many
years a magistrate and trial justice tor Franklin county, Mass. ; he represented the
town of Leverett in the Legislature several years ; he was highly esteemed for the
ability and integrity with which he discharged his official duties; he m, Sarah, dau.
of Deacon Moses Graves, of Leverett; b. 1767; d. 1838, leaving no issue.
Roswell, of Leverett, May 14. 1842, recorded: wife d. ten years past; to Sarah
Field, wife of Timothy Putnam ; to Fanny Field, wife of Brother Orlando Field ;
to Mary D. Field, daughter of Brother Orlando Field; to Fanny F. Field, daughter
of Brother Orlando Field; to Timothy Putnam, who has lived in family eight
years; Capt. Asa L. Field, executor. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
741. RUFUS FIELD (Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., 1771; he resided on the old home-
stead; d. March 23, 1813; he m. Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Sarah (Kellogg) Field,
of Leverett, b. June 23, 1782; she m., 2d, Jonathan Conant. of Leverett; d. April
21, 1844; no issue.
Rufus, of Leverett, 1813; appointed Alpheus and Orlando Field, of Leverett.
administrator. May 11, 1813; widow, Sarah Field; no lineal descendants ; brothers,
Roswell, Martin, Spencer, Orlando; Polly Adams, a deceased sister.— Franklin
County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
743. SPENCER FIELD (Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Jan. 20, 1782; he settled in Put-
ney, Vt. ; removed to Richfield, N. Y. ; from there to Springfield, N. Y., where
he d. Aug. 26, 1850; he m. July 5, 1807. Hannah Cutler, of Putney, Vt., b. Jan. 27,
1782; d. Oct. 29, 1864. Res. Springfield, N. Y.
1457. i. CUTLER, b. July 4, 1809; m. Maria E. Davenport and Mary W.
Cook.
1488. ii. SETH, b. Aug. 2, 1812; m. Lucy Ann Conant.
744. ORLANDO FIELD (Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., May 28, 1787; he resided on the
old homestead with his brother, where he d. Nov. 7, 1854; he m., ist, July 18, 1S13,
Dorothy, dau. of William and Editha (Frary) Field, of Leverett, b. April 22, 1794; d.
July 22, i8i7;m.,2d, Jan, 6, 1823, Fanny Baker, dau. of Martin Baker and Mary
Smith, of Amherst, b. Jan. 8, 179S; d. in Amherst July 8, 18S2; res. Leverett, Mass.
1489. i. MARY, b. Aug. 16, 1825.
1490. ii. FANNY, b. Oct. 25, 1827; d. March 3, 1S51.
745. LUTHER FIELD (William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah. John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., September, 1771; d. June 5. 1852,
m 1795, Beulah, dau. of Jefferson Moore and Abigail, of Shutesbury, b. 1775; d..
June 29, 1855.
342 FIELD GENEALOGY.
I49I.
1.
1492.
u.
1493-
111.
1494.
IV.
1495.
V.
1496.
VI.
Luther. Sr. of Leverett, 1852, Aug. 24, filed; wife, Beulah, about 80 years of
age; children, Dolly, Nabby, Luther, Polly, wife of Jacob Thayer; son Luther's
share to go to support him from and after father's decease.
Beulah Field, of Leverett, Dec. 23, 1854, widow, filed; son, Luther Field;
daughter, Dolly Field, and Polly, daughter of Jacob Thayer, and Abigail, grand-
daughter; Lucinda, daughter Dolly Field. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
NANCY, b. 1796; m. 1821, Ward Woodbury, of Leverett.
ERASTUS, b. 1800; d. Oct. 23, 1838.
DOLLY, b. 1802; d. in Amherst.
CALVIN, b. 1804; m. Tamar Aldrich.
ABIGAIL, b. ; m. Elisha Warner, of Buckland, Mass.
LUTHER, b. ; d. 1853, n. c. m., at Brattleboro.
Luther, Jr., of Leverett, 1852; insane; petition of Jacob and
Polly (Field) Thayer, Dolly Field, Abigail, Luther and Beulah
Field, Dec. 30, 1852, to have division of estate of Luther, late of
Leverett. — Franklin County Probate.
1497. vii. MARY, b. ; m. Jacob Thayer, of Belchertown, Mass.
746. ERASTUS FIELD (William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Leverett, Mass, July 22, 1773; d. March i, 1817; he
m. Nov., 1799, Salome, dau. of Capt. Stephen and Elizabeth Ashley, of Leverett, b.
Oct. 26, 1777; d. May 11, 1838.
Erastus, of Leverett, 1851; sons, Stillman, Erastus Salisbury, Phineas;
daughter, Julia Ann, wife of Nathan Sears; Emily, grandchild; Helen, Edward
and Mary L. Marsh. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1498. i. ELIZA, b. Sept. 22, 1801; m. Sept. 27, 1829, Consul B. Cutter, of
Leverett; d. Sept. 15, 1849.
STILLMAN, b. Dec. 28, 1802; m. Aurilla Field.
ERASTUS SALISBURY, b. May 19, 1804; m. Phebe Gilman.
SALOME BILLINGS, b. May 19, 1804; m. probably Sept. 8, 1833,
Capt. William Hubbard, of Leverett; d. May 23, 1838.
CLARISSA, b. June 3, 1807; d. Feb. 18. 1836.
PHINEHAS, b. March 13, 1809; m. Thankful M. Field.
JULIA ANN, b. Sept. 29, 1811; m. Feb. 2, 1852, Nathan Sears, of
Amherst; she d. Oct. 10, 1893.
1504. viii. MARYETT, b. Nov. 22, 1813; m. Feb. 25, 1835, Austin Lysander
Marsh, of Sunderland; d. Aug. 26, 1842.
1505. ix. EMILY, b. Feb. i, 1816; m. Aug. 31, 1861, Samuel A. Gaylord, ot
North Hadley; shed. Sept. 5, 1895.
751. HEMAN FIELD (William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., April 6, 1790; d. May 7, 1842;
he m. Dec. 25, 1817, Achsah, dau. of Daniel Abbott, of Hadley, b. May 15, 1793;
she m., 2d, July, 1848, Aaron Belding, of Whately, d. Sept. 15, 1856; res. Leverett,
Mass.
1506. i. FREDERICK W., b. Jan. 20, 18 19, m. Caroline Adams and Sarah
M. Rice.
1507. ii. ROSELLA, b. Nov. 23, 1820; m. Jan. 27, 1841, Appleton Rowe, of
Sunderland; res. Phillipston, Mass.
1508. iii. PAMELIA, b. Nov. 23, 1820; m. July 24, 1844, Elijah Fitts, of
Leverett; b. July 30, 1869. Ch. : i. Heman F. ; res. Saratoga,
1499-
11.
1500.
111.
1501.
IV.
1502.
V.
1502.
VI.
1503.
Vll,
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I5II-
u.
1512.
Ul.
1513.
IV.
1514-
V.
1515.
VI.
756.
SYI
N. Y. 2. Robert C. b. ; res. Milwaukee, "Wis. 3. Elijah
B., b. ; res. Chicago, 111.
1509. iv. EDWIN G., b. March 24, 1823; m. Nancy S. Clark.
753. CAPTAIN WILLIAM FIELD (William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett. Mass., Sept. 4, 1796; he
was commissioned in 1817 captain of cavalry which he held until 1825, when he re-
moved to Benson, Vt. , which town he represented in the Legislature in the years
1837 and 1838; in 1840 he returned to Leverett; in 1842 to Amherst, where he d.
July 3, 1843; his remains were interred in Leverett; was a farmer; he m. Dec. 30,
1 81 8. Roxana Mattoon, dau. of John and Roxana (Mattoon) Kellogg, of Amherst, b.
Dec. 24, 1797; d. Sept. 10, 1867; res. Amherst, Mass.
1 510. i. HARRIET, b. May i, 1821; d. in Benson, Vt., May 13, 1839.
WILLIAM DWIGHT, b. July 23. 1823; m. Carrie French.
CHARLES HENRY, b. Jan. 20, 1827; m. Nancy S. Hobart.
ELVIRA, b. Oct. 27, 1829; d. April 3, 1839.
STILLMAN KELLOGG, b. Dec. 6, 1834; m. Mary E. Moore.
EDWARD PAYSON, b. July 9, 1837; m. Martha L. Wood.
SYLVAN US FIELD (Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Feb. 26, 1776; d. Feb. 18,
i860; a successful farmer; he m. 1805, Cynthia, dau. of William and Dorothy
(Kellogg) Field, of Leverett, b. Oct. 5, 1787; d. April 20, 1854.
Sylvanus, of Leverett, i860, May 8; wife, Cynthia; sons, Frary, J. Sawyer,
Dexter; daughter, Elvira (?). — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1516. i. OLIVIA, b. March 21, 1807; m. Timothy B. Rice, of N. Leverett.
1 51 7. ii. FRARY, b. May 28, 1810; m. Julia A, Comins.
1518. iii. DEXTER, b. August, 1812; m. Celinda Spooner.
1 5 19. iv. JOSEPH SAWYER, b. Aug. 17, 1822; m. Sarah B. Lawton.
757. LUCIUS FIELD (Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Jan. 6, 177S; he was a tavern
keeper, his house being near the fish pond; d. Aug. 26, 1856; he m. Nov. 5, 1806,
Virtue, dau. of Gideon Ashley, of Sunderland, b. Aug. 6, 1784; d. Nov. i, 1834.
Lucius, of Leverett, 1856, Nov. 4 filed; daughter Aurilla (?), wife of Stillman
Field; daughter Cynthia, wife of Elijah Bardwell, Jr.; grandson Lucius, son of
Stillman and Aurilla Field; son Harrison. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1520. i. AURELIA, b. Nov. 5, 1807; m. Dec. 13, 1833, Stillman Field, of
Leverett; a child. is Mrs. Ellen V. Wells, of Leverett, Mass. (see).
1521. ii. CYNTHIA, b. July 22, 1810; m. Dec. 10, 1S34, Elijah Bardwell, of
Hatfield. He wash, in Hatfield, Mass., Sept. 13, 1802; d. there
March 28, 1883; was a farmer; she d. Feb, 14, 1878. Ch. : i.
Martha J., b. July 5, 1838; unm. ; res. Hatfield. 2. Caleb D.. b.
Sept. 28, 1840; m. Sept. 28, 1870, Sarah A. Warner. 3. Henry
F., b. Nov. 6, 1842; m. Nov. 4, 1868, Alice L. Brown; d. Oct.
4, 1892. 4. Elijah A., b. Feb. i, 1846; m. Dec. 13, 1871, Sarah
A. Dickinson; m., 2d, 1886-87, Lois S. Wright. 5- Asahel W.,
b. May 28, 1848; drowned July 28, 1864. 6. Frederic H., b. Feb.
12, 1854; m. Dec. 4, 1879, Maria Curtis.
1522. iii. HARRISON, b. June 13, 1813; m. Persis Jerusha Moore.
758. REV. LEVI FIELD (Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Feb. 13, 1780; he gradu-
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1524.
11.
1525.
111.
1526.
iv.
1527.
V.
ated at Williams College in 1799, and was licensed to preach; he afterwards studied
law and settled in Wilmington, Vt., where he d. July 12, 1820; he m. in 1804 Rachel,
dau. of Enoch Kingsley, of Northampton, Mass., b. 1777; d. in Brattleboro, Vt.,
Nov. I, 1843; res. Wilmington, Vt.
1523. i. LUCIA, b. Sept. 20, 1804; m. June 7, 1825, Lovell Farr, of Brat-
tleboro; d. in Peoria, 111., 1879.
A CHILD, b. April 20, 1806; d. April 22, 1806.
WILLIAM EATON, b. Aug. 30. 1807; m. Sarah R. Nichols.
RUFUS, b. Jan. 28, 1810; d. insane.
SARAH ANN, b. May 13, 1812; m., ist, Rev. Chester W. Carpen-
ter, of Amherst. Mass. ; 2d, Ely, of Jamestown, N. Y.
1528. vi. RACHEL, b. July 26, 1814; m. July, 1844, Rev. Samuel J. Parker,
of Ithaca, N. Y.
1529. vii. THERESA, b. Sept. 27, 1816; d. Sept. 16, 1825.
1530. viii. FLORA, b. May 10, 1819; d. Sept. 9, 1833.
760. HON. ALPHEUS FIELD (Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., June 26, 1786; he d.
in the Bermuda Islands, where he had gone for his health. May 26, 1836; he was a
farmer and a prominent man in town, holding various offices ; was deputy sheriff
for several years; he represented the town in the Legislature, and was a justice
of the peace many years; he was president of the Amherst bank at the time of his
death; he m. Nov. 18, 1811, Caroline, dau. of Nathan and Sybil Adams, of Leverett,
b. Aug. II, 1786; d. Oet. 23, i863.
Alpheus Field, of Leverett, Mass., had two sons, Levi A. and D. S. Field.
The former became clergyman, d. in Marlboro, Mass., leaving one child, Emma W.
and widow Nancy M. Nov. 9, 1859, Stephen Morse, Marlboro, was appointed
administrator. Petition said, "he left a wife, no debts and one child." Nov. 8,
1859. Nancy M. was appointed guardian of said Emma W., being under fourteen
years of age. Later mother and daughter lived in Monson, Mass. D. S. Field
resided, March 3, 1864, in Amherst. — Middlesex County Probate.
Alpheus, of Leverett, Aug. 23, 1836; wife. Lina; daughter, Caroline; sons, De
Easting Salisbury and Levi ; sister, Sarah Conant ; brother, Sylvanus Field ; wit-
nesses, Stillman Field, Frary Field, Dexter Field. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1531. i. DE ESTANG SALISBURY, b. Aug. 24. 1813; m. Editha Crocker.
1532. ii. CAROLINE, b. Dec. 8, 1817; m. June 21, 1838, Stoughton D.
Crocker, of Sunderland.
1533. iii- LEVI ALPHEUS, b. Sept. 17, 1821; m. Nancy M. Holmes.
763. JONATHAN FIELD (Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Jan. 25, 1786; he removed in
1807 to Stanstead, Lower Canada, where he purchased a large tract of land and
accumulated a large property; he was a very enterprising business man; d. Aug.
30, 1877, aged 91 years, 7 months, 5 days; he m., ist, January, 1810, Elizabeth,
dau. of John and Marjorie (Knowlton) Lothridge, of Pelham, Mass., b. April 22,
1783; d. Aug. 27, 1849; "^M 2d, June 11, 1861, Ruth F., dau. of Daniel and Deborah
(Barber) Dustan, and widow of Israel Parsons, b. in Lebanon, N. H., April 27, iSoi ;
d. Dec. II, 1869. He was b. in the northwestern part of Massachusetts, and in 1808
moved to Stanstead, Canada, and settled on the east part of number three, eleventh
range, which he purchased of Selah Pomroy ; his family belonged to the Wesleyan
church. Res. Stanstead, Canada.
1534. i. MOSES SPELLMAN, b. June 9, 1811; m. Margaret L Gibbs.
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1535. ii. LAVINA, b. Sept. 14, 1812; res. at home: unm.
1536. iii. LUCY MARIA, b. Feb. 26, 1815; m. John M. Hubbard, of Stan-
stead; d. Feb. 18, 1839. He m., ad, 1841, Lucy D. Wood; lie was
a farmer, settled on the family homestead.
1537. iv. ALONZO, b. Feb. 27, 1817; res. on homestead, unm,
1538. V. SUSAN M., b. Oct. 7, 1818; m. Dec. 31, 1845, Henry McGaffey, of
Stanstead. Ch. : i. Annie Maria, b. Feb. 19, 1847. 2. .Herbert
H., b. May 19, 1850; m. March 8, 1871, Inez Brewer, of Derby,
Vt. 3. Ida Elizabeth, b. Oct. 5, 1853; d. June 7, 1872 4. Fred-
erick B. , b. Nov. 10, 1856; res. Stanstead.
1539. vi. ARVILLA, b. Dec. i, 1820; m. May 14, 1849, Seth F. Ball, of Stan-
stead; a dau. b. and d. June, 1851, and Charles D., b. Oct. 5,
1859-
1540. vii. POLLY, b. Oct. 26, 1823; d. Nov. 9, 1830.
1541. viii. CLARISSA, b. Nov. 10, 1825; d. Feb. 6. 1827.
765. MOSES FIELD (Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Feb. 25, 1791; he inherited the old
homestead, where he d. April i, 1875, aged 84 years, i month, 5 days; he was a very
worthy and prominent man in town, and had the confidence and respect of his
neighbors and townsmen; he m., ist, May 5, 1S14, Dolly Russell, b. ; d. May
26, 1816; 2d, Feb. 20, 1S23, Almira Hubbard, b. ; d. March 25, 1824; 3d, July 2,
1829, Rhoda Caroline, dau. of Nathan and Rhoda (Gatts) Putnam, of Wendell,
Mass., the fifth generation from John Putnam, who emigrated to New England in
1634; she was b. June 20, 1809.
"Moses, of Leverett, 1875, April 16, filed; wife, Rhoda Caroline; seven children,
Osmond H., D. Elmira, Moses, Jr., Putnam, Ophelia M., Herbert F., George E. ;
at this date Osmond H, resided Chautauqua county, N. Y. ; D. Almira Stebbins
res'des Brattleboro, Vt. ; Moses resides Leverett; Putnam resided Greenfield, now
Cal ; Herbert F. resides Council Bluffs, Iowa; Ophelia M. resides Hadley;
George E. resides Leverett
R. Caroline, Leverett, 1887; d. Aug. 9, 1S87; widow of Moses; sons, George E.,
Putnam, of Guilford; Osmond H., of Kiantone, N. Y. ; Moses, of Leverett; Herbert
F., of Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughters, D. Elmira, wife of John H. Stebbins, of
Brattleboro, Vt ; Ophelia M., wife of Austin Field, of Hadley, Mass; mentions also
Myra S. Field, Maud E. Field; mentions also Carrie M. (Field) Howard, the said
Carrie representing her father Osmond H. Field in this bequest." — Franklin County
Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1542. i. OSMOND H., b. May 10, 1830; m. Lydia A. Perry.
1543. ii. DOLLY ELMIRA. b. March 6, 1832; m. Feb. 6, 1862, John H.
Stebbins, of Brattleboro, Vt. ; she d. May 2, 1890.
1544. iii. MOSES, b. Nov. 12, 1833; m. Ellen E. Hobart
1545. iv. CORDELIA MARIA, b. May 12, 1835: d. Sept 17, 1836.
1546. v. PUTNAM, b. Nov. 10, 1836; m. Kate M. Burt and Anne M. Mc-
Gaffney.
1547. vi. OPHELIA MARIA, b. Dec. 5, 1838; m. June 13, 1872, Austin
Field, of North Hadley; she d. March 28, 1891.
AN INFANT, b. April 17, 1840; d. April 17, 1&40.
HERBERT FITZHENRY, b. May 9, 1842; m. Jennie L Russell.
CHARLES CLIFTON, b. Nov. 25, 1843; he enlisted Dec. 11, 1861,
in Company B, Thirty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volun-
23
1548.
Vll.
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1550.
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1552.
1.
1553.
11.
1554-
111.
1555-
IV.
1556.
V.
1557.
VI.
1558.
vii.
1559-
vni,
teers. Before leaving the State he was taken sick, but embarked
with his regiment tor Ship Island, La., from there to New Or-
leans, where he d. at the Lincoln hospital, Jan. 2, 1863.
1551. X. GEORGE EDWARD, b. May 26, 1846; m. Louisa Ingram.
769. RANSOM FIELD (Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Feb. 28, 1799; he removed to
Montague, Mass.; in 1876 to Havana, 111., where he d. March 19, 1877; He m.,
1st, Eliza, dau. of Deacon Daniel and (Russell), of North Hadley, b. Jan. i,
1803; d. Dec. 19, 1834; 2d, Nov. 18, 1836, Louisa, dau. of William and (Stevens)
ot Leverett, b. September, 1807; d. Feb. 27, 1861.
Louisa, of Leverett, 1869; ch., Clifton Ransom, b. March 7, 1854, child ot Ran-
som and Louisa (deceased); Ransom appointed guardian June i, 1869. — Franklin
County Probate,
Res. Havana, 111.
OREN RUSSELL, b. Oct. 8, 1826; d. Oct. 6, 1828.
LUCIA ANN, b. Sept. 10, 1829; d. Aug. 12, 1832.
SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 30, 1832: m. June i, 1861, Adolph
Krebaum, of Havana, Mason county. 111., where she went as a
school teacher; he was county clerk for eighteen successive
years.
NEWTON RUSSELL, b. Aug. 17, 1834; d- Dec. 5, 1834-
JULIA ANN. b. Sept. i, 1836.
FANNY ELECTA, b. June 12, 1841; d. Aug. 12. 1849.
ROSANNAH lANTHE, b. Dec. 12, 1845; d. Aug. 29, 1849.
CLIFTON RUSSELL, b. March 7, 1854.
770. DEACON JOHN FIELD (John, John, John, John. William. John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., 1727; m. Plainfield, Conn., April 6,
1747-48. Mrs. Lydia Warren, said to have been a sister of General Warren, who was
killed at Bunker Hill, dau. of Joseph, b. Norwich, Conn., 1724; d. 1811. John Field
2d and John Field 4th were buried in Bridgewater; Capt. John Field, his wite
Elizabeth, Deacon John Field and his wife Lydia. The remains of which were
removed from the West Burying Ground to a lot on Linden avenue. North Burying
Ground, 1864, in Providence, R. I. He was known as Deacon John.
B. 17, 290. From Archibald Young, July i, 1767.
B. 18, 59. To Job Sweeting, July i, 1763; wife Lydia.
B. 19, 485. To Daniel Snow, April 16, 1784, Friendship street.
B. 19, 503. To son Lemuel (p. 43), March 4, 1785, Friendship street.
B. 20, 168. To Jonathan Belcher, 1773.
B. 20, 702. To Joseph Eddy, May 5, 1772, Cowpen Point
B. 21, 411. To son Daniel (p. 44), June 27, 17S6, Ship street, Smithfield.
B, 6. 276. 1771, Feb. 6, to Caleb Aldrich, 6 acres, Scituate at Woonsocket.
B. 3, 414. 1748, Feb. 14, to Stephen Smith, no wife.
B. 4, 355. 1756, May 10, to Henry Carpenter, original right of Henry Fowler;
Bro. James joins in deed.
Will of John Field (Deacon). Providence Probate Docket, Vol. I. No. A1465.
Will Book No. 7, page 306. — In the name of God Amen I John Field of the Town
of Providence being weak in Body but of perfect Mind & sound Judgment thanks
be unto God calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is ap-
pointed for all Men once to die, do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament,
that is to say principally & first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hand
of Almighty God that gave it & my Body 1 recommend to the Earth to be buried in
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decent christian burial at the discretion of my Executors ; nothing doubting but at
the resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as
touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this
Life, I give, devise & dispose of the same in the following manner & form
First I give & bequeath to Lydia my dearly beloved Wife the one third part of
the improvement of all my Lands & Tenements together with my dwell. House &
its appurtenances & the adjoining inclosed Garden for her to possess and peacefully
enjoy during her natural Life, she allowing the entire of the second Story of my
said dwelling House to my beloved daughter Lydia & to my grandaughter Anne
Bowler so long as each shall remain unmarried, likewise to her my beloved Wife
Lydia I bequeath all my Quick Stock, my household Furniture & ready Money
after my just debts are paid, and I give unto her my beloved Wife Lydia during her
natural Life, liberty at pleasure in my Orchard situated East of Ship Street & I also
bequeath like priviledge unto my daughter Lydia Bowler during the period whilst
she shall continue unmarried. And further to my beloved Wife Lydia' s care I com-
mit the Silver Tankard presented to me by the Field Fountain Society and on her
decease it shall be lodged with my son Daniel at whose decease it shall devolve to
him or her of my Heirs who shall then live nearest to the Fountain out of respect
to the Society who so generously & politely presented me therewith
Second, to my beloved daughter Lydia Bowler I bequeath Eight Lots ot Land
in Field Street on the East side beginning at Ship Street each Lot to contain forty
feet in front & to extend back ninety-five leet, likewise 1 bequeath to her a Lot ot
Land on the Plain containing Eight Acres & adjoining to the Road leading from
this Town to Randall's Mill, which Lot I call the second Lot, situated & adjoining
on the West to the first Lot and to run parellel therewith to the Pond lying East
thereof
Third, To my beloved daughter Abigail Proud I give & bequeath a Lot of
Land on the Plain as aforesaid which Lot contains Eight Acres & beginning four-
teen Rods West of Mess. Saml & Danl. Prouds Lot, shall run parallel with the
fence of Mess. Mumford & Wm. Potter to the Pond lying East and being bounded
on the West by the second Lot above mentioned I call this the first Lot likewise I
give to her Eight Lots of Land in Field Street on the West side beginning at Ship
Street each Lot to front forty feet on Field Street & to extend ninety five feet back,
but a Gangway suificient for a Cart to pass out of Field Street into the Meadow on
the West side thereof must be left wherever my son Daniel may think convenient.
Fourth. To my beloved daughter Zerviah Wheeler I give one halt of the House
wherein she now lives that is to say the lower part which she now occupies together
with one half of the Cellar & Garret & half the Garden belonging thereto likewise I
give and bequeath to her a Lot of Land containing Eight Acres lying & being on
the Plain aforesaid which Lot lying West of the second Lot and joining thereto
shall extend parallel therewith to the Pond on the East thereot which Lot 1 call the
Third Lot. And further unto my three daughters viz Lydia Bowler. Zerviah
Wheeler & Abigail Proud, 1 bequeath an additional Gift of six Acres of Land lying,
being & bounded as follows viz lying to the North West of Friendship Street &
joining immediately thereto bounded on the North & North East side by Woodbury
Coy & Nathl. Gladding holding thence to extend Westerly so as to contain six Acres
and then to turn a square corner to the Northwesterly line of my Land. And it is
my Will further that my three daughters above mentioned & 'their Heirs after
them forever do keep in good order the outward fences adjoining to their several
Lands & Lots so as to secure them without expense or inconvenience to either of
my sons John or Daniel or their Heirs after them forever
Fifth. To my beloved grandaughter Ann Bowler (she having no father to assist
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her) I give the Lot of Land next adjoining to the Parsonage Lot in Ship Street to
contain forty feet in front & ninety five feet back & situated South East trom the
Parsonage Lot aforesaid, likewise I give to her the Sixth Lot on the Plain aforesaid
containing three Acres & joining on the West to the fifth Lot shall run parallel
therewith from the Road before mentioned to the Pond lying East thereof
Sixth To my beloved grandson Joseph Bowler (he having no Father to assist
him) I give the seventh Lot containing three Acres on the Plain above mentioned
& joining on the West to the Sixth Lot shall run parallel therewith from the afore-
said Road to the Pond lying East thereof ; likewise I give to him a Lot in Ship
Street situated South East from the Parsonage Lot and is the second from it to be
forty feet in front and ninety five feet deep
Seventh. To my beloved Grandson William Field I give the Lot next adjoining
on the SoutH East to the Lot mentioned, to extend forty feet in front and ninety
five feet back in consideration of several years fidelity spent in my Service
Eighth. To my beloved Son Lemuel 1 bequeath the Lot bounded as follows viz
situated South West of Ship Street from the corner of Prospect Street and Ship
Street to front ninety feet on Ship Street East, then turning a square corner to run
back one hundred and ten teet and again turning a square corner & retaining still
the depth of one hundred and ten feet to run in a Straight line ninety feet to Pros-
pect Street together with my dwelling House & Building, standing thereon to be
occupied and peacetuUy possessed by him after the decease of my beloved Wife
Lydia he allowing the upper Story ot said house to my daughter Lydia & grand-
daughter Anne Bowler as already expressed in the former part of this mj' last Will
and Testament, also I give to him the inclosed Garden joining on Prospect Street &
should said Garden or any part of it be taken into said Prospect Street the same
shall be made good to him by my Executors, likewise I bequeath to him a Lot con-
taining Eight Acres on the Plain above mentioned and situated immediately West
of the third Lot bequeathed to his Sister Zerviah Wheeler and joining thereto to run
parallel therewith from the aforesaid Road to the Pond lying East this Lot I call
the fourth Lot
Ninth. To my beloved son Joseph 1 give the fitth Lot of Land on the Plain
above mentioned Lot containing Eight Acres and joining on the West to the last
mentioned Lot to run parallel therewith from the aforesaid Road to the Pond as
above mentioned. Also I give to him one half ot the House wherein he now lives
that is to say the second Story together with one halt ot the Cellar & Garret with
one halt ot the Garden thereof. And further to my two Sons Lemuel & Joseph I
give Eight Lots of Land joining to the Pautuxet Road trom this Town each Lot to
front said Road forty feet and to extend ninety five feet back on the West to join a
Lot belonging to Potter Card & to extend tr6m thence towards the Gate leading to
the Burial Ground situated within my Lands. Also I bequeath to them all my
Lands and Lots to the North of Richmond Street and East on North of Ship Street
and not otherwise disposed of in this my last Will & Testament. Also I Will &
command them to keep in Good order all the outer Fences of their several Lands &
their Heirs after them without expense to my Sons John or Daniel, or their Heirs
after them forever
Tenth. To my beloved son Daniel I give the Lot containing the Tobacco Yard
& Hovel, North Westerly from his House to extend East to Mr. Oliver Pearcis, Lot
trom thence to run South East to the outer boundary of the Orchard & including
said Orchard to run West to Ship Street in a direct line: likewise I give to him the
Lot situated North of the Lot containing my dwelling House beginning at the
North East corner of Lemuel Field's Lot extending ninety five feet on the East line
of said Lot then turning a corner Easterly to Prospect Street, then Northerly on
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Prospect Street one hundred & ten feet to Ship Street, thence to the first mentioned
bound with the Barn & Crib standing thereon, and he having with me purchased
many of my Tools of Husbandry I therefore bequeath the whole thereof to him
Eleventh. To my beloved son John I bequeath the House & Farm which I
bought of Stedman & to my sons John, Lemuel, Daniel & Joseph I give my wearing
apparel to be equally divided amongst them, but my Sword & Gun I give to my
son Joseph
Lastly. To my beloved sons John & Daniel whom I likewise constitute, make
& ordain my sole Executors of this my last Will & Testament, I give all & singular
my remaining Lands, Messuages & Tenements at home and upon the Plain
together with all my undivided Lands within & without the seven Mile line by
them to be equally & freely possessed & enjoyed
And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & disannul all & every other former
Testaments, Wills, Legacies Bequests & Executors by me in any wise before
named Willed or Bequeathed, ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last
Will and Testament
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal this Eleventh day of
February m the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety four A. D. 1794
Signed, Sealed, Published & Declared by the said John John Field, (l.s.)
Field to be his last Will & Testament in presence
of us who subscribed as Witnesses in presence
of the Testator & in presence of each other
Thomas Jones
Jacob Whitman Jun.
John Dorrance
Proved April 7, 1794.
He d. March 10, 1794; res. Providence, R. I.
JOHN. b. March 22, 1748; m. Marcy Searle.
LEMUEL, b. Dec. 28, 1750; m. Rachel Downing.
DANIEL, b. May 19, 1755; m. Zipporah Benjamin.
JOSEPH, b. 1763; m. Prudence Carpenter. Mrs. Eliza (Usher)
Burrows and Phebe Wallen.
1564. V. LYDIA. b. May 8, 1753; m. Dec. i, 1774, Joseph Bowler. He d.
before 1794; she d. Dec. 13, 1833. Ch. : i. Joseph, d. quite
young. 2. Nancy, m. Joseph Fry, of Albany, N. Y. ; they had
several children. 3. Anne, unm, in 1794. 4. Joseph.
1565. vi. ABBY, b. 1760; m. Dec. 6, 1-S7, Daniel Proud; she d. 1844, s. p.
1566. vii. ZERVIAH, b. 1758; m. May 25, 1780, Bennett Wheeler, b. Hali-
fax, N. S., 1755; d. Providence, R. L, in 1806; shed. 1802. Ch. :
I. John, d. unm. 2. George, d. unm. 3. Betsy. 4. Bennett H.
5. Samuel. 6. Susan, d. unm. 7. Henry B., m. Eliza Boss, of
Newport ; removed to New York State.
771. JAMES FIELD (John, John, John, John, William, John, Richard, Wil-
liam, William), b. Providence, R. L, June i, 1729; m. Sept. 3, 1750, Sarah Birkett.
Administration of his estate was granted May 15, 1788, to Maj. Daniel Box.
B. 12, 441. From John Field, April 10, 1751.
B. 12, 455. From Benjamin Man, 1750.
B. 12, 479. To Asaph Bowen, May 24, 1751 ; wife, Sarah.
B. 12, 480. From Asaph Bowen, May 30, 1751.
B. 13, 63. To Grindall Rawson, 1752; wife, Sarah.
B. 17, 113. To John Dexter, Oct. 9, 1760.
1560.
1.
I56I.
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1562.
111.
1563.
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1573-
Vll.
1574.
Vlll.
1575.
IX.
B. 17, 190. From Ezekiel Williams, Nov. 11, 1760.
B. 18, 198. To Benjamin Talbot, March 20, 1767.
B. 19. 143. To Nathaniel Jacobs, Aug. 29, 1770, 41 acres near Benedict Pond.
B. 20, 385. To Joseph Hoyle, Oct. 24, 1776, Snow Land.
Smithfield, 6, 276. To Caleb Aldrich, Feb. 6, 1771, 6 acres at Woonsocket.
He d. of small pox May 9, 1788. Res. Providence, R. L
1567. i. JAMES, b. ; m. Rebecca Waterman.
1568. ii. WILLIAM, b. 1752; m. Freelove Sprague.
1569. iii. GEORGE, b 1757; m. Sarah Potter.
1570. iv. JOHN, b. ; n. f. k.
1571. V. ARTHUR, b. ; d. unm. ; killed by Indians. Jan. 7, 1790.
Arthur Field, son of James Field, deceased, liable to be charge-
able to town, IS apprenticed to Henry Huffman. — Early Provi-
dence Record.
1572. vi. EDWARD, b. ; d. unm. Providence record gives marriage
June 4, 1786, of Edward Field and Susannah Stone. Arnold 10,
162, gives this marriage, but gives Stowe, not Stone.
BENJAMIN, b. 1777; m. Sally Williams.
JOB, b. ; m. Updike and Tillinghast, and d. s. p.
MEHITABLE, b. ; m. Dec. 16. 1787, Daniel Anthony; m.,
2d, Ingraham. Ch. : 1. James Anthony ; d. in infancy.
1576. X. SALLY, b. 1753; m. March 10, 1776, Ford Wescott; d. Aug.
4, 1840. Ch. : I. James, m. Hannah Potter. 2. George, went
west. 3. Sally, unm. 4. Freelove, m. Miller.
1577. xi. POLLY, b. ; m. Nov. 24, 17S2, Maj.-Gen. Daniel Box. Ch. :
I. Polly, d. unm.
1578. xii. BETSEY, b. 1770; m. June 26, 1788, Thomas Prentice, b. 1758; d.
January, 1830. Res. Providence, R. I. Ch. : i. John. 2. Sally,
m. Caleb Arnold. 3. James, m. Elmira Field. 4. Betsey, m.
Jeremiah Barret. 5. Benjamin, unm. 6. Richard, unm. 7.
Daniel, m. Mary Bogman. 8. Mary, m. George McGuire. 9.
Mehitable, d. young, lo. Thomas, d. infant. 11. William, d.
infant. 12. George, d. infant.
772. CAPTAIN ZEBULON FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass. ; the second son ; m. Charity
Lincoln, dau. of Benjamin, of Taunton; d. 1783; m., 2d, July 28, 1784, Hannah
Hall, dau. of Joseph and Nancy (Andrews) ; d. Dec. 4, 1829.
[Zebulon Field, son of Richard and Susanna (Waldo) Field, of Bridgewater, b.
Aug. 23, 1707; m. Nov. 14, 1733, Anna Williams (Joseph, Joseph, Richard, of Taun-
ton), b. Jan. 18, 1710-11; m., 2d, Patience Wetherell, Feb. 22, 1750. He d. in 1797,
and she probably in 1798. His age, nearly seventy, shows that this Zebulon did not
serve in the Revolutionary army. By his first wife he had seven children, and by
his second wife ten, all born in Taunton. Among his children by his first wife was
Zebulon, Jr., who m. Charity Leonard. She d. in 1783. In 1784 he m., 2d, Hannah
Hall. He d. in 1805, and she in 1829. Have not investigated this family further
than to ascertain the names of the children of Anna Williams, and the date of Zeb-
ulon, Jr.'s, death may not be correct. The Zebulon Field, who was on the pension
roll in 1831-33, cannot have been Zebulon, Jr., for the latter was born before 1750,
and probably as early as 1740, while the former was seventy-four years old in 1831
to 1835, and so was not born as early as 1755. — J. H. D.] — Boston Transcript, June
15, 1898.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 351
[Anna Williams, who m. Zebulon Field, was a great-granddaughter of Richard
Williams, one of the first settlers of Taunton. The line was Anna, Joseph, Joseph,
Richard. Zebulon Field was b. in Bridgewater (according to Mitchell) in 1707,
and was the father or grandfather of Zebulon, of Taunton, the soldier of the Revo-
lution.— L. X.] — Boston Transcript, June 22, 1898.
It is said he had other children, if so, they probably died young. No other
children are mentioned in the settlement of his estate. He left no will. His
widow, Hannah, was appointed administratrix, Dec. 3, 1805. The above names are
taken from the division of his estate.
Field, Zebulon (also given Jr.), Taunton. First lieutenant Capt. Israel Trow's
company, Col. Jacob French's regiment; list of officers chosen to command com-
panies in regiment raised in Bristol and Cumberland counties and stationed at Win-
ter Hill, Feb. 27, 1776; company raised in Norton, Taunton, Freetown, Dartmouth,
Mansfield, Raynham and Middleborough. Ordered in council March 26, 1776, that said
officers be commissioned ; reported commissioned March i3(?), 1776. Also first lieuten-
ant Capt. Elisha Barney's Tenth (Taunton) company, Third Bristol company, regi-
ment of Massachusetts militia. List of officers chosen by the several companies in
said regiment, as returned by George Williams and James Williams, Jr., field officers.
Ordered in council April 13, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; reported
commissioned April 5 (?), 1776. Also lieutenant Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) company,
Col. George Williams' (3d Bristol county) regiment; service, 25 days; company
marched to Warren via Rehoboth, on the alarm of Rhode Island, of Dec. 8, 1776.
Also lieutenant Capt. Ichabod Leonard's company, Col. John Hathaway's regiment;
service, 22 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiverton, R. I., in April, 1777,
by order of Brigadier-General Godfrey. Also first lieutenant Capt. Jonathan
Shaw's company. Col. George Williams' regiment; service, i month, i day; com-
pany marched from Raynham, Taunton and Easton, in September, 1777, on a secret
expedition. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Hannah Hall, dau. of Joseph Hall (Captain Joseph, Joseph, George, of Taun-
ton) and Mary Andrews (Captain Edmund, Captain John, John, of Boston), d. in
1805.
He d. in 1805. Res. Taunton, Mass.
1579. i. ANNA HALL, b. Dec. 26, 1797; m. Nov. 21, 1825, Comfort Hardon,
of Mansfield, Mass. (Jacob, David, Edward, Edward, Edward,
of Ipswich and Gloucester), d. Sept. 14, 1854. They lived at
Mansfield, Mass., where all their children were born, until about
1838, when they removed, to^Martinsburg, W. Va. Ch. :
I. Anna Frances, b. March 26, 1827; m. Aug. 31, 1852, Hon.
Isaac Tucker Burr, formerly merchant, president of the National
bank of North America, at Boston, and representative to General
court of Massachusetts. (See Burr family and Tucker family.)
They reside at Newton, Mass., where all their children were
born. Ch. : (a) Annie Hardon Burr, b. Sept. 21, 1853; m- Sept.
21, 1877, John W. Farlow; A. B. (Harv.), M. D. (Harv.), spec-
ialist in diseases of throat and nose. They reside in Boston,
Mass. Ch. : i. Margaret Farlow, b. Aug. 22, 1880. ii. John S.
Farlow, b. Sept. 20, 1882; a student at Harvard College. (b)
Cora Frances Burr, b. Jan. 9, 1855; m. June 24. 18S6, Henry
Winthrop Hardon, A. M. (Harv.), LL. B. (Harv.), formerly pro-
fessor of law at Cornell University Law School (1895-96) and at
Columbia University Law School (1896-99), counsellor at law.
They reside in New York City. Ch. : i. Henry Knox Hardon,
352 FIELD GENEALOGY.
b. May 19, 1890. ii. Anne Frances Harden, b. Nov. 12, 1891.
(c) Hon. Heman Merrick Burr, A. B. (Harv,), LL. B. (Harv.),
formerly mayor of Newton, Mass., paymaster on United States
monitor "Katskill," during Spanish war (1898), counsellor at
law; b. July 28, 1856; m. November, 1881, Mary F. Ames. They
reside at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Ch. : i. Roger Ames Burr, b.
Aug. 28, 1882; a student at Harvard College, ii. Francis Hardon
Burr, b. Sept. 15, 1886. iii. Mary Hartwell Burr, b. Dec. i, 1898.
(d) Isaac Tucker Burr, Jr., A. B. (Harv.), of the firm of Parkinson
& Burr, bankers, Boston and New York, b. Feb. 21, 185S; m. Oct.
12, 1882, Alice McClure Peters. They reside at Milton, Mass.
Ch. : i. Isaac Tucker Burr, b. March 22, 1885, at Boston, ii.
Barbara Burr, b. Nov. i, 1886, at Boston, iii. Carleton Burr, b.
Aug. 29, 1891, at Milton, Mass. iv. Alice Burr, b. Oct. 16, 1893,
at Milton, Mass. (e) Winthrop Burr, A. B. (Harv.), of the firm
of Parkinson & Burr, bankers, Boston and New York, b. July 25,
1861; m. February, 1887, Frances Page. They reside at Law-
rence, Long Island, N. Y. Ch. : i. Rosamond Burr, b. June,
1889, at Boston, ii. Frances Burr, b. November, 1890, at Boston,
iii. Winthrop Burr, Jr., b. September, 1895, at Lawrence, Long
Island, N. Y. iv. Robert Burr, b. January, 1898, at Lawrence,
Long Island, N. Y. (t) Bertha Burr, b. March 30, 1863; m. July,
1896, Charles Eriksson. They reside in Svarfvaretorp, Sweden.
Ch. : i. Bertha Ericksson, b. March, 1S97, in Sweden, (g) Alls-
ton Burr, A. B. (Harv.), of the firm of Perry, Coffin & Burr, bank-
ers, at Boston, b. July 3, 1866; m. June 11, 1898, Elizabeth Jenks
Randolph. They reside at Chestnut Hill, Mass., and have no
children.
2. Henry C. Hardon, principal of Boston public schools, b. Aug.
9, 1829; m. Nov. 29, 1859, Anna Wallace Wilson (Nathaniel
James, Jesse, James, James, Joseph, William, of Boston). They
resided first at Boston, Mass., where their first two children were
born, then at 28 Copley St., Newton, Mass., where their other
children were born. The place of his education was the Berke-
ley Seminary, Berkeley Springs, W. Va., where he was for a short
time after graduation a teacher of mathematics and surveying.
Ch. : (a) Henry Winthrop Hardon, A. M. (Harv.), LL. B. (Harv.),
formerly professor of law at Cornell University Law School
(189S-96), and at Columbia University Law School (1896-99), coun-
sellor at law; b. April 13, 1861; m. June 24, 1886, Cora Frances
Burr. They reside at New York City. Ch. : i. Henry Knox
Hardon, b. May 19, 1890. ii. Anne Frances Hardon, b. Nov. 12,
1891. (b) Robert Wallace Hardon, M. D. (Harv.); lecturer at
Rush Medical School; physician; b. June 17, 1862; unm. Res.
at Chicago, (c) Margaret Hardon, A. B. (Wellesley), formerly
student ot architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; b. March 28, 1869; unm.
Res. at Paris, France. (d) Kenneth Wilson Hardon, leather
merchant, formerly student at Lawrence Scientific School; b.
Nov. 29, 1872; unm. Resides at Franktort, Germany, (e) Rich-
ard Field Hardon, b. Dec. 4, 1878; d. Aug. 25, 1896; unm.
Henry C. Hardon was b. in Mansfield, Mass., Aug. 9, 1829.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 353
At nine years his parents removed to Virginia ; first Gerardstown,
afterwards Martinsburg. Berkeley county. Atter graduating he
went to Boston by request of his mother's brother, Barnum Field,
and entered one of the large public schools of that city as in-
structor, where he has remained to the present day. His parents
were Comfort Hardon, of Mansfield, Mass., and Anna (Hannah)
Hall Field, of Taunton. He m. Anna W. Wilson, dau. of Nath-
aniel Wilson and Ruth Tucker Seward, of Lowell, afterwards
Lawrence, Mass. Ch. : i. Henry W. Hardon. lawyer in New
York. 2. Robert W. Hardon, physician in Chicago. 3. Kenneth
W. Hardon, merchant in Frankfort on Main, Germany. 4. Mar-
garet, graduate of Wellesley College. Anna Wallace Wilson is
the daughter of Nathaniel Wilson, who was a son of James Wil-
son, and lived in Hudson, N. H. His father was Capt. Jesse
Wilson, a soldier in General Stark's regiment, in northern New
York. Jesse's wife was Ruth Merrill. Jesse married Lucinda
Page, daughter of Abel Page, of Haverhill. Ch. : i. Gains. 2.
Dorcas. 3. James. 4. Joseph. 5. Frank. 6. Nathaniel. 7.
Daniel. 8. Lucinda. 9. E. Gerry. 10. Lorenzo.
3. Harriet Sweet, b. March 31, 1832; m. Benjamin S. Lyeth;
now d. She resides at Martinsburg, W. Va. , where her children
were born. Ch. : (a) Lieut. Clinton Hoffman Lyeth, United
States Navy ; graduate of United States Naval Academy; b. April
12, 1S51; m. April 16, 1884, at Wichita, Kans., Helena E. McGee;
d. at Martinsburg, W. Va., March S, 1S95. (b) Henry Burr Lyeth,
b. May 14, 1S53; d. Nov. 8, 1S59. i^) Frank Benjamin Lyeth, b.
Nov. 23, 1S55; d. March 15, 1856. (d) John Chester Lyeth, rail-
road agent, b. Aug. 7, 1857; m. June 24, 1885, DoUie M. Richard-
son, at Carthage, Mo. Ch. : i. John M. Richardson Lyeth, b.
April 13, 1886. (e) Henry Comfort Lyeth, merchant, b. Sept. 28,
1859; m. Oct. 14, 1885, at Manhattan, Kans., Emma Virginia
Maryfield. They reside at Baltimore, Md. Ch. : i. Margaret
Fenn Lyeth, b. March 20, 1888. ii. Harriet Glenn Lyeth, b. Feb.
I, 1890. (f) Joseph Hardon Lyeth, merchant, b. July 18, 1865; m.
Sept. 23, 1892, at Kansas City, Mo., Martha Rogers Crocken.
They reside at Martinsburg, W. Va. Ch. : i. Benjamin Samuel
Lyeth, b. Nov. 7, 1893. ii. Julia Crocken Lyeth, b. March 8, 1897.
iii. Harriet Hardon Lyeth, b. March 8, 1897.
4. Joseph Bradford Hardon, A. M. (Harv.), merchant at Boston,
b. March 31, 1834; m. June 29, 1876, Alison Cleveland, dau. of
Prof. Charles Dexter Cleveland, of Philadelphia, and second
cousin of ex-President Grover Cleveland. They reside at Jamaica
Plains, Mass., where all their children were born. Ch. : (a)
Cleveland Hardon, clerk, b. April 14, 1877; unm. (b) Frances
Hardon, student at Radcliffe College, b. Feb. 27, 1879; unm.
(c) Joseph Bradford Hardon, Jr., student at Harvard College, b.
Nov. 18, 1880; unm.
5. Chester Field Hardon, merchant, b. Sept. 21, 1836; m. April
14, 1863, Isabella Wilson (Nathaniel James, Jesse, James, James,
Joseph, William, of Boston). They resided first at Boston, Mass.,
then at Brooklyn, N. Y., and now at Oakland, Cal. Ch. : (a)
Marion Hardon, b. June 28, 1867; m. July 9, 1895, Willie Oscar
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Schroeder. Resides in Munich, Bavaria, (b) Elliot Harden, b.
July i8, i86S; m. Carrie Graves. They reside at Bridgeton, N. J.
Ch. : i. Dorothy, b. May 4, 1892. ii. Muriel, b. April 7, 1895.
1580. ii. HANNAH, b. Feb. 10, 1786; m. 1806, Sylvester Leonard, b. 1770:
d. May 28, 1843. She d. March 5, 1847. Ch. : i. Stella, m.
William Ayres, of Boston. 2. Edward L. 3. Emeline Frances.
4. Harriet L.. m. William Cook, of Taunton. 5. Eliza. 6.
Edward. 7. Emeline.
1581. iii. JOSEPH, b. March 29, 1787; m. Lydia Glover.
1582. iv. BRADFORD, b. Feb. 22, 1789; m. Sally Wetherell and Mary
Phillips.
1583. V. LEONARD, b. Aug. 12, 1790; m. Lydia Eddy.
1584. vi. SALLY, b. Nov. 21, 1791; m. Jacob Hardon; d. Sept. 3, 1838.
She d. Sept. 30, 1S38. He was of Mansfield, Conn. ; a school
teacher and a manufacturer.
1585. vii. GILBERT, b. June 26, 1793; m. Mary Willerton.
1586. viii. ABNER, b. Feb. 13, 1795; m. Rebecca Delano.
1587. ix. BARNUM, b. June 11, 1796; m. Frances E. Field.
1588. X. ZEBULON, b. 1760; m. Olive White.
1589. xi. ABIEZER, b. 1762; m. .
1590. xii. DARIUS, b. ; m. Rachel .
1 591. xiii. DAVID, b. Aug. 30, 1774; m. Celia Lincoln.
1592. xiv. JONATHAN, b. 1781; m. Hannah Wilbur.
1593. XV. NANCY, b. .
773. RICHARD FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass. ; m. June 24, 1766, Norton, Mass., Rachel
Clapp, of Norton.
Field, Richard, Mansfield. Private Capt. Abiel Clap's company of Minutemen,
Col. John Dagget's regiment; service between April 19 and April 29, 1775; 9 days.
Also private Capt. David Packard's company, Colonel Gary's regiment; service, 11
days; company marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of July 22, 1780. Also pri-
vate Capt. John Dean's company, Col. Isaac Dean's (4th Bristol county) regiment;
enlisted Aug. i, 1780; discharged Aug. 7, 1780; service, 9 days, on the alarm at
Rhode Island of Aug. i, 1780. Roll dated Mansfield.— Massachusetts State Revolu-
tionary Records.
Res. Mansfield, Mass.
1594. i. WILLIAMS, b. May 27, 1770; m. Margaret Clapp.
774. CORPORAL NATHANIEL FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1751; m.
Sarah Leonard, dau. of William and Ruth (Hoar),
Field, Nathaniel. Corporal Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) company. Col. George
Williams' (3d Bristol county) regiment; service, 19 days. Company marched to War-
ren, via Rehoboth, on the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec. 8, 1776; roll dated Taun-
ton. Also Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's company. Col. Abiel Mitchell's regiment, com-
manded by Lieut.-Col. James Williams, Brigadier- General Godfrey's (Bristol
county) brigade ; service, 8 days ; company marched from Taunton to Tiverton, R.
I., on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Probate, Taunton, 56, 457. Will of Nathaniel Field, of Taunton. Dec. 9, 1808;
proved March 10, 1820. To wife, Sarah; to sons Bethuel and Artemas; to daugh-
ter Flora Wetherell, wife of Solomon; to daughter Philana, wife of Thomas Weth-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 355
erell ; to daughter Mereda, wife of Uriah Smith ; to daughter Orvilla Field ; son
Artemas executor.
He d. about 1820. Res. Taunton, Mass.
I594M- i- NATHANIEL, b. Aug. 18, 1774; ^- Sarah Leonard.
1594J4. li- FLORA, b. April 2, 1776; m. March 29, 1795, Solomon Welherell,
son of Solomon and Hepzibah (Lincoln). Res. Raynham, Mass.
Ch. : I. Solomon, b. 1796; d. Jan. 13, 1800. 2. Flora, b. May 8,
1798. 3. Seth, b. Nov. 11, 1801. 4. Artemus Field, b. May 31,
1804. 5. Cordana, b. July 13, 1806. 6. Nathaniel Leonard, b.
Oct. 24, 1808. 7. Shephard Alger, b. Aug. 6. 1811. 8. Peleg
Emery, b. March 23, 1814.
159434:. iii. BETHUEL, b. March 12, 1778; m. Sally Lincoln.
i594>^. IV. PHILENA, b. Feb. 17, 17S0; m. Thomas Wetherell, son of Solo-
mon and Hepzibah (Lincoln) Wetherell. Ch. : i. Thomas,
b. Nov. 12, 1798. a. Daniel H. 3. Benjamin T. 4. Philena.
5. Lois H. 6. Lucetta. 7. Serepta. Res. Taunton, Mass.
I594K- V. ARTEMAS, b. Dec. 6, 1783; m. Lucinda Leonard.
1594I4'. vi. MEREDA, b. Sept. 15, 1785; m. March, 1806, Uriah Smith, son of
James and Hannah (Wilbur); Smith. Ch. : i. Paran Field
Smith, b. in Taunton, Aug. 2S, 1809. 2. Thomas Leonard Smith,
b. in Taunton, Dec. 3., 1812.
1594?^- vii. ORILLA, b. Oct. 19, 1794; m. James Clapp.
775. JAMES FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Taunton, Mass. ; m. in 1779, Mary Drew, ot Plymouth, Mass.
Field, James. Private. Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's company. Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regiment; commanded by Lieut. Col. James Williams, Brig. Gen. Godfrey's
(Bristol county) brigade; service, 6 days; company marched from Taunton to
Tiverton, R. I., on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary
Records.
Res. Taunton, Mass.
1594-5. i. POLLY, b. ; Robert Lincoln, son of Stephen, of Taunton.
1594-6. ii. PAMELIA, b. ; m. May 4, 1800, George Smith, son of James
and Hannah (Wilbur), of Taunton.
1594-7. iii. MARZILLIA, b. ; m. Feb. 16, 1809, George Pool.
1594-8. iv. ALSON, b. .
1594-9. v. AND probably others.
776. JOHN FIELD (Zebulon, Richard. John. John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. 1740, in Taunton, Mass.; m. Hannah ; d. March 22, 1790.
Field, John, Taunton. Private, Capt. Marcey Williams' company, Col. Tim-
othy Walker's regiment; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; serv-
ice, 3 months, 7 days. Also company return dated Oct. 6, 1775. Also order for
bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Roxbury. Dec. 12, 1775. Also pri-
vate, Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) company, Col. George Williams' (3d Bristol
county) regiment; service, 25 days; company marched to Warren, via Rehoboth, on
the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec. 8, 1776; roll dated Taunton. Also corporal,
Capt. Jonathan Shaw's company. Col. George Williams' regiment; service, i month,
1 day; company marched from Raynham, Taunton and Easton, in September, 1777,
on a secret expedition. Also private, Capt. Israel Trow's company. Col. John Dag-
gett's regiment; entered service Jan. 19, 1778; discharged March 31, 1778; service,
2 months, 13 days, under Major-General Spencer, at Rhode Island; company
drafted to serve for 3 months from Jan. i, 1778. Roll sworn to at Norton. Also
356 FIELD GENEALOGY.
private, Capt. John Haskins' company, in a regiment commanded by Lieut.-Col.
Samuel Pierce; enlisted May 28, 1779; discharged July i, 1779; service, i month, 6
days, travel included, at Tiverton ; company raised to serve at Rhode Island until
July I, 1779-
He d. May 4, 1824. Res. Norton and Attleboro, Mass.
1595. i. SOLOMON, b. Sept. 29, 1760; d. Jan, i, 1782.
Know all men by these presents, that we, John Field, of Attle-
borough, laborer, Ephraim Lane, Esq., and Nathaniel Prior, yeo-
man, both of Norton, all in the county of Bristol, within the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are holden and stand firmly
bound and obliged unto Benjamin Williams, Esq., Judge of the
Probate of wills, and granting administrations within the county
of Bristol, in the full sum of five hundred pounds, in lawful
money of the said Commonwealth, to be paid unto the said Ben-
jamin Williams, Esq., or his successors in the said office or
assigns, to the true payment whereof, we bind ourselves, and
each ot us, our and each of our heirs, executors and administrat-
ors, jointly and severally, for the whole and in the whole, firmly
by these presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated the twenty-
fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-two.
The condition of this present obligation is such, that if the
above bounden, John Field, who is appointed administrator on
the estate of Solomon Field, late of said Attleborough. deceased,
do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all
and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said
deceased, which have, or shall come to the hands, possession or
knowledge of him the said John, or into the hands and possession
of any other person or persons for him and the same so made, do
exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the registry of the court of
probate, for the said county of Bristol, at or before the 24th day
of September next ensuing ; and the same goods, chattels, rights
and credits, and all other goods, chattels, rights and credits of
the said deceased, at the time of his death, which at any time
after shall come to the hands and possession of the said John,
or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons
for him, do well and truly administer according to law; and
further, do make or cause to be made, a just and true account of
his said administration upon oath, at or before the 24th day of
June, which will be in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-three. And all the rest and residue of the
said goods, chattels, rights and credits, which shall be found
remaining upon the said administrators' account (the same being
first examined and allowed of by the judge or judges, for the
time being, of probate of wills, and granting administrations
within the county of Bristol aforesaid) he shall deliver and pay
unto such person or persons respectively, as the said judge or
judges by his or their decree or sentence pursuant to law shall
limit and appoint. And if it shall appear that any last will and
testament was made by the said deceased, and the executor or
executors therein named do exhibit the same into the court of
probate for the said county of Bristol, making request to have it
FIELD GENEALOGY. 357
allowed and approved accordingly; if the said John Field, within
bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the
said letter of administration (approbation of such testament being
first had and made) into the said court. Then the before-written
obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to abide and remain
in full force and virtue.
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Geo. Leonard
Peddy Leonard John Field (Seal)
Ephraim Lane (Seal)
Nathl. Prior (Seal)
Bristol, ss. : Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By the Hon.
Benjn. Williams, Esq. L. S. Judge of the probate of wills, and
granting letters of administration on the estates of persons
deceased, having goods, chattels, rights or credits in the county
of Bristol, within the Commonwealth aforesaid.
To John Field, of Attleborough, in the county and state afore-
said, laborer, greeting: Whereas, Solomon Field, late of said
Attleborough, deceased, deceased having while he lived, and at
the time of his decease goods, chattels, rights or credits in the
county aforesaid, lately died intestate, whereby the power of
committing administration and full disposition of all and singular
the goods, chattels, rights and credits of credits of the said
deceased; and also the hearing, examining and allowing the
account of such administration doth appertain unto me. Trust-
ing therefore in your care and fidelity, I do by these presents,
commit unto you full power to administer all and singular the
goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased; and well
and faithfully to dispose of the same according to law, and also
to ask, gather, levy, recover and receive all and whatsoever
credits of the said deceased, which to him while he lived, and at
the time of his death, did appertain, and to pay all debts in
which the said deceased stood bound, so far as his goods, chattels,
rights and credits can extend, according to the value thereof.
And to make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the
goods, chattels, rights and credits ; and to exhibit the same into
the registry of the court of probate for the county aforesaid, at
or before the 24th day of September next ensuing. And to render
a plain and true account of your said administration upon oath,
at or before the 24th day of June, which will be in the year of our
Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty -three. And I do
hereby ordain, constitute and appoint you administrator of all
and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal
of the said court of probate. Dated at Norton, the 24th day of
June, Annoque Domini, 17S2.
Benjn. Williams.
By order of the Honorable Judge, Geo. Leonard.
1596. ii. BEZALEEL, b. Dec. 20, 1761.
Field, Bezaleel. Private, Capt. Elisha May's company ; enlisted
September, 1776; discharged November, 1776; company served
on a two months campaign at New York.
358 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Fields, Bezaleel. List of men raised in Bristol county for the
term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, agree-
able to resolve of April 20, 1778 ; returned as received of Jonathan
Warner, commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam, July 20, 1778;
engaged for town of Attleborough ; arrived at Fishkill, June 17,
177S.
Field, Bezaleel. List dated Taunton, May 21, 1778, of men
mustered by James Leonard, muster-master, to serve for the term
of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill; Capt. Sam-
uel Robinson's (ist Attleborough) company. Col. John Daggett's
(4th Bristol county) regiment; age, 16 years; stature, 5 teet,
10 inch; complexion, light; hair, black; eyes, dark; engaged for
town of Attleborough ; arrived at Fishkill, June 19, 1778.
1597. iii. JOHN, b. Dec. 12, 1763.
Field, John. Private, Capt. Peter Procter's company, Lieut.
Col. Williams' regiment; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged Aug.
12, 1777; service, i month, 6 days, travel included; company
marched to reinforce northern army.
Field, John. Private, Capt. Enoch Robinson's company;
enlisted Aug. 12, 1779; discharged Sept. 11, 1779; service, i
month, I day ; company ordered to serve at Rhode Island for 4
weeks under Capt. Commandant Samuel Fisher; roll sworn to at
Attleborough. (See Thomas Field.)
1598. iv. MARY, b. Sept. 3, 1766; m. March 31, 1796, Bezaleel Mann.
1599. V. SARAH, b. April 3, 1768.
1600. vi. EBENEZER, b. July 3, 1769; m. Miriam .
1601. vii. JOSEPH, b. Sept. 28, 1772; m. Chloe Hatch.
1602. viii. BENJAMIN, b. Sept 28, 1772; d. July 9, 1776.
1603. ix. BENJAMIN, b. June 14, 1779.
777. JUDE FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., February, 1766; m. April 17, 1788, in Norton,
Mass., Abigail Carpenter, of Norton. He d. May 14, 1832, Res. Taunton, Mass.
1604. i. JUDE, b. Sept. 21, 1805; m. Maria Parsells and Mary Ann Gweri-
♦ neau.
ARBY, b, . A son is Arby Field, Mt. Hope, N. Y.
LYBEOUS, b. . A dau. is Mrs. Clark, of Albany, N. Y.
ALBERT, b. July 4, 1795; d. April 25, 1869. A son is Charles H.
Field, of Taunton.
1608. V. BENJAMIN F., b. Nov. 6, 1808; m. Eveline B. Bradford.
778. SOLOMON FIELD (Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William. William), b. Taunton, Mass., m 1761; m. Lucy Patten.
Field, Solomon. List of men raised in Bristol county for the term of 9 months
from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, agreeable to resolve of April 20, 1778;
returned as received of Jonathan Warner, commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam, July
20, 177S; engaged for the town of Attleborough ; arrived at Fishkill, June 17. 1778.
Also list dated Taunton, May 21, 1778, of men mustered by James Leonard, muster-
master, to serve for the term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill;
Capt. Samuel Robinson's (ist Attleborough) Company, Col. John Daggett's (4th
Bristol county) regiment; age, 17 years; stature, 5 feet, S inches; complexion, dark;
hair, black; eyes, black; engaged for town of Attleborough; arrived at Fishkill
Jane 19, 1778. Res. Norton, Mass.
1605.
11.
1606.
iii.
1607.
iv.
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vii.
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ix.
i6og. i. LUCY, b. March 19, 1792; m. April 13, 1S15, Sampson Patten, of
Dedham, Mass. Ch. : i. William Sampson, b. Norton, Now 27,
1 85 1. 2. Sarah Ann, b. Norton, Oct. 8, 181 7.
SOLOMON, b. Oct 30, 1794.
CYNTHIA, b. Dec. 18, 1796; m. April 25, 181 5, Asa Patten.
PATTEN, b. Aug. 20, 1798; m. Louisa .
RUSSELL, b. April 6, 1801.
JOHN, b. Aug. 2, 1803.
ABIGAIL P., b. Nov. 12, 1805; d. unm. in Norton, Dec. 14, 1S63.
EMMA, b. April 10, 1808.
OLIVER LAMB, b. Sept. 12, 1811 ; m. and Sarah E. .
792. RICHARD FIELD (Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., July 22, 1751; m. there Aug. 8, 1778,
Rebecca Harris, dau of Seth.
Field, Richard, Bridgewater. Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's company of
Minutemen, Col. Bailey's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775;
service, 12 days. Also corporal, Capt. Josiah Hayden's company, Brig.-Gen. John
Thomas' regiment; muster roll dated Aug. i, 1775; enlisted May i, 1775; service,
3 months, i week, i day. Also company return dated Oct. 6, 1775. Also muster roll
made up from Sept. i, 1775, to Oct. 30, 1775, 61 days, dated Camp at Roxbury. Also
private, Capt. Nathan Packard's company. Col. Edward Mitchell's regiment ; serv-
ice, 5 days; company ordered to march to Squantum March 4, 1776, on an alarm.
Also sergeant, Capt. Daniel Lathrop's (7th) company. Col. Thomas Craft's (artillery)
regiment; abstract for advance pay, travel allowance, etc.. dated Boston, June 3,
1776. Also same company and regiment; enlisted May 13, 1776; service to Aug. i,
1776, 62 (?) days, travel included. Also same company and regiment; service from
Aug. I, 1776, to Nov. I, 1776, 3 months. Also same company and regiment; service
from Nov. i, 1776, to Feb. i, 1777, 3 months; reported as serving i month in Colony
service, 2 months in Continental service. Also same company and regiment ; service,
from Feb. i, 1777, to date of discharge. May 7, 1777, 3 months, 7 days. Also cor-
poral, Capt. Nathan Snow's company. Colonel Hawes' regiment; enlisted Sept. 24,
1777; service, i month, 9 days, on a secret expedition to Rhode Island. Roll sworn
to at Plymouth. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Bridgewater, Mass., and Claremont, N. H.
POLLY, b. April 10, 1779; m. Obadiah Thayer, of Braintree.
SALLY, b. Dec. 23, 1780; m. William Sims, of Claremont, N. H.
BELINDA, b. Oct. 25, 1782; d. unm.
CYRUS, b. June 5, 1784; m. Mary Laurence, of Unity, N. H.
LOIS, b. Aug. 27, 1786; m. Judkins, of Lempster, N. H.
SUSANNA, b. Dec. 4, 1798; m. Wm. Osgood, of Newport, N. H.
ZERVIAH, b. Jan. 29, 1790; m. Josiah Judavine. of Charles-
town, N. H. ; m., 2d, Joseph Philbrick, of Reading, Vt.
1625. viii. HANNAH, b. March 4, 1795; m. Thomas Moody, of Unity,
N. H. ; m.. 2d, Joseph Townes, of Windsor, Vt.
ELIZA, b. Oct. 7, 1797; m. Joseph Smart, of Newport, N. H.
REBECCA, b. Oct. 28, 1800; m. Cady Phelps, of Newport, N. H.
ALDEN, b. ; d. unm.
793. WILLIAM FIELD (Jabez, Richard, John, John. William, John. Richard,
William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., July 28, 1753; m. in 1797, Jemima Keith,
dau. of Levi, b. 1767; d. December, 1839.
7671. William Field, of Bridgewater, trader. Ichabod Howard appointed ad-
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1.
I6I9.
ii.
1620.
111.
I62I.
iv.
1622.
v.
1623.
vi.
1624.
vu,
1626.
IX.
1627.
X.
1628.
xi.
360 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ministrator Feb. i, 1808. Jemima Field, the widow of deceased, declines to be
appointed administratrix. No will and no heirs mentioned.
7664. Ozias Field et als. Nov. 6, 1B09, Benjamin Keith was appointed guard-
ian unto Ozias Field, Jabez Field, Zilpha Field, Serena Field, minors, under the
age of fourteen years, and children of William Field, of Bridgewater. On Oct. 3,
1 8 14, Isaac Keith was appointed guardian of Ozias and Jabez, above the age of
fourteen, and Zilpha and Serena, under the age of fourteen. — Plymouth County
Probate.
He d. January, 1S08; res. Bridgewater, Mass.
1629. i. OZIAS, b..Nov. 17, 1798; m. Charlotte Whiting, of Roxbury.
1630. ii. JABEZ, b. June 13, 1800; m. Mary Alger.
1631. iii. ZILPHA, b. ; m. June 5, 1832, Linus Howard.
1632. iv. SERENA, b. ; m. July, 1847, Consider Southworth.
794. EPHRAIM FIELD (Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 19, 1755; m. there Dec. 14, 1786,
Ruby Brett, dau. of Simeon; she d. Paris, Me., aged 94. He went to Paris, Me.,
in 1786, from Bridgewater. Mass., and settled on the farm purchased of Reuben
Hubbard, now inckuded in the farms of Jonathan Richards and Henry Fobes. He
was a blacksmith. June 16, 1S02, he sold land to Daniel Fobes, of Bridgewater,
which he had purchased of Reuben Hubbard, being No. 8 in the fourth range.
Mr. Field, June 4, 1794, bought of Luke Bemis, of Watertown, Nos. 19 and 20 in
the second range; Jan. 25, 1795, he purchased of William and Josiah Brown, of
Boston, lots 15 and 16 in the fourth range, and March 7, 1796, he bought of Reuben
Hubbard his lot. In 1798 he was one of the largest taxpayers in the town, and at
this time owned 499 acres of land valued at $1,280. He was a man of character, in-
dustrious, enterprising and economical ; was a member of the church, and a constant
attendant. He m. Ruby Brett, a direct descendant of John Alden, the last survivor
of the signers of the compact made on board the Mayflower in November, 1620.
Field, Ephraim. Private, Capt. David Packard's company, Colonel Gary's
regiment ; service, 1 1 days ; company marched to Rhode Island on the alarm of
July 22, 1780. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Bridgewater, Mass.. and Paris, Me.
1633. i. MEHITABLE, b. 1787; m. in 1805, David Bemis. He was son of
Jonathan, who was son of David; was b. April 24, 1784; d. April
14, 1839; res. Paris. Me. Ch. : i. Charles W., b. Sept. 26, 1806;
m. Avice Pratt. 2. Mary Vose, b. March 6, 1808 ; m. Cyrus Bes-
sey. 3. Anna Richardson, b. Jan. 31. 1810; m. Charles Tribou.
4. Charlotte Field, b. March 12, 1812; m. Cyprian Benson. 5.
Jane Field, b. May 15, 1814; m. David Lumey. 6. Hannah Rich-
ardson, b. June 17, 1816; m. Charles Woodbury. 7. David
Waldo, b. Oct. 19, 181S. 8. Catherine Mehitable, b. Oct. 26,
1821; m. Charles Woodbury. 9. James Francis, b. April 3, 1824;
d. May 7, 1832. 10. Abigail Bridge, b. Oct. 13, 1826; m. Isaac S.
Curtis, of Woodstock.
GALEN, b. Dec. 29, 178S ; m. Polly Thayer.
ANSEL, b. 1790; m. Orra Ripley and Dolly Moore.
CHARLOTTE, b. 1793; m. Osgood Holt.
JENNY, b. 1794; d. unm.
ZIBEON, b. Dec. 17, 1795; m. Lydia Howe, Mrs. Cyprian
(Benson) Whitman and Mrs. Polly Coburn.
1639. vii. ALVIN, b. Oct. 9, 1800; m. Olive Record.
1634.
u.
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795. DANIEL FIELD (Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John, Richard.
William, William), b. in Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 20, 1758; m. there July 13, 1786,
Hannah Snell, dau. of Capt. Zebedee. *•
Field, Daniel. Capt. Nathan Alden's company, Col. Jeremiah Hall's regiment;
company order, payable to Captain Alden, for wages for three months' service at
Bristol, R. L, dated Bristol, March 7, 1777. Field, Daniel. List of men in Capt.
J. Sprague's division in service in October, 1777. — Massachusetts State Revolution-
ary Records.
Daniel was granted a pension for his Revolutionary war services, Nov. 30, 1832.
7647. Daniel Field, North Bridgewater, left a will written May 11, 1841. He
mentions his daughter Patty: "I give to my grandson Marshall Field, fifty dollars
to be paid him when he shall arrive at the age of 21 years." He gives to his grand-
sons Waldo Field and Perez Field twenty-five dollars, on the same conditions. He
mentions his granddaughter Hannah Field, his son Zopher and his (Zopher's) wife
Bernice. "After the decease of my son Zopher Field & His wife Bernice I give
unto each one of my grandchildren who are the children of Zopher Field one dollar
each ; and should any real estate be left after the decease of my son Zopher & his
wife unsold and not disposed of by my executor & trustee I give & devise the same
to my two youngest grandsons, children of Zopher Field, viz — Charles Copeland
Field and William Lawrence Field." The will does not state who the first grand-
children mentioned are the children of. Partition of real estate filed with this
estate, of land common and undivided with the estate of Daniel Field and George
Field. Daniel Field's and George Field's part was set off from this Daniel's part.
Executor appointed April 5, 1836.
He d. April, 1836; res. Bridgewater, Mass.
MARTHA, b. Nov. 19, 1786; d. young,
ZOPHAR, b. Jan. 14, 1789; m. Bernice Howard, dau. of Oliver
Howard.
WALDO, b. March 8, 1791 ; m. Abigail Marshall and Sally Perkins.
MARTHA, b. ; m. Nov. 30, 1809, Gustavus Sylvester, of
Bridgewater; he was b. 1786, son of Joseph, Jr., and Lucy D.
Sampson.
796. BARZILLIA FIELD (Jabez. Richard, John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 6, 1760; m. there Dec. 25, 1794,
Patty Packard, dau. of David.
Field, Berzillai, Bridgewater. Private, Capt Abiel Pierce's company. Col.
Nicholas Dike's regiment; pay abstract for mileage to and from camp, etc. ; warrant
allowed in Council, Nov. 30, 1776. Also Capt. Edward Cobb's company; service 2
months, /\% days; company marched from Bridgewater and Abington April 21,
1777, to Bristol, R. I.; roll endorsed "Col. Titcomb's regiment." Also Capt. John
Amos' company; enlisted June 26, 1778; discharged July 20, 1778; service, 24
days; company marched to Rhode Island June 26, 1778, and joined Colonel Wade's
regiment, June 27, 1778, for 24 (also given 21 days' service. Also private, Capt.
Zebedee Redding's company, Col, Gamaliel Bradford's (12th) regiment; pay roll
for December, 1778. Also Capt. Jacob Pool's company. Col. Jacob's (Plymouth
county) regiment; enlisted July 21, 1780; discharged Oct. 21, 1780; service, 3
months, 13 days, travel included ; company raised to remforce the Continental army
for 3 months; roll sworn to at Boston. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Barzillia was granted a pension July 22, 1833, for Revolutionary war service.
7642. Barzillai Field, North Bridgewater, yeoman, left a will written Sept. 6,
1831. Children mentioned: Daughter Mary Cheesman, son John Field, son Lucius
24
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Field, daughter Cbloe Field, brother Bethuel Field, daughter Mary Field. "The
subscribers, heirs-at-law ot Barzillai Field, have been duly notified that the last
will and testament of said deceased will be presented to be proved and allowed at
the Court of Probate to be holden on the first Tuesday of April next, at E. Bridge-
water. March, 1839. Signed, Patty Field, Chloe Field, John Field, Zachariah
Chesman. Lucius Field." The executor was appointed first Tuesday of April, 1839.
— Plymouth County Probate.
He d. March, 1839; res. Bridgewater, Mass.
1644. i. JOHN, b. Dec. 15, 1796; m. Olive Thompson.
1645. ii. CHLOE, b. Nov. 14, 1799; unm.
7644. Chloe Field, West Bridgewater, insane person. Peti-
tion for appointment of guardian presented by Chas. T. Field
and Barzillai Field, of Brockton, Mass., nephews and nearest
relatives of Chloe Franklin Field, appointed guardian Feb. 25,
1878. His relationship to Chloe Field not given. — Plymouth
County Probate.
1646. iii. MARY, b. April 24, 1802; ra. 1819, Zibeon Cole.
1647. iv. CLARISSA, b. Aug. 20, 1806.
1648. v. LUCIUS, b. June 11, 1811; m. Mary B. Thomas.
809. JOHN FIELD (John, Zachariah, Zachariah, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., 1738; m. March 21, 1761, Abigail
Carey, b. in Bristol, 1735; d. May 19, 1820.
B. 18, 201. To Joseph Martin, June i, 1767, house, etc., near Weybosset
Bridge.
B. 18, 228. To Jonathan Ward, July 31, 1762, house, etc., near Weybosset
Bridge.
B. 19, 485. From Daniel Snow, April 16, 1784, lots on Friendship street.
B. 20, 266. To John Smith, Aug. 18, 1774.
Mrs. Brownell quotes from Probate Records of Providence that in 1752, John
Field, son of John, late of Providence, chooses his grandfather, Joseph Snow, of
Providence, to be his guardian, and he was appointed.
1789. From John and Lydia Field, lot on south side of Friendship, fourth lot
west of Richmond street.
1799. May 7, to Richard M. Field and Joseph Fuller, Jr., above lot.
He d. Sept. 3, 180S; res. Providence, R. 1.
1649. i- JOHN, b. Dec. 17, 1761; m. Hannah Gladding.
1650. ii. ALLEN, b. 1763.
1651. iii. ELIZABETH, b. May 27, 1766; m. July 6, 1788, Andrew Taylor.
He was b. Nov. 17, 1764; d. Sept. 10, 1835; she d. Oct. 21, 1849.
Ch. : I. Allen Field, b. Dec. 27, 1790. 2. Robert, b. Dec. 27,
1790; d. young. 3. Abby Field, b. April 26, 1789. 4. Julia Ann,
b. Oct. 31, 1794. 5. Eliza, b. Oct. 23, 1796. 6. George Washing-
ton, b. Feb. 28, 1793. 7. Benjamin Franklin, b. June 13, 1798.
8. Joseph Warren, b. Oct. 10, 1800. 9. Mary Brownell, b. Nov.
16, 1802; d. unm. 10. Sophia Field, b. Jan. 14, 1805. 11. Maria,
b. July 26, 1807; d. young. All the children were born in Little
Compton. Andrew and Elizabeth Taylor moved to Providence
about 1 8 10.
1652. iv. BENJAMIN, b. 1768; d. young.
1653. V. BENJAMIN, b. 1769; m. Sally Carter.
1654. vi. ABIGAIL, b. 1771.
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1655. vii. JOSEPH, b. 1773; m. Lucy Potter.
1656. viii. RICHARD M., b. July 8. 1775; m. Eliza Snow and Caroline
Snow.
1657. ix. HANNAH, b. Sept. 4, 1778; m. May 6, 1798, Charles Dyer. He
was b. Sept. 16, 1778; d. Dec. 11, 1862; she d. May 26, 1834.
Ch. : I. Julia Ann. b. June 20, 1799. 2. Eliza T., b. Aug. 27,
1801; d. Aug, 27, 1802. 3. Charles, Jr., b. June 8, 1803; d. Sept.
28, 1852. 4. Albert T., b. Nov. 14, 1805; d. April 4, 1841. 5.
Caroline, b. Sept. 22. 1827; d. March 11, 1834. 6. John F., b.
March 7, 1811. 7. James Burrell, b. July 29, 1815; d. infant.
814. GEORGE FIELD (Isaac, Joseph, Zachariah, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., Aug. 9, 1774; m- June 13, 1793, Mary
Green, dau. of Joshua. Administration of his estate was granted his widow Mary
Oct. 3, 1796. Widow Mary, Feb. 22, 1798, m. Mathewson Williams, son of Jere-
miah, and were father and mother of William Greene Williams. He d. in Jamaica,
W. I., in 1796; res. Providence, R. I.
1658. i. ISAAC, b ; m. Sarah A. Walcott.
817. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. 1723, Providence, R. I.; m. Abigail ; m.,
2d, Sarah Manchester, dau. of Thomas.
Freeman of Providence, 1746.
Providence Probate, 1752, Thomas Field.
Scituate 3, 140. 1744, May 21, to Amos Hamman. 28 acres; no wife.
Cranston 2, 95, 1767, July 25, to Stephen Knight, 7 acres; wife Abigail.
Cranston 2, 238, 1773, April 20, to James Burlingame; no wife.
Cranston 2, 293, 1765 July 10, Thomas, of Scituate, to John Field, of Cranston;
no wife.
Cranston 2, 314, 1774 Oct. 26, Thomas, of Scituate, to grandson William, Jr., of
Cranston ; no wife.
Cranston 2, 347, 1775, March 23, Thomas, of Scituate, to Wm. Field, Jr., of
Cranston ; no wife.
Cranston 2, 351, 1775, May i, to Wm. Aldrich, land at Pawtuxet; no wife.
He d. in Cranston ; res. Cranston, R. I,
THOMAS, b. ; m. Hannah Moses.
JOHN, b. ; m. Waite White.
WILLIAM, b. ; he res. Connecticut; had ch., William, Jr., and
Sarah, who m. a Mr. Streeter.
STEPHEN, b. ; m. Parsia Capwell.
FREELOVE, b. — -; m. Caleb Baker, b. Jan. 5, 1763. Ch. : i.
Sterry. 2. Wheaton. 3. Two daughters.
818. SILAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas. Thomas, Thomas. William, John,
Richard. William, William), b. Providence, R. I., before 1720; m. Nov. 8, 1744,
Freelove Barnes, dau. of Thomas, of Scituate; m., 2d, Feb. 4, 1762, Sarah Collins,
dau. of Thankful, deceased, of Scituate.
Freeman of Providence, 1741.
The above Sarah was probably a second wife, as Nov. 8, 1744. a Silas Field m.
at Scituate Freelove Barnes, dau. of Thomas, of Scituate. See Record of Freelove
Field.
B. II, 264. From Father Thomas, 1743-44, one-halt of homestead farm.
B. 13, 383. From Philip Roberts, 1754.
1659-
1660.
11.
I66I.
iii,
1662.
iv.
1663.
V.
1664.
i.
i665.
ii.
1666.
iii.
1667.
iv.
364 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Silas Field, ot Scituate, d. March 19, 1774; Sarah, widow, and John, son,
administrators; Stephen Knight and William Field, of Cranston, sureties.
Sarah Field and Stephen Knight, guardians of Stephen and Freelove Field,
infants.
Hed. March 19, 1774; res. Scituate, R. I.
WILLIAM, b. : m. Betsy Godfrey.
THOMAS, b. ; m. Hannah Jones.
STEPHEN, b. .
FREELOVE, b. ; m. .
Cranston Record, Freelove Field, in eighteenth year, dau. of
Silas Field, late of Cranston, deceased, chooses Richard Knight
(her uncle) to be her guardian in place of E. Collins, who was
appointed by the town in her infancy.
1667^. V. JOHN, b. ; m. . He is mentioned as administrator of
his father's estate in 1774, and would be only ten years old if
above date is correct.
822. CAPTAIN WILLIAM FIELD (Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence. R. L, April 30, 1728;
m. Jan. 4, 1750, Waite Westcott, dau. of Thomas; d. Sept. 23, 1808.
The presence of the French allies in Providence inspired the life of the town,
and the liberality with which they circulated their silver and gold rendered them
welcome customers at a period when a Spanish milled dollar bore a fabulous value
in paper currency. The exact discipline of the soldiery and rigid restrictions under
which they were permitted to pass out ot camp and mingle with the citizens, were
strong safeguards against the indulgence of excesses, and left little cause for com-
plaint on that score. The officers were on terms of pleasant intimacy with the lead-
ing families, and their presence imparted an additional charm to social gayety.
Balls, parties, and other entertainments were frequent, and the repetition of
reciprocal courtesies served to strengthen mutual respect and friendship. The old
Field homestead, at Field's Point, was much frequented by the French officers,
where they were always sure of a hearty hospitality, and where they participated in
social assemblies with the characteristic zest ot mercurial temperaments. The
impressions made upon the community were of the most agreeable character, and
during the subsequent years of those at whose homes the officers were received as
guests, the memories of those days were cherished as among the pleasantest of their
recollections.
The patriotism of the Field family was of the purest type. In 1780, William
Field was appointed captain of a company in the second regiment of Providence
county militia. Abner and Nehemiah Field were distinguished for personal
bravery. When the news reached them of the battle of Bunker Hill, and the burn-
ing of Charlestown, like Putnam, they instantly left the field, and with rifle in hand
joined the volunteers crowding on to the scene of action. They were placed in the
body of reserves. During the war Abner was taken prisoner, and thrust into the
notorious Jersey prison ship, where he soon became covered with vermin. Both
Abner and Nehemiah held commissions. Capt. William Field, with a noble heart,
was "plain of speech." One day. Major De Prez, an officer of the Royal Deux-
Ponts, engaged in fortifying the Point, called upon him, and while the captain was
occupied outside the house in his morning ablution, the following colloquy ensued.
Said the major, in a respectful tone: "Are you Esquire Field, the gentleman who
owns the land adjoining this beach?" "I am," was the laconic reply. "I have
made bold," continued the major, "to land my guns below, and hope no offence is
FIELD GENEALOGY. 365
given." "None at all," was the sententious answer, "We are about to become
friends, and hope we shall be friends," continued the major. "Amen," responded
the sturdy "lord of the manor," and applied himself vigorously to the cleansing
process. The major having thus taken gauge of his host, silently raised his cha-
peau, and proceeded to Providence. The Field family at the Point was numerous.
The last survivor of the William Field family was Eleanor, a woman of uncommon
natural endowments. She sold the Point estate to the city of Providence, and
removed to Elm wood, and died March 8, 1864. aged ninety-one years. The family
burial ground was near the homestead house, but after the estate became the prop-
erty of the city, the bodies there buried were removed to the North burial ground.
B. 13, 314. From Stephen Smith, 1753.
B. 13, 315. To James Verney, 1754, same lot.
Austin. By will of grandfather Richard Waterman he gets, 1742, 100 acres of
land in Warwick.
Scituate 4, 41. 1750, Aug. 9, from Father Jeremiah, near Sunhangansett River.
Scituate 4, 183. 1753, Dec. 26, to Stephen Smith, land, 4-41 ; no wife.
He d. April 18, 181 6; res. Providence and Cranston, R. I.
REMEMBER, b. Sept. 7, 1751; d. April 12, 1755.
PARDON, b. May i, 1753; d. April 6, 1755.
ABNER, b. July 5, 1754; m. Rebecca Payne.
MOSES, b. March 21, 1756; d. Dec. 6, 1763.
NEHEMIAH, b. May 15, 1757; m. Sarah Whitman.
ROXANNAH, b. Feb. 20, 1759; d. unm. March 26, 1828.
ESTHER, b. Jan. 10, 1761; m. July 13, 1783, Capt. William
Waterman, of Cranston, R. I. Ch. : i. William F. 2. Nathan,
m. Nancy Grinnell ; no children. 3. Sophia, d. unm.
DAVID, b. March 27. 1763; m. Mary Greene.
HULDAH, b. Aug. 2, 1764; m. Tabor; m., 2d., Feb. 22, 1798,
John Warner; she d. April 11, 1824. Ch. : i. Lydia Warner.
RHODA, b. Feb. 14, 1767; d. unm. Dec. 26, 1832.
ELEANOR, b. Dec. 13, 1772; d. unm. March 8, 1864.
GEORGE, b. Dec. 25, 1768; m. in Providence, Abigail Davis,
dau. of Moses, b. 1775 ; d. Aug. 26, 1S73; he d. s. p. Aug. 29, 1839.
Will of Abigail Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 12. No. A10729.
Will Book 24, page 223. — This is the last Will and testament of
me Abigail Field of the city of Providence in the State of Rhode
Island.
First. I give and bequeath to my niece Caroline Davis the sum
of Two hundred dollars payable in one year after my decease.
Second. I give and bequeath to my niece Harriet A. Brownell
wife of Josiah Brownell all my household furniture and wearing
apparel at the time of my decease ; but if she shall die in my life-
time then I give and bequeath the same to Harriet R. Arnold
daughter of my niece Abigail F. Cooke.
Third. In case my said niece Harriet A. Brownell shall die in
my lifetime but not otherwise I give and bequeath to my grand
nieces Aria Sumner Benedict, Ann Sumner Booth, Philena Sum-
ner Whetton, and Ellen Sumner Knowles (children of my nieces
Amy & Elsie Sumner) my grand nieces Emma, Julia, Charlotte,
and Harriet (daughters of my niece Julia L. Ward) and my grand
niece Harriet (daughter of my niece Mary Ann Hunting) the sum
of One hundred dollars each.
1668.
1.
1669.
ii.
1670.
111.
I67I.
iv.
1672.
v.
1673.
vi.
1674.
Vll.
1675.
viii.
1676.
ix.
1677.
X.
1678.
XI.
1679.
Xll.
366 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Fourth. In case my said niece Harriet A. Brownell shall die in
my lifetime but not othewise I give and bequeath to the said
Josiah Brownell his executors, administrators and assigns the
sum of Two thousand dollars In trust to lay out & invest the
same in good stocks or mortgages of real Estate and pay the net
interest dividends & income thereof unto my nephew Rodman J.
Davis during his natural life and after his decease to pay the net
interest dividends and income of the said trust property to his
present wife Judith during her natural life and after the decease
of both of them the said Rodman and Judith to pay assign &
transfer the said trust property to the right heirs of the said Rod-
man J. Davis absolutely.
Fifth. In case of the decease of my said niece Harriet A.
Brownell in my lifetime but not otherwise I give and bequeath
unto the said Josiah Brownell his executors administrators and
assigns sixty of the shares owned by me of and in the Capital
Stock of the Commercial Bank in said city of Providence In trust
to manage the same and receive the dividends and income thereof,
whenever it shall be necessary or advisable so to do, to sell and
dispose of the said shares or any part thereof and invest the
money to arise therefrom in other good stocks or mortgages of
Real Estate with power to vary such investments for others of a
like nature, and from time to time to pay the net dividends and
income of the trust premises in this present clause mentioned
unto the said Harriet R. Arnold during her natural life, and on
her decease the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my
Will shall stand possessed of the said trust premises in this pres-
ent clause mentioned upon the trusts hereinafter declared (that is
to say) In trust for such of the children of the said Harriet R.
Arnold, as shall be living at her death and the issue then living
of any child or children of hers then deceased and his her or their
respective executors administrators and assigns in equal shares
as between brothers & sisters ; but so that no issue of any grand
child of said Harriet R. Arnold shall be included in this gift; and
so that the child or children collectively of any deceased child of
said Harriet R. Arnold shall take only the share which his her or
their parent would have taken if living. And in case the said
Harriet R. Arnold shall die without leaving any child or issue
who shall be capable of taking under the last preceding trust
then the said trustee or trustees shall stand possessed of the said
trust premises in this present clause mentioned In trust for such
of my said grand nieces named in the third clause of this my Will
as shall be living at the decease of the said Harriet R. Arnold in
equal shares if more than one, but if none of my said grand nieces
named in said third clause shall survive the said Harriet R.
Arnold then the said trustee or trustees shall stand possessed of
the said residuary trust premises m this present clause mentioned
In trust for the person or persons for the time being who shall be
entitled to my other estate under the provisions hereinafter con-
tained.
Sixth. I give devise & bequeath all and singular my real &
personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever at the time of ray de-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 367
cease, subject and without prejudice nevertheless to the disposi-
tions & provisions hereinbefore contained unto and to the use of
my said niece Harriet A. Brownell her heirs & assigns forever if
she shall be living at the time of my death but if she be then dead
then I give devise & bequeath such real & personal Estate, sub-
ject & without prejudice as aforesaid, unto & to the use of the
said Josiah Brownell his heirs & assigns forever.
Lastly. I appoint the said Josiah Brownell executor of this my
will & hereby revoking all wills by me heretofore made I declare
this only to be my last Will & testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand & seal this
twenty-sixth day of May Eighteen hundred and sixty six.
Abigail Field, (l. s.)
Signed sealed published & declared by the above named
testatrix Abigail Field as and for her last Will &
Testament in the presence of us being all present at
the same time who at her request in her presence and
in presence of each other have hereunto subscribed
our names as witnesses. The name "Hariett R.
Cooke" first altered to "Harriet R. Arnold" through-
out
J. G. Markland
Henry D. Martin
Esek A. Jellson.
Proved September 23, 1873.
1680. xiii. ELIZABETH, b. March 26, 1775; d. Feb. 26, 1828; unm.
i68i. xiv. SARAH, b. April 18, 1777; d. March 17, 1828; unm.
825. JAMES FIELD (Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence^ R. 1., July 31, 1738; m. Oct. 12, 1760,
Hannah Stone. Providence record says her name was Susannah ; m., 2d, Dec. 12,
1763, Jane Stone — his first wife's sister. Res. Cranston, R. I., and Chester, Vt.
PARDON, b. April 13, 1761; m. Elizabeth Williams.
HANNAH, b. ; m. Joseph Williams. Ch. : i. Joseph, 2.
William. 3. James.
CHARLES, b. 1769; m. Jemima Wilson.
DORCAS, b. ; m. Williams. Res. Chester, Vt. Ch.: i.
Thomas ; res. Chester. 2. Arthur. Res. Chester. 3. Dau. ; m.
Ezekiel Davis.
DANIEL, b. Sept. 9, 1764; m. Sarah .
ELIJAH, b. ; m. Mary .
REST, b. : m. Consider Miller, of Cranston.
SUSAN, b. ; m. Jan. 12, 1794, Dr. Chauncey C. Chandler.
He was son of John Chandler, of Chester, Vt.. and his wife,
Esther Painter, was b. Oct. 23, 1773. Susan d. and he m., 2d,
1810, Louisa Miller, b. Jan. 8, 1788, of Lincoln, Me. Dr.
Chandler practiced his profession in Belfast, and then removed to
Warren, Me., where he resided for six years, but died in Belfast,
Sept. 12, 1833. age sixty. "He was one of the kindest of hus-
bands and devoted of fathers." Ch.: I. Walter Raleigh, b. July
10, 1794; went to Black River. 2. Jane, b. Sept. 5, 1796. 3.
Arralucia, b. Aug. 4, 1797; m. John Gilman Howard. 4. Rosa-
1682.
1.
1683.
ii.
1684.
iii.
1685.
iv.
1686.
V.
1687.
vi.
1688.
vn.
1689.
viii,
368 FIELD GENEALOGY.
linda, b. Aug. 7, 1798; m. Gen. David Bailey, of Chester, Vt.
5. Four ch. by second wife.
1690. ix. JAMES, b. ; m. Taylor.
826. THOMAS FIELD (Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., April 7, 1741; m. Sept. 8, 1765,
Deliverance Hammon, b. March 2, 1743; d. May 8, 1818.
Scituate 5, 265. Nov. 26, 1763, from father Jeremiah, 150 acres.
Scituate Probate. Will of Thomas Field, "advanced in years," dated Aug. 13,
1829, proved March 2, 1833. To son Thomas and grandson, James, son of Thomas;
to daughter, Ellen Pratt, Molly Wilbur and Betsey Hopkins, and granddaughter
Betsey Angell, $5.00 each. Mentions son Jeremiah. Reason other children are not
named because they had their portion.
He d. June 27, 1833. Res. Scituate, R. I.
1691. i. ELEANOR, b. March 15, 1766; m. Abner Pratt. She d. Dec. 28,
1851. Ch. : I. Nabby. 2. Almira. 3. Arnold.
1692. ii. MARY, b. Jan. 29, 1767; m. Job Wilbur. Res. Scituate and Crans-
ton, R. I. Ch. : I. Jeremiah. 2. Thomas.
AMEY, b. March 6, 1769; m. Benjamin Medbury.
MARCY, b. Nov. 30, 1770; m. Stephen Fuller.
WATERMAN, b. Oct. 20, 1772; m. Dorcas Atwood.
ISAAC, b. December, 1774; m. Sally Fenner.
PELEG, b. Jan. 30, 1776; m. Elizabeth Battey.
THOMAS, b. Dec. 6, 1778; m. Thankful Windsor.
JEREMIAH, b. Oct. 27, 1780; m. Florinda Manchester.
ABBY, b. in Scituate, Dec. 7, 1782; m. Job Hill.
BETSEY, b. Scituate, R. I.,; m. Emery Hopkins. Ch. : i.
Horace; had dau. Ellen. 2. Abby: m. Rev. Thomas Brown had
dau. Elizabeth ; m. Doane ; grandson Thomas. Res. Prov. 3.
Henry; m. Bowen. 4. Eliza; m. Seril Cornell. 5. Emery A.,
d. young.
827. DANIEL FIELD (Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., Aug. 30, 1743; jn. there 1776,
Hannah Whitman, b. Oct. 4, 1754; d. Sept. 10, 1834. Daniel Field came to Spring-
field from Rhode Island before 1780. He settled on what is now know as the Field
place, at the mouth of Field brook, and the family were living there at the time the
Indians burned Royalton, October, 1780. He was a soldier of the Revolution, in
Colonel Hitchcock's regiment of Rhode Island infantry, which served under Wash-
ington, participating in the battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. He
was also a musician or drummer in Capt. James Snow's company, in Col. John
Mathewson's regiment, in the expedition to Rhode Island, in August, 1778. They
came 200 miles to Springfield, through the forest, with an ox cart, and he used to
relate how he paid $100 in Continental bills for having the tire set, so much had the
value of the money depreciated. He bought about 200 acres of land and built a log
cabin in the little hollow between the two-story house, now standing (1894) and the
brook, and after working through the summer went back to Rhode Island to work
at his trade, in the winter, that of a blacksmith, to pay for his land. This he did
for several years. The small piece of bottom land below the mouth of the brook
was a beaver meadow, and the industrious little animals had entirely cleared it of
timber. This was the only cleared spot on the tract, all the remainder being heav-
ily timbered with beech, maple, hemlock, elm, etc. It is said that one white elm,
which stood a little above the meadow, near where the road now enters the narrow
1693.
111.
1694.
IV.
1695.
V.
1696.
vi.
1697.
Vll.
1698.
Vlll.
1699.
IX.
1700.
X.
I70I.
XI.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 369
valley going north, measured seven feet in diameter, and made fifteen cords of
wood. The early settlers of these towns in Vermont endured hardships which our
modern pioneers know little about. Mrs. Field used to spin wool for some of the
wealthier families at "Number 4." When her week's work,was done she would take
the yarn and travel to Charlestown on foot, through the woods, and take her pay
in such articles as were most necessary in the family. Mr. Field sometimes worked
for the farmers at Charlestown, and carried home on his back the proceeds of his
week's labor, a bushel of shelled com.
Daniel Field was commonly called "Quaker Field," from the fact that he
always wore the Quaker style of dress, though he was never a member of the sect.
His word was always sacredly kept. When the term of service of the Rhode Island
troops was about to expire in the army, Washington went among them and person-
ally besought them to re-enlist, as it was the darkest time of the Revolution. Mr.
Field would not enlist, but told Washington he would stay a month longer. Wash-
ington replied, with thanks, saying, "your word is as good as your bond." During
that month of voluntary service he was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
While her husband was absent working at the forge in the winter to pay for the
farm, Mrs. Field lived alone with her two children, in the Vermont forests. Wild
animals, especially black bears, wolves and catamounts, were then plenty. Once
she scared a huge panther from her door, and at another time thought the Indians
were upon her when at night she heard the iierce howls of what proved to be a pack
of wolves that came down over the Whipple hill, up to the yard, near the house, in
which were two yoke of oxen and a cow. They tried to get the latter, but the oxen
stood with their heads facing outward and kept them at bay with their sharp horns.
There were sixteen wolves, and though Mrs. Field had two loaded guns in the
house, she feared to shoot lest she should kill the cattle. After a half hour fighting
with the oxen, the wolves galloped off and left them. She used to hunt the cows in
the woods, leading her little boy and carrying the baby in her arms. In those days
there was no dam on the river, and she used to ford it at the "Point of Rock," and
again at the mouth of the brook. Daniel Field carried on blacksmithing in the
shop on the brook until near the time of his death. His son Arthur followed the
business after his father's death. Daniel and his wife both died in the old Field
mansion. — History of Springfield.
H^ d. July 6, 1824. Res. Springfield, Vt.
1702. i. SALATHIEL, b. Oct. 4, 1778; m. Sally Howe, Lydia Bragg and
Susan Merritt.
1703. li. ZILPHA, b. Jan. 26, 1780; m. Ira Haskins, b. 1783 ; d. at Middlesex,
Vt., Dec. 20, 1812. She m., 2d, Lewis Ward, of Middlesex. She
d. about December, 1856. By her second husband she had one
son, David Ward, who resides in Middlesex, Vt. One of David's
sons, Frank A. Ward, m, a dau. of Nathaniel King Herrick.
Zilpha's daughter, by first husband (Ira Haskins), was Zilpha
Ann, b. Sept. 28, 1811; m. Dec. 11. 1832, Lorenzo Dow Herrick, b.
Sept. 8. 1806; d. Randolph, Vt., Sept. 12, 1874. He was a farmer,
a captain of militia, justice of the peace, selectman, and other
township offices, and was one of the founders of the West Ran-
dolph (Vt.) Academy, and was on the board ot trustees and exec-
utive committee during the entire existence of that institution
until it was merged into the public school system of that village
and became a part of the graded school. He also took a g^eat
interest in the general welfare of the community. She d. May 19.
1849. He m., 2d, Sept. 9, 1849, Betsey A, Booth, b. Sept. 7,
370 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1822; d. Dec. 10, 1897. Ch. : i. Stephen Solon, b. Dec. 11, 1833;
m. in New Orleans, La., Sept. 20, 1867, Julia Cowand, b. May 26,
1842. Res. 322 Haight St., San Francisco, Cal. Ch. : (a) Char-
lotte Ball H., b. Aug. 18, 1868; m. Jan. 17, 1900, Dr. George D.
Brownlee, of San Jose, Cal. Res. San Jose, (b) Stephen Scholes
H., b. April 15, 1870; unm. Res. 322 Haight St., San Francisco.
(c) Alfred Cowand H., b. June 26, 1872; m. June 28, 1892, Miss
Henrietta T. Chamberlain, of Berkeley, Cal. Res. Pasadena, Cal.
(d) Clarence Greene H., b. Aug. 25, 1874; m. Sept. 18, 1896, Miss
Rosa J. Davies, of San Francisco. Res. San Francisco, (e) Cora
Ruth Henrietta H., b. Nov. 4, 1876. Res. San Francisco. (f)
Annie Elizabeth H., b. April 19, 1884. Res. San Francisco. All
born at New Orleans. Stephen Solon was fitted for college at
Randolph, Vt. ; took degree of A. B. at Dartmouth, 1854; taught
school in Kentucky and Mississippi, 1854-59; took degree of M. D.
at University of Louisiana (New Orleans), 1861, and immediately
began practice in that city. Served as assistant-surgeon in Con-
federate army and navy, April, 1862, to April. 1865; resumed
practice at New Orleans, May, 1865, and continued till March,
1887. Meanwhile served as visiting physician at Charity Hos-
pital, New Orleans, 1865-67; as an editor of the New Orleans
Medical and Surgical Journal, 1866-67, and again 1878-82; member
of board of health of Louisiana, 1869-70, and for several years
afterward as sanitary inspector; inspector and ganger of coal oils,
1877-79; secretary and treasurer board of health, 1879-86; pro-
fessor of chemistry New Orleans School of Medicme, 1869-70;
professor of physics and chemistry, Louisiana Agricultural and
Mechanical College, 1876-77; delegate to American Medical Asso-
ciation, 1869, and since 1893 an ordinary member ; active member
of American Public Health Association, 1878-86; an organizer of
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Association and of Orleans
Parish Medical Society, and served as president of both; a reor-
ganizer of Louisiana State Medical Society, 1878, and its corre-
sponding secretary, 1878-87. He removed to San Francisco in 1887.
In addition to general practice has served as assistant secretary
to San Francisco board of health, 1888-89, and special sanitary
inspector to the California State board of health in 1888 and 1890;
has done editorial work at times on the Pacific Medical Journal ;
since January, 1895, has been a medical examiner for life insur-
ance for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has
contributed to medical journals in New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Louisville, Chicago, New Albany (Ind.), Charlotte (N. C), San
Francisco and Sacramento ; to health reports of the Louisiana
and California State Boards of Health and city board of New
Orleans and San Francisco; to Transactions of the American
Medical Association, the American Public Health Association,
the Louisiana State Medical Society, to Buck's Public Health
and Hygiene, to Buck's Cyclopedia of Medical Science, to Amer-
ican Supplement to Encyclopedia Britanica, to American Railroad
Journal (N. Y.), two series of articles on railway medical service.
Member of California Genealogical Society, and honorary member
of Old Northwest Genealogical Society ; Knight Templar in Mas-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 371
onry. 2. Julius, twin, b. May 17, 1836; m. twice. Mary B. Baxter
arrd Lillie Francisville. 3 Justus, twin, b. May 17. 1836; m.
Elizabeth Pitcher. Three ch. ; all d. ; he d. Dec. 3, 1872, at New
Brunswick, N. J. 4. William Slade, b. May 3, 1838; m. Mrs.
Lucy Ann (Thompson) Ream, and had ch. ; d. May 10, 1885, at
Steward, 111. One son, William V. Herrick, res. Dixon, 111. 5.
Ellen Amelia, b. May 16, 1842; d. Dec. ir, 1842. 6. Edwin Zenas,
b. Nov. 13, 1843; d. Dec. 14, 1843. 7- Delia Ann, b. May 14, 1845;
m. Nov. 24, 1870, Thomas N. Jacobs; resided in Shreveport, La.;
he d. May 30, 1S75; she d. Aug. 37, 1884; had two ch. , both liv-
ing: (a) Delia A., b. Feb. 9. 1874. 8. Ellen Elizabeth, b. Oct.
13, 1847; m. Chas. C. McDermid; no ch. ; d. June 15, 1885, at
Lowell, Mass. ; he d. Oct n, 1888. at Columbus, O.
9. Lucius Carroll, b. Sept. 2, 1840, in Randolph, Vt. ; m. Aug.
16, 1871, in Woodstock, O., Louise Taylor, dau. of Jason Davis
and Mary (Comer) Taylor, b. Aug. 20, 1851. He is a physician ;
secretary of the "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society and editor
of the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly. Res. 1447 Highland
Av., Columbus, O. Religion, New Church (Swedenborgean) ; poli-
tics, Bryan Democrat. Ch. : (a) Louise, b. Aug. 11, 1872; m.
July 12, 1898, Henry Ives Abbott. Res. 1454 Highland St., Colum-
bus, O. Ch. : i. Louise, b. May 4, 1899. (b) Nellie, b. Dec. 8,
1873, Res. 1447 Highland St., Columbus, O. (c) Justus Taylor,
b. April 3, 1876. Res. 1447 Highland St., Columbus, O. (d)
Mary, b. Sept. 16,1879; ^- March 18, 1888. (e) Charles McDermid,
b. Feb. 28. 1887. Res. 1447 Highland St., Columbus, O. Dr. Her-
rick revised the Herrick family register of Gen. Jedediah Her-
rick in 1885; was one of the founders of the Old Northwest
Genealogical Society ; editor of the Old Northwest Genealogical
Quarterly ; historian of the Ohio Society Sons of the American
Revolution, and editor of the Year Book of 1898. He received the
degree of M. D. from the medical department of the University of
Vermont, and served in the War of the Rebellion as a private in
the Eighth Vermont volunteers, and as assistant surgeon of the
Fourth United States colored cavalry. 10. Lorenzo Dow, b. Sept.
9, 1850; m. Dec. 24, 1875, Lydia A. Ryan; d. Nov. 11, 1895. 11.
Frank, b. July 17, 1852; m. Aug. 14, 1874, Estella S. Spear.
Res. Randolph, Vt. 12. Annie, b. Dec. 25, 1854; m. Jan. 4, 1882,
Walter F. Wedgewood. Res. Randolph. 13. Charles Fremont,
b. Oct. I, 1856; m. June 11, 1879, Julia E. Dart. Res. Randolph
or Lowell, Mass. 14. Minnie Draper, b, Aug. 22, 1861; m. Oct.
3, 1888, Fred W. Coan, of Ware, Mass. 15. Flora Belle, b. Oct.
10, 1864; m. April, 1888, Charles S. Pettigrew, of Lowell, Mass.
1704. iii. MARY, b. Feb. 27, 1782; m. Reed; moved to western New
York and d. advanced age.
ARTHUR, b. Dec. i, 1783; m. Laura Rodgers.
SUSANNAH, b. May 7, 1785; m. Isaac Tower and d. near Grand
Rapids, Mich., in 1850.
OLIVER, b. Feb. 7, 1787; d. i860. Elk Grove. 111.
HANNAH, b. Nov. 14, 1789; d. May 8, 1798.
ESTHER, b. April 7, 1791; m. Capt. Samuel Haskms, and d.
Middlesex, Vt., Nov. 21, 1S41.
1705.
IV.
1706.
V.
1707.
vi.
1708.
Vll.
1709.
vm,
372 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1710. ix. ANNA, b. July 15, 1792; d. from accidental poisoning in Michigan
about 1863.
1711. X. PHEBE, b. Feb. 28, 1794; m. John Harrington, and d. near Big
Rapids, Mich., in 1876.
1712. xi. ANNIE, b. June 8, 1795; d. July 10, 1809.
1713. xii. DESDEMONIA, b. April 9, 1798; m. Jan., 1827, Samuel W. Dur-
ant and d. Sept. 12, 1881, in Franklin Grove, 111. She lived with
her daughter, Rosalind, at Franklin Grove, 111., until her death.
She was a small, frail, but hard working and remarkably active
woman. She taught school in her earlier years, and was accounted
the best grammarian in Vermont. An older sister, Anna, came
west also, but died many years ago. He was b. Springfield, Vt.,
July 8, 1800; d. Oct. 15, 1833, in White River Village, Vt. Ch. :
I. Rosalind Durant, m. Louis M. Blaisdell, deceased. A dau.
unm. is Alice Blaisdell, who resides in Pasadena, Cal. He d.
March 26, 1863. Res. Franklin Grove, 111. She d. Pasadena,
January, 1889. 2. Desdemonia Durant, d. in childhood. 3. Leir
Durant, res. in Aurora, 111. 4. Samuel Wilkins, Jr., b. Spring-
field, Vt., Oct. 8, 1827; m. St. Charles, 111., Aug. 7. 1853, Lucy C.
Maiterson, b. Ellisburg, N. Y., May 18, 1838. He d. Jan. 3, 1891.
He was lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illi-
nois infantry durmg the Civil war and served in Grant and Sher-
man's army. He was editor and publisher of the Valley Chron-
icle, at St. Charles, 111. Ch. : (a) Samuel Wilkins Durant, b.
July 28, 1857, at St. Charles, 111., m. May 16, 1883, Mabel Clark;
four young children, all residing with their parents at Huntley,
McHenry county, lU. (b) Martha Clara Durant, b. June 8, 1866,
St. Charles, 111.; m. at Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 27, 1886, Will S.
Alverson ; four young children at home with parents, St. Charles,
111. (c) Alice Cornelia Durant, b. Sept. 24, 1869, St. Charles, 111. ;
m. same place, Dec. 23, 1889, George M. Irwin; three young chil-
dren at home with parents at Huntley, McHenry county, 111. (d)
Harvey Lee Durant, b. Nov. 23, 1871, St. Charles, 111.; m. same
place, Aug. 19, 1S94, Esther Borg; res. at St. Charles, 111.; three
children; (e) James Blaine Durant, b. Jan. 26, 1876, St. Charles,
111. ; m. same place, July 27, 1898, Mabel E. Nelson; now resides at
St. Charles, 111. (f) Pliny Ayres Durant, b. May 21, 1854; m.
Aug. 14, 1877, Elkhorn, Wis., Eunice M. Viles, b. June i, 1S53.
Res. 355 Spruce St., Aurora. 111. Is connected with C, B. & Q.
Railroad. Ch. : i. Lucy Abigail Durant, |b. Oct. 28, 1878, at
Jonesville, Hillsdale county, Mich., resides with her parents
at Aurora, 111.
1714. xiii. DAVID SEYMOUR, b. April 12, 1800; m. Martha Wheeler.
828. JEREMIAH FIELD (Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., July 4, 1746; m. Lydia
Colwell, great-great-granddaughter of Roger Williams, b in 1750; d. Pomfret,
Conn., Jan. 8, 1842. He was born in Rhode Island, where he lived and married-
About 1777 the family moved to Pomfret, Conn. There the father ever after
resided and died. He was a farmer.
B. 20, 23. From George Rounds, 1772.
B. 20, 38. To Eleazer Harding, April 30, 1772.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 373
I72I.
Vll.
1722.
vin,
1723.
IX.
B. 20, 63. From John Cater, mortgage. June 8, 1772.
He d. April 26. 181 5. Res. Cranston, R. L. and Pomfret, Conn.
1715. i. ZUBA, b. Dec. 21, 1769; d. Aug. 21, 1771.
1716. ii. BARNET, b. in Cranston, R. L, March 25, 1771: d. at Pomfret,
Feb. 15, 1851; m. June 26, 1796, Lucy Williams. She d. and he
m., 2d, Sally Webster, who d. Dec. 24, 1856, s. p.
1717. iii, REUBEN, b. in Cranston, R. 1., Nov. 22, 1772; d. at Troy, N. Y.,
1S42; m. Alicey Brayton.
1718. iv. RUTH, b. Nov. 16, 1774, in Providence; m. George Holbrook, of
Abington, Conn. She d. i860.
1719. v. NANCY, b. Oct. 8, 1776, in Cranston; d. 1842; m. Edward Kings-
bury, of Pomfret, Conn., March 21, 1783.
1720. vi. JEREMIAH, JR., b. March 21, 1783, Pomfret, Conn.; d. Dec.
10, 1866, in KiUingly, Conn. ; m. Hannah Angell, of Scituate,
R. I. ; m., 2d. Lucine Durfee, of KiUingly, Conn.
LYDIA, b. July 21, 1786, in Pomfret. Conn. ; d. July 5, 1787.
HANNAH, b. Oct. 5, 1788, in Pomfret, Conn.; d. Dec. i, 1788.
WILLIAM, b. April 18, 1790, in Pomfret; m. Martha Pinney, of
Stafford, Conn. ; m., 2d, Juliett M. Johnson, of Stafford, Conn.
1724. X. CHARLES C, b. Nov. 24, 1791, in Pomfret; d. Dec. 30, 1831; m.
Hannah White, of Pomfret, Conn.
84a. CHARLES FIELD (Thomas, William. Thomas, Thomas.William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. 1730, in Rhode Island; m. Mrs. Amy (Winsor) Col-
well. He d. in 1826. Res. Rhode Island.
1725. i. WILLIAM, b. ; m. .
849. JOSHUA FIELD (John, John, Jeremiah, Joseph, Edward, William,
John, John, William), bap. Bradford, Dec. 31, 1742; d. Sept. 25, 1819; buried at
Bradford. He married Mary, younger daughter and sole surviving heir of her
father, Randal Wilmer, Esq., bap. at St. Cuthbert's, York, Sept. 17, 1751; marriage
settlement dated Sept. 7 and 8, 1774; married at Scarborough, Oct. 4, 1774; living
1821. Her father, Randal, was of Helmsley, and representative of a junior branch
of the ancient baronial house of Thwenger. Joshua Field was a magistrate and
deputy-lieutenant tor the West Riding of Yorkshire. Res. Heaton, England.
1726. i. JOHN WILMER, b. Aug. 20, 1775- m. Anne Myddleton and Isa-
bella Helena Salter.
ZACHARY, b. Jan. 7, 1777; d. in infancy.
JOSHUA, b. May 10, 1778; m. Elizabeth Wainman.
MARY ANNE, bap. May 8, 1779; m. Feb. 4, 1802, at Goodram
Gate, Eugene Thomas Whittell, sometime of Over Helmsley. He
died about June 20, 1821, and was buried at Chelmsford.
1730. v. DELIA, her younger sister, b. 14th and baptized 15th July, 1780;
m. September, 1806, at Bradford, Thomas George Fitzgerald, of
County Mayo, Ireland; d. Dec. 9, 181 7; buried at Oaklands.
856. THOMAS FIELD (Elnathan, Robert, Elnathan, Robert. Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. Newtown, L. I., Jan. 18, 1760; m. in 1790,
Rebecckah Shepherd, dau. of Capt, Moses Shepherd, who was an officer in the
Revolutionary war, b. Oct. 15, 1760; d. Dec. i, 1843. He d. May 3, 1842. Res.
Middletown, N, J.
1731. i, THOMAS S., b. Aug. i, 1810; m. Martha Taylor.
1732. ii. JOSEPH, b. Sept. 26, 1792; m. Euretta Headen.
1733. iii. MARY, b. Aug. 18, 1796; m. Daniel West. She d. March 30, 1886.
1727.
11.
1728.
111.
1729.
IV.
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1734. iv. REBECKAH, b. .
1735. V. CAROLINE, b. ; m. James Wilson, s. p.
857. ELNATHAN FIELD (Elnathan, Robert, Elnathan, Robert, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Middietown, N. J., ; m. .
Res. Middietown, N. J.
1736. i. ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Crawford.
1737. ii. GEORGE, b. .
1738. iii. ELNATHAN, b. ; m. Rebecka Field.
1739. iv. ANNE, b. ; m. Daniel Warren.
860. ROBERT FIELD (Robert, Robert, Benjamin, Robert, Robert, William,
Christopher. John, Christopher, John), b. White Hill, N. J., April 5, 1775; m. 1797,
Abigail Stockton, dau. of Richard and Anice Boudmot. She d. Princeton, N. J.,
aged thirty. Robert Field, the son of Robert and Mary Peale Field, was born
April 5, 1775, two months after the death of his father. He was graduated from
Nassau Hall College, of New Jersey, in 1793. He lived at White Hill, the family
residence, and married Abigail daughter of Richard and Anice Boudinot Stockton.
He died April 24, 18 10, leaving two sons and four daughters. A sister of Lieut.
Robert Field (both natives of New Jersey) married William Dunbar, near Natchez.
They had four daughters, who have all married. Three are living at or near
Natchez. The oldest, Mary Dunbar, born about 1831, married Capt. Alfred V.
Davis, of Natchez, and I think is still living. He d. April 24, 1810. Res. White
Hill, N. J.
ROBERT, b. 1797-98; m. Charlotte Brooks.
RICHARD STOCKTON, b. Dec. 31, 1803; m. Mary Ritchie.
ANNIS STOCKTON, b. ; m. Dr. William Dunbar.
MARY, b. ; m. Dr. William Dunbar. Res. Mississippi.
JQLIA, b. ; d. in infancy.
HANNAH BOUDINOT, b. ; m. George T. Olmstead. Res.
Princeton, N. J. Ch. : Two girls and three boys.
867. JOSEPH FIELD (Benjamin, Ambrose, Robert, Robert, William, Wil-
liam, John, John, William), b. near Bordentown, N. J. ; m. Rebecca Shreve. Res.
Burlington, N. J.
CALEB SHREVE, b. Nov. 12, 1778, Catherine Thomas.
ABIGAIL, b. ; m. Abraham Warner, of Bristol, Penn.
BENJAMIN, b, in 1776; m. Martha Tallman.
THOMAS, b. ; m. Rebecca Woodward.
JOB. b. .
ISAAC, b ; m. Martha Woodward, Mrs, Mary (Biddle) Bates
and Malinda P. .
JOSEPH, b. .
WILLIAM AMBROSE, b. . William Ambrose while home-
ward bound from Canton, China, on the ship "North America,"
of which he was supercargo, was lost with the vessel off Sandy
Hook. His brother, Caleb, when he heard the news of the dis-
aster, drove to the wreck, and on the beach found his trunk, but
his body was never recovered.
8675^. AUSTIN FIELD (Benjamin, Ambrose, Robert, Robert, William, Wil-
liam, John, John, William), b. near Chesterfield, N. J. ; m. in Flushing. Mary .
Res. Flushing, L. I.
1153/4- i- AUSTIN, b. about 1774; m. Mary Cornell.
1740.
1 741.
u.
1742.
111.
1743-
IV.
1744-
V.
1745-
VI.
1746.
1747.
11.
1748.
111.
1749-
IV.
1750.
V.
1751-
VI.
1752.
vii.
1753-
VUl.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 375
869. PETER FIELD (William. Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. July 7, 1753, New York, N. Y. ; m. May 20,
1 779, Phebe Doty, of Quaker Hill, Dutchess county, N. Y. She was dau. of Elijah
and Susannah (Ferris). He was a noted speaker in the House of Friends, b. Nov.
3, 1756: d. March 28, 1840. He first studied medicine, but not liking the practice
he gave it up, and went in the jewelry, watch making and silversmith business.
His granddaughter has a small pocket medicine case he carried. It is very small,
and the material is turkey morocco bound with silver and clasp of the same. The
lancet is in it. She also has the surgeon's scissors that were in it. Peter Field
resided in Albany soon after his marriage, where his two youngest children were
born, and then he moved back to New York to his old home, where he carried on
the jewelry business, watchmaking and silversmithing. He did a very extensive
business, and his granddaughter writes that he made the first watch manufactured
in America. This watch was stolen during the Revolutionary war by a band ot
organized robbers, but recovered. He was robbed three times. The band of thieves
made a regular business ot it. The family was called in one room, and a guard
with pistols in hand, guarded them while the other robbers stole. At one time they
took thirty linen shirts of the family, and at another time his watch, stock-buckles
and knee-buckles. The watch and stock-buckle had his name on, and were redeemed
from a pawn shop by a friend, who saw them there. Everything else that was of
value was taken, unless they belonged to Mrs. Field. The head of the party was
named John Hoag, and he had been a schoolmate of Mrs. Field's, and recognized
her, and when he went in the room where she was would pull his hat over his eyes
and turn his face so that she would not recognize him. He would ask if different
things were hers, and if so, would not touch them. The authorities were constantly
searching tor the robbers, and finally tracked them to a piece ot woods, where they
were seated on a rock, playing cards. The members of the searching party, each
selected his man, and took aim and killed all the members of the gang. John Hoag,
the leader, was shot in the head, his brains blown out, and he still held the cards in
his hands. Mrs. Field often told of it. The watch Peter Field, Sr., made is in a
descendant's family. The stock-buckle, another great-grandchild has. Phebe Doty
Field was called the Quaker Hill beauty, and her oldest daughter, Deborah Doty
Field Dill, was in her maidenhood, called the belle of Broadway, New York. At
the time of the marriage ot the youngest sister, Maria, to Horace Hall, the clergy-
man who united them said, they were the handsomest couple he had ever married.
The family were all Quakers. Peter Field and his wife, in their old age, after they
had given up housekeeping resided with their daughter. They moved to Auburn,
N. Y., where Mr. Field owned 600 acres of land, and where he combined farming
with his other business as long as his health permitted. He d. Aug. 6, 1839. Res.
Albany, New York City, and Auburn, N. Y.
1754- i- DEBORAH B., b. Sept. 17, 1781; m. Oct. 21, i8i8. Major Samuel
Dill, of Auburn, N. Y. Samuel Dill was an associate judge in
Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., and justice of the peace. He
entered the army in the war of 1812, and served as major in the
United States infantry, and was stationed at Sacket Harbor. He
had charge of the works there during nearly all the time of the
war, and also had supervision over the territory from the St.
Lawrence to the Niagara, along the northern frontier of the
state. Winfield Scott and Jared Brown served under him in that
time as lieutenants. On account of the death of an older brother
in Auburn, who left a very large estate, he resigned his commis-
sion in the army and moved to that city. On his removal there,
376 FIELD GENEALOGY.
however, he was at once made United States commissary during
the remainder of the war. He was twice elected to the legisla-
ture from Cayuga county; was appointed to serve on the com-
mittee to receive General LaFayette. He took an active part in
politics and all affairs of the time, and donated part of the ground
where the famous Auburn State Prison was built. Samuel Dill,
son of Robert and Hannah McNeil Dill, was born in Shawangunk,
Ulster county, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1767; died in Camillus, N. Y., May
I, 1869, aged ninety-one years, six months and nine days.
Deborah Field was born in Danbury, Conn,, and died in Newark,
Wayne county, N. Y., June 21, 1862, aged eighty years, nine
months. Samuel Dill and Deborah Field were married in
Auburn, Cayuga, N. Y. Ch. : (a) Robert Lafayette, b. in
Auburn, N. Y., Feb. i, 1822; d. in Camillus, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1877.
(b) Cornelia Adeline, b. in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1824. Robert
Lafayette Dill was married in Canton, St. Lawrence county, N.Y.,
February, 1848, to Helen M. Clark. Ch. : i. Maria Eliza Dill,
b. ; m. Ernest Holmes, ii. Ida Angelica Dill ; not married ;
both live in Trinidad, Col. William H. Lee, son of Dr. Jonathan
Lee and Jane Vanderveer Lee, was b. in Glen, Montgomery
county, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1822; d. in Newark, N. Y., April 2, 1864,
aged torty-one years. William H. Lee and Cornelia Adeline Dill
were m. in Camillus, N. Y., May 5, 1847. Res. 69 Chestnut St.,
Rochester, N. Y. Ch. : i. Samuel Dill Lee, b. m Camillus, N. Y.,
Feb. 20, 1848. ii. Cornelia Adeline Lee, b. in Camillus, N. Y.,
Dec. 6, 1849. iii. William Henry Lee, b. in Camillus, N. Y.,
May 18, 1852. William H. Lee, Jr., and Hannah L. Wright
were m. in Weedsport, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1873. Ch. : i. Richard
Henry Lee, b. in Weedsport, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1876. 2. Mabel
Louise Lee, b. in Weedsport. N. Y., Feb. 18, 1879. 3. Samuel
Wright Lee, b. Weedsport, N. Y., July 27, 1887. Samuel Dill
Lee was one of the founders of the Daily Rochester Morning
Herald; was president of the company; managing editor, liter-
ary editor and art critic, and one ot the directors of the United
Press, for many years, until ill health obliged him to retire.
William H. Lee had tor over twenty years the entire charge of all
business connected with the Lehigh Valley railroad, formerly the
Southern Central, at Weedsport, N. Y. Lately he went into other
business.
1755. ii. ZEBULON. b. April 16, 1780; d. in Charleston. S. C, of yellow
fever, Oct. 19, 1801, aged twenty-one.
PETER, b. Oct. 21, 1783; m. Ann Akin.
AMBROSE SPENCER, b. July 9. 17S5; m. Susannah Ryerson.
PHEBE, b. Nov. 10, 1789; m. Dec. 22, 1808. Jonathan Hasbrouck,
ot Newburgh, N. Y. He was b. Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 10,
1785, and d. there. Ch. : i. Isabella, b. Oct. 23, 1809; m. David
L. Proudfit and Charles W. Grant. 2. Hannah Maria, b. July
29, 1811; m. Andrew Johnson, 3. Ann Eliza, b. June 22,
1813; m. William M. Stoner; drowned. 4. Phebe Field, b. June
9, 1815; unm. ; res. Westfield, N. J. 5. Isaac, b. March 8, 1817.
6. Robert Stewart, b. June 5, 1819; m. Sarah Sophia Cook, of
Hartford, Conn. 7. George Washington, b. June 29, 1821.
1756.
111.
1757.
IV.
1758.
V.
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I76I.
1762.
11.
1763.
iii.
1764.
iv.
1765.
V.
1766.
VI,
1767.
vii.
1768.
viu.
8. Jonathan, b. Oct. 30, 1823, Orange, N. J. ; m. Elizabeth May
Hasbrock. 9. Henry Waring, b. July 16, 1828; m. Isabella
Burrell. 10. Frederick Sibell, b. Sept. 6, 1830; m. Jane Augusta
AUairn. 11. Julian Augustus Hayden Hasbrock, b. March 2,
1826; m. 1848. Henrietta Halstead; m., 2d, 1865, Margaret New-
land. Res. 578 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Ch.: (a) Julian
A. H., b. January, 1849. (b) Frederick H. (c) William H. (d)
Elizabeth Newland. (e) Annie Griswold. (f) Helen Augusta.
1759. vi. MARIA, b. July 10, 1796; m. Dec. 20, 1815, Horace Hall, in
Auburn, N. Y.
1760. vii. WALTER, b. July 16, 1798; m. Maria Simonton.
872. WILLIAM VAN WYCK FIELD (William, Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. May 21, 1767, New York,
N. Y. ; m. June 23, 1791, Mary Vail, dau. of Thomas and Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1770; d.
April 27, 1792; m., 2d, Oct. 21, 1794, Sybilla Akin, b. Nov. 25, 1767; d. 1827, He d.
Feb. 14, 1843. Res. New York and South East, N. Y.
THOMAS, b. March 19, 1792; d. Feb. 13, 1793.
WILLIAM, b. April 2, 1805; d. Oct. 22, 1828, South East, unm.
SYBILLA, b. May 5, 1797; d. Dec. 15, 1828, South East, unm.
JONATHAN, b. Sept. 15, 1798; d. Aug. 14. 1843, unm.
VAN WYCK. b. Dec. 10, 1801; d. 1870, unm.
EDWARD, b. Nov. 18, 1811; m. and d. s. p. July 29. 1882, New
York city.
OLIVER, b. Nov. 13, 1808; m. Lydia Crane.
THOMAS, b. Oct. 29, 1795; d. April 4, 1858,
875. STEPHEN FIELD (William, Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William. William, John, John, William), b. Feb. 7, 1774, New York, N. Y. ; m.
Molly Hunt, who soon d. s. p.; m., 2d, Feb. 14, 1796, Phoebe Whitman, of Ridge-
field, Conn., b. Sept. 13. 1777; d. April 10. 1837. He was b. in New York city; went
to the Oblong. Putnam county, N. Y., late incorporated as South East, where he
ever after resided. He conducted a large nursery; was an extensive farmer, and
highly esteemed and respected in the community where he lived. He d. April 23,
1843. Res. South East, N. Y.
EMMA, b. April 9, 1797; d. Sept. 8, 1805.
WILLIAM, b. Oct. 30, 1798; d. Aug. 30, 1805.
HANNAH HULL, b. March 29, 1800; m. Barnabas Allen; he was
a banker ; res. Danbury, Conn. ; had two children ; she d. Oct
29, 1871.
AMANDA, b. July 29, 1805; d. Aug. 28, 1805.
CHARLES, b. Jan. 15, 1803; d. Aug. 23, 1805.
SALLY WHITMAN, b. Nov. 16. 1804; m. April 11, 1832, Albert
Gallatin Beers ; res. Walton, N. Y. ; ch. : (a) Cyrus Beers ; res.
Walton, N. Y.
1775. vii. CHARLOTTE, b. Oct. 4, 1806; m. Oct. 30, 1828, Lyman Beers;
res. Newtown, N. Y. ; she d. June 9, 1864; son Horace, An-
sonia. Conn.
1776. viii. MARIA, b. Oct. 4, 1806; m. October, 1861, as his second wife,
Peter Turk, a well known lawyer of Milwaukee, Wis. ; she d. s. p.
Nov. 7, 1880.
1777. ix. JESSIE B., b. Nov. 9, 1808; d. Feb. 19, 1810.
1778. X. JARVIS WHITMAN, b. Sept. 14, iSio; he traveled extensively
25
1769.
1.
1770.
11.
I77I.
Ill,
1772.
iv.
1773-
V.
1774.
VI.
378 FIELD GENEALOGY.
in South America on business, and when last heard of he was at
Rio Janeiro, in Brazil. This was in 1865. He wrote that he was
going to St. Thomas, thence to New Orleans, and to New York.
He probably d. unm.
1779. xi. DEBORAH BURLAND. b. Feb. 23, 1812; m. Harry Stone; res.
Danbury, Conn. ; dau. Mrs. Sarah Earle, Danbury, Conn. ; she
d. Dec. 30, 1887.
1780. xii. MARY VAN WYCK, b. Dec. 2, 1813; m. Jan. 4, 1835, Warren
Spalding; res. Danbury, Conn.; she d. in Oconomowoc, Wis.
He was b. Dutchess county, N. Y., April i, 1811; d. Dec. 16,
1870, at Oconomowoc, Wis. ; they passed the greater part of their
lives in Danbury, Conn., moving from there to Wisconsin; he
was a tanner by trade ; they had nine children, all b. in Danbury,
Conn.: i. Sarah Jane, b. June 3, 1836; d. Sept. 2, 1836. 2. Ed-
ward Field, b. Aug. 14, 1837; was in civil war for three years;
res. St. Louis. 3. Charles Henry, b. June 22, 1839; d. March 9,
i860. 4. Emma Field, b. Oct 15, 1843; d. Oct. 18, 1843. 5.
Frances Ophelia, b. March 21, 1845; m. Dec. 20, 1871, George
Spence; res. Oconomowoc. 6. Willis Heavaland, b. Dec. 2q,
1847; m. Julia E. Kellogg and Mabel M. Burdick; res. Ocono-
mowoc, 7. Ferris Augustus, b. July 10, 1849; ni- Julia Baldwin;
res. Oconomowoc. 8. Mary Elizabeth, b. March 25, 1852; m.
March 16, 1874, Charles Spence; res. Concord, Wis.; five chil-
dren. 9. Arthur Eugene, b. July 16, 1855; d. Nov. 14, 1855.
1781. xiii. JANE, b. Dec. 12, 1815; m. June, 1869, Lyman Beers; she d.
Sept. 14, 1875.
1782. xiv. SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, b. May 2, 1819; m. Francis Bussey.
878. CHARLES FIELD (William, Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. New York, N. Y., April 21, 1782; m.
Martha Carpenter; he d. October. 1858; res. New York, N. Y.
1783. i. WILLIAM PENN, b. Sept. 29, 1804; m. Ann Eliza Cypher.
1784. ii. CHARLES, b. ; d. young.
1785. iii. TWO GIRLS, b. .
883. JOSEPH COLES FIELD (John Van W., Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. New York, Aug. 22, 1768; m.
Charlotte Bull, dau. of Dr. Bull, of South East: d. Dec. 24, 1840. Dr. Bull prac-
tised medicine in Putnam county, N. Y., and his dau. Cornelia Bull m. Joseph C.
Field. He was elected sheriff of Dutchess county, N. Y., before 1813, and moved
to Poughkeepsie. He d. July 24, 1813. Res. South East, Dutchess county, and
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
1785X. i. MIRIAM MARIA, b. Nov. 15, 1787; d. June 9, 1820.
1785^^. ii. HENRY BULL. b. July 26, 1789; d. Oct. 21, 1811.
1786. iii. AMBROSE DICKINSON, b. June 13, 1791; d. June I, 1815.
1787. iv. CHARITY PAMELIA, b. May 14, 1793; m. May 14, 1814, John
Rogers; she d. Chicago, aged 90, s. p.
1788. V. JOHN COLES, b. Aug. 18, 1795; m. Lydia Ketchum.
1789. vi. PHILIP SPENCER, b. Dec. 12, 1797; m Sally Hoyt, 1820; d.
1863.
1790. vii. ALEXANDER, b. Oct. 29, 1799; m. Eliza Cook Marshall.
1791. viii. HARRIET CORNELIA, b. Jan. 24, 1802; m. 1821.
1792. ix. ELIZA ANN, b. July 30, 1807; d. 1822.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 379
1793. X. THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. May 21. 1804; m. Louisa A. Chapman.
1794. xi. CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, b. March 3, 1810; d. July 13, 1811.
884. HAZARD FIELD (John, Anthony. Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Will-
iam, William, John, John, William), b. Nov. 11, 1765; m. June, 1788, Fanny
Wright; m., 2d, Jan. 12, 1806, Mary Bailey, b. Jan. 6, 1870; d. Feb. 22, 1832.
Hazard Field, b. Nov. 11, 1765; m. Fanny Wright June, 1778, ^y whom he had
Rachel, who m. Jonathan Hart; Hannah m. William McCord; Wright m. Phoebe
Ann Drake, and Sally Ann m. Elias Vredenburgh. Hazard Field m., 2d, Jan.
12. 1S06, Mary Bailey, by whom he had Fanny Field; m. Elias Vredenburgh, whose
first wife was her half-sister; Abigail d. single; Susan d. single; Phoebe m. Jacob
McCord; Benjamin Hazard m. Catharine van Cortlandt de Peyster; Joseph Bailey
d. single, and Jerusha M. d. single. He d. Feb. 5, 1845; res. Yorktown, N. Y.
1795 i. RACHEL, b. June 27, 1789; m. Jan. 7, 1813, Jonathan Hart; she
d. Dec. 2, 1815,
1796. ii. HANNAH, b. Aug. 25, 1791; m. 1837. William McCord; shed.
Dec. 10, 1867.
1797. iii. WRIGHT, b. June 24, 1794; m. Phcebe A. Drake.
1798. iv. SALLY ANN, b. April 18, 1797; m. 1817 in Yorktown. N.Y., Elias
Vredenburgh; she d. July 26, 1825.
1799. V. FANNY, b. Jan. 14, 1807; m. June 17, 1826, Elias Vredenburgh;
she d. July 14, 1868. He was b. Tarrytown, N. Y., Dec. 10,
1793; d. May 21, 1874. Ch. : i. Hester Maria, b. Jan. 7, 1818;
m. Nov. 12, 1851, Jacob L. Ryder. He was b. July i, 1811; d.
Aug. 3, 1888; a farmer. Ch. : (a) Anna F. Ryder, b. Nov. 18,
1853; m. Frank Dromgoole, of St. Helen, England, Nov. 9, 1881,
at Mount Kisco. Ch. : Frank W., Frederick H., Herbert Addi-
son, Mary Edna and Elizabeth Marion. Herbert Addison and
Mary Edna both d. Sept. 14 and 16, 1891. Mr. Dromgoole is
editor and publisher of the Mt. Kisco (N. Y.) Recorder. 2.
Wright Field, b. Aug. 22, 1820; m. Anna Hebard; a daughter is
Mrs. E. E. O'Brien; res. Bay St. Louis, Miss. 3. William
Hazard, b. Oct. 26, 1822; m.Odile ; he d. ; his widow res. New
Orleans, La. 4. Mary Ann Vredenburgh. b. May 30, 1S25; m.
Samuel Haviland Fowler, Dec. 22, 1847; he was b. Oct. 21, 1822;
d. Oct. 29, 1872. Res. 163 Hudson avenue, Peekskill, N. Y. Ch. :
(a) Kate Louise Fowler, b. Sept. 16, 1852. (b) Odile A. Fowler,
b. April 27, 1854; m. Richard W. Home. Res. Lake Mohegan,
N. Y. (c) Mary Alice Fowler, b. March 4, 1856; m. Orville
Pierce. Res. Lake Mohegan, N. Y. (d) Ella Field Fowler, b.
Feb. 22, 1865. 5. Fanny Vredenburgh, dau. of 2d wife, Fanny
Field, b. Sept. 18, 1841; m. John E. Hanes.
ABIGAIL, b. May 24, 1808; d. unm. Nov. 4, 1874.
SUSAN, b. Oct. 17. 1809; d. unm. Oct. 5, 1830.
PHCEBE. b. Sept. 11, 1811; m. Sept. 16, 1830. Jacob R. McCord;
she d. Oct. 15, 1874.
1S03. ix. BENJAMIN HAZARD, b. May 2, 1814; m. Catherine M. V. C.
de Peyster.
1804. X. JOSEPH BAILEY, b. Feb. 22, i8i8; d. unm. July 16, 1840.
1805. xi. JERUSHA M., b. Aug. 15, 1820; d. unm. Aug. 24, 1850.
885. JOHN FIELD (John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John, William), b. May 6, 1766; m. June 10, 1786, Francis or Fanny
1800.
vi.
I80I.
vii.
1802.
viii.
380 FIELD GENEALOGY,
1808.
111.
1809.
iv.
1 8 10.
V.
1811.
vi.
Perry, b. April 28, 1765; d. March 13, 1843. He was among the first settlers in Fer-
risburgh, going there in 1787. He d. Nov. 19, 1827. Res. New York, and Ferris-
burgh, Vt.
1806. i. JOSIAH A., b. June 14, 1787; m. Feb. 26, 1810, Eliza Hoisted; he
d. in 1844; res. New York.
1807. ii. EDWARD, b. Aug. 24, 1788; m. Dec. 20, 1828, Eliza Morrin; he d.
in 1850; res. New York.
IRA, b. March i, 1791; d. Sept. 3, 1793.
JAMES P., b. July 17, 1792; d. Sept. 13, 1830.
STEPHEN, b. March 31, 1794; m. Frances Bouton Kellogg.
DAUGHTER, b. Oct. 26, 1795; m. Feb. 26, 1816. George Merrill;
she d. Feb. 16, 1817.
1812. vii. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. iB, 1798; m. Reuben Kellogg, of Basin
Harbor, Addison county. Vt.
1813. viii. MARIA, b. Feb. 7, 1800; m. G. B. Rolleston.
1814. ix. HARRIET, b. Sept. 9, 1801; d. April 26, 1S38.
1815. X. JOHN, b. May 7, 1803; m. 1825, Eleanor Kardie; res Hartland
Four Corners, Vt.
1816. xi. WILLIAM, b. Sept. 8, 1804; m. April 22, 1S29, A. Beach; he
d. Nov. 29, 1833; res. New York.
1817. xii. LOUISA, b. Sept. 2, 1806; m. July 19, 1829, Charles H. Cuyler, of
Plymouth, 111.
1818. xiii. WALTER, b. March 26, 1809; m. Melvinah Truesdell.
1819. xiv. CHARLES L., b. Jan. 4, 1811; d. Aug. 8, 1822.
1820. XV. FANNY, b. Dec. 25, 1813; m. Aug. 18, 1833, George S. Willis; she
d. July, 1837.
1820;^. xvi. CYRUS, b. Ferrisburgh; m. Polly Porter, of Ferrisburgh. He
settled in Ferrisburgh, Vt, ; m. there. Their family was (a)
George, (b) Nancy, (c) Parmilla, (d) Mary, and (e) Curtis, Ch. :
I. George, d. in 1892, aged 69 years; hem. Christena Sciples; she
was b, in 1821, and is living; they had one child, Isadore, who is
42 years old and living; she m. Edward Gillete; they now res. in
Ferrisburgh, and have two sons, George, aged 21, and Lloyd,
aged 10 years, 2, Nancy m. Mathew Bullis; both deceased. 3,
Parmilla (now deceased) m. Mr. Bonne (deceased); they had one
child, Marriatta; she m. Orwin Dalrymple, now living in Ver-
gennes, Vt. ; her second husband, Vernal Spooner, now deceased.
4. Mary (there are no records to be found). 5. Curtis ni. and
lives in Ferrisburgh at present; has two children.
887. DANIEL BIRDSALL FIELD (John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. July 28, 1770; m. Elizabeth
Field, b. Sept. 25, 1778; d. Dec. 3, i860, dau. of Benjamin and Frances (Huggeford);
he d. March 11, 1830; res. New York.
1821. i. LEONARD HUGGEFORD, b. Feb. 9, 1798 ; m. Margaret Clement.
1822. ii. JULIET, b. July 10, 1800; m. Feb. 17, 1818, Frederick William
Requa, of Peekskill; she d. Feb. 18, 1832.
1823. iii. JAMES HARVEY, b. May 24, 1803; m. Jeanne Charlotte Victorie
Dubourg.
1824. iv. ELIZA, b. Oct. 21, 180S.
888. SEAMAN FIELD (John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. Feb, 2, 1794; m. Sept. 14. 1822, Louise
FIELD GENEALOGY. 381
1826.
ii.
1827.
iii.
1828.
iv.
1829.
V.
1830.
vi.
Marie Eliza Du Bourg de Ste. Colombe. b. July 6, 1806; d. Feb. 18, 1874, at New
Orleans, La., dau. of Pierre Francois Du Bourg de Ste. Colombe. He d. Sept. 20,
i860. Res. New Orleans, La.
1825. i. MARIE ELIZABETH WILHELMINE, b. Sept. 8, 1823; d. Oct.
10, 1824.
JOSEPH DE FORREST, b. April 28. 1825; d. March 31, 1866.
CHARLES VICTOR DE GOURNAY, b. Feb. 18, 1827; d. New
York city, Jan. i, 1842.
JEANNE ELIZA, b. June 8, 1827; m. May 13, 1847, Theodore
Bailly Blanchard.
LOUISE AUGUSTINE ODILE, b. March 7, 1830; m. Oct. 26.
1846, William Hazard Vredenburgh.
HENRY WILLIAM DU BOURG, b. Aug. 22, 1834; d. Dec. 27,
1S36.
1831. vii. MARIE CLEMENCE, b. May 24, 1836; m. Jan. 10, 1856. James
Arthur Blane; she d. Feb. 28, 1866.
1S32. viii. ELIZABETH VICTORIE, b. Sept. 22, 1845; d. July 4, 1846.
892. WILLIAM B. FIELD (John, Anthony, Benjamin. Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Dec. 2, 1777; m. Fairchild; res.
New York, N. Y.
1833. i- WILLIAM H., b. ; m. Margaretta Day.
893. MOSES FIELD (John. Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John, William), b. Oct. 4, 1779, Yorktown, N. Y. ; m. New York,
N. Y., May 17, 1S21, Susan Kittredge, dau.' of Hon. Samuel Osgood, first commis-
sioner of the United States treasury, postmaster-general, etc., of Andover, Mass.,
b, April 12, 1795; d. May. 1834. Moses Field, ninth child of John and Lydia. and
named after an uncle, was born Oct. 4, 1779. He removed to New York about 1800,
where his elder brother Josiah had already preceded him, and had been associated
in business with John Maunsell Bradhurst. After Josiah's death, Moses Field be-
came a member of the firm of Bradhurst & Field, merchants, from which he retired
in or before 1S20, and shortly after made the usual European tour, visiting Eng-
land, France, Italy, etc. On May 17, 1821, not long after his return to America, he
married Susan Kittredge, daughter of the Hon. Samuel Osgood, first commissioner
of the United States treasury, postmaster-general under Washington's administra-
tion, etc. She was born April 12, 1795. Moses Field died at Peekskill, N. Y., on
Oct. 21, 1833, after a life of unostentatious benevolence. During the severe winter
of 1828-29, when there was much suffering among the poor of New York, he estab-
lished a soup house, and kept it up at his own expense, with the exception of some
small sums which were sent to him unsolicited on his part. The writer of this — then
quite a child — can remember being taken by him on several occasions to this place,
where a good meal was given to all the necessitous who came there, and he can
still recall the pleasure it gave his father to see the half-starved applicants have
their hunger satisfied. This was but one instance in many of a career of active
benevolence. Often during his lifetime a deserving and needy person had a load of
wood deposited at the door when the cold was severe ; or a loaf or two of bread left
at the house daily, who never knew the name of the donor, for he was one of the
few who "do good by stealth." His widow, Susan, never recovered from the
effects of his loss, and she died in the month of May, 1834, some six or seven months
after her husband.
The average daily number of rations given out at the soup house, which Mr.
Field established at the corner of Houston and Mercer streets, was 2,686.
382 FIELD GENEALOGY.
The following obituary notice of him appeared in the New York American of
Oct. 25, 1833:
"Died at Peekskill on the 21st inst. Moses Field of this city, aged 53 years. The
poor could not have sustained a greater loss in an individual. No man had more
enlarged, or persevering benevolence in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked
and providing for the sick. His greatest happiness appeared to be to mitigate the
sufferings and relieve the wants of the virtuous poor."
Another obituary in the New York Spectator of Oct. 24, 1833, reads as follows:
"It falls to our lot to record the death of Moses Field, Esq., of this city, who
after a lingering illness expired at Peekskill on the i8th inst. at the age ot 53. By
this dispensation our tellow-citizens have cause to deplore the loss of one of the
most useful and philanthropic of their members. The poor among us have special
reason to regret the departure of a friend, whose acts of benevolence have rarely
been surpassed in any country. He sympathized in their distresses, and, like
another Howard — not content with taking the height and depth — the external men-
suration of human sorrow — he entered the recesses of misery — ministering to the
alleviation both of hunger and pain. It is not easy to do justice to that charity
which descends from the housetop to the obscurity of the cellar and the stall, lest
it may lose in the lowliness ot its dispensation, the grandeur of its principles: but
it was not for show, or ostentation that Mr. Field visited the abodes of wretched-
ness. Substantial relief tor human suffering was the end he sought for, and the
boon he obtained. He founded our soup establishments at a period of unexampled
destitution, and he was an efficient and active co-operator in establishing Ihose dis-
pensaries in our city, that have contributed so much to softening the pains, calami-
ties, and accidents that flesh is heir to. In every labor of beneficence he was
among the foremost; not merely by contributions from his purse; but by his per-
sonal efforts and the higher authority ot example. In all our institutions for aiding
the poorer classes he was prominent, and in the bestowment ot direct charity he
was one ot the most efficient and indefatigable of our philanthropists. To say that
'his hand was open as day to melting charity' would be but a commonplace remark.
It has been a thousand times quoted, but never, perhaps, with greater fidelity than
in its application to Mr. Field. His views were liberal and expansive, embracing in
their range the great family of man ; yet so definite and minute in observance, that
his ready ear could catch the wail of individual misery, and his watchful eye dis-
cern and his hand be prepared to relieve it, even on its distant approach."
He d. Oct. 21, 1833; res. Peekskill, N. Y.
1834. i. MAUNSELL BRADHURST, b. March 26, 1822 ; m, Julia Stanton.
1835. ii. OSGOOD, b. Nov. 14, 1823; m. Katherine Parker.
1836. iii. FRANKLIN CLINTON, b. Aug. 5, 1825; m. Mary Cunningham
and Elizabeth Cooke Fitch.
1837. iv. SUSAN MARIA, b. Aug. 13, 1S27; m. John Augustus Pell, of Pel-
ham, Ulster county, N. Y. ; she d Pau, France, Dec. 30, 1893.
1838. V. CAROLINE MATILDA, b. Nov. 11, 1829; m. George S. Riggs,
of Baltimore.
1839. vi. MOSES AUGUSTUS, b. April 15, 1831; m. Fanny P. Bradhurst.
1840. vii. WILLIAM HAZARD, b. Aug. 5, 1S33; m. Augusta Currie Brad-
hurst.
897. HICKSON WOOLMAN FIELD (John. Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Oct. 17, 1788, Flushing, L. I.;
m. 1818, Eleanor Kingsland de Forest, dau. of William; m., 2d, Catherine Brad-
hurst, dau. of Samuel, of Harlem, N. Y. ; d. s. p. in Nice, Italy, March 17, 1868.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 383
Mr. Field went to New York city at about the age of eighteen years and entered
the counting room of Bradhurst & Field, of which firm his brother Moses was a
partner. After acquiring some commercial experience he made a voyage to Guada-
loupe, and embarked on his return in the ship Washington, which was captured by
the British sloop of war Hippomines, and taken to Antigua, where she was released
after fifty days' detention, as no French goods were found on board. Mr. Field
spent the following winter at Charleston, and was present later at the inauguration
of President Madison on March 4, 1809. Not long after his return to New York, he
sailed from there for Amsterdam, and passed the British fleet in the Scheldt, which
was attempting to intercept the French. His vessel, the Dean, passed unnoticed
between two lines of battleships, and anchored in the Trexel roads ; but was driven
ashore in a violent gale and condemned. Her cargo of sugar and coffee was seized
by the government of Holland, whose throne was then occupied by Louis Bona-
parte. In 1 83 1 Mr. Field recovered damages from France for this seizure, under
the treaty made with that country by the United States during Jackson's presi-
dency. From Amsterdam, Mr. Field visited successively London, Cadiz, Palermo
and New York. He returned to London from the last place and opened a commis-
sion house there, which he gave up shortly after, on the passing of the Non-impor-
tation act, and left England for Holland, accompanied by Mr. George Astor, a
nephew ot John Jacob, the founder of the New York family of that name. They
landed at the mouth of the Elbe, in a smuggling boat, in defiance of a French
prohibition, and by doing so incurred the penalty of death. On the approach of a
sentinel, they had to lie down to avoid detection, and after several narrow escapes,
they reached Oldenburg, where their passports were "vises" for Bremen. They
sent them to the commissary of justice on their arrival at Neustadt and were sum-
moned by him to attend in person. Mr. Field, who spoke German, underwent a
long examination, in the course of which he stated that he had corresponded with
Meyer & Co., of Bremen, so Mr. Meyer was sent for; who not only identified Mr.
Field, but also became his bail. After a visit to Copenhagen. Mr. Field returned to
America, where he arrived just before war broke out with Great Britain, whereupon
he joined a well-known New York company called the "Iron Greys" and served
with this corps during hostilities. On their cessation, he established a commercial
house, from which he retired many years before his death. He married in 18 18,
Eleanor Kingsland, daughter of Wm. de Forest. His wife died at an early age
after giving birth to three children, one of whom died in infancy. He married,
secondly, Catherine, daughter of Samuel Bradhurst and widow of John McKesson.
She died at Nice in 1868, leaving no issue. Mr. Field died at Rome, Feb. 12, 1873.
By his first wife he left a son, Hickson W., who married Mary Elizabeth, daughter
of John M. Bradhurst, and a daughter, Eleanor Kingsland, wife of the Hon. John
Jay. Res. New York, N. Y.
1841. i. HICKSON WOOLMAN, b. Aug. 11, 1823; m. Mary E. Bradhurst.
1842. ii. ELEANOR KINGSLAND, b. 1818; m. 1837, Hon. John Jay. of
Bedford, N. Y. John Jay was born in New York city, June 23,
1817. His father was William Jay, a judge of one of the state
courts and a man prominent in the politics and social life of his
time. His grandfather was the John Jay (bom 1745, died 1829)
who was sent to France to assist Benjamin Franklin in the nego-
tiations for the treaty of peace between this country and Eng-
land, and who was a leading figfure in the events which changed
the colonies into free and independent states ; he was also the
first chief justice of the United States. Judge William Jay drew
down upon himself the hatred of all the slaveholders by his decis-
384 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ion in favor of the bondsmen and his outspoken denunciation of
slavery. He died Oct, 14, 1858. The late John Jay used his pen
and tongue freely in opposition to slavery. In 1837, the year
after he was graduated from Columbia College, he was married
to Miss Eleanor K. Field. After marriage he studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1839. Even as a young man he took
up the cudgels against negro slavery. He was the secretary of
the Irish relief committee of 1847. He acted as counsel without
pay for many fugitive slaves. He was elected president of the
Union League Club in 1866, and again in 1877. Between 1869 and
1875 he was minister to Austria. In 1877 he was chairman of the
committee sent from Washington to investigate the system of the
New York custom-house. From 1883 to 1888 he was president of
the New York State civil service. He died May 6, 1894. Ch. :
1. Eleanor Jay, m. June 23, 1859, Henry Grafton Chapman; four
children. 2. Col. Wm. Jay, b. Feb. 12, 1841; m. Lucy Oelrichs;
three children. 3. Augusta Jay, m. Oct. 3, 1867, Edward Ran-
dolph Robinson; three children. 4. Mary Jay, m. Oct. 15, 1863,
Wm. Henry Schieffelin, of New York city; five children. 5. Anna
Jay, b. 1849; m. Oct. 12, 1872, Gen. Hans Lothar de Schwenitz,
German ambassador at St. Petersburg, Russia ; eight children.
1843. iii. A CHILD, d. in infancy.
900. ANTHONY FIELD (Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Oct. 24, 1755, New York State; m. in
Vermont, Sarah Franklin, b. Nov. 4, 1752; d. 1855; he d. in 1855; res. Addison
county, Vt.
1844. i. ANTHONY, b. Aug. 15, 1808; m. Mary A. Hathway.
1845. ii. STEPHEN, b. Aug. i, 1812; lived in Ferrisburgh; m. Cornelia
Siples; she was b. 1822; d. 1892; their occupation was farming,
and religion, Quaker; they had a family of five children: i.
James Field, b. 1840; living; m. Carrie Draper, of Georgia,
Vt. Had one son, Arthur; he m. in 1888, Jessie Kingsland; lives
in Ferrisburgh; they have four children: Blanche, b. 1889; Her-
bert, b. 1894; Luna, b. 1897; Faith, b. 1899; religion, Methodist;
occupation, farming. 2. Sarah Field, b. in 1843; living; m. Geo.
Porter, of Ferrisburgh ; res. in town of Charlotte now ; religion,
Congregationalist ; have no children. 3. Hattie Field, m. Charles
Pratt ; res. in Illinois at present ; have one son and one daughter,
Frank and Daisy: all of family living; farmers. 4. Luther
Field, b. 1850; living in Ferrisburgh; m. Miss Roscoe; they have
four children ; one, Jennie, who m. Walter Clark, of Ferrisburgh,
Vt. ; they have two children. 5. Effie Field, b. 1855; m. Noble
Ball, and have one child, Luella, b. 1897.
1845-1. iii. HENRY, b. 1818; d. 1898; he m. Polly Wescott in 1839; b. 1818;
living; a very wealthy farmer. Ch. : i. Ann Eliza, b. 1848; m.
Fletcher Frisbie, of Waltham; he was b. in 1839; had two sons:
(a) Egbert, b. 1871; m. Mary Everest, of Waltham, Vt. ; farmer;
Congregationalist; have one daughter, Marion, b. February, 1900.
(b) Walter m. Stella Newton, of Ferrisburgh ; res. in Waltham,
Vt. ; have two children, Victor, one year old ; one girl, deceased.
2. Edgar. 3. Cassius.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 385
1S45-2. iv. SAMUEL, b. ; n. f. k.
1S45-3. V. JOSEPH, b. ; d. unm. ; res. Salt Lake City, Utah.
1S45-4. vi. JOSHUA, b. ; m. Lucinda Walsh, of Panton, Vt. Ch. : i.
Rosa, m. Ransom O'Brien, of Panton. 2. Edward, m. Ellen
O'Brien, and have three children: Adelbert and Jessie M.,
living; Eugene, deceased; the children are unm. 3. Libby, m.
a Mr. Foote, and have no children. 4. Sarah, m. Winslow ;
second husband, Fred Parch, of New Haven, Vt. ; farmers.
1845-5. vii. HARRIET, b. .
1845-6. viii. ESTHER, b. .
1S45-7. ix. ELIZABETH, b. .
1845-8. X. SARAH, b. .
901. GILBERT FIELD (Anthony. Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. White Plains, N. Y., about 1760; m.
Eleanor Morton; he d., aged 50, at Queenstown River Road. Res. Niagara River
Road, Ont.
GEORGE, b. Feb. 21, 1790.
DANIEL, b. Jan. 14, 1792.
JOHN MORTON, b. Dec. 4, I793-
DAVID McFALL. b. Oct. 13, 1795.
RALPH, b. March 19, 1798; m. Bethiah Hill.
REBECCA, b. May 13, 1800.
JAMES, b. Aug. 16, 1802.
NATHAN, b. March 16, 1805.
GILBERT CHRYSLER, b. Aug. 9, 1807.
HIRAM, b. Aug. 13, 1811.
qoi}4. BENJAMIN FIELD (Anthony, Anthony. Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John. John, William), b. White Plains, N. Y., about 1773; m. in
Ferrisburgh, Vt, about 1799, Polly Champlain; d. in Ferrisburgh, 1810; m., 2d,
. Benjamin, Sr., b. 1773, came to Ferrisburgh, Vt., from White Plains, N. Y ;
m. Polly Champlain, of Ferrisburgh, for first wife. Benjamin was a very successful
farmer and financier; he accumulated an estate amounting to $110,000; $87,000 of
this he gave to his children and grandchildren before his death ; at his death his
estate was valued at $30,000; Benjamin and Polly had four children: George,
Thomas, Benjamin, Jr., and Daniel. He d. March 23, 1863; res. Ferrisburgh, Vt.
1855-2. i. THOMAS, b. April 14, 1804; m. Elizabeth Rogers and Abigail
Harrington.
1855-3. ii. DANIEL, b. ; d. at age of 54; he m. Mary Wing, who was b.
1803 and d. at age of 40; had two daughters: i. Sophia, b. 1833
and d. at age of 40 ; she m. Austin Field ; their children were two
boys, and one girl whose name is Alice. 2. Mary, d. in 1846,
aged 12 years, 3 months.
1855-4. iii. GEORGE, b. Aug. 26, 1802; m. Sylvenia Walker.
1855-5. iv. BENJAMIN, b. in 1806; d. unm. 1846.
1855-6. V. SOLOMON, b. 1818, and d. 1898 in Kansas; he m. Phoebe Carter,
of Monkton, Vt. ; for his second wife he m. Mrs. Eliza Newton,
ot Ferrisburgh, Vt. Ch. : i. Theodoshes, d. at the age of 25,
unm. 2. Cornelia, m. Theodoshes Holton, of Addison, Vt. ; they
had two children. 3. Curt, d. unm., at age of 20. 4. Polly, lives
in Kansas ; has two children ; one is married and lives in Ver-
mont ; the other unmarried.
1846.
1847.
11.
1848.
iii.
1849.
IV.
1850.
V.
I85I.
VI.
1852.
Vll.
1853.
VUl,
1854.
ix.
1855.
X.
386 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1855-7. vi. POLLY, b. ; m. John Hazard, of Charlotte, Vt. ; she d. at
age of 50; they had one child, Ellen, who m. Ovett Stone, of
Charlotte, Vt. ; they had seven children, five boys and two girls.
1855-8. vii. ELECTA, b. .
1855-9. viii. ELIZA, b. ; m. John Parker.
1855-10. ix. MARY, b. ; m. Elisha Langdon, of Charlotte, Vt.
QoiX- STEPHEN FIELD (Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. White Plains, N. Y. ; m. Mary Wash-
burn. He d. July 24, 1856. Res. Ferrisburgh.
1855-11. i. GILBERT, b. ; m. Miss Gage. Two children, both dead.
1855-12.11. WILLIAM, b. ; m. Harriet Taft, and had seven children,
four girls and three boys: Charlie, Harrison, Tamer, , Mary,
Frank and Julia. Charlie is living, married a girl in Montpelier,
Vt., where they reside at present. He is an engineer. They had
one boy, Charlie.
1855-13. ill. MOSES, b. .
1855-14. Iv. HIRAM, b. .
1855-15. V. STEVEN, b. .
1855-16. vi, AARON, b. .
1855-17. vii. ANSON, b. ; d. unm.
1855-18. viii. POLLY, b. ; m. Roswell Atwood, of Monkton, Vt. They
had four children, three sons and one daughter, i. . 2.
Stephen. 3. Buell. 4. Mary. All deceased but Mary. 3. Buell
m. Miss Roy, ot Hinesburg, Vt. ; both deceased. 4. Mary m.
Will Downing, of Monkton, Vt. They had one child. All the
family living.
1855-19. ix. HULDAH, b. ; m. Orrin Wheeler, of New Haven, Vt.
Three children, only one living, Mary.
1855-20. X. MARY, b. .
901;^. GEORGE FIELD (Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. White Plains, N. Y., about 1758; m. in
Ferrisburgh . Res. Ferrisburgh, Vt.
1855-21. i. GEORGE, b. May 12, 1791; m. Sally Pier.
1855-22. 11. NANCY, b. .
1855-23.111. OTHER children.
902. ISAAC FIELD (Solomon, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William,
Christopher, John, Christopher. John), b. in 1757, Dingle, N. Y. ; m. Deborah
He d. Jan. 17, 1837. Res. South East, N. Y.
PHEBE, b. .
BETSEY, b. .
ATHALANAH, b. .
CHLOE, b. Aug. 27, 1788; d. June 27, 1S27.
DEBORAH, b. .
SALLY, b. April 12, 1798; d. Oct. 16, 1871.
NATHAN, b. April 20, 1782; m. Susan Knox.
903. THOMAS FIELD (Solomon, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. ; m. Susan Angevine, b. March
16, 1770; d. January, 186S. He d. in 1792. Res. South East, N. Y.
1863. i. POLLY, b. June 4, 1786; m. April 11, 1810, Elijah Fowler, of
South East, b. Aug. 10, 1776; d. Dec. 5, 1825. Res. Brewster, N.Y.
Lobdell.
He
1856.
1857.
11.
1858.
ill.
1859.
Iv.
i860.
V.
1861.
vl.
1862.
vii,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 387
905. STEPHEN FIELD (Solomon, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. March 11, 1770; m. Betsey-
Brown. He d, July 24, 1854. Res. South East, N. Y.
1864. i. ROXANNA, b. Aug. 21, 1796; m. Sept. 15, 1814, Samuel Ryder,
son of Eleazer and Mary (Coe), b. Dec. 16, i79i;d. Nov. 20, 1820.
Shed. Sept. 6, 1881.
1865. ii. SOLOMON, b. March 31, 1799; ™- Sally Ann Ganung.
1866. iii. SALLY, b. Feb. 7, 1806; m. Jan. 5, 1825. Nathan Delavan Ganung,
b. March 2, 1801 ; d. Dec. 17, 1877, of North Salem. A son is
Starr Ganung, of Brewster, N. Y. She d. Oct. 21, 1849. Res.
Croton Falls. N. Y.
1867. iv. BETSEY, b. ; d. 1841. She m. Edmund Pierce. A dau. is
Mrs. Gilbert Bailey, of Croton Falls, N. Y.
1868. V. MARY, b. May 22, 1811; m. Genet H. Kniffin. Shed. Aug. 17,
1876. Res. North Salem, N. Y. A dau. is Mrs. Mary E. K.
Smith, of North Salem.
906. SAMUEL FIELD (Gilbert, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Dingle Ridge, N. Y., 1792;
m. Jan. i, 1817, Charlotte Crane, dau. of Solomon and Athalanah (Coe), of Patter-
son, N. Y., b. 1799; d. May 7, 1826; m., 2d, Aug. 2, 1832, Julia Margaret Sim, b.
1810; d. May 19, 1834; m.. 3d, March 26, 1835, Amelia Sim; d. Oct. 26, 1841. Sam-
uel settled on a portion of the farm on which he was born, and which was given
him by his father. He established a fine place on the east shore of Peach Lake,
now owned by Robert Vail, where he was throughout life an able, accomplished
and public-spirited citizen. He d. April 2, 1877. Res. Dingle Ridge, N. Y.
1869. i. CAROLINE, b. Dec. 29, 1817; m. Oct. 20, 1842, William Taber
Rumsey, of Pauling; removed to Fairfax Court House, Va. Six
children. He was b. Dec. 14, 1820. She d. Jan. 30, 1873.
1S70. ii. SAMUEL AUGUSTUS CRANE, b. Aug. 13, 1820; m. Clara
Lewis. He d. Oct. 27, 1866, s. p. She was dau. of Garry Lewis,
of White Plains, N. Y.
1871. iii. JULIA FRANCES CATHERINE, b. Aug. 5, 1833: m. July 30,
i860, Henry Seymour, b. June 19, 1835; a prosperous builder of
Norwalk, Conn. One dau., Carrie Amelia, b. Aug. 8, 1863.
1872. iv. MARY AMELIA MALCOM, b. Sept, 8, 1837; d. unm. Sept. 4, 1871.
1873. V. RICHARD JOSEPH GILBERT, b. March 31, 1841; unm. Sept.
25, 1841.
909. COMFORT FIELD (Gilbert, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. Dingle Ridge, N. Y., 1799; m. Jan. 8, 1823,'
Polly Crane, dau. of Solomon and Athalanah (Coe), of Patterson, N. Y., b. March
10, 1801 ; d. Aug. 9, 1849. He removed to Pawling, where he was a large farmer
and prosperous citizen. He d. May 6, 1850 Res. Pawling, N. Y.
1874. i. CHARLOTTE, b. Jan. 16, 1826; m. Oct. 13, 1845, George Kirby
Taber, a successful farmer and business man and highly respected
citizen. He was son ot Jonathan A. and Hannah (Kirby), b.
Feb. 5, 1822. Res. Pawling, N. Y. Ch. : i. Gilbert Field, b.
1846; m. Mary Allen and d. 1889. Five children. Res. Pawling.
2. Hannah Kirby, b. 1850; d. 1871. 3. Martha Ann, b. 1857. 4.
Alicia Hopkins, b. 1859. 5- Charlotte Field, b. 1861; d. 1880.
911. JOSEPH FIELD (Elnathan, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. June 30, 1779; m. Feb. 11,
388
FIELD GENEALOGY.
He d. Oct. 8, 1 85 1. Res.
1876.
n.
1877.
111.
1878,
iv.
1879.
V.
1880.
VI.
I88I.
vii.
1882.
viii
1883.
ix.
1884.
X.
1801, Mary Randle, b. Jan. 28, 1781; d. Nov. 17, 1826.
North Salem, N. Y.
1875. i. DELIGHT, b. April 22, 1803; m. Dec. 5, 1822, Philander Crane.
She d. May 2, 1S48. A son is George P. Crane, 98 Pulaski St.,
Brooklyn. N. Y.
SELAH, b. May 24, 1805 ; m. Ruth Ann Burch.
ELECTA, b. April 20, 1807; m. Feb. 3, 1830, John Taylor Fair-
child. She d. May 31, 1896. Res. Danbury, Conn. A son,
Joseph, resides at Utica, N Y.
HARRIET, b. May 10, 1809; d. Feb. 20, 1812.
BETSEY, b. March 11, 1811; d Feb. 26, 1871.
ISAAC THOMPSON, b. Dec. 9, 1812; m. Mary Ann Busti and
Julia Maria Booth.
GEORGE, b. Nov. 4, 1814; d. Aug. 16, 1837.
MARY ANN, b. Sept. 22, ^817; m. Oct. 4, 1841, William Cole, b.
Oct. 6, 1817. She resides Palenville, Greene county, N. Y.
WILLIAM, b. April 21, 1819; m. Mary Ambler.
JANE. b. May 29, 1821; m. June 18, 1848, Almond Dixon. She d.
April 23, 18S2. Res. Somers, N. Y.
1885. xi. JOSEPH ELNATHAN, b. March 3, 1823; m. Julia Ann Cole.
917. JOHN B. FIELD (Benjamin, Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert, William,
William, John, John, William), b. near Bound Brook, N. J., April 2, 1756; m. Jan.
22, 1 781, Phoebe Brokaw, b. Dec. i3, 1760; d. June 20, i8o8; m., 2d, Mrs. Ann Ter-
hune; d. May 13, 1846; was a farmer and was in the Revolutionary war. John B.
Field was born in Middlesex county. New Jersey, where his ancestors had lived for
sixty-one years. He served as private and Minuteman in the Revolutionary war.
He was married twice. His first wife, Phoebe Brokaw, was a daughter of John
Brokaw, of Bridgewater, Somerset county, N. J. He (John Brokaw) served as a
private in Capt. Peter D. Vroom's company. Second regiment, Somerset county
militia, during the Revolutionary war. He was descended from the French Hugue-
nots. John B. was granted a pension for services in the Revolutionary war in the
New Jersey militia. He d. July 6, 1836, and is buried in the cemetery on his farm.
Res. Bound Brook, N. J.
MARY, b. Nov. 30, 1789; m. Isaac Brokaw.
BENJAMIN I., b. May 15, 1792; m. Sarah Dunn.
JOHN I., b. Aug. 17, 1800; m. E. Van Nortwick.
MICHAEL I., b. June 9, 1811; m. Voorhees.
PHEBE BROKAW, b. Nov. 30, 1819; m. Schenck.
ROBERT FINLEY, b. Oct. 9, 1822; m. Sarah Verbruyck.
MARGARET, b. Feb. 11, 1782; m. April 5, 1800, Abraham V.
Van Nest, b. Somerville, N. J., May 8, 1777; d. Sept. 14, 1864.
Abraham V. Van Nest, of New York, was in wholesale saddlery
hardware business New York City; a leading citizen of his times,
holding office in church and city government and in bank and
business companies. Shed. Aug. 8, 1849. Abrm. Van Nest was
a successful merchant in the city of New York. This lady and
her husband were devoted members of the Collegiate Reformed
church of that city, their mansion occupying a whole block, in
what was then known as "Greenwich Village." The hospitality
of this family was noted, and enjoyed by the clergy and promi-
nent men of the Dutch Reformed church. Mr. Van Nest gave
1886.
11.
1887.
iii.
1888.
IV.
1889.
v.
1890.
VI.
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Vll
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i.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 389
largely to Rutgers College, New Brunswick. Margaret Field,
daughter of Phcebe Brokaw and John B. Field, was born Feb. ii,
1782, near Bound Brook, N. J. She was a woman of singular
beauty and loveliness. April 5, 1800, she was united in marriage
to Abraham Van Nest, who was born May 8, 1777, near Somer-
ville, N. J During his entire career, he gave himself to a life of
active usefulness. Closely identified with the early commercial
interests of New York, he was far from being a mere merchant,
and at his home extended hospitality on the most generous scale.
He was deeply attached to the Reformed (Dutch) church, in which
denomination he was a prominent layman and elder. For forty
years he was a trustee ot Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. ,
in behalf of which he labored with untiring zeal. Van Nest
Hall, one of the college buildings, attests the appreciation of his
services. He aided in establishing the Greenwich Savings bank,
and was its president for many years. He was also director in
many insurance companies. "A more godly, honorable, magnani-
mous, and just man than Abraham Van Nest this generation is
not likely to see." He died Sept. 14, 1864, at his beautiful man-
sion on Bleecker Street, which had become one of the notable
landmarks of the city, in "Old Greenwich Village." It stood,
surrounded by trees, in the center of a city block of two and a
half acres, the former residence of Sir Peter Warren. Ch. :
I. Phoebe, b. Jan. 31, 1801; d. June 23, 1853; m. George Van
Nest. He was not only a clergyman, but a physician as well ; was
b. Hackensack, Nov. i, 1791 ; d. New Brunswick. Sept. 6, 1839. She
d. June 23, 1853. Ch. : (a) Theodore Eli, b. March 22, 1828; d.
Jan. 25, 1899. (b) Henry Rutgers, b. Sept. 18. 1829; m. Dec. 27,
1855. Elizabeth Van Courtlandt Rutgers, b. July 29, 1S31 ; d. Sept.
16. 1888. He is a physician. Res. New Brunswick, N. J. Ch. :
i. Cornelia Rutgers, b. Nov. 27, 1856. ii. Abraham Van Nest,
b. Nov. 16, 1858; m. Oct. 16, 1895, Mary I. B. Kirkpatrick; he
d. Feb. 14. 1897. iii. Margaret Bayard, b. Nov. 29, i860, iv.
Henry Rutgers, b. Feb. i, 1863. v. George Van Nest, b. Oct. 12,
1864. vi. Elizabeth Rutgers, b. Dec. 10, 1866. vii. Charles Rut-
gers, b. Nov. 18, 1868; d. March 12, 1875. viii. Gerard Van Court-
landt, b. Sept. 29. 1871; d. March 5, 1875. (c) Margaret Van
Nest. b. Aug. II, 1831. (d) John Van Nest. b. April 17. 1834; d.
Aug. 26. 1874. (e) Alfred Jotham, b. March 31. 1836; d. Nov.
22. 1866. (f) George Van Nest. b. Jan. 23, 1838. Theodore E.'s
daughter, Minnie Colvocoresses' husband, Lieut. Geo. P. Colvo-
coresses is in the United States Navy. Phoebe m., 2d, Rev. Eli
Baldwin.
2. George, b. Dec. 20, 1802; d. Sept. 7, 1S19.
3. Catherine, b. Jan. 9, 1805; d. Dec. 19, 1807.
4. Mary Jane, b. April 19, 1807; d. May 12, 1884; m. Rev.
Gustavus Abeel, D. D.
5. Catherine, b. May i, 1809; d. Dec. 10, 1873; unm.
6. Ann, b. Aug. 20, 1811 ; still living, aged eighty-eight ; m. John
Schermerhorn Bussing. Ann Van Nest, daughter of Margaret
Field and Abraham Van Nest, was born Aug. 20, 181 1, in New
York, where she has resided for over eighty-eight years. Aug. 20.
390 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1833, she was married in the old homestead, in Greenwich Village,
to John Schermerhorn Bussing, who was born in New York, Oct
15, 1802. and there resided until his death, June 9, 1864. He was
one of the pioneer wholesale drygoods merchants of the city, of the
well known firm of E. & J. Bussing, which remained unchanged
daring a period of twenty-six years. Later, Mr. Bussing became
the head of the firm of John S. Bussing & Co., iron and nail
merchants. He was one of the original incorporators of the New
York Life Insurance Co., and president of the Northern Dis-
pensary. It was a great pleasure to Mr. Bussing to be identified
with benevolent and church work. A man full ot spirit and
energy, he was always ready when duty called. John S. Bussing,
son of Ann Van Nest and John Schermerhorn Bussing, and
grandson of Margaret Field and Abraham Van Nest, was born m
New York, Sept. 21, 1838. He married in 1873, Katherine, daugh-
ter of James Breath, ot New York, and m , 2d, in 1882, Emily
Norton, daughter of Henry T. Jenkins, of New York. For thirty-
three years he was engaged in the banking and brokerage busi-
ness, under the firm name of Gelston & Bussing, and retired from
active business in 1898, although retaining his membership in the
New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Bussing has always been
actively identified with Christian work, filling various positions
of trust and honor. He holds the office of treasurer of the Board
of Domestic Missions of the Reformed church, and is treasurer
of the board of trustees of the International Committee of the
Young Men's Christian Association. For several years he has
been on the advisory boards of both the Young Men's Christian
Association and the Young Women's Christian Association, also
secretary of the Hospital Satuiday and Sunday Association. He
is a member of one of the standing committees of the Theological
Seminary of the Reformed church, at New Brunswick, N. J. For
many years he has held the position of Elder in the Collegiate
church of New York, and is a member of its consistory. In 1863,
Mr. Bussing went with his regiment to the seat of war, and for
several years held a commission as first lieutenant in the Twenty-
second regiment of the National Guard of the state of New York.
He is one of the Sons ot the Revolution, being eligible, because
of the service in the Revolutionary war of his great-grandfather,
John B. Field. Mr. Bussing is also a member of the St. Nicholas
Society, which is exclusively composed of old Knickerbockers.
Among other grandsons of Margaret Field and Abraham Van
Nest, may be mentioned: Henry Rutgers Baldwin, M. D., a
prominent and greatly beloved physician of New Brunswick,
N. J. He is one of the trustees of Rutgers College, and president
of the board of health. George Van Nest Baldwin (brother of
the above), a lawyer of New York, and president of the New York
Society Library. Frank Roe Van Nest, of Newark, N. J., treas-
urer of the board of directors of the general synod of the Re-
formed church in America. Gustavus Nelson Abeel was a well-
known lawyer of Newark, N. J., and during the Civil war held
rank of colonel. John Schermerhorn Bussing died, and she
resides at 4 East 12th St., New York City. Ch. : (a) Abraham
MARGARET FIELD.
(Wife of Abraham Van Nest, Esq.)
See page 390.
ABRAHAM VAN NEST, ESQ.
See page 390.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 391
Van Nest Bussing died in infancy, (b) John S. Bussing ; m. Kate
Breath, Ch. : i. Kate. ii. Anna. Both d. in infancy. M., 2d,
Emily Morton Jenkins. Res. 26 East loth St., New York City,
(c) Mary Bussing; unm. Res, 4 East 12th St., New York
City,
7. John, b. Sept. 21, 1813; d. 1893; m. Elizabeth Janeway.
8. Abraham, b. May 9, 1816; d. Oct, 7, 1841,
9 Margaret Johanna, b, July 26, 1818; d. May 5, 1844; m.
William T. Wallis,
10. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Dec, 16, 1820; d. April 9, 1829,
11. William M., b. Aug. 14, 1823; d, Jan. 19, 1826.
THE RESIDENCE OF ABRAHAM VAN NEST, ESQ. — THE OLD WARREN MANSION.
The old Warren Mansion, the most ancient and the most not-
able landmark in Greenwich Village, stood in the center of the
block, now bounded by Bleecker, Fourth, Charles and Perry
streets. It was built in 1740 by Sir Peter Warren, vice-admiral
in the Royal navy, and at that time in command of the British
fleet in this port, who made it his summer home in distinction
from his town house on the Bowling Green. In 1748, when the
smallpox was raging in the city, the colonial assembly accepted
Sir Peter's tender of his country seat, and adjourned thither to
escape the plague by being in the country. The admiral married
a daughter of Stephen Delancey, of New York, but subsequently
returned to England, where he died in 1752. He was buried in
Westminster Abbey. He left three daughters, one of whom,
Charlotte, married the Earl of Abingdon. Upon the division of
the estate, she inherited the homestead with fifty-five acres of
land round about it. Later, this property passed into the posses-
sion of Abijah Hammond, who subdivided it into blocks and lots.
The block in question, with the mansion house, was sold in 1802
to Whitehead Fish, who resided there until his death. In 1819,
his executors sold it to Abraham Van Nest. Notwithstanding
the surging waves of aggressive progress which gradually blended
the city with the rural districts and absorbed them, Mr. Van Nest
made this beautiful spot his home — at first as a summer retreat,
later his permanent residence — tor nearly fifty years, preserving
every feature of its antiquity intact, in the midst of a densely
populated district of the city.
"ECHOES OF THE GLAD OLD TIME."
Mrs. Ann Van Nest Bussing, wife of the late John S. Bussing
(now in her eighty-ninth year), recalls* her childish pleasure
when, in the eighth year of her age, her father purchased the
"Warren House" at Greenwich Village — then two miles beyond
the city limit — and the subsequent yearly removals from the city
home in William street, where the Corn Exchange bank now
stands, to the charming new country seat. New York seemed
far removed, and the drive to and fro a long and tiresome onci
each point on the journey — Chambers street, St. John's Park and
the old English Burying ground — being noted in passing, as
*This sketch was prepared by her daughter, Mary Bussing.
392 FIELD GENEALOGY.
bringing one so much nearer home. The Knickerbocker line of
stages — Kip and Brown's — ran every hour to and from the village
to the city, those desiring to take the trip giving notice at the
office, that the stage might call for the passengers. So lonely and
dark was the road at night, that when Mr. Van Nest was detained
later than usual at church meetings, his wife anxiously awaited
the arrival of the carriage, fearing lest harm might have over-
taken him by the way.
Originally the place extended to the Hudson river, and a
double row of century-old buttonwoods formed an avenue all the
way down the gentle slope to the water's edge. The house at
that time was approached from ttie west by a circular driveway
which made an extensive sweep around the lawn. This beautiful
curve always remained defined, even when grass-grown.
The house stood in a perfect forest of grand old trees, horse
chestnuts, willows, poplars, sycamores and locusts forming in
some places an impenetrable shade. Besides these, were peach,
apricot, and cherry trees, always laden in their season with deli-
cious fruit, while a pear tree, standing guard at one corner of the
house could almost thrust its giant branches into the upper win-
dows.
The long garden extending the entire width of the block, was
in summer days a veritable fairyland of flowers, where holly-
hocks and coxcombs, sweet-william and bleeding-hearts, ragged-
sailors and maid-in-the-mist, bachelor-buttons and wallflowers,
"old-man" and mignonette, lilies, clove pinks, phlox, poppies,
larkspurs, strawberry shrub and all the other dear old-fashioned
favorites grew in profusion in their fancifully shaped, box-bor-
dered beds. During the month of June, the garden was literally
pink with roses.
In the spring, when the grass was studded with golden dande-
lions, and hedges of hawthorn, syringas, and purple and white
lilacs were in bloom, and snowballs nodded over the old stone
sphinx heads at the garden gate, while just below them, the lilies-
of-the-valley shook perfume from hundreds of tiny bells, and
violets and snowdrops peeped out on every hand, it was all so
beautiful, that the remark of a former resident, upon revisiting
the spot, did not seem extravagant, that "when she left, she felt
like Eve leaving Paradise."
Nor must the vegetable garden be overlooked. Lying in
another corner of the square, it possessed a beauty all its own —
corn stalks with silken plumes, bean poles with their merry climb-
ers, luscious melons ripening on the ground beneath, asparagus
beds, currant, gooseberry, and raspberry bushes growing luxuri-
antly, even when brick and mortar walls finally overtook lovely
"Greenwich," and closed in around this beautiful two-and-a-half
acre block which held such a rare gem of genuine country life in
its most refined phase.
In later years the carriage road ran through from street to
street ; at one side stood the stable and carnage house, and the
old red cow could often be seen grazing in quiet content on the
grassy slopes of the lawn. The ground on which the house stood
ANN VAN NEST
(Wife of John S. Bussing.)
JOHN S. BUSSING, JR.
]H44.
See page 390.
y-^1
CLOCK IN VAN NEST RESIDENCE.
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descended so rapidly, that while the steps ot the front veranda
were five in number, those in the rear numbered fourteen. This
natural hill afforded in winter days a grand coasting place for the
children of the family. These undulations, grassy banks and
terraces — in one of which the ice-house was hidden — increased
the rural aspect and added greatly to the general picturesqueness.
A wide hall extended through the house, and from the first land-
ing of the broad, old-fashioned staircase a tall "ancient time
piece" ticked its continuous song. Many changes did the old
clock note as it kept watch "from its station in the hall."
"There groups of merry children played,
There youths and maidens dreaming strayed;
From that chamber, clothed in white.
The bride came forth on her wedding night;
There in that silent room below.
The dead lay in his shroud of snow."
The heavy pendulum in its stately, steady march through nearly
fifty years, swung frequently between sounds of sorrow and of
joy. Four times did the wedding bells ring, when one daughter
after another received the marriage blessing in the spacious but
home-like parlor, while the family portraits* which lined the
walls looked calmly down upon the succeeding festivities.
More often did sorrow overshadow the happy home ; for not
only did infancy, childhood, youth and manhood again and again
fall at the touch of the Reaper, but also the dearly loved and
honored mother — the "beautiful" Godmother — who from that
quiet "room below" passed peacefully into the Paradise of God.
The gatherings at Christmas-tide, when the entire family,
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren — in later years
numbering about fifty — rallied at the old homestead to cluster
around the beloved patriarch and exchange "Merry Christmas"
greetings, are now remembered as "story-book times," as "fairy
tales," or "beautiful dreams of long ago."
Dearly did the little children love to stand by "Grandpa's"
side, and feed the pigeons from the "Study" window, when in
response to his gentle call of "coo-coo," there would be a sudden
fluttering in the dove-cots, and like a cloud of grey and white,
the birds would alight on ihe gfrass by scores to receive the hand-
fuls of corn which were showered upon them. In this same room,
the sanctum sanctorum, were initiated many plans for the pro-
motion of the welfare of the Reformed Dutch church, whose
interests were so dear to the heart of Mr. Van Nest.
"In that mansion used to be
Free-hearted hospitality;
His great fires up the chimney roared.
The stranger feasted at his board."
Especially were the doors thrown open to the clergy, who were
welcome and frequent guests. On the ground floor was an inter-
esting relic of olden times — the double Dutch door, which opened
gardenward; and often might be seen leaning upon it the old
colored Aunty who during Mr. Van Nest's childhood had lived
*Three of the portraits are here reproduced by permission.
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394 FIELD GENEALOGY.
as a slave in his father's tamily, after serving nearly forty years
in his own, and whose descendants remained with him to the end
of his life.
The cellar, with its stone floor, and hanging shelves laden with
shining pans of milk and cream, its churn producing the delicious
home-made butter, and the intensely cold and icy vault below,
all became in time curiosities, as the city drew near, invaded,
and finally captured the little village of Greenwich, and then
passed rapidly on to lay its vigorous and prosaic hand on other
suburban districts further up town.
Notwithstanding these encroachments, Mr. Van Nest "pursued
the even tenor of his way," and retained this beautiful spot as
his home — a refreshing oasis in the city of New York — until his
death in 1864, in the eighty-eight year of his age.
Shortly afterward it was sold, the trees felled, the house
demolished, and the whole place, so filled with sacred associa-
tions, swept out of sight; but never will it cease to exert its
magic spell over the minds and hearts of those members of the
family circle who were old enough to remember the happy, happy
days at "Grandpa's house at Greenwich."
"Long, long be my heart with such memories filled.
Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled;
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."
924. HENDRICK FIELD (Richard, Jeremiah, John. Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., Sept. 4, 1751; m. Oct.
12, 1774, in North Branch, N. J., Hannah Lane, b. Jan. 11, 1752; d. Feb. 19, 1835.
He was in the Revolutionary war. He was born and resided in Bound Brook until
after his marriage, when he moved to Lamington, N. J. He was granted a pension
for Revolutionary war services in 1818. He d. Sept. 5, 1844. Res. Lamington,
N. J., and Bedminster, Somerset county, N. J.
RICHARD H., b. Sept. 16, 1S63; m. Sarah Van Dervoort.
ELIZABETH, b. .
JANE. b. .
HANNAH, b. .
ANN, b. .
SARAH, b. .
WILLIAM, b. April 9, 1791; m. Catherine Manning and Sarah F.
Van Deventer.
1900. viii. MICHAEL, b. ; m. Mary Lowe. All dead. William C.
Craig, New Germantown, N. J. ; J. D. Van Deveer, North
Branch, N. J.; Mrs. Henry Van Keys, Millstone, N. J., are de-
scendants of the sisters.
925. JEREMIAH FIELD (Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert, Wil-
liam, William, John, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., Nov. 7, 1753; m. Jan.
10, 1779, Jane Tenerick, or Ten Eyck, dau. of Capt. Jacob Tenerick, who was an
officer in the Revolutionary war ; she was b. Feb. 4, 1761; d. Jan. 17, 1847; he was in
the Revolutionary war. This family moved from Bound Brook to the neighborhood
of North Branch and Lamington church, adjoining the farm of Hendrick Field.
The "old place" of Richard's became the property of his son Jeremiah. Richard
I. moved to the next farm, north of the original "old place," and acquired it by
1893.
1894.
11.
1895.
Ill
1896.
IV.
1897.
v.
1898.
VI
l8qQ.
VI
FIELD GENEALOGY. 395
IQ03.
111.
1 004.
IV.
1905.
V.
1906.
VI.
1507.
vn,
deed of gift from his uncle Richard. Jacob Tenerick became a minister. Descend-
ants of this family scattered through the country, some occupying responsible
positions, as ministers of the gospel, physicians, merchants, etc., all so far as is
known, acting the part of good citizens and useful members of society. He d.
June 20, 1832; res. Lamington, N. J.
1901. i. MARGARET, b. June 12, 1782; m. Aug. 26, 1801, James Hag-
aman.
1902. ii. ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 10, 1783; m. March 3, 1808, Benjamin
McDowell. Elizabeth's husband, Benjamin McDowell, was
brother of the Rev. Drs. John and William McDowell, distin-
guished divines, preaching many years at Elizabethtown, N. J. ,
and in Philadelphia.
RICHARD I., b. Sept. 12, 1785; m. Mary Kline.
JACOB TENERICK, b. Oct. 31, 1787; m. Rachel De Puy.
MICHAEL T., b. Oct. 4, 1789; m. Frances Traphagen.
JEREMIAH, b. Feb. 2, 1792; m. Martha Longstreet.
MARY, b. March 19. 1795; m. Jan. 14, 1815, Samuel Miller, b.
Aug. 30, 1791; d. April 5, 1872; shed. March 11, 1883. Ch. : i.
Margaret Jerett Miller, b. Oct. 3, 1835; m. G. C. Angle, July 6,
1859; d. Oct. 12, 1867; a child is Mrs. Martha L. Anthony, Ells-
worth street, Denver, Col. 2. Jane Maria Miller, b. Nov. 7, 1815;
m. Peter Melick, April 17, 1837; d. Aug. 3. 1861; a child is Mrs.
Mary J. Harriman; res. Davey, Neb. 3. Elizabeth Ann Miller,
b. July 3, 1825; m. Feb. i, 1844, Charles Estell Dickerson, b. Feb.
I, 1 8 19; d. Sept. 13, 1896; was a merchant tailor; res. New
Germantown, N. J. ; was postmaster for forty years. Ch. :
(a) William Miller Dickerson, b. Nov. 26, 1844; d. May 21,
1863. (b) Samuel Franklin Dickerson, b. April 29, 1850; d. Sept.
18, 1850. (c) Chas. E. Dickerson, Jr., b. Sept. 17, 1865; m. Aug.
14, 1895; address. Mount Hermon, Mass.
1908. viii. JANE, b. Nov. 22, 1798; m. Jan. 6, 1819, Capt. Cornelius Lane.
Mr. Lane soon died, leaving one son, Cornelius, who studied for,
and entered the, ministry, and is now a professor in one of the
institutions in Pennsylvania.
926. RICHARD FIELD (Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert, William,
William. John, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., Dec. 5, 1755; m. Dinah Ver-
mule; d. Feb. 10, 1825 ; he was in the Revolutionary war. By will he left five hun-
dred dollars to the Presbyterian church at Bound Brook; the gift of his farm to his
nephew, Richard I. Field ; the rest of his property to his near relatives. He was
granted a pension July 6, 1833, then being in his seventy-eighth year, for service in
the New Jersey militia in the Revolutionary war. He d. July 18, 1840; res. Bound
Brook, N. J., s. p.
929. ELDER DENNIS FIELD (Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., May 12, 1761; m.
Feb. 18, 1796, Mary Boice; m., 2d, Cynthia French, b. May 28, 1772; d. April 27,
1859; he was in the Revolutionary war. Dennis remained at home with his father,
Richard Field, Sr., at the old homestead; was at the time ot his death, 1848, and had
tor many years been an elder in the Presbyterian church at Bound Brook. Dennis
served a term on board a gunboat guarding the harbors of Amboy. Others were
Minutemen. good and true, largely instrumental in securing to this land the liberties
we now enjoy. The generations lived in honest belief of the teachings of the Bible,
396 FIELD GENEALOGY.
strongly Presbyterian in their denominational leanings, contributed much, in a
peculiar way, as in personal effort, for the maintenance of public morals and relig-
ion. The liberty of worshiping God according to their own convictions of truth
was in fact, as has been hinted, the great incentive in emigrating from England to
this country at first ; they desired a more perfect liberty, civil and religious ; to
secure this they did not hesitate to subject themselves to all the anxieties and dis-
comforts of emigrating to this, then new and wild wilderness, three thousand miles
away. The ruling characteristics of this branch of the family, and perhaps their
greatest usefulness to the world, has been their example of earnestness in the com-
mon pursuits of life. Dennis was granted a pension in 1833 tor Revolutionary war
service. See record of Revolutionary pensioners. He d. April 21, 1848; res. Pisca-
taway, Middlesex county, N. J.
1909. i. DENNIS, b. .
1910. ii. JOHN D., b. 1804; m. .
931. REV. HENRY FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas*), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire, Eng-
land, April 16, 1733; m. April iS, 1759, M. Pearson. He d. Jan. 5, 1821; res. Bland-
ford, England.
1911. i. SARAH, b. June 9, 1768; d. July 16, 1817.
1912. ii. SUSANNAH, b. Sept. 7, 1769; m. W. Fisher.
1913. iii. HANNAH, b. June 12, 1771; d. Oct. 29, 1785.
932. ISAAC FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John,
Richard, William, William, Thomas*), b. Cockernhoe, Hertfordshire, England,
April 18, 1735; m. Dec. i, 1765, E. Rudd. He d. Dec. 20, 1800; res. Mangrove,
ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 8, 1771; m. J. Butler.
MARY, b. June i, 1772; m. Field; she d. June 9, 1841.
JOHN, b. Dec. 18, 1774; m. Mumford.
OTHER children.
934. DR. HENRY FIELD (John, John, Thomas, Henry. John. John, John,
Richard, William, William, Thomas*), b. Sept. 29, 1755, London, England; m.
Sept. 2, 17S4, Esther Barrow, dau. of John, b. Oct. 22, 1764; d. Jan. 16, 1834.
Henry, an apothecary, rose to high esteem among the brethren of his profession,
as testified by the offices which from time to time he filled. In 1807 he was elected
apothecary to Christ's Hospital. He was also lecturer and treasurer to the Society
of Apothecaries, one of the Board of Health in 1831 for prevention of cholera, the
city of London presenting him with a silver center for his table. He was also for
many years treasurer of the London Annuity Society for the benefit of widows of
apothecaries, in Chatham Place, Blackfriars, which his father had founded.
Among his writings may be mentioned "Memoirs of the Botanick Garden"at Chel-
sea. He maintained his powers till his eighty-third year, when he died at Wood-
ford, Essex, Dec. 19, 1837, and was buried at Cheshunt. His portrait was painted
for the Apothecaries by R. Pickeragill, and for the Annuity Society by Samuel
Lane, and an engraving from the latter was so skilfully executed by Charles Turner
that the family regard it as a better likeness than the original painting. Mr. Field
married on Sept. 2, 1784, Esther, daughter of E. Barron, Esq., of Woolacre House,
near Deptford, and by her, who died Jan. 16, 1834, left six sons and two daughters.
Res. London, England.
1918. i. HENRY CROMWELL, b. June 27, 17S5; m. Anne Gwinnel.
England.
1914.
1915.
11.
1916.
ill.
1917.
IV.
♦Names of other ancestors dropped for convenience.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 397
1919. ii. BARRON, b. Oct. 23, 17S6; m. Carncroft; d., s. p., April 11,
1846.
1920. iii. FRANCIS JOHN, b. March 22, 1790; m. Anne Barron,
1921. iv. ESTHER, b. Oct. 19, 1792; res. near her brother, Frederick Field,
the rector of Reepham, in Norfolk, and d. 1871.
1922. V. EDMUND, b. July 7, 1799; a Russian merchant of the firm of
Brandt & Co. ; retired to Hastings, where he became active in
works of benevolence and is pictorial studies; he d. in 1880.
1923. vi. FREDERICK. D.D., b. m London, July 20, 1801; res. Reepham,
England, and d. April ig, 18S5. He was proud of being a direct
descendant of Oliver Cromwell ; his grandfather, John Field,
who was also an apothecary, having married Anne Cromwell, a
great-granddaughter of Henry Cromwell, the lord deputy of Ire-
land. His father was medical oflBcer to Christ's Hospital, to
which he was sent when he was onlj' six years old as a private
pupil of the headmaster. Here he remained till 1819, and then
went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1823 he was tenth
wrangler, chancellor's classical and medalist, and Tyrwhitt's
Hebrew scholar, and in 1824 he was elected fellow of his college,
in company with T. B. Macaulay, Henry Maiden and G. B. Airy.
Owing probably to some degree of deafness which began early in
life and which in his later years became so aggravated as to
make him avoid all society, he took no part in the public tuition
of his college, though he was examiner for the classical tripos in
1833 and 1837. He read with private pupils, among whom was
F. D. Maurice, and having been ordained by Kaye, bishop of
London, in 1828, he thenceforth devoted himself almost entirely
to biblical and patristical studies. His name is inseparably con-
nected with Chrysostom's homilies on St. Matthew, which were
printed and published at Cambridge, in 1839, ^^ three volumes,
with an improved Greek text, various readings and explanatory
notes. He shortly after ceased to reside in Cambridge, and for
the next twenty-four years combined parochial work with his lit-
erary labors. For three years he had charge of the small parish
of Great Saxham in Suffolk, and in 1842 he was presented by his
college to the rectory of Reepham in Norfolk, with a population
of five or SIX hundred, and with an income of 700 or 800 pounds
per annum. Here he lived an honored and useful life for
twenty-one years, dividing his time between his pastoral duties,
latterly with the assistance of a curate, and various theological
works. He was of simple, inexpensive habits, and unmarried;
and during his incumbency he enlarged and improved the chan-
cel of his church, and built a school, which was maintained
chiefly at his expense besides leaving behind him other memorials
of his interest in his parish. His chief literary work while he was
at Reepham was his edition of Chrysostom's "Homilies on St.
Paul's Epistles," executed on the same plan as the "Homilies on
St. Matthew," and published in seven volumes, between 1849 ^°d
1862, in the Oxford "Library of the Fathers." He next undertook
a new edition of the fragments of Origen's "Hexapla." As he
was well aware that this design would require the whole of his
time and attention for many years, he resigned his living in 1863,
398 FIELD GENEALOGY.
and removed to Norwich, where he continued to reside until his
death. His wish was to utilize and embody on Montfaucon's edi-
tion the large mass of materials that had been brought to light
since its publication in 1713; especially those derived from the
Oxford edition of the Septuagint by Holmes and Parsons 1798-
1827, and those from the Syro-hexaplar version, which had been
partly published in fragments by various foreign scholars. These
two chief sources of improvement had, as he himself expressly
states, been sagaciously pointed out by J. G. Eichhorn in his
"Introduction to the Old Testament." Accordingly, in August.
1864, he printed for private circulation a thin 4to pamphlet, entit-
led "Otium Norvicense," containing specimens of the kind and
amount of assistance to be expected from the Syro-hexaplar ver-
sion; and he also issued "Proposals" for publishing the work by
subscription, in five parts, price 12s. each, with the promise of
sending the work to press as soon as two hundred copies were
subscribed for. The number of subscribers, however, did not by
the end of the following year amount to much more than one-half
of what was required, and the whole scheme would probably
have been abandoned if Dr. Robert Scott, the Greek lexicogra-
pher, had not induced the delegates of the Oxford Clarendon
Press, of which he was one, to take upon themselves the cost of
the publication. It was accordingly issued in parts, and finished
in 1874, in two large, handsome 4to volumes, with loi pages of
"Prolegomena" full of information respecting the various ver-
sions and other critical matter, and 76 pages of auctarium and
indices. The work, if not remunerative to the delegates in point
of money, added much to their reputation for iudicious liberality;
for it was at once recognized as one of the most important coniri-
butions to patristic theology that had anywhere appeared for
more than a century. He was immediately made an LL.D. of
Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of his college; the degree of
D.C.L. was offered him by the University of Oxford, but de-
clined, because on account of his age and deafness he shrank
from the necessary formality of a personal attendance. He had
been appointed in 1870 an original member of the Old Testament
revision company. His age and his deafness prevented his at-
tending any of their meetings, but he constantly sent written
notes and suggestions, and in this way was one of their most
useful colleagues. He lived to see the work practically finished,
but died April 19, 1885, a few weeks before it was pul:)lished. At
the end of the preface to his "Origen" he give a shot i account of
his life and labors, written with dignified simplicity, and without
any word of complaint at having been passed over in the distri-
bution of ecclesiastical honors. He speaks of himself as holding
firmly the catholic faith as set forth by the Reformed chu.ch of
England; as having avoided the errors both of (so-called) Evan-
gelicals, and of Rationalists, and (which is the last ulcer) of Rit-
ualists and Romanizers (Papazantium); and of having devoted
his life to study without patronage, gain or honor; and as ready,
above all things, in his old age to assist younger students. In his
own line of learning he was certainly not surpassed by any scholar
FIELD GENEALOGY. 399
of his age; and it was by a happy phrase that the bishop of Lin-
coln. Christopher Wordsworth, designated him as "the Jerome of
the Anglican church." The unusual combination of Greek with
Oriental scholarship made his opinion specially valuable. It is
only due to his memory to state that "his estimate of the claims
of the revised version (of the New Testament) as aiming to take
the place of the authorized version was decidedly unfavorable;"
his objections being grounded partly on the great number of
needless verbal alterations, and partly on the reconstruction of
the Greek text by too exclusively relying on the "ancient author-
ities," without sufficiently taking into consideration in each case
"the internal evidence of the good sense and propriety of the
passage itself." On this subject he printed for private circulation
(1881) "A Letter to the Rev. Philip Schaff, D.D., president of the
American Committee on Revision." Field collected a very valu-
able library of books connected with biblical, classical and gen-
eral literature, which was sold by auction at Norwich for a very
inadequate sum. It is believed that he left behind him no manu-
scripts of importance. A brass tablet to his memory was put up
by his only surrviving sister in Reepham church, and another in
the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Latin inscription
on the latter was written by the master. Dr. William H. Thomp-
son.
Field's other works, printed at his own expense, but not pub-
lished, were a volume of thirty-two sermons, 1878; a second part
of the "Otium Norvicense," 1876, containing critical observations
on some of the words in Dr. Payne Smith's "Thesaurus Syria-
cus." and a third part, 1881, containing "Notes on Select Passages
of the Greek Testament, Chiefly with Reference to Recent Eng-
lish Versions." All of these are favorable specimens of his
learning and critical acumen, even if they are not all equally con-
vincing; but one deserves especial notice. He claims to have
been the first person to revive, in 1839, the ancient explanation
of the true reading in St. Mark's gospel, vii, 19, whicn, after re-
maining almost unnoticed for about forty years, was adopted
without even any marginal variation in the revised version of
1881. This third part of the "Otium Norvicense" is about to be
published shortly at the Oxford Clarendon Press. He edited for
the Christian Knowledge Society Barrow's "Treatise on the
Pope's Supremacy," 1851; a Greek Psalter, 1S57; and the Sep-
tuagint, 1879, not a critical edition, nor on his own plan, but a
revision of Grabe's text, with the order of the books changed in
accordance with the English Bible, and with the apocryphal
books separated from the canonical.
1924. vii. HARRIOT, b. March 5, 1803; emigrated to America, where he
was drowned; his taste was for music, but he also produced
three poems, entitled "Job." "Ecclesiastes," and "The Story of
Esther."
1925. viii. MARIA LETITIA, b. April 4, 1805 she long constituted one of
the Field colony at Hastings; she d. December, 1897.
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935. OLIVER FIELD (John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Rich-
ard, William, William, Thomas*), b. Dec. 6, 1761, England. He left Worcester
for America in 1799, and d. at New York, April 10, 1835. His wife was Elizabeth
T., dau. of Thomas Gittings, of Shropshire, whom he m. March 10, 1787. Their
family when they left England were very young; of these Oliver d. in childhood.
Of the survivors, John, Joseph and Thomas, two of them and the mother paid a
visit to England many years ago, but are now together with their sisters, believed
to have all married in America.
1926. i. JOHN, b. Nov. 2, 1794; m. S. M. Knows.
936- JOHN FIELD (John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John, Richard,
William, William, Thomas*), b. Oct. i, 1764. in London, England; commenced
business as a Russia merchant, but discovered before long a remarkable aptitude
for astronomy and the construction of scientific apparatus. These qualities, com-
bined as they were with a character for high integrity, becoming known to the
government, his services were secured for the Royal Mint, where he held the oflBce
of umpire between the several departments on the precious metals passing between
the officers and the Bank of England. Among his mechanical inventions, some of
which were adopted in America and France, may be mentioned a counting
machine and an improved system of assay beans and weights. He died June 22,
1843, at his residence, Bayswater Hill, Middlesex, in his 79th year. His portrait,
reminding one of Pascal, is in the possession of his son Henry. He married Mary,
only child of Charles Pryer, Esq., of Tichfield, Hants, and by her, who died 1859,
had eight children.
HENRY, d. young of typhus.
CHARLES, d. young of typhus.
FREDERICK, d. young of typhus.
HENRY WILLIAM., b. March 23, 1803; m. Anna Mills.
EMMA KATHERNE, b. 1809; lived with her widowed mother at
Notting Hill, and after her mother's decease removed to Barnes.
1932. vi. CHARLES FREDERICK, b. 1813; held office in the Admiralty;
m. in 1868, Flora Helen, dau. of Chas. A. Elderton, of the
Bengal Medical Staff. Ch. : i. Charles J. Elderton, b. 1869.
2, Flora Georgianna, b. 1870. 3. Oliver Cromwell, b. 1871.
4. Katherine Mary Ida, b. 1875.
1933. vii. OLIVER CROMWELL, b. 1815; a commander in the Royal
Navy, having much in common with his renowned ancestor , a
man of energy, humanity and prompt action, shown on various
occasions in the rescuing of wrecked crews during his several
voyages to and from India; his wife d. in 1884.
1934. viii. SAMUEL PRYOR, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, vicar
of Sawbridgeworth ; b. Oct. 18, 1816; m. , ]ane Elizabeth Pierson.
937. REV. WILLIAM FIELD (John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas*), b. Stoke Newington, Jan. 10, 1768;
m. 1803, Mary Wilkins, dau. of Rev. William Wilkins and Elizabeth (North), b.
; d. Oct. 21, 1848. John Field, his father, a London medical practitioner, and
founder of the London Annuity Society, was a man of property, who married Anne,
daughter of Thomas Cromwell, and sister of Oliver Cromwell (1742 ?-i82i).
Field got a good classical training ; while at school he corresponded with his
father in Latin. He studied for the ministry first at Homerton, but left that insti-
tution for doctrinal reasons soon after the appointment of John Fell (1735-1797). In
•Names of other ancestors dropped for convenience.
1927.
1928.
ii.
1929.
Ill,
1930.
IV.
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17S8 he entered Daventry Academy tinder Thomas Belsham, and left when
Belsham resigned (June, 1789). Field succeeded James Kettle in 1789 as minister
of the Presbyterian congregation at Warwick, where he was ordained on July 12,
1790. On this occasion Belsham gave the charge, and Priestley preached. Dr,
Parr, who then first met Priestley, attended their service and the ordmation dinner.
Thus began Field's close intimacy with Parr, a connection fostered by their com-
mon devotion to classical studies. Field at once (1791) started a Sunday-school (the
first in Warwick). This led him into a squabble with some local clergy. Field,
who was always ready for a pamphlet war, issued the first of many productions of
his incisive pen, in which the dignity of style, and the profusion of literary and
classical illustration contrast curiously with the pettiness of the disputes. His
meeting-house, rebuilt in 1780, was fitted with a sloping floor, to improve the audi-
torium ; Field excited some comment by surmounting the front of the building with
a stone cross. About 1830 he undertook the charge of an old Presbyterian meeting-
house at Kenilworth, conducting afternoon service in addition to his Warwick
duties. This meeting-house was rebuilt in 1846 by his son Edwin Wilkins Field.
Field remained in active duty for nearly sixty years. He resigned Warwick
in 1843, and was succeeded in 1844 by Henry Ashton Meeson, M. D. At Kenil-
worth he was succeeded in 1850 by John Gordon. Field kept a boarding-school at
Learn, near Warwick. This led to his publishing some educational manuals, of
which the most valuable was his "Questions on the Gospel History," recommended
in the "Critical Review," June, 1794, to theological students in the two universities.
His history of Warwick and his life of Parr are important works. He died at Leam,
on Aug. 16, 1821 ; a marble slab to his memory was placed in High Street Chapel,
Warwick, by his wife, Mary (Wilkins), who died at Liverpool on Oct. 2, 1848, aged
sixty-four. He had a numerous family, of whom Edwin Wilkins was the eldest;
Horace was an architect. Field was of diminutive stature, with a noble head; his
portrait has been engraved. He never forgot the distinction of his Cromwell blood;
his extensive correspondence was both erudite and racy ; he was a genial host, and
his conversation, m spite of his constitutional deafness, was very enjoyable. Field
published a multitude of pamphlets and sermons, from his (i) "Letter to the Inhab-
itants of Warwick," etc., 1791, 8vo; to his (2) "Letter to the Inhabitants of Kenil-
worth," etc., 184S, lamo. In addition to these his chief publications were: (3) "A
Series ot Questions as a Guide to the Critical Study of the Four Gospels," etc., 1794,
i2mo; second edition printed 1805; copies were issued from time to time for pri-
vate use (with various title-pages), but it was not published till 1846, i2mo, with
large introduction. (4) "An Historical and Descriptive Account of Warwick and
Leamington," etc., Warwick, 1815, 8vo. (anon., "advertisement" signed W. F. ;
plates). (5) "Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.," 1828, 2 vols., 8vo. Field
was a frequent contributor of critical and other articles to the "Monthly Reposi-
tory" and "Christian Reformer." He d. Aug. 17, 1851. Res. Leamington, England.
1935. i. EDWIN WILKINS, b. Oct. 12, 1804; m. Mary Sharpe and Letitia
Kindner.
1936. ii. ARTHUR, b. June 10, 1806; d. unm. about 1844.
1937. iii. JOHN HAMPDEN, b. June 16, 1807; settled and m. in Aijierica,
Eliza Newton.
1938. iv. EMMA, b. 1809; d. 181 6.
1939. v. FERDINAND EMANS, b. June 16, 1810; m. ; a merchant in
Birmingham.
1940. vi. LAURA, b. Aug. 9, 1811; m. Wm. Langmead, of Plymouth, and
d. December, 1879.
1941. vii. ALGERNON SYDNEY, b. Feb. 22, 1813; a solicitor at Leaming-
402 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ton, and clerk of the peace for Warwickshire; m. Sarah Martin,
of Birmingham, and had three sons and two daughters.
1942. viii. ALFRED, b. July 21, 1S14; merchant in New York, where he m.
the dau. of another emigrant, viz., Charlotte Errington, whose
father, a native of Yarmouth, in Suffolk, left England in conse-
quence of failure in business. Miss Errington's mother, named
Notcutt, was descended from an old Puritan family long known
at Epswich, in Suffolk. Alfred Field m., 2d, Margaret Burt.
Ch. : I. Cromwell. 2. Rosa.
1943. ix, CAROLINE, b. Aug. 5, 1816; m. 1841, Reginald A. Parker, solic-
itor, and had seven children; she d. February, 1859.
1944. X. ALICE, b. Dec. 15, 1817; res. 6 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead,
England, N. W.
1945. xi. LUCY, b. Sept. 28, 18 iq; res. 11 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead.
England, N. W.
1946. xii. HORACE, b. March 21, 1823; architect; m. Christina, dau. of
Edward White, of Glasgow, and had two children.
1947. xiii. LEONARD, b. Dec. 8, 1824; barrister at Low London; Leonard
Field's address is 9 Kingsley Mansions, Queens Club Gardens,
London, S. W.
943. JOHN FIELD (Benjamin, Isaac, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. July 6, 1748, in England; m. May 17, 1770, G. Ben-
net; he d. March 16, 1833. Res. England.
1948. i. JOHN, b. May 19, 1771; m. M. Clark.
1949. ii. ISAAC, b. May 15, 1777; m. B. Gray.
1950. iii. JAMES, b, July 5,' 1783; m. M. Seaward.
1951. iv. JOSHUA, b. Nov. 2, 1786; m. M. Evans.
947. WILLIAM FIELD (William, William, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Nov. 16, 1767, Cockernftoe, England; m. Oct.
iQi 1793' M' Payne; he d. Aug. i, 1841. Res. in England.
1952. i. MARY ANN, b. ; d. in Brighton, England, aged 91.
EMILY, b. ; d. in Brighton, England.
CAROLINE, .b ; d. in Brighton, England.
CLARA, b ; d. in Brighton, England, Jan. 7, 1892.
HARDCASTLE PAYNE, b. ; killed in Canton in 1841.
950. EDWARD FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Nov. 2, 1766;
he settled in Killingworth, Conn., where he d. ; he m., ist, June 20, 1796, Abigail
Piatt, of Westbrook, Conn., b. ; d. ; m., 2d, Nancy Bristol, of Madison, b.
Aug. 20, 1775; d. Sept. 28, 1836; res. Killingworth, Conn.
1957. i. ABIGAIL, b. ; m. Samuel Cole, of Cromwell, Conn.
1958. ii. LUCINDA, b. ; m. Samuel Moulton, of Bolton, Conn.
1959. iii. DANFORTH CLARK, b. Sept. 23, 1805; m. Lucretia Griswold.
i960, iv. EDMUND MARVIN, b. May 10, 1808; m. Mary R. Dudley and
Ann Elizabeth Dudley.
952. KIRTLAND FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard. William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Nov. 18, 1774;
he settled in Middletown. Conn., where he d. ; he m. March 14, 1798, Abigail
Brooks, b. Dec. 19, 1775. Res. Middletown, Conn.
1961. i. CLARISSA, b. ; m. Ezra Clark.
1953-
11.
1954.
111.
1955.
IV.
1956.
V.
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1962.
ii.
1963.
111.
1964.
IV.
1965.
V.
1967.
11.
1968.
iii.
1969.
IV.
1970.
V.
I97I.
vi.
1972.
Vll.
1973-
Vlll,
1974.
IX.
ELIZA, b. ; m. Spicer Leonard.
MARY ANN, b. ; m. Yale.
RUBANAH, b. ; d. unra.
JERUSHA, b. ; d. unm.
953. JAMES FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah. Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., May 10, 1776; d.
Dec. 14, 1861; m., Nov. 29, 1795, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Stevens, of Madison,
Conn., b. May 20, 1780; d. April 25, 1846; m., 2d, Widow Lamphear, d. Jan. 10,
i860. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
1966. i. ROXANA, b. May 25, iSco: m. Abraham G. Hill; d. May 10, 1875.
Granddaugher, Mrs. Geo. Bailey, Madison, Conn.
LUCY. b. ; m. Amos S. Hill.'
JAMES FREDERICK, b. ; d. in infancy.
ALMIRA, b. ; m. Alfred Huntley.
LAURA, b. April 10, 1810; m., William Huntley, who was
drowned in the Connecticut River; m., 2d , Alanson Bramble.
FREDERICK, b. 1812; m. Lucy A. Bishop.
SAMUEL, b. 1814; m. Sarah M. Morton.
KIRTLAND, b. 18 16; m. Frances E. Griffiths.
FANNY, b. 1819; d. in infancy.
954. JULIUS FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John. John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Aug. 8, 1778;
he settled in the north part of Madison, where he d. Dec. 15, 1823; he m. 1S03,
Julia, dau. of Bela Buell, b. 1785; d. June 10, 1854. Res. Madison, Conn.
1975. i. ANDREW, b. 1804; d. 1805.
1976. ii. JEMIMA, b. Feb. 21, 1807; m. Nov. i, 1S35, Jeremiah A. Hal!, of
Wallingford, Conn. ; she d. in i860.
1977. iii. JULIA ANN, b. May 2, 1813; ra. Nov. 8, 1835, Col. Jared Willard.
of Madison; she d. Jan. 16. 18S3.
1978. iv. JULIUS B., b. Jan. 30. 1S24; m. Mary Ann Ives.
955. MARTIN FIELD (Samuel. Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Jan. 9, 17S1;
he settled in the north part of Madison, Conn., where he d. July 28, 1859: hem.
Sarah, dau. of Bela Buell, of ; b. 1782; d. Feb. 5. i860; res. Madison, Conn.
1979. i. ZAIDE, b. April, 1809: m. Nov. 4, 1832, Samuel Griffin, of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.
MARTIN L., b. August, 1810; m. Betsy Buell.
MARY ANN, b. 1812; d. Sept. 18, 1837.
TEMPERANCE, b. 1814; d. unm. Feb. 18, 1885.
ANDREW M., b. 1819; m. Elizabeth Sanford.
SARAH O., b. 1824; m.. May, 1843, Lewis H. Collins, of Corinth,
Vt. ; m., 2d, Samuel Dow, of Madison.
957. JOHN FIELD (Daniel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William,) b. Jan. 19, 1766; m. ; res. Litchfield, Conn.
1985. i. DAVID DUDLEY, b. 1791 ; m. Martha Henry.
958. DANIEL FIELD (Daniel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard. William, William), b. in Connecticut about 1770; m. in New
York State, Rhode Salisbury, b. in 1773; d. in Michigan. 1865; he d. in 1847. Res.
Clyde and Le Roy, N. Y.
1986. i. ISAAC NEWTON, b. Oct. 21, 1807; m. Martha F. Wood.
1980.
11.
I98I.
in.
1982.
iv.
1983.
V.
1984.
VI.
404 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1987.
ii.
1988.
iii.
I9S9.
iv.
1990.
V.
1991.
VI.
1992.
vn.
1993-
Vlll,
1994.
IX.
1995.
X.
1998.
111.
1999.
IV.
2000.
V.
2001.
vi.
2002.
Vll.
2003.
viii.
2004.
IX.
LUTHER, b. .
DEXTER, b. .
AMBROSE, b. .
JAMES, b. .
JOHN, b. .
AUSTIN, b. .
BYRON, b. .
CHARLES, b, .
ELIZA, b. .
961. JOHN FIELD (Joareb, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Dec. 6. 1770; d.
Sept. 18, 1819; he m. 1796, Ruth, dau. of James Munger, of Madison, b. Aug. 12,
1778; d. April 9, 1826. Res. Madison, Conn.
1996. i. ADA, b. 1797; m. Nov. 24, 1825, Nathan F. Bassett; d. March
28, 1846.
1997. ii. ROXANA, b. 1799; m. March 8, 1828, William Crittenden, of Mad-
ison; d. May 20, 1S35.
GEORGE, b. 1800; m. Mary Leete.
ELIZABETH, b. 1801; d. Nov. 10, 1820.
RUTH, b. ; m. Martin Munger. of Madison; d. Aprils, 1829.
PAMELIA E., b. 1807; m. Nelson Foster; she d. April 17, 1841.
JOHN, b. 1810; he went to sea in 1830; never heard from; sup-
posed to have been lost ; unm.
BARBARA, b. 1813; unm.
PHILANDER M,, b.'Jan. 16, 1816; m. Eunice L. Leete.
962. JOAREB FIELD (Joareb, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., May 7, 1773; m.
Sept. 5, 1795, Phoebe Wellman, b. 1769, of Killingworth, who d. Jan. 26, 1829; was
a ship carpenter; he d. Nov. 16, 1845. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
2005. i. BETSEY, b. ; m. James Paterson.
2006. ii. SALLY ANN, b. 1812; m. Abram Ten Brk Powell.
2007. iii. HORACE WELLMAN, b, Feb. 22, T805; m. Elizabeth B. Jones.
2008. iv. JOSEPH D., b. Sept. 10, 1808; m. Mrs. Eliza Strieker.
2008^. V. CLARISSA, b. Sept. 22, 1802; m. Horace D. Judson.
2oo8>^. vi. ELIAS, b. March 19, 1798; m. Abigail Delano; he d. March 15,
1868.
967. JOSHUA FIELD (Joareb, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Bergen, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1785; m. in 1815,
Lydia Towle, b. Aug. 18, 1797; m., 2d, about 1827, Betsey Heath, b. Oct. 24, 1800;
m., 3d, Maria Green, b. Aug. 12, 1805; m., 4th, Delia A. Marsh, b. Aug. 11, 1805.
He d. 1 871. Res. New York.
2oo834:-2. i. WILLIAM H., b. Jan. 25, 1816; d. in 1828.
2008^-3. ii. HERMAN, b. Feb. 18, 1818; m. Lucy Van Allen Trumbull, who
d. in Lawrence, Kans., about 1895. Ch. : i. Mary, infant; d,
2. Henry, infant; d. 3. Herman, infant; d. 4. S. Trumbul, b.
; m. . Ch. : (a) Marjorie Field, d. in Rome, Italyi
twelve years old.
2008^-4. ill. ADELIA, b. July 18, 1820; m. 1840, Josiah Harrison, b. 1808. She
d. Sept. 16, 1881. Ch. : i. Mary, b. 1846; m. Harrison Cham-
berlain, s. p. 2. Edward, b. 184S; d. unm. 1880. 3. Lucy, b.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 405
20 10.
11.
20II.
iii.
2012.
IV,
1850; m. Charles Parsons; one child, Ira, res. 250 West S8th
St., Hew York, N. Y. 4. Susan, b. i860; m. 1S91, Charles Lee.
Res. s. p., 250 West 88th St., New York, N. Y. 5. Henry, b.
April 2, 1854; m. Dec. 17. 1881, Florence Lewis, b. June 22,
1857, s. p. Res. Brockport, N. Y. He was for three years in
the New York State Senate, and is now collector of the port of
Genessee. He was born at Brockport in 1854; graduated at
Brockport Normal College in 1873; graduated from Rochester
University in 1877; member of Alpha Delta Phi Socity; went
into his father's fire and insurance business, established by him,
of which he now has full charge.
2oo8|4f-5. iv. EDWIN T., b. Nov. 5, 1823; unm.
2oo85<-6. V. LYDIA BETSEY, b. Sept. 16, 182S. Res. Brockport, N. Y.
2008K-7. vi. JOSHUA, b. and d. in infancy.
977. JOHNSON FIELD (Luke, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., July 20,
1782; d. April 19, 1862; m. Oct. 6, 1810, Polly Fowler, b. March 28, 1782; d. Jan. i,
1851. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
2009. i. LUCY MARIA, b. April 17, 1812; m. John R. Frisbie.
MARY E., b. Jan. 19, 1815; m. Stephen Jewell.*
FRANCIS D., b. May 8, 1819; d. Oct. 18, 1821.
JANE E., b. Nov. 21, 1822; m. Charles H. Crawford. She d. July
14, 1847.
979. JEDEDIAH FIELD (Luke, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., April, 1786.
He settled about 18 10 in Sunbury, Ga. ; returned to Madison, Conn., where he d.
Nov. 9, 1858. He m. Elizabeth Alexander, of Georgia; m., 2d, Sarah Osgood, of
Georgia; m., 3d, October, 1S20, Rebecca Bradley, of Madison, b. Julys, 1798; d.
Oct. 9, 1874. Res. Sunbury, Ga., and Madison, Conn.
2013. i. SAMUEL, b. ; graduated at Yale College in 1838; studied law
and settled in Georgia, where he d. unm. in 1858.
SARAH E. OSGOOD, b. ; m. Frederick Hill.
LAWRENCE ALEXANDER, b. 1821 ; m. Delia F. Dowd.
THOMAS SUMNER, b. April 5, 1824; m. Judith Wilcox.
REBECCA BRADLEY, b. June 20, 1825; m. Aug. 26, 1845,
Augustus Dowd, of Madison.
ELLEN AUGUSTA, b. Jan. 28, 1827 ; m. July 26, 1849, William
G. Dowd, of Scranton, Pa.
2019. vii. GEORGIANNA, b. May 18, 1829; m. April 10. 1849, George A.
Shelley, of Madison. She d. Nov. 28, 1883.
2020. viii. LOUISA, b. Feb. 20, 1831; m. Joseph Chase, of Scranton, Pa.
2021. ix. ELLIOTT BRADLEY, b. April 22, 1832; m. Emily Rebecca Coe;
d. July 9, 1888.
2021 J4. X. MARTHA JANE, b. ; m. Charles E. Dudley.
985. BENJAMIN FIELD (David, David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., June 12, 1759;
d. June 24, 1824; m. 1783, Lucy, dau. of Jonathan and Murray, b. June 8, 1762; d.
Sept. 29, 1825. Res. East Guilford, Conn.
2022. i. WILLIAM, b. Oct. 8, 1784. He d. unm. Aug. 17, 1856.
♦Town records say Inness.
2014.
11.
2015.
HI.
2016.
iv.
2017.
V.
2018.
vi.
406
FIELD GENEALOGY.
HARRY, b. March, 1787; m. Polly C. Leach.
ANSON, b. May, 1789; m. Achsah Benton.
BENJAMIN, b. 1791; d. unm. July 12, 1814.
JOEL, b. Oct. 19, 1794; m. Rachel Hill.
FREDERICK S.. b. 1797; m. Dency Blatchley.
986. DAVID FIELD (David, David. Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., Sept. 17, 1761. He
removed, in 1794, to Jericho, Vt, where he d. Oct. 21, 1833. He m. Feb. 16, 1786,'
Lois, dau. of Philemon French, of East Guilford, b. Nov. 24, 1764; d. May 3, 1810;
m., 2d, May 8, 181 1, Mercy Frisbie. Res. Jericho, Vt.
2023.
n.
2024.
Ill
2025.
iv
2026.
V.
2027.
vi.
2028.
2029.
2030.
2031.
2032.
2033.
2034.
HENRY, b. March 3, 1787; m. Rachel Howe and Laura Lee.
i. LOIS, b. Oct. 20, 1788; d. Dec. 17, 1792.
ii. DAVID, b. May 7, 1790; m. Mrs. Conklin and Phebe Ward.
V. LOIS, b. Aug. 15, 1793; m. 1815, Hezekiah W. Stevens; m., 2d,
William Hendricks, of Pompey, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 12, 1852.
T. ANSON, b. March 5, 1795; d. Feb. 10, 1800.
71. ANNA, b. June 2. 1798; m. 1830. Nathaniel Blackman, of Jericho,
Vt. ; d. March 24, 1839.
ni. MARY, b, Oct. 22, 1800; m. Oct. 29, 1822, John Lyman, of Jericho,
Vt. She d, in April, 1886. He d. February, 1874. Ch.: i.
Homer, b. June 16, 1823, d. Nov. 30, 1839. 2. Rollin. b. May 21,
1827; d. Dec. 28, 1829. 3. Seymour, b. Nov. 20, 1828; m. Feb.
15, 1854, Mary L. Turner; d. 1862; m., 2d, May i, i868, Lucy B.
Bowles. 4. Mary, b. Sept. 12, 1831; m. Sept. 10, 1851, Stillman
R. Bingham. Res. Chicago. He was b. Oct. 14, 1829; d. Feb. i,
1896. Mr. Bingham was born in the village of Morristown, Vt,,
Oct. 14, 1829. His family was of the best New England stock.
He was educated in Stowe, Vt., and for a time taught school
there, but relinquished the profession of teacher with the hope
he undoubtedly had at that time of a professional life, to enter
into mercantile business in New York City. In 1853 he was
engaged as bookkeeper in the New York branch of the house of
Jones, White & McCurdy, and he filled that position for about
five years. Those were days of small things in the dental sup-
ply business, and the young bookkeeper had ample time and
opportunity to master all the details of the business, which he
succeeded in doing most thoroughly. In 1858, when it was
decided to open a branch in Chicago, Dr. Samuel S. White, with
that rare and intuitive judgment of men for which he was remark-
able, named Mr. Bmgham as the one best qualified to take charge
of the enterprise. Probably no one was more surprised at this
selection than Mr. Bingham himself, but during the whole thirty-
eight years that the Chicago branch has been in existence there
never has been a day or an hour in which the wisdom of that
choice has not been manifest. Mr. Bingham was a man of great
energy and untiring industry, of spotless integrity, and remark-
able for his foresight and correct judgment. Added to these
were a ready tact, a warm heart, and a sympathizing nature that
won for him the esteem and affection of literally thousands, who
looked to him as their sincere friend and often adviser and
helper. In b\isiness matters his opinions were quickly formed.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 407
and his advice, continually sought, was promptly and frankly
given in terse and convincing language. There was never any
issue between him and the home office. His conduct of the busi-
ness was so wise, so strictly upright and just to all, that it was
impossible to take exception to it. The career of the Chicago
branch has been most successful, its progress continually upward,
and the past year was the greatest in its history. It is undeni-
able that the largest factors ot that prosperity were the ability
and personality ot Stillman R. Bmgham. Mr. Bingham's influ-
ence among the dentists in that territory in which his life's work
was accomplished was very marked and important. Since his
death, at his late residence and at the company's office, in Chi-
cago, there have been from among the members of the dental
profession innumerable callers, and showers of letters which it
has not been possible to answer in detail, referring to him affec-
tionately, with expressions of sorrow as for personal loss ; many
of them telling in touching language of kindly acts, of wise
counsel, ot material help bestowed upon them in time of need.
One of these communications refers to Mr. Bingham as the
writer's financial and moral savior, and there are many others
of similar tenor. It is safe to say that in matters of morals,
principles, and even of the conduct of business and professional
life no one of the many hundreds of young men who sought coun-
sel from Mr. Bingham ever made a mistake by following his advice.
It was largely through his influence that the now great and
important Illinois State Dental Society was formed. The same
is true of the Chicago Dental Society, the meetings of which were
for a long time held in the rooms of the S. S. White Dental
Depot. It was mainly Mr. Bingham's arguments that decided its
originators to organize in the brotherhood ot a society. He was
always most heartily welcome at the meetings of these and other
dental associations ot Illinois and the adjacent states, and
throughout the entire country now tributary to Chicago there is
no name which is more widely or more familiarly known in
dental circles, or which calls torth more kindly remark, than
that of S. R. Bingham. For many years he was among the best
known and most highly esteemed of the business men of Chicago.
Outside of his own business he was still the same kindly, patient,
self-denying man, fruitful in good works. He was a liberal sup-
porter of charities, and active in all movements of a benevolent
nature or for the public weal. His private contributions in
response to appeals for help were a constant drain upon his
resources. He was a life-long worker in church and Sunday-
schools. The Eighth Presbyterian church of Chicago was organ-
ized in his parlor over thirty years ago, and his labors in its
behalt were incessant until it was completed and self-supporting.
During the twenty-two years of his residence in Highland Park
he was an elder and earnest worker in the Presbyterian church of
that town, and was untiring in his zeal in all movements for the
welfare of the community. As a speaker he possessed remark-
able gifts of oratory; he was original and humorous, and when
his indignation was aroused his language was keen, incisive and
408 FIELD GENEALOGY.
overwhelming. His logic was sure and his arguments exhaustive.
These qualities characterized his writings, and many of his let-
ters have been kept for years as choice gems by his triends, who
will now hold them as beyond price. A depth of affection existed
between Samuel S. White and Stillman R. Bingham which was
the most extraordinary that ever came under the writer's obser-
vation. It was not because they were associated in business or
engaged in kindred pursuits. Their mutual esteem would have
been as sincere and lastmg if they had no business relations,
provided they had been br6ught into as intimate contact. They
were both men of noble mold, of high and pure ideals. They
were pre-eminently chaste men in thought, speech and conduct.
They had deeply religious natures. Firmly believing in a Divine
Father and Guide, they desired nothing more earnestly than to
know and do His will. They were gentlemen in the best sense
of the word, — gentle, patient, sympathizing, self-sacrificing, with
helping hands ever extended toward the sutfering and fallen. In
business they had unusual energy and foresight, as the results of
their labors bear eloquent testimony. They were good disciplin-
arians, and had the rare faculty of being able to evoke the best
service of their employes, every one ot them served them gladly.
So they were drawn together, and their attachment was a rare
and noble instance of manly love. Since the death of Dr. S. S.
White, sixteen years ago, Mr. Bingham has talked much and
often to his friends of his association with his beloved "Chief,"
as he was wont to call him, and with a faith that never for an
instant wavered he would anticipate again meeting him beyond
the grave, where there is no more parting. The management of
the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. , since the death of Dr.
S. S. White, have looked to and depended upon Mr. Bingham
more than upon any other one man. His forty-three years of
service with the company and its predecessors was a remarkable
experience, which, added to his great ability, noble character
and sure judgment, made of him an eminently wise and safe
counselor. Those who are now left in the management will miss
him with an increasing sense of loss as the days roll on. Per-
sonally, as well as in business relations, he was far more to them
than can be expressed here. Ch. : (a) Charles Lyman Bingham,
b. in Jericho Centre, Vt., June 13, 1852; m. Oct. 15, 1874, Jennie
Elizabeth Leonard. Res. Chicago. Ch. : i. Jessie May, b. Nov. 9,
1876; m. Dec. 31, 1866, Mark Rees Kimbell. Ch. : i. Jean Eliza-
beth, b. Dec. 23, 1898. ii. Carrie Ann, b. May 16, 1879. iii.
Mabel, b. Sept. 2, 1881. iv. Eleanor Elizabeth, b. June 16, 1893.
Charles Seymour while a young man became connected with the
S. S. White Dental company. At first as clerk, later as travel-
ing salesman, visiting every state in the Union, and Europe.
Subsequently he was assistant to his father, and at his death
was given the general management of the business, which
position he now occupies, (b) Anna Mary Bingham, b. May 23,
1854, in New York City; m. Sept. 3, 1874, Thomas Nevins Jami-
son, (c) Emma Lovina Bingham, b. Feb. 26, 1861, in Chicago;
d. Dec. 18, 1861. (d) John Luther Bingham, b. Oct. 5, 1862, in
FIELD GENEALOGY. 409
Chicago, (e) Stillman Rockwell Bingham, Jr., b. Oct. 31, i&oS,
in Chicago; d. Nov. ,28, 1868. (f) Samuel Stockton White, b.
Oct 31, 186S, in Chicago; d. Nov. 20, 1876. (g) Benjamin Sey-
mour Bingham, b. April 16, 1874, in Highland Park, 111. ; m.
June 5, 1895, Sue Brinton Reigart. 5. Moses Parnell, b. Aug.
6, 1S37; d. Oct. 15, 1838. 6. Myron Winslow, b. Aug. 6, 1838;
m. Dec. 21, 1868, Annette C. Ferris. Res. 195 South California
Av., Chicago, 111. Ch. : (a) Willis M., b. Dec. 18, 1870. (b) Anna
M., b. Nov. 20, 1872.
2035. viii. ANSON, b. March 5, 1S03 ; ni. Almira R. Shaw and Mary J. Bliss.
2036. ix. EUNICE, b. July 7, 1808; m. Anson Woodruff, of Pompey, N. Y.,
and d. May, 1867.
988. ICHABOD FIELD (David. David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., July 26, 1763.
He removed, in 1822, to Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y., where he died July i,
1S38. He m. about 1785, Anna French, b. May 26, 1767; d. March 18, 1839, He
came from Connecticut early in 1800, and settled on a farm in West Dryden, N. Y. ;
was followed by some of his children, Augustus, Jedadiah. Gaylord, David, Elisha
and Julius. Augustus, Jedadiah and Gaylord moved to Michigan, the former after
moving to Iowa. Jedadiah and Gaylor settled near Grand Rapids, where their
descendants now live. Julius was a Methodist minister, belonging to the New York
East Conference. He had four daughters; one married S. S. Scranton, a publisher
living in Hartford, Conn. Three daughters of Ichabod settled near the old home in
Connecticut, which was in a town north of Saybrook. Mabel married a man named
Stone. Ichabod married Anna French, and they are both buried in the old Asbury
cemetery, at Lansing, N. Y. Res. Lansing, N. Y.
EUNICE, b. 1786; m. Israel Nettleton, of Lansing.
ELISHA, b. Dec. 30, 1788; m. Sarah Butler.
AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 5, 1790; m. . Res. Watertown,
Iowa.
SELDEN, b. Nov. 2, 1793; m. Jane Bogsburn and Lydia Ketchum.
ALANSON, b. June 28, 1795; d. unm. April 25, 1814.
DAVID LYMAN, b. May 7, 1797; m. Mary Knettles.
ANNA, b. May 7, 1797; m. October, 1825, Simeon Scranton, of
Madison, Conn. ; d. Oct. 3, 1S69.
JULIUS, b. April 2, 1799; m. Minerva S. Kellogg.
JEDEDIAH, b. Dec. 13, 1802; m. Bertrand Brown.
ICHABOD GAYLORD, b. Dec. 5, 1S04; m. Wealthy Saxton.
MABEL, b. 1806; m. Nov. 6, 1828, Heman Stone, of Madison,
Conn. She d. June 22, 1S90.
NOAH, b. 1809 ; m. Eleanor Stebbins and Mary A. Cook.
EBENEZER, b. 1812; d. 1812.
990. JEDEDIAH FIELD (David. David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in East Guilford, Conn., May 28, 1765.
He removed, in 1797, to Jericho, Vt., where he d. Sept. 30, 1842. He m. May 7,
1787, Mabel, dau. of Nathaniel and Sarah (Griswold) Stevens, of East Guilford, b.
April 9, 1768; d. Aug. 21, 1849. Res. Jericho, Vt.
2050. i. MELINDA, b. April 4, 17S8; m. Daniel Hatch, of Plattsburgh,
N. Y. ; d. Feb. 20, 1831.
2051. ii. HARVEY, b. 1790; m. Persis Church.
2052. iii. AUSTIN, b. Dec. 6, 1792; unm.
27
2037.
2038.
ii.
2039.
m.
2040.
iv.
2041.
V.
2042.
VI.
2043.
Vll.
2044.
viii.
2045.
IX.
2046.
X.
2047.
XI.
2048.
xii.
2049.
Xlll.
410 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2053.
IV.
2054-
V.
2055.
VI.
2056.
vu.
2057.
Vlll,
2058.
IX.
2060.
1.
2061.
ii.
2062.
ill.
2063.
iv.
ALANSON, b. Jan. 28, 1794. Res. Jericho; d. unm.
LYMAN, b. Oct. 10, 1795; m. Harriet Frink and Rhoda Joslyn.
ERASTUS, b. June 16, 1798; m. Maria A. Potter.
LAURA, b. April 25, 1802; d. April 26, 1802.
LUCY, b. April 25, 1802; d. April 27, 1802.
TRUMAN, b. Oct. 6, 1806; m. Charlotte G. Elmore, Mrs. Philena
(Wheelock) Wilcox and Mrs. Abbey G. (Bailey) Currier.
2059. X. ADELINE, b. Aug. 7, 1810; m. Oct. 30, 1830, Charles Hubbell.
They had two daughters and one son.
902. DEACON ZECHARIAH FIELD (Samuel, David, Ebenezer, Zechariah,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., June
6, 1755; m. June 3, 1779, Priscilla Crampton, dau. of Benjamin Crampton, of East
Guilford, b. April 17, 1748. Sometime about 1806-7 Zechariah Field and family
came into Middlefield, from Prartridgefield (now Peru), and lived there until about
1823 ; then moved to Jericho, Vt. Mr. Field was deacon in the Congregational church
most of this time. There were six daughters. Res. East Guilford Conn.
HEPSIBAH, b. Aug. 6, 1780.
MARY, b. February, 1783; m. Dec. 20, 1820, Oliver Blush, of
Middlefield, s. p.
RUTH, b. Nov. 27, 1784.
THANKFUL, b. 1788. One or the other m. Homer Pelton, of
Peru, Mass.
2064. v. PRISCILLA, b. 1791; m. Nov. 12, 1811, Benjamin Steward, or
Stewart Res. Middlefield, Mass. Ch. : i. Spencer Stewart.
2. Nelson Stewart. 3. Edmund Stewart, d. unm.* 4. Samuel
Stewart. Spencer Stewart m. ; lived in Worthington, and one of
his sons was Dr. Lincoln Stewart, who is living in Maine.
Nelson m. and lived in Washington, Mass. I know nothing of
children. Samuel went to Albany, N. Y., married.
2064K. vi. CHARLOTTE, b. ; d. unm. in Middlefield, Mass.
1002. REV. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, D. D. (Timothy, David. Ebenezer,
Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford,
Conn., May 20, 1781; m. Oct. 31, 1803. Submit Dickinson, of Somers, dau. of Capt.
Noah and Hannah, b. Oct. i, 1782; d. April 16, 1861. He was son of Capt. Timothy
Field, an oflficer in the army of Revolution, and was b. in East Guilford, now Mad-
ison, Conn. He was fitted for college by Rev. Dr. John Elliott, the minister of the
parish in which his father lived, entered Yale, and graduated in 1802. His fellow
room-mate and student for three years in college was Jeremiah Evarts, who has
been so well known for his labors in the cause of religion and humanity, and the
father of Hon. William M. Evarts. In the same class were many who afterwards
became eminent men — Isaac C. Bates, United States senator from Massachusetts j
Judge Hubbard, of Boston ; William Maxwell, of Virginia ; Governors Tomlinson
and Pond, of Connecticut; Junius Smith, famous in connection with ocean steam
navigation, and Pelatiah Perit, a distinguished merchant of New York. More
than a third of the class became ministers of the gospel. On leaving college he
prosecuted his theological studies at Somers, Conn., under Rev. Dr. Charles Backus,
an eminent teacher and divine. In September, 1803, he was licensed to preach by
the New Haven East Association. He was soon invited to preach as a candidate at
Haddam, Conn. ; after a few months he was settled as pastor, April 11, 1804. Here
his labors were arduous, being in an undivided township of twelve school districts,
and with few carriage roads ; but with every spot, family and school he was soon
REV. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, D. D.
See page 410.
MRS. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
See page 410.
ALFRED FIELD
See page 428.
SPAFFORD FIELD.
See page 429.
HON. MICHAEL FIELD.
See page 423.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 411
familiar. His pastoral duties were performed with great conscientiousness and
fidelity ; his preaching was earnest and effective, full of unction and power. Here
he remained until April, 1818, just fourteen years; and then resigned his charge and
spent the next five months on a missionary tour in western New York, under the
direction of the Old Connecticut Missionary Society, going along the shore of Lake
Ontario as far as Buffalo. At the latter place there was no house of worship to be
found. On his return he accepted a call from the Congregational church in Stock-
bridge, Mass., as successor of the venerable Dr. Stephen West, who had then
recently died. He was installed pastor of this church, Aug. 25, 1819. With this
church and society he continued nearly eighteen years, when he resigned, and sin-
gularly enough, was installed April 11, 1837, over his old society in Haddam, just
thirty-three years from his first ordination there. The same year, 1837, the degree
of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Williams College. In 1844, the
parish which he had served so long being much larger, was divided, and he took
charge of the new society formed at Higganum in the northern part. There he
remained in the full discharge of ministerial duty a second term of fourteen years,
seven over the old church, and seven over the new one. During his residence
there in 1848 he crossed the ocean with one of his sons and spent several months in
Great Britain and France. In the spring of 1851, having reached the age of sev-
enty, he yielded to the wishes of his children, retired from public labor, and
returned to Stockbridge, where after sixteen years of retirement he died.
Dr. Field had a natural fondness and taste for historical and genealogical
researches. He published in i8iq a history of Middlesex county. Conn.; a history
of Berkshire county. Mass. , in a volume of nearly 500 pages ; an historical address
at Middletown, Conn., forming with its appendix a book of 300 pages; a genealogy
of the Brainard family in Haddam, a volume of 300 pages; and a number of his
occasional sermons have been printed. He was historian ot his class, and in 1862
published a minute account of all its members, living and dead, with their de-
scendants.
On the day on which he died he rode out and called upon several of his old par-
ishioners. One ot them. Colonel Williams, said to him, "Dr. Field, I am glad to
see you so well," and he replied, "I was never better in my life." He had a little
granddaughter or great-granddaughter on the seat with him, and rode home with
his arm about her. On entering his room he took off the scarf from his neck, and
had been seated in his favorite chair, a relic of the Mayflower, but a moment, when
his head fell back, his body and limbs became rigid, and he could no more be awak-
ened. The funeral took place on the afternoon of Thursday, April i8th. Prayer
was offered at the house by Rev. N. H. Eggleston, the pastor of the village church.
The remains were borne to the church, where addresses appropriate to the occasion
were delivered by Mr. Eggleston, Rev. Mark Hopkins. LL.D., president of Williams
College, and Rev. John Todd, D.D., of Pittsfield. Rev. William B. Sprague, D.D.,
in a notice of Dr. Field, says: "In all his relations he was a model of firmness,
conscientiousness, discretion and punctuality." Rev. Dr. Marsh and Prof. Morgan,
of Oberlin, Ohio, wrote some interesting newspaper sketches of Dr. Field. Dr.
Field was a corresponding member of the New England Historic-Genealogical
Society, having been elected in 1847, two years after the society was organized. He
was also vice-president of the Connecticut Historical Society, and corresponding
member of the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Historical Societies.
The town of Stockbridge commenced its existence as a mission station among
the Muh-he-ka-neew, or, as they have since been called, the Stockbridge Indians.
This people, in many respects the most interesting of all our aboriginal tribes, were
scattered along the Housatonic river, on the interval lands in what are now the
412 FIELD GENEALOGY.
towns of Sheffield, Great Barrington and Stockbridge. Their history, manners,
customs and language, would form a volume by itself, and cannot be even alluded
to in a sketch like the present. Those who desire a full and interesting account of
them, may consult a book recently published by Samuel Bowles & Co. , of Springfield,
called "Stockbridge, Past and Present; or. Records of an Old Mission Station," by
Miss E. F. Jones, which contains the most perfect information concerning them yet
given to the public. The situations of these Indians early claimed the considera-
tion of many philanthropists on both sides of the Atlantic, among whom were his
Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, then governor of the commonwealth ; Rev. Dr. Ben-
jamin Colman, an influential clergyman of Boston, and Dr. Sewall, of the same
city. At this time, Konkapot and Umpachene were the two principal men among
the Housatonic Indians; the former holding a captain's and the latter a lieutenant's
commission, under the British crown. Konkapot, who was a man of unusual
shrewdness and intelligence, desired Christian instruction for himself and people,
which fact, coming to the knowledge of Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of West Springfield, he
set himself to gratify so laudable an aspiration. Having ascertained that funds
supplied by the Trans-Atlantic Society for the Promotion of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, were deposited in the hands of commissioners in Boston for such purposes
here, and knowing that John Stoddard, Esq., of Northampton, was intimately
acquainted with the state of the Indians in western Massachusetts, he visited him
in their behalf, March, 1734. Having obtained from him information that favored
his intentions, he next conferred with Rev. Dr. Williams, of Longmeadow, and at
their united request, Rev. Wm. Williams, of Hatfield, wrote to the commissioners
to solicit their attention towards the Housatonic Indians. The commissioners
requested Dr. Williams and Mr. Hopkins to visit the Indians personally, and ascer-
tain more particularly their situation and wishes, concerning religious and other
instruction. They did so, and made a report, which resulted in the sending of Rev.
John Sergeant, as missionary to the Housatonic valley, with a salary of 100 pounds
per annum. He arrived in October, 1734.
In order that the ends of the mission might best be attained it was desirable
that the Indians should concentrate in some particular locality. This they con-
sented to do, Konkapot and Umpachene using all their influence to aid the enter-
prise. To further the object, the legislature, in 1735, granted a township, six miles
square, which included the present towns of Old and West Stockbridge. Into this
the Indians moved in 1736, and were gradually increased by additions from north-
ern Connecticut and western New York, so as to length to amount to about 400
souls. John Stoddard, Ebenezer Pomeroy and Thomas IngersoU, Esqs., were
appointed a committee "to weigh and consider all things and circumstances," rela-
tive to the location and settlement of the town, to confer with the Indians in rela-
tion thereto, and arrange with the proprietors of the lower township, now Sheffield,
granted in 1722, for the extinction of their claims, which overlay to some extent the
newly projected township. Everything was, at length, and after some difficulty,
satisfactorily adjusted, and in 1739 the tract was incorporated under the title of
Stockbridge, doubtless from a town of the same name in England, whose natural
features are said to be strikingly similar. According to the judgment of the locat-
ing committee, one sixtieth part of the land was to be reserved for the missionary;
another sixtieth for the schoolmaster, and a sufficient portion for four other English
families, who should settle in it, and assist in the benevolent labor of civilizing and
Christianizing the Indians. Under this arrangement the mission commenced and
progressed auspiciously. The chief missionary was, as has been mentioned. Rev.
John Sergeant, a native of Newark, N. J. ; a graduate of Yale College, in 1729, and
tutor there for four years from 1731. He first arrived at the scene of his labors in
THE OLD FIELD PLACE, HADDAM, CONN.
(Birthplace of David Dudley Field, Jr.)
TOWN HALL, HADDAM, CONN
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HADDAM, CONN.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HIGGANUM, CONN.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 418
1734; but that visit was only preliminary to his permanent settlement, which'took
place after the completion of his fourth year's tutorship, in 1735. He was ordained
to his work at Deerfield, Aug. 31 of the same year, and very soon thereafter*as-
sumed the labors of the mission. His assistant — as teacher — was Mr., afterwards
Hon. Timothy Woodbridge, of West Springfield, who subsequently held several
offices of distinction, and died May 11, 1774.
Dr. Field d. April 15, 1S67; res. Haddam, Conn., and Stockbridge, Mass.
2065. i. DAVID DUDLEY, b. Feb. 13, 1805; m. Lucinda Hopkins, Mrs.
Harriet Davidson and Mrs. Mary E. Carr.
2066. ii. MATHEW DICKINSON, b. June 26, 1811; m. Clara Lafl in.
2067. iii. JONATHAN EDWARDS, b. July 11, 1813; m. Mary Ann Stuart
and Mrs. Huldah Fellows Pomeroy.
2068. iv. STEPHEN JOHNSON, b. Nov. 4, 1816; m. Sue Virginia Sweain-
gen.
2069. V. CYRUS WEST, b. Nov. 30, 1819; m. Mary Bryan Stone.
2070. vi. HENRY M'ARTYN, b. April 3, 1822; m. Henriette des Portes and
Frances E. Dwight.
2071. vii. EMILIA HOVEY ANN, b. Feb. 22, 1807; m. Dec. i, 1829, Rev.
Josiah Brewer.
EMILIA ANN FIELD. — BY 'REV. HENRY M. FIELD.
The second of our family was a daughter, born Feb. 22, 1807, and
it was a happy time in the parsonage when there was the pattering
of the little feet of a boy and girl. Still more dear did the latter
become, as after her there were six little brothers, to whom she
was the only sister, and to whom in their childhood she had to
be a kind of second mother. How well she performed her
gentle task, and how much these boys owed her watchful care,
they always remembered, but their love and gratitude could never
repay. She inherited much of her mother's beauty, as well as
industry, and attention to all the frugalities of the household.
With these domestic virtues, she had an intelligence that needed
larger means of education than the village schools could supply,
and from these she passed to seminaries in Westfield, Mass. , and
Wethersfield and Litchfield, Conn. At the age of twenty-two,
she was married to Rev. Josiah Brewer,* a native of Tyringham,
a neighboring town to Stockbridge. He had pursued his studies
at Yale College, where he ranked very high as a scholar. He was
graduated in 1821, and was for two years a tutor in that institu-
tion. He studied theology at Andover, and went out, under an
appointment of the American Board, and of a Society of Ladies
formed in Boston for the promotion of Christianity among the
Jews, to inquire into the condition of that people in Turkey.
From Smyrna and Constantinople he went to Greece during the
*He was born in Berkshire county, Mass., in 1796; died in Stockbridge, Mass., Nov. 19, 1872.
He was graduated at Yale in 1821, and became a tutor in the; college after post-graduate study.
He was one of the first to volunteer as a missionary to Turkey for the American Board, and in
1830 sailed for the East, beginning his labors at Smyrna, only three years after the Greek revolu-
tion. The battle of Navarino had destroyed the Turkish navy and had opened the door for
influences from abroad. Mr. Brewer was the first to introduce schools and the printing press.
He established the first paper in Smyrna, where several journals are now published in different
languages. The schools he founded have served as models to introduce European education into
the Turkish empire. After a few years he returned home. He published "Residence in Con-
stantinople" (New Haven, 1827) and "Patmos and the Seven Churches of Asia" (1851).— Appleton.
414 FIELD GENEALOGY.
war of its revolution. It was about the time of the battle of
Navarino, As the war was then raging with such fury as to inter-
fere with immediate missionary labor, he returned to the United
States after an absence of two years. The fruit of his observation
was given to the public in a volume on Turkey. His connection
with the Board was soon terminated, owing to some difference of
opinion as to the missionary policy to be pursued. But he was
immediately engaged by a Ladies' Greek Association formed in
New Haven, Conn., to undertake a separate work, which was to
be chiefly that of Female Education among the Greeks — a thing
till then almost unknown among a people so gifted with natural
intelligence. Accordingly, as soon as he was married, he re-
turned to the East, and took up his residence in Smyrna, where
he remained nine years. Here he established schools both for
Greek girls and for the children of Franks resident in Smyrna.
Of these schools, and of the family to which he was introduced,
the late Dr. E. C. Wines, who was then a chaplain in the Navy,
and paid a visit to Smyrna on board a ship of war, draws this
pleasant picture in a volume entitled "Two Years and a Half in
the Navy," pp. 132-34:
"Having letters of introduction to Mr. Brewer, immediately on
landing I called on him at his residence, which was between
Frank street and the Marina. His house was the first I had seen,
since entering the Mediterranean, with wooden stairs and floors,
and it had the oddest appearance than can be imagined.
"I received a hearty welcome from Mr. Brewer and his family,
and soon found myself at home there. Mr. Brewer is employed
as a missionary by a society of ladies in New Haven, and the
primary object of his mission is the education of the Greek
females. He is known to the world as the author of an interesting
work on Turkey, the result of his observations while employed as
a traveling missionary by the American Board. His character is
marked by mildness, modesty, good sense and an unaffected piety.
His wife is uncommonly beautiful, and a woman of the finest
intelligence and most fascinating manners. Associated with Mr.
Brewer in his enterprise, and a member of his family, is a Miss
Reynolds, a young lady possessing high qualifications for her
station in point of talent, cultivation and piety. [She was after-
wards married to Rev. Dr. Schauffler, of Constantinople.] A
brother of Mrs. Brewer, a lad of spirit and promise, and two or
three charming little children, completed the family circle ; and
it was one of the happiest and most agreeable I have ever known.
Mr. J. of the 'Boston,' my friend and companion, knew them
intimately before he left the United States, and while we re-
mained in Smyrna we used to spend almost all our evenings under
their hospitable roof. We were often gratified at seeing the little
groups of black- eyed, dark-complexioned, intelligent-looking
Greek girls, who would enter the house with trifling presents of
fruits or flowers, and who seemed to cherish towards their benefac-
tors the affection of daughters. There was one who spent nearly
all her days in the family for the purpose of learning embroidery
and English, and whose truly classic face, whose modest and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 415
sprightly manners, and lisping English, pronounced with a voice
of uncommon richness, and in tones of faltering distrust, could
not have failed to awaken an interest even in one who had never
heard of her progenitors.
"Mr. Brewer and Miss Reynolds have generously given up the
whole of their salaries to the support of the Greek schools, and
gain a livelihood for themselves by keeping a Frank school, for
which they have been guaranteed two hundred pounds a year for
five years. This school is made up of the children of European
and American merchants, and is the first of the kind ever known
in Smyrna. The pupils of difiierent sexes have separate apart-
ments, and form interesting groups. They dress in the costumes
of their difl;erent countries, and the conversation of those who
belong to each nation is usually carried on in their own language ;
but the common medium of communication is the modem Greek.
One of Mr. Brewer's pupils was an Armenian by the name of
Tackvor, who was learning English, and who interested greatly
all our officers. He was a young man of about twenty, with dark
eyes and intelligent features, of mild and engaging manners, and
a disposition full of kindness and sincerity. We were greatly
indebted to him for the services he rendered as interpreter in our
intercourse with the Turks, and as a guide in showing us the cu-
riosities of the place.
"During our stay in Smyrna I often visited the Greek female
schools under Mr. Brewer's charge, and was not more delighted
than surprised at the order with which they were conducted, the
eager desire of knowledge which the pupils appeared to feel, and
the rapid progress they made in their studies. They were con-
ducted on the Lancasterian plan by native teachers, and the chil-
dren were instructed not only in the branches taught in our own
common schools, but in knitting, needlework, embroidery, etc.
I saw little girls, who had been attached to the schools only a few
months, who could write a fair hand, and read with tolerable
facility in the Testament. The needlework of some of the older
girls would scarcely have discredited any lady in the United
States. The whole number of children in all the schools was
somewhat rising of 200.
"Mr. Brewer's schools were the first ever established in Smyrna
— at least in modern times — for the cultivation of the female
mind. They threw the whole Smymiote population into amaze-
ment. Females — by the servile Greek, as well as by the haughty,
self-complacent Ottoman, regarded as the mere slaves and play-
things of man — females capable of intellectual culture and refine-
ment ! The thing was unheard of, and produced a dreadful whirl-
ing in men's ideas of truth and propriety. But the experiment
was confidently made, and has succeeded even beyond the anti-
cipation of its authors. Its eftects are not limited to the schools
which Mr. Brewer has established, but are seen also in the revo-
lution, they have effected in public sentiment, and the consequent
exertions made on the part of many of the more wealthy and
respectable Greeks to educate their daughters."
To the same effect is the testimony of Commodore J. E. De
416 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Kay in a work entitled "Turkey in 1831 and 1832." In his
description of Smyrna, he says, pp. 500-1:
"Another pleasing sight was a school established by Mrs.
Brewer and under her superintendence, for the education of
Greek girls. .Mrs. Brewer has another school under her own roof,
to which she devotes her more immediate care. The pupils pay
for their instruction, and the money thus derived is expended
upon the large school above mentioned. In addition to this, Mr.
Brewer directs an excellent school, composed of the sons and
daughters of Frank merchants. The instruction is in English,
and it was curious to see the children of even English parents
speaking their own language with a foreign accent. As I entered
the school, one of the boys was reciting the well known effusion
of Marco Bozzaris ; and various associations of a personal nature
were produced on hearing this spirited lay delivered on the spot
where the Greek formerly displayed his ancient heroism, and
where now he was called upon in foreign accents to
'Strike for his altars and his fires,
God and his native land.'
"Mr. Brewer also conducts a paper in modern Greek, entitled
'The Friend of Youth.' It is filled with various moral and in-
structive essays, and has been the instrument of effecting much
good. I regretted to learn that it would soon pass into other
hands ; for the owner of the press entertains the erroneous idea
that money is made by it, and proposes to conduct it himself.
The good already effected will not, however, be lost ; a spirit of
inquiry has been excited, and no one can venture to say where it
will end. Under the auspices ot Mr. Brewer, it was ever fore-
most in pointing out errors in conduct, and in stirring up its
readers to every benevolent or public-spirited undertaking, and
much of this spirit, we may hope, will descend to his successor."
Like other cities of the East, Smyrna was subject to frequent
visitations of pestilence — the cholera or the plague. In these
times of terror and dismay, when all who could fled from the city,
Mr. Brewer showed himself a true soldier, who did not desert his
post at the moment of danger. Rather did he consider that such
public calamities gave the wider opportunity for relieving distress
and doing good. Filling his pockets with medicines, and taking
with him his young brother-in-law, whom we shall have occasion
to mention hereafter, who carried with him also medicine and
food, day after day he explored the almost deserted streets, seek-
ing those who had been suddenly smitten wi''.h cholera and had
lain down to suffer and perhaps to die. Thousands perished, but
of those who were saved there were many who owed their lives
to the courage of that Christian missionary. In the work of Com-
modore De Kay, to which we have referred, he speaks thus of
the heroic devotion shown in these terrible scenes:
"The efforts of the physicians at Smyrna during the fearful
season of cholera were nobly seconded by many of the foreign
missionaries. Among these I heard the labors of Mr. Brewer
everywhere spoken of in terms of admiration. Furnished with
all the requisite remedies, he scoured every lane and alley, pro-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 417
claiming his benevolent intentions, and distributing even food to
the needy. Let history, when it repeats the story of the good
Bishop of Marseilles — who, after all, was merely a soldier at his
post — also record the benevolence and the proud contempt of
danger and of death evinced by an American stranger within the
pestilential walls of Smyrna."
But these acts of courage and devotion were not to be long
continued, and these schools so full of promise were to come to
an end. Owing to some difficulty in securing adequate support
for a mission which was independent of all the regular boards,
Mr. Brewer was finally obliged to relinquish the field, though to
this day his memory is gratefully cherished in the city which was
the scene of his former labors. He returned to America in 1838,
and spent the remainder of his life in this country. For three
years he was chaplain of the State Prison at Wethersfield, Conn.
In 1844 he removed to New Haven, and established a school for
young ladies, known as the Elm Street Female Seminary, which
he conducted successfully for six years. In 1850 he removed to
Middletown, where he had a similar school for seven years. Dur-
ing all these years he was active with his pen. In 1851 he pub-
lished a volume on "The Seven Churches of Asia," the fruit
chiefly of his personal observations, as he had visited the sites of
all of them, except Thyatira, during his residence in the East,
He was always a strong anti-slavery man, and edited one or two
local anti-slavery papers. He was one of the founders of the
American Missionary Association in 1846, and was a member of
its executive committee for seventeen years. He attended two
political conventions at Pittsburg — one which nominated John P.
Hale for the presidency, and the other John C. Fremont. In 1857
he returned to Stockbridge, near the place of his birth, to spend
the rest of his days. For nine years — till 1866 — he was the acting
pastor of the church at Housatonic. He died Nov. 19, 1872. His
wife had died nearly eleven years before — Dec. 16, 1861.
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer had seven children: Henrietta Whitney,
born Jan. 20, 1831; Fisk Parsons, born Oct. 19, 1832; Emilia
Field, born Sept. 29, 1834; David Josiah, born June 20, 1837;
Marshall Bidwell, born Jan. 28, 1840; Mary Adele, born Nov. 21,
1842; Elizabeth Hale, born Dec. i, 1847.
Henrietta W. Brewer was married to Lawson Bennet Bidwell,
of Stockbridge, Nov. 18, 1857. He is an engineer, and has been
engaged for many years in the construction of railroads. He is
now engineer-in-chief of the New York & New England Rail-
road. They have three children: Lawson Brewer Bidwell, born
Nov. 19, 1858, graduated at Trinity College, in 1880; Walter
Davidson Bidwell, born Aug. 13, i860, graduated at Williams
College, in 1881; and Alice, bom March 8, 1877.
Fisk P. Brewer was graduated at Yale College in 1852, and has
been chiefly engaged in teaching. He was a tutor at Beloit Col-
lege one year, and at Yale three years, and then spent a 3-ear
abroad, most of it in the East, studying Greek at Athens, visiting
also Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Constantinople, and returning
through France and Germany. After his return to America in
418 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1859, he taught in New Haven, assisting for over a year in the
Sheffield Scientific School. For twelve years— from 1865 to 1877 —
he lived at the South, engaged in the work of education, four years
of which were spent in Raleigh, N. C. ; four years at Chapel Hill,
as professor of Greek in the State University ; and four years at
Columbia, S. C, as professor in the University of that State.
Since 1877 he has been professor of Greek in Iowa College at Grin-
nell, Iowa. His chief studies have been in Greek, ancient and
modern, and on ancient coins. He has preached occasionally,
having been licensed in 1855. From 1871 to 1873 he was United
States consul at the Piraeus, Greece. He married at New Haven,
Aug. 24, 1859, Miss Julia M. Richards, daughter of a missionary
at the Sandwich Islands. They have had eight children, of whom
six are living: Edwin Marshall, born April 12, 1861, died Dec.
2, 1862; Helen Richards, born Aug. 14, 1862; Mary Emilia, born
Dec. 3, 1863; Grace Lyman, born Oct. 7, 1865; Lily Field, born
March 19, 1868; William Fisk, born Aug. 26, 1870; Albert David,
born May 10, 1874, and Charles, born April 27, 1877, died July
29, 1878.
David J. Brewer* was graduated at Yale College in 1856 ; studied
law with his uncle, David Dudley Field, of New York, and upon
his admission to the bar removed to Kansas, and has since re-
sided at Leavenworth, in that State. In November, 1862, he was
elected Judge of the Probate and Criminal Court of Leavenworth
county; two years later, November, 1866, of the District Court,
first district; four years after that, November, 1870, the attorney
of Leavenworth county. In November, 1870, he was elected
Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and in 1876 he was
reelected for a second term, a position which he now holds. Be-
sides his judicial duties he has taken great interest in the cause of
education, having been president of the Board of Education of
Leavenworth city, and three years superintendent of its public
schools, and also president of the Educational Association of the
State. He was married Oct. 3, 1861, to Miss Louise R. Landon,
of Burlington, Vt. They have four children: Harriet Emilia,
born July 21, 1862; Etta Louise, born Dec. 2, 1864; Fanny Adele,
born Aug. 26, 1870; Jeanie Elizabeth, born Feb. 16, 1875.
Marshall B. Brewer was for some years a clerk in New York, in
the store of his uncle Cyrus. During the war, in the spring of
1862, when it was feared that Washington was in danger, and
there was a call for fresh troops, he enlisted in the Thirty-sev-
*He was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837. He studied at Wesleyan University
and at Yale, where he was graduated in 1856; studied law in the ofifice of his uncle, David Dud-
ley Field, in New York city; was graduated at Albany Law School in 1858; was admitted to the
bar in New York city : engaged in farming in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1858-59; removed to the West,
and practised his profession in Kansas City, Mo., and afterward in Leavenworth, Kansas. In
1861-64, he was a United States commissioner; in 1362-65 Judge of probate and Judge of the Leav-
enworth County Criminal Court; in 1865-69 Judge of the First Judical Court of the State, and at the
same time superintendent of public schools; in 1869-70 city attorney, and in 1879-81 judge of the
Kansas Supreme Court. He filled the office also of vice-president, and subsequently that of
president, of the Board of Education. In 1884 he was appointed United States judge for the
eighth circuit, and soon after one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States,
which office he now holds. President McKinley appointed him one of the peace commissioners
to The Hague to represent the United States. — Appleton.
JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER.
United States Supreme Court.
See page 418.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 419
enth Regiment of New York Volunteers, and was soon appointed
a lieutenant. He was stationed at Baltimore, and was often
placed on guard at the hospital, where he took the typhoid fever,
and returned home only to die. He died in Stockbridge, Sept.
24, aged twenty-two years. Though he did not fall on the field
of battle, his life was not less offered up as a sacrifice for his
country.
The daughters, Emilia, Adele and Elizabeth, have all devoted
themselves to teaching. Emilia, after some years in schools at
home, in 1876 went out to South Africa to teach in the Huguenot
Seminary at Wellington, near the Cape of Good Hope, where she
still remains, greatly interested in her work. Adele, since 1875,
has had a private school in Stockbridge; and Elizabeth, who grad-
uated at Vassar College, in 1873, is in the High School at North
Adams.
2072. viii. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 7. 1823; m. June 15, 1852. Joseph
Frederick Stone; she d. in Paris, Oct. 22, 1856.
2073. ix. TIMOTHY BEALS, b. May 21, 1809.
TIMOTHY B. FIELD — BY REV. HENRY M. FIELD.
He was named, from two of his uncles, Timothy Heals. He
was a bright, active boy, always about the wharves, and on the
sloops and schooners that lay in the Connecticut river, with
dreams in his childish imagination of the time when he should be
a man, and might go oflt roving on the deep. It was doubtless
from this contact with seafaring men that he caught a passion
for the sea, that would not be satisfied till at the age of fifteen,
after the removal to Stockbridge, a commission as midshipman
in the navy was obtained for him through the influence of Henry
W. Dwight, a distinguished member of Congress. This was in
1824, and in the winter following he was ordered to the navyyard
at Charlestown, where he spent a year, learning the duties of his
profession. He then sailed for the Mediterranean in the United
States ship Warren. Captain Kearney. The East was then the
scene of stirring events occasioned by the Greek revolution. The
Warren visited Scio soon after the massacre, which almost
depopulated the island. Commodore Glasson, who was then a
brother ofiicer on board, says that at the time of the battle of
Navarino they were so near the scene of action as to hear the
firing of the guns.
But the work which chiefly enlisted the ardor of the young
officers and crew, was the pursuit of Greek pirates in the archi-
pelago. The Mediterranean had been, to the shame of Europe,
infested for centuries with pirates, whose stronghold was on the
Barbary coast. So secure had they become that they were not
only defiant of the navies of Europe, but even strong powers
stooped so low as to pay them tribute, that their commerce might
be spared from depredation. This shameful state of things was
not checked till i8i6,when an English fleet, under Lord Exmouth,
bombarded Algiers, and laid a large part of the city in ruins.
The work was completed by the French in 1830. when the city
was captured, and the country made a province of France.
420 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Further up the Mediterranean there was a portion of the sea
which lay in the track of ships going to and fro, which was in-
fested with Greek pirates. The Greeks are natural sailors, skim-
ming the sea, which almost surrounds their country, with their
boats and small vessels. And as in times of war and revolution
there is a spirit of lawlessness abroad, the sea-rovers easily
turned into corsairs, and from being privateers sent to fight
again^ the Turks, they fell to preying on the commerce of all
nations. It was no easy matter to ferret them out, for they were
easily concealed among the numerous islands. The Warren,
which was a sloop of war, being light and swift, was detailed for
that purpose. 1 remember, when a boy, hearing my brother,
who had lately returned from the East, relate one of his advent-
ures. The freebooters had soon discovered the presence of an
armed ship, which it might not be so easy to scuttle and sink,
and kept out of her way. Weary of waiting for them to come out
of their hiding places, the Warren withdrew to a port where she
was completely disguised. Her sides were painted over to con-
ceal her port-holes, ana every means known^to seamen used to
disguise her true character. Thus completely masked, she took
her course once more among the islands, having all the appear-
ance of a heavy-laden merchantman bound for Smyrna. Scarcely
had she passed a certain point when a suspicious vessel put^out
in her wake, and commenced pursuit. As if fearing capture, the
Warren crowded all sail to make her escape, but at the same time
heavy weights were hung over ,the bow to check her progress.
The pirate gained rapidly, till she came so near as to be almost
ready to board, when in an instant the port-holes flew open, the
guns were run out, and the innocent merchantman poured in such
a deadly broadside that in a few minutes the pirate, with all on
board, went to the bottom.*
From the Warren the young midshipman was transferred to
the frigate Java. After four^ years he returned to the United
*Commodore Glasson says that his shipmate Field was often picked out for adventurous
expeditions in hunting the pirates out of their hiding; places along the coast. A recent note from
him gives some details which are interesting. He says:
"Midshipman Timothy B. Field was ordered, in 1826, to the U. S. sloop-of-war Warren,
Commander Lawrence Kearney, on a cruise of three years to the Mediterranean. On his arrival
at Port Mahon, Majorca, she was dispatched to the archipelago to give protection to our com-
merce, as a war was raging in Greece, to free itself from the Ottoman yoke. The island of Scio
had recently been invaded by a large Turkish force, and 40,000 of its inhabitants — men, women
and children — massacred. The Greek cause produced a great excitement in the United States.
The most prominent of its advocates was Mr. Webster. On the part of England Lord Byron
went himself to Greece, where he died in 1824, in the fortified town of Missolonghi. But the
Greeks, like all other people engaged in civil war, became lamentably demoralized. For while
in the United States we were pleading their cause, and giving succor, our commerce in that part
of the world was suffering from their piratical attacks. They openly, at midday, in sight of
their towns, plundered our vessels on their way from Smyrna to the United States.
"Commander Kearney had had command of the brig Enterprise and ship Decoy in the
West Indies, and been famous for his efficiency in the suppression of piracy. He had in the War-
ren first-class officers and men; and among the young officers Field was always noted for his
conspicuous activity and gallantry in all the boat expeditions when an assault or seizure of
stolen property was to be made.
"Tim, as he was always called by his brother officers, was very amiable, and had sterling
qualities of head and heart. JOHN J. GLASSON,
Commodore U. S. Navy."
FIELD GENEALOGY. 421
States; and in July, 1831, resigned his commission, though he was
recognized by all who knew him as a brilliant and promising
young officer. Capt. William L. Hudson, of the navy, in a letter
to the writer of this brief memorial, says: "It aftords me very
great pleasure to say that your brother Timothy was a midship-
man and shipmate of mine some three years in the Mediterra-
nean, in the United States ship Warren, then under command of
the present Commodores Kearney and Skinner. I have unfortu-
nately lost my journals of that interesting cruise by shipwreck,
or I could have furnished you with many recorded anecdotes of
your brother Tim Field, as he was familiarly called by his mess-
mates. Suffice it to say he was exceedingly 'clever,' in the Eng-
lish acceptation of that term, and the very life and soul of the
ship. He was brave to a fault, and always ready to do 'with a
will' any duty assigned him. I looked upon him at that time as
an officer of great promise, and well calculated to earn a name
and reputation that would have been no less gratifying to the
navy than to his family and friends." After leaving the navy,
he made a voyage around the world in a merchant ship. He
returned in 1836, and soon embarked again for South America,
and is supposed to have been lost in the gulf of Mexico. A mon-
ument was erected to his memory by his brothers, in the village
cemetery at Stockbridge.
2074. X. STEPHEN JOHNSON, b. July 11. 1815; d. Dec. 2, 1815.
1006. REV. TIMOTHY FIELD (Timothy, David, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford, Conn., Sept. 28,
1775; m. Jan. 3, 1801, Wealthy Bishop, of Madison, b. July 9, 1773; d. April 17,
1814; dau. of Josiah and Ann (Compton); m., 2d, Jan. i, 1815, Mrs. Susannah
(Pomeroy) Luck, dau. of Timothy and Anna (Ashley), b. March .4, 1777; d. Jan. 10,
1864. He was fitted for college by his pastor. Rev. Dr. John Elliott, ana entered
Yale in 1793. He was distinguished by his correct moral habits, close application
to study and fine scholarship. When his class was graduated in 1797, he delivered
the oration on "Theoretical Philosophy," which the historians of his class, Hon.
Thomas Day, of Hartford, for many years secretary of the State of Connecticut,
and the Rev. James Murdock, D.D., said, "would be remembered as long as any of
his hearers survived." One who was present, said: "I have attended many com-
mencements, but I never saw the audience so much moved and gratified as on this
occasion. ' ' It was afterward published in Boston. He studied theology with Pres-
ident Dwight, and was licensed to preach by the Eastern Association of New
Haven, Conn., May 28, 1799. On the recommendation of President Dwight, he
was invited to Canandaigua, N. Y., then a small town, where a church had recently
been organized of eighteen members. He was installed pastor, Feb. 27, 1800, and
was dismissed at his own request about June, 1805. Jan. 30, 1807, he was settled in
the west parish at Westminster, Vt., where he remained the pastor twenty-eight
years, till 1835. His ministry there was eminently successful and useful. Though
the parish was not a large one, he received into the church 375 persons. After his
dismission, he continued for a few years to live among the people, by whom he was
greatly respected and beloved. In 1830 he was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of the State of Vermont.
The serene and cheerful character of his piety is well indicated in a sentence
or two from a letter, written after his death by the minister who succeeded him as
pastor of the church at Westmmster. It was addressed to his son: "I need not tell
422 FIELD GENEALOGY.
you that I feel the loss of your father very much. I can mourn with you, for he
was a father to me. While he lived, I always knew where I could spend an hour
happily and profitably. His cheerful countenance has often made me glad. There
could be no melancholy where he was. I enjoyed his society much, and hope long
to remember his instructions and profit by his example. During the last year of
his life, he had often spoken to me of his departure from the world. He viewed
death as near. It seemed to be a pleasure to him to think of it, and his counte-
nance glowed with joy while he conversed about heaven."
He could take a joke and give one. He once went to the polls to vote for State
officers, when an opponent expressed his surprise at seeing the minister at such a
place, remarking that he supposed Mr. Field's interest was in that "kingdom which
is not of this world." Mr. Field quickly replied: "Can't a man vote without he
belongs to the kingdom ot Satan?"
Several interesting stories connected with Mr. Field and his ministry have
become traditional among us. One of them has reference to his installation in
January, 1807. Such an event was made much of in those days. The council met
in the house of Deacon Ramsey in the afternoon of the 20th, and the installation
services were on the 21st. In the evening there was what has always been called
the "ordination ball," It came off in the hotel, kept then by Ebenezer Goodhue,
near the present residence of Mrs. G. W. Chandler. The large two-story building
has now disappeared, and the spot is overgrown with tangled briars and brush-
wood. The hotel keeper was the son of Rev. Josiah Goodhue, the first settled min-
ister of Putney, and he was afterward an honored deacon of the church ; his son,
Josiah T., afterward for many years pastor of churches in Williston and Shoreham,
managed the bar ; another young man, who became also a minister, turnished the
music or a part of it, and Calvin Hitchcock, who entered the ministry and received
the degree of D.D., was chief among the dancers. Dr. Hitchcock, in after years,
used to tell the story with great hilarity, as illustrative of the times. He said that
Mr. Field was installed with plenty of liquor and a grand ordination ball ; that it
was held in the tavern of a deacon ; that a minister dealt out the toddy ; that a sec-
ond minister scraped the fiddle, and that a doctor of divinity led the dance. It may
be remarked that none of them were such at the time, that it is not stated the mem-
bers of the council or even any of the church people were present; but the fact that
a ball came oft at that time and was called the ordination ball serves to show that
public sentiment was not then what it became at a later time.
The number of the church members was small, not much exceeding fifty. But
the population of the parish was large, and as nearly all attended church in those
days, the congregation was doubtless larger than can be found to-day at any
church in the county. A list of pew holders is in evidence now, containing 100
names. As families were larger, it is believed that audiences of four or five hun-
dred were often present. Mr. Field was not a great orator, but he was regarded as
a faithful and acceptable preacher. His sermons were considered short, as they
were for those days, plain, often spicy.
Mr. Field secured the affection and good-will of his people and his work among
them was greatly blessed for twenty-eight years. Remarkable revivals occurred
on four occasions, by which 225 persons were brought into the church upon confes-
sion, 93 joining at one time in 1824. Directly after that his church was presumably
the largest in New England.
During his ministry and under his direction the Sunday-school was started and
grew strong; a missionary society was organized, such as is not found in other
churches in the vicinity, and has been continued to the present time ; and a tem-
perance movement was entered upon, but not upon a total-abstinence platform
2076.
11.
2077.
111.
2078.
iv.
2079-
V.
2080.
VI.
2081.
vii,
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which it is understood the ministers and some of the leading men in the place did
not favor. At least three printed sermons of Mr. Field's are in existence; two of
them were preached forenoon and afternoon of Nov. 7, 1824, the day of the great
reception of members, and the other at the dedication of the new church, Nov. 12,
1829, which replaced the former building, burned just ten months before.
After retiring from the ministry on Jan. i, 1865, Mr, Field continued to reside
in his large mansion south of the church. His mental powers and his last days
were clouded. He died at the age of seventy, and his remains rest in the ceme-
tery hard by the church which stands upon the ancient lot With the open win-
dows of summer, the preacher's voice could be easily heard where they lie.
He d. in Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 22, 1844. Res, Canandaigua, N. Y., and West-
minster, Vt
2075. i. ALFRED BISHOP, b. Oct. 26, 1801 ; m. Eliza H. Martin and Ann
Field Heals.
WEALTHY ANN, b. April 8, 1804; d. April 20, 1814.
MARY, b. Sept. 23, 1807; m. Aug. 15, 1825, Dr. Henry Orcutt, of
Westhampton, Mass.
TIMOTHY, b. June 8, 1811; m. Hannah Moshjer.
JOSIAH, b. June 13, 1813; d. April 16, 1814.
SERENO, b. Aug. 19, 1815; m. Juliette Reed and Sarah S. Rudd.
LORENZO, b. Aug. 19, 1815; m. Phoebe Ann Atchison and Mar-
tha Townshend.
2082. viii, WILLIAM, b. Nov. 5, 181 7; m. Miriam Rogers.
1019. REUBEN FIELD (Reuben, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zechar-
iah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Litchfield, Vt., 1792; m. Belleville,
Ontario, Eliza L. Lazaraw, b. 1816; d, April i, 1894, Cleveland, O. He d. Febru-
ary. 1872. Res. Belleville, Ontario, and Erie, Pa.
2083. i. REUBEN ADAM, b. July 9, 1834; m. Amanda Deetz.
2084. ii. BENJAMIN C, b. Sept. 16, 1836; m. Eliza A. Jackson.
2085. iii. WILLIAM K., b. ; m. and res. 92 Beechwood St., Cleveland, O.
2086. iv. CYLUS F., b. .
I0I9X- CAPTAIN MICHAEL FIELD (Michael, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Zech-
ariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Palmyra, N. Y., June
8, 1806; m. in Vienna, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1833, Ann Reynolds; d. Sept. 17, 1874; m.,
2d, in 1S78, Mrs. Harriet Brockway Lee, s. p. Mr. Field was bom in Palmyra, N. Y.,
June 8, 1806, of Connecticut parents. His father dying when he was but seven
years old, he was brought up in the family of Gen. Philetas Swift, of Revolutionary
fame. He learned the milling business in Rochester, and carried it on in Elba
Mills, N. Y. He removed to Milwaukee in 1844, thence to Racine county, where he
resided until 1861, when he was appointed register of the United States land oflBce,
at St. Croix Falls, which office he held for twenty-six years. On his retirement he
purchased a residence in Taylor's Falls. During his long and eventful life, he held
many offices of trust; captain of militia, commissioner for removing the Oneidas,
member of the board of education, city treasurer of Racine, and register of the land
office, in all which he showed his great honesty.
The St. Croix Falls paper said: "For a number of years he was a resident of
Racine, this state. He came to St. Croix Falls in 1861, receiving the appointment
of register of the United States land office from the Lincoln administration and
retained his office for more than twenty-five years,|until the Cleveland administration
came into power. — Mr. Field was a man of strong convictions and not adverse to
giving them expression — he was scrupulously honest in all his dealings — both in pri-
424
FIELD GENEALOGY.
vate and official life he was above reproach. One son, Hon. Norton J. Field, three
daughters; one the wife of ex-Senator Nason, of this village, the Misses Phebe and
Mary, who reside in New York, and his second wife, survive him. The remains
were buried at St. Croix Falls on Monday, Rev. Peabody officiating."
He d, in Taylor's Falls, Minn., Feb. 6, 1892. Res. Elba, N. Y., and Racine,
Wis.
2o86>i.
2086X.
i. SILAS WRIGHT, b. July 14, 1835; m. Nellie M. Jacobs,
ii. NORTON JAMES, b. Sept. 26, 1839. He came to Racine in 1846,
where he received a college education and graduated ; he enlisted
in April, 1861, in Company F, Second Wisconsin infantry ; was
second lieutenant, and took part in all battles fought by his regi-
ment, until he was discharged at Annapolis, in June, 1S62; he
was elected member of the legislature in 1876, 1877 and 1879, the
last time receiving 1,443 votes against 1,110 polled for his oppon-
ent. He is a Knight Templar of the Masonic order. Was post-
master at Racine for several years; unm. Res. Globe Hotel,
Milwaukee, Wis.
iii. FANNY ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 11, 1840; m. April 2, 1887. Hon. Joel
Foster Nason. He was b. Aug. 31, 1827; was senator from Polk
county, Wisconsin. She resides at Croix Falls, Wis., s. p.
2o86>^. iv. PHEBE ANNA, b. Feb. 14, 1842; unm. Res. 54 Carroll St.,
Trenton, N. J.
2086^. V. MARY CLARISSA, b. Nov. 25, 1848. The career of Miss Mary
C. Field, who is in charge of the drawing department of the state
schools at Trenton, N. J., presents some interesting features.
Her activity in her chosen field has been attended with valuable
services which have given her a prestige which she now enjoys
among her co-workers. Her school work began at Long Branch,
where she was the first person to systematize the work in art and
where she first attracted attention as a teacher of drawing for the
marked artistic feeling she imparted to her pupils. As an
instructor she has also a clear understanding of the relation of
drawing, not only to the higher phases of art, but also to the
industries. The students taking work under her are not disap-
pointed when they undertake its application in architecture,
mechanical or illustrative drawing. She is successful not only in
holding her pupils to work, but in cultivating a taste and love for
the work itself. In fact, her power in discipline is the outgrowth
of the latter, largely. Under her instruction not only have all the
students reached a good degree of intelligence and executive
power in drawing, but a large number have beCome specialists.
Miss Field was among the first in this country to introduce color
in the primary work, and remarkable results have been gained
in the attempts of the children to represent some of the simpler
flowers — painting, of course, from nature. This course of paint-
ing in the primary grades has established the fact that the color-
sense is stronger in proportion with the little children than with
older students. She has been a valuable factor at teachers'
institutes and conventions in presenting methods, suggestions
and aids in art education. Miss Field is a native of Wiscoc.-iu.
She was born at Racine.
2086^. vi. JAMES, b. June 2, 1S37; d. Oct. 16, 1837.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 425
2090.
1.
2091.
11.
2092.
iii.
2093.
IV.
1021. REUBEN FIELD (Reuben, Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Athens, Vt., Jan. 10, 1786. He
removed, in 1816, to Brattleboro, Vt., in 1817 to Groveland, Livingston county, N.
Y., where he d, Nov. 23, 1865. Hem. March 7, 1810, Mary Green, dau. of Ebenezer
and Mary (Green) Ober, of Athens, Vt., b. May 4, 1788; d. Oct. 5, 1869. Res.
Groveland, N. Y.
2087. i. ELIZA O., b. Nov, 20, 1810; m. Feb. 12, 1833, Zadoc B. Grover, of
Danville, N. Y.
2088. ii. MARY G., b. Oct. 2, 1812; m. Feb. 13, 1830, Heman Brewer, of
Groveland, N. Y.
2089. iii. LEONARD B., b. March 30, 1821; unm. Res. Sparta, N. Y.
1022. LUTHER FIELD (Reuben, Pedijah, John. Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Athens, Vt., Sept. 17, 1787. He
settled, in 1805, in Brattleboro, Vt. ; in 1811 removed to Putney, Vt. ; in 1813 to
Dummerston, Vt. ; in 1816 returned to Brattleboro; in 1824 removed to Henrietta,
Monroe county, N. Y., where he d. Feb. 14, 1861. He m. Jan. 15, 1808, Priscilla,
dau. of George and Priscilla Ware, of Putney, Vt., b. Nov. 15, 1788; d. July 10, 1877.
Res. Henrietta, N. Y.
LYMAN, b. Oct. 9, 1808; d. unm., in Gates, N. Y.. March 14, 1857.
LUCY, b. Sept. 19, 1810; m. June 30, 1830, Asahel Eldridge, of
Rochester, N. Y. ; d. Oct. 10, 1874.
CHESTER, b. Aug. 16, 1812; m. Eliza Perkins.
NANCY, b. July 7, 1814; m. Sept. 12, 1832, Jesse Dewey, of Gates,
N. Y. ; d. May 10, 1877. He was son of Thomas, b. Jan. i, 1809,
at Elderbury, N. Y. He is a farmer and resides Bergen, N. Y.
After his first wife's death he m., 2d, Nov. 6, 1878, Cynthia Field,
b. at Bergen, Feb. 22, 1827. Ch. : i. Charlotte, b. Dec. 7, 1833;
m. 1869, Wesley Nelson, of Sweden, N. Y. She d. Jan. 8, 1896.
at the home of her brother, Luther. 2. Thomas Henry, b. March
19, 1836; m. Addie Emerson. Ch. : (a) Jennie; d., aged four-
teen years. A farmer; res. Churchville, N. Y. 3. Ann Maria,
b. June 6, 1838; m. Rev. George Stratton, a Methodist minister.
Res. Webster, N. Y. 4. Lucy Jane, b. Aug. 4, 1840; d. young.
5. Abigail Field, b. Feb. 24, 1843 ; m. Wesley Nelson. Ch. : (a)
Charles W. ; res. Brockport, N. Y. 6. Martin Luther, b. July 2,
1845 ; a farmer in Churchville, N. Y. ; m. Naomi Smith. 7. Sophia
Ruth, b. May 26, 1848; m. George R. Graver, of Rochester, N.
Y., s. p. 8. Mary Jane, b. Feb. 22, 1851; d. in infancy.
HENRY, b. Aug. 25, 1816; m. Eliza Higgins.
ANN, b. Nov. 10, 1818; m. April i, 1840, Edwin Howard, of Gates,
N. Y. ; d. June 26, 1845.
PRISCILLA, b. Oct. 28, 1820; m. March 20, 1845.
ABIGAIL, b. July 24, 1822; d. July 18, 1842.
SOPHIA, b. March 20, 1824; d. April 20, 1845.
MARTIN, b. Aug. 20, 1826; d. in Los Angeles, Cal., April i, 1856,
unm.
2100. xi. HARRIET, b. Aug. 28, 1828. Resided in Lockport, N. Y.
1024. CAPTAIN PEDIJAH FIELD (Bennett, Pedijah, John, Zechariah.
Zechariah, John. John, Richard, William, William), son of Bennett and Elizabeth
(Ferrin), b. in Athens, Vt., 1779. Probably removed to Walpole, N. H. A sea cap-
tain ; went to sea and never heard from. He m. Weld. Res. Walpole, N. H.
28
2094.
V.
2095.
VI.
2096.
vii.
2097.
VUl.
2098.
IX.
2099.
X.
4'26 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2103.
1.
2104.
11.
2105.
iii.
2106.
iv.
2107.
V.
2108.
vi.
2109.
vii.
21 10.
Vlll.
2101. i. A DAUGHTER, b. ; m. John M. Masters; removed to state
of New York.
• 2102. ii, A DAUGHTER, b. ; ra. Andrews, of Walpole, N. H.
1028. MAJOR LEVI FIELD (Bennett, Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Athens, Vt., July 20, 1790. He removed
to St. Johnsbury, Vt., and then to Newport, Vt., where he d. Jan. 20, 1877. He m.
in 1813, Experience Allen, dau. of Benjamin and Experience Dean, of Athens, Vt.,
b. in Guilford, Vt., June 6, 1795; d. April 16, 1872. She was a cousin of Gen.
Ethan Allen. He was a blacksmith by trade. His wife was a Dean. Her mother
was an Allen. A near relative of Gen. Ethan Allen. He was a drum major in the
war of 1812. Major Field was in the battle of Plattsburg, N. Y. His father's father
was Bennett Field. He soon removed to Vermont and staid there until his death
Res. Barnet and West Derby, Vt.
HENRY MARTYNE, b. Sept. 6, 1814.
LUCINDA OLIVE, b. 1816; m April 8, 1835, Summer Frost, of
Newport, Vt. She d. Aug 7, 1849.
SOLOMON MORTIMER, b. Nov. 16, 1818; m, Louisa Sias.
JAMES MONROE, b. Feb. 12, 1821; m. Hannah G. Shaffer.
FREDERICK M., b. Jan. 14, 1823.
LEVI FERRIN, b. Aug. 5, 1827; m. Emily M. Atkinson and
Lusetta M. Frizelle.
BENNETT BARNARD, b. Sept. 24, 1824; m. Clarissa Lindsey.
LEONARD D., b. July 27, 1831; m. and resides Highlands, Den-
ver, Col.
LORINDA OCTAVA. b. July 27, 1833; m. Dec. 13. 1856, Lewis
Fish. Res. West Derby, Vt.
TRYPHENIA, b. Sept. 10, 1835; m. Magoon.
TRYPHOSIA, b. Sept. 10, 1835; d. Aug. 9, 1839.
LOUISA JANE, b. March 2, 1844: d. Aug. 26, 1849.
1031. JOHN FIELD (John, Padijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William) , b. Northfield, June 3, 1781; m. in 1806, Nancy Mc-
Carthy, dau. of Lemuel, b. May 31, 1783; d. Feb. 7, 1861. He was a carpenter.
He d. Oct. 14, 1862. Res. Northfield, Mass.
EMILY M., b. June 5, 1807; d. unm. April 16, 1841.
HARRIET M., b. Sept. 10, 1809; m. Henry Holton. Son Sim-
eon, b. Sept. 22, 1809.
JOHN CHANDLER, b. Oct. 3, 1811; m. Mrs. Abby Lord Harris.
ESTHER G., b. Nov. 4, 1813; m. Samuel S. Holton, son of
Samuel, b. Dec. 8, 1811.
FREDERICK H., b. April 30, 1816; m. Charlotte Doolittle.
SIBYL ANN, b. Dec. 20, 1819; d. Oct. 11, 1822.
1032. OLIVER FIELD (John, Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Feb. 11, 1783; m. in 1807, Rhoda*
Loveland. dau. of Thomas, who was b. Hebron, Conn., March 13, 1750. He was a
cordwainer. Res. Northfield, Mass.
2121. i. ELVIRA, b. Dec. 28, 1808; m. Avery Priest, son of Calvin, of
Harvard.
2122. ii. HERVEY C, b. Jan. 20, 1811; m. Martha Stearns.
♦Another record calls her Jerusha.
2II2.
X.
2113.
xi.
2II4.
xn.
2115.
1.
2116.
11.
2117.
iii.
2118.
IV.
2119.
V.
2120.
VI,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 427
2127.
vn.
2128.
viii.
2129.
ix.
2123. iii. RHODA, b. Feb. 23. 1813; m. Seth Holton, son of Simeon, b. June
12, 1 81 2. Res. Athol.
2124. iv. SOPHIA A., b. Sept. 12, 1815; d. Oct. 2, 1822.
2125. V. GRATIA, b. Jan. 4, 1818; d. Feb. 4, 1818.
2126. vi. GRATIA, b. Aug. 6, 1819; m. May 26, 1842, Joseph' Hubbard. He
was b. Brimfield, Mass., May 27, 1820; d. Feb. 28, 1894. She d.
Spring Lake, Minn., Oct. 26, 1864. He voted for the first Repub-
lican nominee for President and for every succeeding one until his
death. Ch. : i. Emma S., b. Jan. 21, 1843; m. March 25, 1869,
Abner S. Marshall, b. Aug. 7, 1835. He is a farmer. Res. Crow
River, Minn. Ch. : (a) Joseph B. Marshall, b. Dec. 31, 1869.
(b) Mabel C. Marshall, b. May 27, 1872. (c) Lewis C, b. July 15,
1875. (d) Frank Y., b. June 30, 1878. (e) Annie H., b. Dec, 7,
1884. All born at Union Grove, Minn,, except Annie, who was
born at Westpon, S. Dakota. All live at Crow River, Minn.,
except Annie, who died Oct. 28, 1897. Only J. B. is married.
2. Edward J., b. Feb. 2. 1847; m. July, 1869. Address, Ellen-
dale, N. Dakota. 3. Cruisa Estella, b. Dec 27, 1856; d, Dec. 7,
1865, at Spring Lake.
LUCIUS O., b. Feb, 13, 1822; d. Oct. 16, 1822,
LUCIUS O,, b. Jan. 20, 1824; m. Rhoda Field.
GEORGE E., b. Feb. 20, 1830; d. unm.
1033. ELIHU FIELD (John, Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Dec. 30, 1784; m. Athol, Mass.,
in 1812, Betsey Stratton, b. in 1793; d, June, 1838, in Wardsboro, Vt. He settled in
Wardsboro, Vt. , and removed from there into the western country, but returned.
He d. March 16, 1847. Res. Wardsboro, Vt,
2130. i. IRA STRATTON, b. Jan. 25, 1813; m. Harrriet Andrews.
2131. ii. SARAH HILL, b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. Sept. 13, 1847, John Stone
Haskins. Res. Northfield, Minn. He was b. Feb. 19, 1822; d.
Dec. 7, 1897. Ch. : i. Elesbeth Field, b. September, 1848, Hard-
wick, Mass.; m. in 1871, William Woods. He d. 1875. She m.,
2d, Jan. 8, 1889, Theron W. Johnson. 2. Frank K., b. March 17,
1850; d. May, 1850. 3. Charles Spencer, b. Aug. 27, 1851; d.
August, 1852. 4. Edgar Leroy, b. May 27, 1857, Northfield,
Minn. ; m. January, 1885, in Norton, Minn., Lenore Edgett.
Address, Fairfax, Minn. 5. Sarah Maria, b. Feb. 9, 1865; m.
Oct. 12, 18S5. Address, Mrs. E. E. Huestis, Fergus Falls, Minn.
6. Martin Bridge, or Willie, b. June 11, 1859; d. April, 1863.
2132. iii. MARIA ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 29, 1820; m. Feb. 2, 1842, Chester
Newton Ramsdell. He was b. Wardsboro, May 11, i8i6; d.
Northfield, Minn., April 3, 1893, She d. there April i, 1893.
Ch. : Two children d. in infancy ; and Ella Maria, b. July 9, 1846 ;
m. Oct. 30, 1867, Charles H. Watson, b. Oct, 20, 1843. Res,
Northfield, Minn. Ch. : (a) Earl H., b. April 28, 1869, North-
field, Minn. (b) Charles E,, b. Sept. 10, 1870, Northfield. Minn.
(c) Clara M,, b, Dec. i, 1872, Northfield, Minn. (d) Fred J., b.
March 20, 1875, Fargo, N. Dakota, (e) Amy F., b. March 16,
1877, Northfield, Minn, (f) Marion E,, b, Oct. 2, 1883, North-
field, Minn, (g) Helen F,, b. Nov. 6, 1885, Northfield, Minn.
All unmarried and all alive.
428 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2133.
IV.
2134.
V.
2135.
VI.
2136.
vii.
2I36K
. viii.
FRANKLIN, b. ; m. Zurina Barton.
ELIHU HOYT, b. Jan. 13. 1823; m. Maria J, Houghton.
SPENCER, b. ; m. Cornelia Smith, of Canada. He d. in
188—. She d. in 1852.
PROSPER, b. January, 1831. Left home when a boy, n. f. k.
SPENCER, b. ; d. in infancy.
1035. REUBEN FIELD (Nathan, Pedijah, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Oakham, Mass., Aug. 2, 1782; m. Experience
Burt, b, in 1784; d. Nov. 5, 1862. He was a farmer. He d. July 10, 1864. Res.
Winchester, N. H.
2137. i. DAVIS PLINEY, b. April 4, 1809; m. Polly Edgar and Mary
Sophia Sprague,
2138. ii. LENACY, b. March 23, 1805; m. Rufus Hutchinson. She d. April
5, 1895. Their only child is Willard Hutchinson, of 767 State St.,
Springfield, Mass.
2139. iii. LUVIA, b. ; m. Samuel Cutting, of Northfield, Mass. She d.
in 1887. Their only son is Nathan Cutting, ot Baldwinsville,
Mass.
2140. iv. NATHAN, b. 1804; m. .
2141. V. SARAH, b. 1811; m. Ruel Davis. She d. Hinsdale, N. H., Oct.
13, 1857. No issue living.
2142. vi. MINERVA, b. ; m. James Snow. She d. in October. 1896.
A grandson is Charles Snow, at Hinsdale, N. H.
2143. vii. JONATHAN B., b. 1808; ra. .
1041. AMOS FIELD (Amos, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Dorset, Vt., Nov. 12, 1782; m. in Adams,
N. Y., Sophia Clary, dau. of Abel, of Adams, N. Y. She d, Beloit, Feb. 5, 1858.
He was born in Dorset, Vt, on the Field place, two miles north ot the village,
where he lived until after his marriage assisting his father on his farm and about
his marble quarries. He moved to Adams, N. Y., where he died. He d. in 1829.
Res. Dorset, Vt., and Adams, N. Y.
2144. i. SPAFFORD CLARY, b. Aug. 3, 1809; m. Mrs. Martha Ann
Cooper.
2145. li. GEORGE B., b. April 3, 1817; m. Lenora Murphy.
2146. iii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. March 7, 1823; m. Eliza A. Trow-
bridge.
1047. ALFRED FIELD (Amos, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Amos and Zeoriah (Baldwin), b. in Dorset,
Vt., March 15, 1787; d. June 23, 1862. He m. Jan. 12, 1819, Sophronia, dau. of
Capt. Isaac and Jerusha (Bowen) Gilbert, of Cavendish. Vt., b. Oct. 26, 1799; d.
Aug. 17. 1863. Alfred was the son who remained at home and on whom the care
of his parents and younger sisters devolved. He made a journey to Massachusetts
and Connecticut in youth, and took, at one time, the contract to clear of lumber a
large tract of land at Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., where his brother, Amos
Field, lived, by which he also cleared quite a large sum of money; which was
essential to him at that time. He married, in 1819, the fair, sensible daughter of
Capt. Isaac and Jerusha (Bowen) Gilbert, of Cavendish, Vt., whose fame had reached
him, and gallantly set forth in search of her. Finding that she who awakened his
interest, unseen, evoked his admiration and love on becoming acquainted, he happily
won her for his wife. It was universally conceded that it had been a fortunate day
FIELD GENEALOGY. 429
2147-
1.
2148.
ii.
2149.
iii.
2150.
IV.
for both when they met and loved each other ; especially perhaps had it been for-
tunate for Mr. Field, who was of a sensitive and ambitious temperment, inclined
to take life too seriously and too hopelessly, the attitude of a mind that has thought
acutely without the advantages of attrition with other minds, and has been too full
ot care. His wife, on the other hand, was just twenty-two years of age, a young
woman accustomed to the execution of affairs, of decisive habits of thought, of great
humor and amiability. She brought with her a freedom of thought, a sanguine out-
look upon life, and expectation of success. A notable woman in any age, but especi-
ally so in those days of melancholy religious dogmatism and limited intelligence. It is
refreshing to know that out of the shadows of that time she should have been named
Sophronia, and have had a sister Clorinda, and another Diana, and a brother Oliver,
names gleaned from the enchanting pages of Latin and Mediaeval romance. Her
character and perfect health were tonic, and made the farmhouse an enticing spot
to all the friends and cousins, while her thrift and industry matched her husband's.
Four children came to bless them, and to blend to an uncommon degree in the
record of four lives those admirable characteristics that met m their father and
mother. Res. Dorset, Vt.
FREDERICK, b, Oct. 12, 1820; m. Mary H. Bacon.
JEANETTIE, b. Sept. 19, 1822; m. May 9, 1844, James H. Good-
rich, of Albion, N. Y., now Waterloo, Iowa.
CHARLES, b. Dec. i, 1825; m. Henrietta Armstrong.
ELLEN, b. May 15, 182S; unm. Res. Waterloo, Iowa.
1048. SPAFFORD FIELD (Amos, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Amos and Zeoriah (Baldwin), b. in
Dorset, Vt., March 28, 1789. He removed to Weedsport, Orleans county, N. Y.,
where he d. Dec. 21, 1869. He m. Oct. 6, 181 1, Sally Cushman, dau. of Samuel and
Abigail (Raymond) Collins, of Dorset, Vt., b. Aug. 8, 1794; d. May 18, 1874.
Spafford Field was born in Dorset, on the old Field place, and while a young
man became interested in the marble business. The Dorset quarries were first opened
in 1785, and soon an extensive business in this line was built up. The early quarry-
men labored under great disadvantages, for the want of proper machinery to saw
the marble. The first attempt at sawing was made by Spafford Field, about 1818.
He put in operation a gang of saws, on the site occupied by Major Hawley's mills,
in South Dorset. This first mill was constructed in accordance with the best know-
ledge then possessed on the subject, but it could saw but very little marble. How-
ever, soon after great improvements were made. In 1829 he moved to Weedsport.
Mr. Field was married when he was twenty-one years of age to Sarah Cushman
Collins, who was seventeen years of age. Early in the twenties they moved trom
Dorset, Vt.. with their five children, to Brutus— now Weedsport — New York. Two
children were born there. In 1829 they went to Albion, where they lived perma-
nently. Two children were born here. Mr. Field died there, December, 1869, aged
eighty years. Coming to a new country, as he did, without a fortune and a large
family of children to educate, he used in the early days to occasionally have the
"Field blues." Although there was a seminary and an academy there after his
coming, all but the youngest child were sent away to school. As he advanced in
years he overcame this, and lived a very happy old age with his children, grand-
children and three great-grandchildren near him. He had a remarkably amiable
disposition ; was a lovely Christian gentleman. One man, a lawyer, told a friend
after his death, that he "would be a happy man could he be so sure of heaven as he
was sure that Mr. Field was there." "He never had an enemy," one said. He was
an upright, industrious man, an exemplary Christian, and was rewarded for his
430 FIELD GENEALOGY.
industry by a competence for his declining years, and by the esteem of all his
acquaintances.
Res. Weedsport, N. Y.
2151. i. ABIGAIL SOPHRONIA.b. Nov, 6, 1812; m. June 10, 1835, Elizur
Hart, of Albion; d. Feb. 11, 1847.
2152. ii. JANE ELIZA, b. June 8, 1814; m. April 6. 1836, Henry A. King,
of Albion; d. March 11, 1848.
2153. iii. BENJAMIN COLLINS, b. June 12, 1816; d. unm.
2154. iv, NORMAN SPAFFORD, b. May 26, 1818; m. Sarah D. Baker,
Mary G. Baker and Mary Wolcott.
2155. V. HULDAH JANETT, b. April 6, 1820; m. October, 1853, Henry A.
King, of Albion.
2156. vi. SAMUEL COLLINS, b. Oct. 24, 1823; d. Nov, 29, 1824.
2157. vii. SARAH FRANCIS, b. Nov. 27, 1826; m. June, 1849, George
Harris, ot Glenns Falls, N. Y. She d. May 25, 1898, in San
Francisco.
2158. viii. ELLEN ZEORIAH, b. Nov. 7, 1831; unm. Res. Albion, N. Y. ;
formerly art teacher.
2159. ix. AGNES AMELIA, b. Nov. 6, 1833; unm. Res. Mankato, Kans,
1052. BENNETT FIELD (Bennett, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Bennett and Elizabeth (Pierce), b.
in Mansfield, Conn.. Oct. 12, 1778. He came with his father, in 1798, to Berlin,
Vt. ; removed to Pennsylvania, where he d. July 8, 1854, He m. Dec. 4, 1805,
Lucinda, dau. of Fox. b. Oct. 11, 1778; d. Jan. 10, 1867. Res, in Pennsylvania.
2160. i. LOUISA, b. Nov. 23, 1806; m, Feb. 20, 1830, George Mathews, of
Chatauqua, N, Y. ; d. in 1838.
LOVISA, b. July 4, 1809.
ALPHEUS, b. Oct. 25, i8n; m. Mary Averill and Mary Chapin.
MARY STRICKLAND, b. July 14, 1814; m. Feb. 22, 1838, Amzi
Pickett, of Scott, Cortland county, N. Y,
OLIVE MARIA, b, Nov, 29, 1815; d. 1834.
MARCIA LOVINA. b. May 29, 1820; m. Feb. 22, 1840, Calvin
Baldwin, of Amity, Erie county, Penn.
2166. vii. MABEL LUCENA, b. 1822; m. Oct, 14, 1841, Harvey Norton,
of Quasquota, Iowa; d, July 15, 1872,
1055. DEA. ALPHEUS FIELD (Bennett, Bennett. John. Zechariah, Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Bennett and Elizabeth (Pierce),
b. m Mansfield, Conn., Dec. 4, 1785. He settled in Berlin, Vt., where he died. A
prominent business man in town. He m, March 26, 1815. Rhoda, dau. of Jonathan
and Rhoda (Bailey) Emerson, of Berlin, b. in Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 15, 1787; d.
June 8, 1876. Alpheus Field was born in Coventry, or Mansfield, Conn. ; came to
Berlin, Vt., with his parents when about fifteen years of age; was married March
26, 1815, to Rhoda Emerson, of Haverhill, Mass. He was a farmer, and a con-
tractor and builder. In politics was a Whig, and later a staunch Republican ; was
a deacon in the Congregational church of Berlin for many years. He d, Feb. 15,
1865. Res. Berlin, Vt.
2167, i, ALPHEUS DENISON, b. May 24, 1817 ; a physician ; d. in Jericho,
Vt., Nov, 29, 1884.
SAMUEL MILTON, b. Feb. 15, 1819; m, Abigail House,
ANDREW EMERSON, b. Dec, 21, 1820; m. Clarinda Nelson.
WILLIAM HENRY, b. Oct. 12, 1822; m. Amanda M. Whitney.
2I6I,
11,
2162,
iii.
2163.
iv.
2164.
V.
2165.
VI.
2168.
11,
2169.
iii.
2170.
IV.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 431
2171. V. CORNELIUS ARCHIMEDES, b. Feb. 4, 1825; m. Maria Dewey.
2172. vi. HARRIET GEORGIANA, b. April 20, 1828; m. 1853, Dr. Fred-
erick Freeman Hovey, of Jericho, Vt. He was b. Thetford, Vt. ,
Jan. 16, 1826; d. Jericho, Vt., March 7, 1872; was a physician.
Ch. I. Harriet Rhoda Hovey, b. June 12, 1858; m. April 6, 1892,
Charles F. Higgias. Address, 67 Church St., Springfield, Mass.
2. Gertrude Frederika Hovey, b. Aug. 17, 1862; m. March 31,
1886. Eugene B. Jordan. Address Jericho Centre, Vt.
1057. SETH PIERCE FIELD (Bennett, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Bennett and Elizabeth Pierce,
b. in Mansfield, Conn., March 9, 1791; settled in Berlin, Vt., and removed to North-
field, Vt., where he d. Dec. 11, 1867; was a farmer; he m., Jan. 18, 1815, Sarah,
dau. of Simeon and Sarah (Wood) Closson, of Thetford, Vt.,;b. June 24, 1794; d.
July II, 1836; m., 2d, Oct. 9, 1837, Nancy, dau. of Moses and Anna (Mason) Lane,
b. May 5, 1800; d. . Res. Berlin and Bennington, Vt.
2173. i. CAROLINESAWYER.b. June 8, i8i7;m., March 17, 1839, Thomp-
son Jacobs; m., 2d, December, 1840, Joseph G. Langdon; m., 3d,
Nov. 7, 1855, Thomas G. Knight, of Independence, Iowa; she d.
Sept. 29, 1889. Knight was b. Worcester, Mass., Nov. 27, 1795;
was a farmer, and d. March i, 1881. Ch. : i. Daniel Thompson
Jacobs, b. Dec. 27, 1839; d. April 23, 1873. 2. Burton Ever-
ington Langdon, b. Sept. 21, 1841; address. Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. Inez Emma Knight, b. April 23, 1859; address, Independence,
Iowa.
2174. ii- SIMON CLOSSON. b. Sept. 15, 1820; m. Rhoda W. Lord.
2175. iii. ROXANA ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 6, 1824; m. April 29. 1848, Levi
C. McPherson, of Hanover, N. H. Res. Lebanon, N. H.
2176. iv. LUCY PARKER, b. Nov. 11, 1828; m. March 4, 1848, John Col-
burn Kimball, of Anamosa. Iowa. Res. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 711
South 7th street. He was b. Lowell, Mass., March 4, 1848;
d. Aug. 31, 1895. Ch.: i. Florence L. Kimball, b. Oct. 15, 1851,
at Westfield, N. Y. ; d. Feb. 14, 1864. 2. Willis H., b. Aug. 19,
1856; m. April 16, 1883. Res., Council Blufl:s, 714 South 6th street;
machinist. 3. Charles E., b. June 4, 1859; m. June 24, 1883.
Res., Council Bluffs, 716 South 6th street; machinist. 4. Clement
F., b. Aug. II, 1868; m. Sept. i, 1892. Res., Council Bluffs, 711
South 7th street.
2177. v. SARAH WOOD, b. Jan. 3, 1832; m. Nov. 19, 1872, Aaron B.
Pond, of Keene, N. H. ; d. Jan. 29, 1873.
2178. vi. HANNAH MELISSA, b. April 5, 1834; m. April 11, 1854, Eben-
ezer R. Kellogg, of Hanover, N. H. Ebenezer R. Kellogg, b.
Dec. 31, 1830, in Montpelier, Vt. ; d. March 6, 1891, in Hanover,
N. H., son of Ebenezer S. and Roxana (Reed) Kellogg. He m.
Hannah M. Field, of Northfield, Vt. ; the marriage occurred in
Montpelier, Vt. ; their two living children reside in Hanover,
N. H.
2179. vii. DAVID DANA, b. March 12, 1836; m. Laura A. Dewey.
2180. viii. MOSES LANE, b. Sept. 10, 1840; m. Susan B. Silsby.
1060. REV. HEZEKIAH FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah. Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane), b.
in Woodstock, Vt., Sept, 3, 1774; he removed in 1806 to Houndsfield, Jefferson
432 FIELD GENEALOGY.
county, N. Y. ; d. in Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1845; a Methodist minister; he m.
Keturah Ransom, of Woodstock, Vt. ; no issue.
1061. JUDGE ELIJAH FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah. Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Woodstock, Vt., Feb. 2, 1776; he
settled in Ballstown, N. Y., in 1810; removed, to Sacket Harbor, Jefferson county,
N. Y., where he d. Feb. 6, 1867; he was postmaster at Sacket Harbor from 1812
to 1821 ; judge of Jefferson county several years; he was a prominent man and took
an active part in the war of 1812-15 ; he m. in 1798, Esther Butler, of New Bedford,
Mass., b. Dec. 9, 1772; d. Feb. 8, 1850. She was a superior and interesting woman.
Res. Sacket Harbor, N. Y.
2181. i. LAURA, b. May 15, 1799; m. April 20, 1820, David Millington, of
Sacket Harbor.
2182. ii. ALANSON, b. Jan. 27, 1801; m. Harriet Goodrich.
2183. iii. THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. Feb. 5, 1812; he was a volunteer
officer in the Florida war; d. May 6, 1837, while on a voyage to
the East Indies; was buried on the Island of Madagascar.
1063. REV. LEBBEUS FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah, John,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Woodstock, Vt., Feb. 2, 1780, he
removed in 1806 to Houndsfield, Jefferson county, N. Y., where he resided; nearly
blind and deaf; a "Christian" preacher and one of the first to promulgate that doc-
trine and the first to preach it in the State of New York; he continued in the min-
istry until eighty years of age; d. Sept. 6, 1879; he m. June 6, 1803, Eunice, dau. of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Snow) Warren, of Woodstock, b. Sept. 12, 1777; d. July 25,
1865. Res. Houndsfield, N. Y.
2184. i- ALMIRA, b. March 7, 1804; m. Oct., 1826, Austin Mattison, of
Watertown, N. Y. ; she d. December, 1888.
2185. ii. HEZEKIAH, b. Oct. 11, 1811; m. Lucy W. Hayes.
2186. iii. ELIZA, b. May 4, 1813; m. Feb. 13, 1836, Rev. George Sumner
Warren, of Watertown, N. Y. , d. June 12, 1874. Rev. George
Sumner Warren, was b. at Hanover N. H., Feb. 14, 1809. He
descended from ancestors who were noted for physical vigor,
intelligence and moral worth. His grandfather, Jabez Warren,
was a soldier of the Revolution. He lived in Massachusetts, near
Lexington, and was working at his trade as a shoemaker when
he heard the British were coming to attack the place. He left
his bench, and having no gun, took his scythe from the snath and
hastened to the field of conflict. The British soldiers had retired
from the scene before he arrived, but meeting two women who
were fleeing, they told him that a number of soldier were plun-
dering their house ; he went with them and approached the back
part of the house without being observed, and resorting to the
strategy that Ethan Allen used at a later date, he called out in a
loud voice "halt," and then commanded his imaginary soldiers to
surround the house and make prisoners of the men within. As
the frightened soldiers were escaping from the front door and
windows, he broke in the back door and succeeded in wounding
one of the soldiers with the scythe. Mr. Warren's grandfather,
on his mother's side, Colonel Weber, of Walpole, N. H., was also
a soldier in the Revolutionary army. Mr. Warren spent the days
of his youth in the place of his birth; then lived in Vermont,
whence he went to Rome, N. Y., where he engaged in the pot-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 433
tery business. Here he united with the Christian church, in
which, when he was twenty-three years old, he was ordained to
the work of the ministry. He preached for a number of years in
Courtland county, N. Y. ; at Solon, South Virgil, Marathon, and
other places. He then moved to Jefferson county, N. Y.. and in
1836 married Eliza Field, daughter of Rev. L. Field. There were
born to them four children — two sons and two daughters. One of
the sons enlisted when eighteen j'ears of age and became a cap-
tain in the Union army, serving four years and a half. He sur-
vived the war and died in 1872. The other son became a leading
citizen of South Dakota, where he lived for many years, and died
in 1894. The two daughters were still living, with one of whom,
Mrs. Smith, the deceased spent the last years of his life. His
wife died in 1874 while he was living and preaching in Jefferson
county, N. Y. He came to Humboldt, Iowa, in 18S2, where he
lived a quiet, retired and useful life. He was an able and suc-
cessful preacher who kept himself in touch with all the great
moral questions which have claimed public attention for the past
half century. He was an active member of the Liberty party as
early as 1844, and fought the battle of freedom till victory was
won. He early espoused the cause of just civil government. He
would no sooner have voted for a man in favor of licensing the
saloon than he would for one in favor of licensing highway rob-
bery or murder. He was also an earnest friend of equal suffrage.
Since coming to Humboldt he had been a steady attendant of the
Congregational church of that place, and had on several occasions
been invited to fill the pulpit in the pastor's absence. He retained
his vigor of body and mind in a marked degree to the very last.
He conversed with his daughter not more than ten minutes be-
fore he died. He requested that the services be held at the
house, and that they should be conducted by Rev. S. H. Taft, of
Unity church, and Rev. Marsh, of the Congregational church.
Mr. Taft and Mr. Warren had been intimate friends for many
years, having been associated together in religious work in the
East more than forty years before. He was b. Hanover, N. H.,
Feb. 14, 1809; d. Humboldt, Iowa, Feb. 17,1896. Ch. : i. Lebbeus
W. Warren, b. March 15, 1841; d. Feb. 11, 1894; no children. 2.
Sumner H. Warren, b. Sept. 14, 1843; d. Sept. 19, 1872; m.
December, 1870; one daughter, Mrs. Blanche W. Duncan, New
York city. 3. Eliza A. Warren, b. May 21, 1848; ra. November,
1871. 4. Eugenie M. Warren, b. June 17, 1837; m. Sept. 15, 1858,
Charles S. Smith; postoffice, Humboldt, Iowa; he was b. Jan. 26,
1835; d. May 22, 1898; was an implement dealer. Mr. Smith was
born in Clayton, Jefferson county, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1835; he was
married Sept. 15, 1858; he moved from Watertown, N. Y., to
Humboldt county, going there in October, 1881, where he has
lived since, an honored citizen of the town and county. With
John B. Smith, still a resident there, he for several years was one
of the company of Smith & Smith, and at his death was the
senior member of the firm of C. S. Smith & Co., one of the most
enterprising business firms of the city. Mr. Smith has been a
member of the Municipal Board of Humboldt, having in 1898
434 FIELD GENEALOGY.
closed a term as mayor. He was highly esteemed as a public-
spirited and enterprising citizen of the town. Ch. : (a) Sumner
Warren Smith, b. Sept. 17. 1863, Brownville, N. Y. ; postoffice,
Humboldt, Iowa, (b) Florence E. Smith, b. Nov. 26, 1865, Phil-
adelphia, N. Y. ; postoffice, Humboldt, Iowa; m. July 25, 18S8,
Corydon H. Brown, Jr. Ch. : i. Carrol Brown, b, Dec. 25, 1892,
Dakota City, Iowa; d. Dec. 30, 1892. ii. Eugenia Brown, b.
July 31, 1894, Dakota City, Iowa.
2187. iv. SAMUEL WARREN, b. July 9, 181 5; m. Tamson M. Mattison.
2188. V. LEBBEUS, b. May 17, 1818; m. Lucy Moore.
1064. THADDEUS FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane), b. in
Woodstock, Vt., Nov. 15, 18S1; he removed in 1806 to Houndsfield. Jefferson
county. N. Y. ; in to . Wis., where he d. April, 1859; he m. Clarissa, Norton,
of Woodstock, Vt. ; res. in Wisconsin.
2189.
OLIVE.
2190.
ii.
TAMSON.
2I9I.
iii.
NANCY.
2192.
iv.
AURILLA.
2193.
V.
MATTISON,
2194.
vi.
LAURA.
2195.
vii.
ESTHER.
2196.
viii.
PHILIP.
1068.
REV
. ALPHEUS
REV. ALPHEUS FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane), b.
in Woodstock, Vt., Feb. 10, 1789; he removed in 1806 to Houndsfield, Jefferson
county, N. Y. ; in to Michigan, where he d. Feb. 4, 1861; he was a Methodist
minister; hem. Betsy Wood; res. in Michigan.
2197. i. KETURAH, b. .
219S. ii. SAMUEL, b. ; d. 1862.
1069. SPAFFORD FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John. Zechariah, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane), b. in
Woodstock, Vt., April 10, 1790; he went with his father in 1806 to Houndsfield,
N. Y., where he d. Aug. 24, 1870; m., Hannah Russagie, of Houndsfield, b. ;
d. ; m., 2d, Alice Moore, dau. of Abram, d. March 16, 1859; res. Houndsfield,
N. Y.
2199. i. MARY, b. ; m. Green ; a dau. is Mrs. Maria Taylor, Cam-
bridge, Pa.
2200. ii. SPAFFORD ELIJAH, b. Dec. 27, 1828; m. Phoebe Allen.
1070. MAJOR SAMUEL FIELD (Elijah. Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zecha-
riah. John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane),
b. in Woodstock, Vt., Jan. 17, 1793; he went with his father in 1806 to Houndsfield,
N. Y., where he d. April 20, 1843; he served through the war of 1812-15 as drum-
major; he m. Phoebe, dau. of Ebenezer and Phoebe (Healey) Allen, of Houndsfield;
res. Houndsfield, N. Y.
2201. i. ANDREW J., b. July 28, 1816; m. Jennette Butterfield and Caro-
line Aurelia Morris.
2202. ii. MARIA, b. March 13, 1822; m. May. 1843, Charles A. Payne, of
Sacket Harbor, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 21. 1851.
Vr„- .^
FIELD GENEALOGY. 435
1071. BENNETT FIELD (Elijah, Bennett, John, Zechariah, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tamson (Crane), b. in Wood-
stock, Vt., Jan. 17, 1795; he went with his father in 1806 to Houndsfield, N. Y. ; in
1845 removed to Shabbona Grove, De Kalb county. 111., where he d. October, 1854;
he m. 1817, Fanny, dau. of John and Huldah Waite, b. in Rindge, N. H., 1798;
d. 1871. Res. Shabbona, 111.
2203. i. SALLY, b. Aug. 8, 1818; m. Feb. 6, 1S36, William Bowen ; removed
to Shabbona Grove, 111. ; d. Nov. 16, 1852.
2204. ii. JOHN WAITE, b. Dec. 5, 1822; m. Mary Francis.
2205. iii. WILLIAM B., b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. Julia Ann Hill.
2206. iv. CHESTER, b. Feb. 2, 1830; m. Maria D. Temple.
2207. v. ELIJAH C. b. April 13, 1832; m. Jane Eliza Fritz.
2208. vi. ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 3, 1836; m. May 28, 1851, W. Smith Hill, of
Clinton, 111. ; d. Feb. 11. 1868. He was b. Brownville, N. Y., April
5, 1826, and d. in Dudenville, Mo.; was a farmer. Ch. : i.
Chester Hill, b. Nov. 9, 1852; d. Sept. 18, 1862. 2. Kitt Carson
Hill, b. Feb. i, 1854; m. May 14, 1881; address, Chicago, 111. 3.
Inez Ledoisa Robinson, b. Dec. 6, 1856; m. May 10, 1881 : address,
543 West 17th street, St. Paul, Minn. 4. Ella Elizabeth Ames,
b. May 5, 1858; m. Dec. 31, 1879; address, 370 South Broad-
way, Aurora, 111. 5. Ursula Hill, b. Nov. 4, i860; d. Sept. 25,
1861. 6. William Smith Hill, b. Nov. 26, 1862; address, 2173
Troy street, Chicago, 111. 7. Osyro Hill, b. Oct. 15, 1865; care of
Detmer Music Co., Chicago, 111. 8. Sylvester Hill, b. June 7,
1855; m. Oct. 12, 1881, Emma Effie McKenzie, b. Nov. 17, 1856;
is a commercial traveler; res. 524 Walnut street, Mankato, Minn.
Ch. : (a) Bernice Hill, b. Sept. 30, 1S83; single; living, (b)
Clarence Sylvester Hill, b. May 13, 1886; single; living.
1084. ORANGE FIELD (Zenas, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Northampton, Mass., Feb. 22. 1790; m. April 8,
1811, Rhoda Graves, d. Jan. 6, 1826; m., 2d, Oct. 20, 1827, Esther Collins, d. Jan. 8,
1832; m., 3d, June 18, 1844 Huldah Boynton Tyler. Orange Field, son of Zenas
and Sarah (Burrows), b. in Whately, Mass. ; d. there ; a successful farmer ; he m.
April 8, 181 1, Rhoda, dau. of John and Lois (Parker) Graves, of Whately, b. April
18, 1791; d. Jan. 6, 1826; m., 2d, Oct. 20, 1827, Esther, dau. of James and Zerviah
(Miller) Collins, and widow of Smith Daniels, of South Hadley, Mass., b. Nov. 2,
1793; d. Jan. 8, 1832; m., 3d, June 18, 1844, Huldah, dau. of John and Sarah (Hatfield)
Boynton, of Greenfield, Mass., widow of Albert Jones, of Chesterfield, Mass., and
Nathan Tyler, of Albany, N. Y., b. March, 1790; d. 1853. He d. in Westfield,
Mass., Jan. 17, 1854. Res. Whately, Mass.
2209. i. SARAH, b. April 19, 1812; d. Nov. 3, 1825.
2210. ii. SOPHRONIA, b. Feb. 19, 1814; m. May 2, 1833, Solomon Root, of
Westfield, Mass.
2211. iii. LOUISA, b. March 5, 1816; m. April 21, 1834, Theodore Bridg-
man, of Cleveland, Ohio.
2212. iv. SOPHIA, b. July 31, 1818; m. Aug. 13, 1837, Lucius King, of
Huntsburg, Ohio;ra., 2d, September, 1846, Harlow Gillett, of
New Hartford, Conn.
2213. v. ESTHER CORDELIA, b. Sept. 19, 1822; d. April 3, 1848.
2214. vi. FLORA ELVIRA, b. Nov. 13, 1823; m. Jan. 4, 1844, Henry
Dwight, of Hatfield; he d. Jan. 17, 1893.
436 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2218.
11.
2219.
HI.
2220.
IV.
2221.
V.
2222.
VI.
2223.
vii,
2215. vii. SARAH ZERVIAH, b. Nov. 13, 1829; m. October, 1885, Horace
Waite, of Hatfield; d. Aug. 28, 1887; she d. Feb. 9, 1889.
2216. viii. ORANGE, b. Sept. 7, 1831; d. Jan. 15, 1832.
1085, JOHN FIELD (Zenas, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Whately, Mass., Oct. 10, 1792; m. Nov. 17, 1816,
Abigail Warner; d. Sept. 11, 1865. John Field, son of Zenas and Sarah (Burrows),
b. in Whately, Mass. ; d. there; a farmer; he m. Abigail, dau. of Paul and Abigail
(Wells) Warner, of Williamsburg, Mass., b. May 18, 1791.
John, of Whately, February, 1868; d. Dec. 19, 1S68; wife Abigail; sons, Lem-
uel B., Paul W., John W. ; makes bequests to Edward De Goff Pomeroy and Abigail
Pomeroy, children of Cornelius Pomeroy, of East Hampton. — Franklin County
Probate.
He d. Dec. 19, 1868. Res. Whately, Mass.
2217. 1. CLYMENA, b. May 26, 1817; m. Jan 12, 1837, Cornelius Pomeroy,
of Southampton.
PAUL WARNER, b. May 30, 1819; d. March 26, 1821.
INFANT, b. Sept. 3, 1821; d. Nov. 29, 1821.
PAUL WARNER, b. Dec. 19, 1823; m. Julia M. Dawson.
INFANT, b. Nov. 29, 1827; d. Nov. 30, 1827.
JOHN WRIGHT, b. April 12, 1830; d. March 16, 1832.
LEMUEL BATES, b. July 28, 1832; m. Harriet Lilley and
Augusta J. Robbins.
2224. viii. JOHN WRIGHT, b. March 16, 1835; m. Lucy Moore.
1087. ZENAS FIELD (Zenas, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Whately, Mass., Sept. 22, 1796; m. Chloe Drake,
dau. of Jehiel and Chloe (Steele), of Buckland, b. June 26, 1797; d. Jan. 29, 1856, in
Northampton; m,. 2d, Anna .
Zenas of Ashfield, filed Feb. 6, 1871; wife Anna; daughters, Lovina Damon,
Lydia Guilford; mentions heirs of deceased son Charles; names not given; sons,
David J. Field, Zenas Field, Jr., of Northampton. — Franklin County Probate.
I, 1871; res. Whately and Ashfield, Mass.
DIADAMA, b. 1820; m. August, 1845, Lewis Renifi", of Buckland.
ZENAS, b. May 27, 1822; m. Clarissa Dawson.
LOVINIA, b. April 21, 1824; m. Lewis Damon, of Chesterfield.
LYDIA, b. ; d. .
CHLOE, b. ; m. Lucius Reniff, of Buckland.
JOHN L., b. ; d. unm. probably young.
CHARLES, b. March i, 1834; m. and d. before 1871; left issue.
LYDIA JUDD, b. May 24, 1835; m. Austin Guilford, of North-
ampton.
2232. ix. DAVID J., b. Sept. 13, 1837: m. Sarah Damon.
1093. WILLIAM FIELD (John, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass., Dec. 8, 1793; m. there Oct. 7, 1828,
Submit Hamilton, of Chesterfield; she d. Jackson, Mich., aged 86. William Field
was b. in Conway Dec. 8, 1793; he owned and carried on the farm known as Field's
Hill, in partnership with his brother John till 1844, when he met with an accident,
being thrown from his horse, which resulted in his death.
William, of Conway, intestate; July 16, 1844, administrator appointed, Phineas
Bartlett, by R. E. Newcomb, J. Prob ; widow. Submit H. Field ; daughters, Lucy
Hed.
Feb.
2225.
2226.
ii.
2227.
111.
2228.
IV.
2229.
V.
2230.
VI.
2231.
Vll.
2232.
Vlll.
JOHN FIELD.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 437
2233.
1.
2234.
11.
2235.
iii.
2236.
IV.
Ann Field, Deucie L. Field ; sons, Samuel G. Field, Leonard H. Field ; daughter,
Mary Jane Field. — Franklin County Probate.
He d, June 7, 1845; res. Conway, Mass.
LUCY ANN, b. July 19, 1829; unm. ; res. Montclair, N. J.
DEUCIE LUCRETIA, b. July 29, 1831; unm.; res. Jackson,
Mich.
SAMUEL GRIMES, b. Dec. 8, 1833; m. Anna Greene,
LEONARD HAMILTON, b. July 8, 1838; m. Mrs. Alia P. Ray-
ner Perkins.
2237. V. MARY JANE, b. Jan. 9, 1841; m. June it, 1867, Henry J. Durant,
of Franklin, Pa. She d. August, 1892. Ch. : i. Leonard, b.
; res. Jackson, Mich.
2238. vi. LEONARD HAMILTON, b. May, 1S35; d. Aug. 27, 1837.
1094. JOHN FIELD (John, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass., June 28, 1796; m. Sept. 25, 1828,
Fidelia Nash, dau. of Elijah and Paulina (Warner), of Conway, b. Feb. 6, 1806; d.
Sept. 22, 1865. He d. June 13, 1876. Res. Conway, Mass.
He was born in Conway, Mass., and always resided there, on the farm his
father purchased on moving from Hatfield. He was an attendant of the church.
Held various public offices of trust, and was respected by all his townsmen. He
was the soul of honor and possessed good judgment in a remarkable degree. He
was a fine looking man, and in his latter years was an excellent representative of
the gentlemen of the old school.
The universal opinion of him was that he was a man of remarkable judg-
ment and common sense, with strict uprightness. "I* remember hearing an
acquaintance of the family say that my father's sound sense and ability, with my
mother's refinement and love for study, had been an excellent trait in my brothers."
John, of Conway, b. 1796; d. June 13, 1876. His next of kin were: Joseph N.,
of Manchester, England, son ; Marshall, of Chicago, son ; Henry, of Chicago, son ;
Mrs. Henry Dibblee, of Chicago.'daughter ; Mrs. Lyman D. James, of Williamsburg,
Mass., daughter. Henry Field, exec. — Franklin County Probate.
2239. i. CHANDLER AUGUSTUS, b. Sept. 19, 1829: m. Helen M. Wells.
2240. ii. JOSEPH NASH, b. Sept. 20, 1831 ; m. Jane Hayes and Catharine
Blackwell.
2241. iii. MARSHALL, b. Aug. 18, 1835; m. Nannie Douglass Scott.
2242. iv. HELEN ELIZA, b. Feb. 3, 1837; m. Sept. 10, 1857, Hon. Lyman
D. James, of Williamsburg, Mass. Ch. : i. Henry D wight
James, b. March i, i860; m. Oct. 25, 1888, Margaret Matheson;
Haydenville, Mass. 2. Howard James, b. Aug. 12, 1862; m.
Nov. 16, 1897, Sophie Ayers, of Saginaw, Mich.; St. Paul,
Minn. 3. Grace James, b. Nov. 20, 1865, m. Oct. 31, 1888,
John W. Gillette; Hudson, N. Y. ; 4. Philip Lyman James, b.
Oct. 12, 1873. Res. Chicago; with Marshall Field & Co., retail.
Lyman D. James, son of Enoch and Armanilla James,
was born in Williamsburg, Mass., Jan. 21, 1836. Mr. James
received his education in the schools of his town, also at the
school of Mr. J. A. Nash, in Amherst, Mass., and Williston
Seminary, Easthampton. Mr. James then located in Ann
Arbor, Mich., where his father was an extensive wool buyer
and loaner of money. He returned to Massachusetts, and
♦ Mrs. Helen Field James, Williamsburg, Mass.
438 FIELD GENEALOGY.
was engaged in mercantile business in Williamsburg and
Haydenville until November, 1899. During this time Mr.
James has been a director and vice-president of the First
National Bank, of Northampton, also trustee in the Northamp-
ton Insane Hospital (a State institution), which office he holds
at the present time. In 1886-87 Mr. James was Representative
to the General Court of Massachusetts.
2243. v. HENRY, b. May 25, 1841 ; m. Florence Lathrop.
2244. vi. ELIZABETH PAGE, b. Sept. 25, 1843; d. Dec. 27, 1854-
2245. vii. WILLIAM E., b. Feb. 17, 1845; d. May 22, 1845.
2246. viii. LAURA NASH, b. Oct. 30, 1848; m. Nov. 26, 1873, Henry Dibblee,
of Chicago. He was born in New York City, Aug. 20,
1840; the son of E. R. Dibblee, who was one of the oldest dry
goods merchants and importers in that city. He was therefore
trained in that business, after having completed his education
at the age of 18. At first he worked as clerk in his father's
store, and was finally made a partner in that business, and so
continued until the fall of 1872, when he came to Chicago, and
in January of that year founded the house of which he was the
head, and engaged in the iron business. In this he continued
until 1886, when he formed a co-partnership with George
Manierre, under the firm name of Dibblee & Manierre, and
engaged in the real estate business. Their offices are in the
building, northwest corner Adams and Clark streets. Real
estate is bought and sold on commission, and personal atten-
tion given to the care and management of property ; taxes paid
and rents collected ; interests of non-residents carefully looked
after ; loans negotiated. The firm is one of the most promi-
nent in this line in the city. They have two children : i.
Bertha, b. March 20, 1875. 2. Frances F., b. Aug. 26, 1877;
both unm., and res. at home.
2247. ix. ELIZA.BETH, b. April 10, 1851; d. Aug. 6, 1854-
iioo. ELIAKIM FIELD (David, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass.. Oct. 26, 1794; m. Clarissa Ross; he
d. Oct. 16, 1850; res, Montrose, and Honesdale, Pa.
2248. i. SAMUEL HINKLEY, b. Sept. 22, 1825; unm.; removed to New
Orleans.
1103. OLIVER CLARK FIELD (David, Eliakim. John. John, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard. William, William), b. Conway, Mass., March 9, 1800; m. Jan.
24, 1824, Laura Nash, dau. of Elijah and Paulina (Warner), of Conway, b. Aug. 10,
1803; d. Oct. 3, 1848; m., 2d, March 20, 1849, Electa Sanderson, of Conway, dau. of
Joseph and Content (Dickinson), b. Bernardston, June 6. 1806; d. Dec. 15, 1876.
Oliver C, of Conway; guardian bond; Oliver C. Field, guardian; minor chil-
dren, Tabitha C. and Elijah N., over fourteen years; April 18, 1856.
Oliver C, of Conway died Dec. 18, 1876; no widow; children. Electa Maria
Johnson, of Hartford, Conn., and Louisa Pratt, of Hillsdale, Mich.; grandchild,
Arthur Nutting, of Northampton, Mass.; wife. Electa S. Field, died Dec. 15, 1876,
— Franklin County Probate.
He d. Dec. 18. 1876. Res. Conway, Mass.
2249. i. ELECTA MARIA, b. Oct. 4, 1826; m. Oct. 16, 1850, Cyrus S.
Johnson; res. Hartford, Conn. She d. May 3,1885. Ch. : i.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 439
Ida Maria, b. July 26, 1851; d. Nov. 24, 1862. 2. Rose Pauline,
b. May 27, 1858; d. Aug. 16. 1858. 3. Fred Clifford, b. Oct. 9,
1862; d. July 7, 1864.
2250. ii. LOUISA, b. June 28, 1829; m. April 18, 1856, James H. Pratt;
res. Hillsdale, Mich., and Chicago avenue, Chicago, 111. Ch. :
I. Hattie B., b. Jan. 28, 1857; m. Oct. 10, 1878, H. W. Magee, an
attorney-at-law in Chicago, 111. Ch. : (a) Jerome P., b. Nov.
25, 1879. (b) Wayland W., b. Sept. 24, i88r. 2. Willie R., b.
July 4, 1858; d. Nov. I, 1864. 3. Eugene, b. June 13, i860; d.
June 21, 1863. 4. Susie, b. Feb. 8, 1862; d. Jan. 2, 1864. 5. Mar-
garet L., b. May 4, 1868. 6. Freddie, b. April 19, 1870; d. July
26, 1872.
2251. iii. SUSAN HUNTINGTON, b. May 9, 1831; m. Oct. 29, 1856, Porter
Nutting; res. Northampton, Mass. ; she d., in Northampton, Sept.
15, 1865. Ch. : I. Arthur Fenelon, b. Feb. 4, 1861; m. Ida Tor-
rey. 2. Edward Eugene, b. June 30, 1863; d. July, 1863.
2252. iv. PAULINE NASH, b. April 21, 1834; d. Oct. 14. 1834.
2253. V. TABITHA CLARK, b. March 2, 1836; d. July 5, 1856.
2254. vi. ELIJAH NASH, b. June 4, 1839; d. Sept. 28, 1862.
2255. vii. PAULINE WARNER, b. April 29, 1842; d. April 26, 1848.
1 105. OTIS FIELD (David, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass., Aug. 5, 1804; m. March 26, 1837,
Harriet M. Markel, of La Porte, Ind. ; she res. Garden City, L. I. ; he moved to
Indiana, and thence to New York State; he d. Oct. 17, 1871 ; res. New York.
2256. i. ANN, b. Feb. 4, 1838; d. Aug. 27, 1838.
2257. ii. MARION, b. Jan. 16, 1843; d. March 9, 1848.
2258. iii. EMMA, b. Aug. 22, 1850, d. Jan. 8, 1851.
2259. iv. OTIS, b. Aug. 4, 1851; school teacher in New York.
1 107. DAVID FIELD (David, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John, John.
Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass., Oct. 24, 1807; m. Sept. 23, 1831,
Angeline Ware Sylvester, b. April 23, 1812; d. Dec. 19, 1863; m., 2d, Mrs. Mary
Margison, of Henepin, 111. ; she d. February, 1894. Notwithstanding his advanced
age, with patriotic zeal at the age of nearly sixty he served his county in the Union
army as a soldier in the 139th Illinois Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. He d. Feb.
13, 1894; res. Conway, Mass., and Hennepin, 111.
2260. i. MARTHA FAY, b. June 29, 1832; m. Sept. 21, 1851, AHen A.
Stone, of Conway ; went west. Res. Princeton, 111. ; was a car-
penter by trade, but later an evangelist. Ch. (b, Granville, 111.) :
I. Clara A., b. Sept. 12, 1853; d. Aug. 30, 1854. 2. Arthur Allen,
b. Aug. I, 1864. 3. Minnie Marion, b. Dec. 28, 1865. 4. Wm.
Porter, b. Nov. 20, 1869.
2261. ii. FRANCIS SYLVESTER, b. Feb. 12, 1834; m. Emma C. Cole.
2262. iii. ALMERON, b. June 30, 1836; m. Catherine C. Jones.
2263. iv. LUCY WARE, b. July 25, 1846; m. Nov. i, 1866, Edward Hamm,
of Illinois. He is a farmer; res. Ashley, 111. Ch. : i. Alice A.,
b. Aug, 24, 1867; d. Nov. 21, 1867. 2. Cora Etta, b. June 20,
1869. 3. Clara May, b. March 22, 1871 ; d. July 23, 1877. 4. Lucy
Ella, b. Feb. 3, 1873. 5. Edward Field, b. Jan. 2, 1876. 6. Frank
Orvis, b. April 3, 1877.
1 108. ALMERON FIELD (David, Eliakim, John, John, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Conway, Mass., Aug. 15, i8og; m. July 28,
440 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2264.
i.
2265.
11.
2266.
iii.
2267.
iv.
2268.
V.
2269.
vi.
2270.
vii.
2271.
viu,
1836, Mary Catherine Bassford, of Fordham. N. Y.. b. 1816; d. Jan. 6, 1838; m., 2d,
July 29, 1844, Rose Finn, of Aligo, Ireland, b. 1822; d. Jan. 4, 1873. Almeron
Field, son of David and Tabitha (Clark), b. in Conway. Mass., settled in New York;
in 1840 removed to Honesdale, Pa.; in 1846 to Narrowsburg, N. Y. ; in 1852 to
Binghamton, N. Y, ; in 1854 to Corning, N. Y. ; in 1858 to Burlington, Iowa. He
d. August, 1885; res. Waverly, N. Y.
THOMAS BASSFORD, b. Dec. 20, 1837; m. Mary E. Coe.
ELIAKIM, b. July 20, 1845; m, July 24, 1867, Josephine R. McCor-
mick ; d. s. p.
MARY CATHERINE, b. Sept. 5, 1847; m. .
MARIA LOUISA, b. April 5, 1850; m. Oct. 6. 1867, James F.
Pumpelley. of Oswego, N. Y. Ch. : i. Mary Josephine, b. Feb.
27, 1871. 2. Laurence, b. July 3, 1881.
JAMES FLANDERS, b. July 27, 1852; d. in 1870.
HANNAH, b. Dec. 5. 1854; in convent of Sacred Heart at Mon-
treal, Canada.
ALMERON, b. Sept. 29, 1856.
CHAPIN HALL, b. Dec. 5. 1859.
nil. JOHN FIELD (John, John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John, John^
Richard, William, William), son of John and Elizabeth (Henderson), b. in Amherst.
Mass., 1768; he was out as a privateer from Salem, Mass., during the Revolution;
he settled in 1787 in Leyden; in 1806 removed to Canestota, N. Y. ; d. in 1836; he
m. Silence Lincoln; she d. 1820 in Durhamville, N. Y. Res. Canestota, N. Y.
JOHN, b. ; m. Sarah Stearns.
SIMEON, b. ; d. in Leyedn.
DAVID, b. ; m. .
LINCOLN, b. ; m. Fanny Newcomb.
NANCY, b.
MARY, b.
DEBORAH, b.
AMANDA, b. Nov. 23, 1804; m. Anson Pardridge; res. in Chi-
cago. She d. in Chicago Jan. 6, 1890; he d. in Durhamville,
N. Y., April 28, 1877. Ch. :
1. Anson, b. Oct. 2, 1830; m. Dec. 10, 1863, Mary Louisa Frisbie,
b. April 4, 1844. He was a farmer in New York until his removal
to Chicago, since which time he has not been in any active bus-
iness; res. 4157 Langley avenue, Chicago, 111. Ch. : (a) Alice
Theresa, b. Dec. 20, 1864; m. Feb. 11, 1885, Charles H. Smith, b
Dec. 23, 1859; is connected with the Board of Trade; res. 231
42d street, Chicago, 111. Ch. : i. Ralph Errol, b. Sept. 22, 1890.
ii. Pauline, b. Oct. 28, 1891, iii. Floyd Kenton, b. April 14, 1894.
(b) Clinton Edward Pardridge, b. June 20, 1868.
2. Edwin, b. Oct. 24, 1825; m. July 10, 1861, Sarah Swallow,
b. Aug. 14, 1842, in Vernon, N. Y. ; he d. in Chicago April
17, 1896; res. 2808 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111. Edwin
Pardridge was the heaviest bear speculator the Chicago
Board of Trade has ever known. His death was caused
by Bright's disease. The history of Mr. Pardridge's sixty
years has tew parallels. He wap a man of the clearest percep-
tions, and his strong convictions and the nerve with which he
backed them made him a marked man. Since 1869 he has been a
2272.
1.
2273.
11.
2274.
111.
2275.
IV.
2276.
V.
2277.
VI.
2273.
vii.
2279.
viu.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 441
familiar figure in local commercial circles, and for the last ten
years, during which he has devoted himself almost exclusively to
speculation, his name and fame were worldwide. Probably no
man, as merchant and operator, had been called upon in the west
to meet such odds and face such opposition, and those who knew
him are agreed as to his business acumen, courage, commonsense
and kindliness of heart. He received a district school education,
clerked in a village store, and then went to Lyons where he
worked in a general merchandise store for five years. From this
time till i86q he was in the drygoods business in Buffalo with his
brother, Chas. W. Pardridge. This was the stock of experience
he had when he came to Chicago and started a store at Lake and
State streets. He came here, he said, for a larger field of opera-
tions than he had had, and in the conduct of his store he showed
the same discriminating judgment and mastery of details as ap-
plied to the buying and selling of goods that later applied to his
grain operations on the Board of Trade. He was burned out in
1871. His store was then on Wabash avenue. In the new Chicago
he located at 112-116 State street, where he had interest till Feb.
15 last. At that time he closed out his Chicago store and sent the
goods to a branch establishment. At the time of his death he
had drygoods stores in New York, Buffalo and Detroit. These
were the last survivals of many stores started and operated before
Mr. Pardridge largely abandoned trade for speculation.— Chicago
Tribune.] Ch. : (a) Blanche, b. July 7, 1862; m. Sept. 8, 1880,
Russell Price, son of Dr. Price; res. Waukegan, 111. (b) Marion
Amanda, b. Dec. 13, 1864; d. June 22. 1871. (c) Grace Emily, b.
May 21, 1867; m. April 30, 1891, Dr. Charles Leaming: res. 4545
Grand Boulevard, Chicago, 111. (d) Willard Edwin, b. Oct. 15,
1871; m. Jan. 29, 1893, Charlotte Budd; res. 2817 Indiana avenue,
Chicago, 111. (e) Frederick Charles, b. Sept. 17, 1873; m. Jan.
23, 1895, Eleanor Lewis; res. 2808 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111.
(f) Florence Eva. b. Oct. i, 1876; unm. ; res. at home, (g) Fanny,
b. June 17, 1879; d. May 23, 1880.
3. Charles W., b. June 15, 1844; ni. July, 1862, Theresa Mars-
land, b. Philadelphia. 1843; d. Feb. 22, 1900; res. 3200 Mich-
igan avenue, Chicago, 111. She was b. in Philadelphia, but
lived in her early years in Buffalo. She had resided in Chicago
over thirty years. She gave in charity, unostentatiously and pri-
vately, always bestowing her gifts after personal investigation.
She worshiped at Christ Reformed Episcopal church. Charles
W. Pardridge was born in Oneida county, N. Y., where he was
educated at the public schools, receiving the best the schools at
that time afforded. The foundation of his fortune was laid in the
drygoods business. He first secured an insight into this line of
trade in a candy store in Lyons, N. Y., where he remained tor
three years. Later he was in business in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the
same line of trade for two years, moving thence to Buffalo.
N. Y.. where, with his brother, Edwin, under the firm name of
C. W. & E. Pardridge they conducted an extensive dry goods
business. At the end of ten years, having outgrown the business
of that city, they decided to come west, and located in Chicago in
29
442 FIELD GENEALOGY.
^
1869. Securing a location in the old opera house building on State
street, near Lake, they conducted an extensive and rapidly grow-
ing business until the great fire of 1872, when the building and
stock were entirely destroyed. At once securing a new location at
112-116 State street, he erected the building, still standing on this
site, and conducted the Boston Store and Union Store. With his
close attention to business, excellent judgment and good real
estate investments, he soon accumulated a handsome property.
Of late years he has retired from the active dry goods business,
though having been until recently the senior owner of the Boston
Store, Pardridge & Netcher. He is now senior member of the
firm of Pardridge & Hillman on State street. He devotes his
time looking after his real estate investments, which are very
extensive. He is considered many times a millionaire and re-
sides in an elegant home at 3200 Michigan avenue. He is quiet
and unassuming and much averse to any publicity. Ch. : (a)
Charles Anson, b. ; m. Mary Lee; res. 3200 Michigan avenue,
Chicago, 111. (b) Edward W., b. ; m. Clara Wheeler, (c)
Eva, b. ; m. Prince Nicholas W. Engalitchoff; res. Chicago,
111. He was b. in the parish of Kolozhitz, village of Catherine,
district of Yamburg, in the government of St. Petersburg,
Russia, Jan. 30, 1869, son of Prince Vladimir Vladimizovitch
Engalitchoff, and his wife Maria Pavlovna. He was educated at
the Russian schools and was graduated from the Nicholas Cadet
Corps, Aug. 31, 1889. He soon after came to Chicago, and is now
in the insurance business on La Salle street. He is descended
from King Engelitch of Tartary, who was conquered by John the
Terrible at the fall of Kazan. They were originally Mohammed-
ans, (d) Mary Allen, b. ; m. W. D. Sargent; res. Michigan
avenue, Chicago, 111. (e) Albert Jerome, b. ; m. Florence
Myers; res. Chicago, 111.
4. Marion, b. 1840; m. Charles Stokes; res. 1840 Asbury avenue,
Evanston, 111.
5. Ellen, b. ; m. Oscar Gleason; res. 1204 Asbury avenue,
Evanston, 111. Ch. : (a) Charles, b. .
1115. ABEL WAITE FIELD (John, John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of John and Rachel (Waite), b. in Amherst,
Mass. ; bap. Nov. 4, 1787; he settled in Brattleboro, Vt., but removed to Lancaster,
N. H., and to West Medford; d. Oct. 28, 1871, in Somerville, Mass.; he m. Sally
Stebbins, of Brattleboro, Vt., b. July 10, 1791; d. Nov. 16, 1844; he was a farmer;
res. West Medford, Mass.
2280. i. DANIEL STEBBINS, b. Sept. 28, 1818.
JOHN EDWARD, b. Aug. 28, 1815; m. Martha Eliza Moore.
LORENZO ABEL, b. March 28, 1821 ; m. Sarah Ann Davis.
WILLIAM W., b. Oct. 31, 1824; m, Mahala J. Howe.
SARAH E., b. March 19, 1827; m. Joseph Forristall; res. 83 Pros-
, pect street, Cambridge, Mass.
2285. vi. GEORGE H., b. April 6, 1831.
1116. DAVID FIELD (John, John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John. John,
Richard, William, William), son of John and Rachel (Waite), b. in Amherst, Mass.,
Nov. 19, 1789. He settled in Brattleboro, Vt., where he d. Jan. 19, 1819; hem. in
2281.
11.
2282.
iii.
2283.
iv.
2284.
V.
CHARLES W. PAKDRIDGE.
See page 44-3.
EDWIN PAKDRIDGE.
See page 440.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 443
Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 15, 1814, Patty Wood, of Marlboro, Mass., b. Jan. 19, 1795;
d. July 29, i860. Res. Brattleboro, Vt.
2286. i. ORENZO, b. July 16, 1815; d. Aug. 17, 1815.
2287. ii. MARY LOUISA, b. Oct. 15, 1816; m. Jan. 24, 1836, Hannibal
Hadley, of Brattleboro, Vt. He was b. April 20, 1 812; d. Oct.
29, 1884; was a provision and ice dealer; she res. 43 High street,
Brattleboro, Vt. Ch. : i. Elizabeth Holman Hadley, b. Dec. 28,
1837; m. September, 1857, Selleck. 2. Chancey Field Hadley,
b. Nov. 29, 1840; d. Jan. 29, 1849. 3. Emily Huntington Hadley,
b. Jan. 29, 1846; m. October, 1871, Emerson. 4. Mary
Louisa Hadley, b. Nov. 25, 1853; d. Feb. 4, 1862.
2288. iii. SOPHRONIA LUCINDA, b. Nov. 18, 1818; d. Aug. 13, 1820.
1 122. SAMUEL FIELD (Samuel, John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Samuel and Miriam (Nash), b. in Con-
way, Mass., May 11, 1787; he went to Brattleboro, Vt.. with his father in 1804,
where he d. Dec. 15, 1854; he m. Jan. 15, 1818, Jerusha, dau. of Jeremiah and
Lucinda Graves, of Guilford, Vt., b. July 5, 1793; she m., 2d, Nov. 14, 1864, Timothy
Atkins, of Brattleboro. Res. Brattleboro, Vt.
HENRY G., b. Sept. 4. 1819; m. Jane Woodcock.
JOHN N, b. Aug. 15, 1821; he removed to Iowa; enlisted in the
Second Iowa Cavalry; d. at Harrisburg, Tenn., April 22, 1862.
HELEN A., b. April 15, 1823; d. Feb. i, 1845.
.LUCINDA H., b. Dec. 12, 1824; m. May 16, 1855, William Moles,
of Williarastown, Mass.; d. Feb. 8, 1879.
DEXTER, b. Feb. 7, 1827; m. Sabrina E. Millard.
HARRIET E., b. July 8, 1829; m. May 19, 1851, William Moles,
of South Adams, Mass. ; d. July 29, 1853.
SAMUEL A., b. April 8, 1831.
LAURA, b. May 16, 1833.
1 124. LUTHER FIELD (Samuel. John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Samuel and Miriam (Nash), b. in Conway,
Mass., 1788; went to Brattleboro, Vt., with his father in 1804, where he was a
farmer, and d. Feb. 12, 1867; m., Rachel Austin, of Windsor, Mass., b. 1798; d.
Aug. 18, 1855; m., 2d, Sarah P., dau. of Charles and Susan (Packard ) Hubbard, of
Brattleboro, Vt., b. April 10, 181 5. She m,, 2d, 1869, Ebenezer Baldwin, of Brat-
tleboro, Vt. Res. Brattleboro, Vt.
2297. i. SARAH SMITH, b. July 28, 1826; m. Francis K. Cottrell, of
Brattleboro, Vt, Oct. 22, 1863; he was b. April 14, 1827; is a
carpenter, s. p. ; res. Menlo, Iowa.
GEORGE W., b. July, 1828; m. Mary Cane and Mary Thomas.
AUSTIN LUTHER, b. Nov. 7, 1830; m. Sarah Cane.
ELIZABETH, b. 1832; m. Moses Ware, of Northampton. They
had two children and reside in Florence, Mass. ; she d., aged
52. Ch. : I. Mary, m. and res. New York city. 2. Arthur, m. in
Nantucket; res. Florence, Mass.
2301. v. CAROLINE, b. 1834; m. Wm. Jones. They resided in Plainfield,
Mass., and had one daughter, Anna, who m. Rice; res.
Florence, Mass.
2302. vi. ELEAZER BROOKS, b. ; d., aged 17.
2289.
1.
2290.
11.
2291.
iii.
2292.
iv.
2293.
v.
2294.
VI.
2295.
vii.
2296.
Vlll.
2298.
11.
2299.
111.
2300.
IV.
444 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2304.
11.
2305.
111.
2306.
iv.
2307.
V.
2308.
vi.
2309.
vu.
2310.
VIU.
231 1.
ix.
2312.
X.
1128. TYLER FIELD (Samuel, John, Zechariah, John, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of Samuel and Miriam (Nash), b. in Brattleboro,
Vt. ; he removed in 1831 to Middleport, N. Y. ; in 1832 to Jamestown, where he d.
1870; m., Fanny Dean, of Dummerston, Vt., b. ; d. ; m., 2d, Mary Dean,
sister of first wife, b. ; d. 1831; m., 3d, Isabella Cunningham, of Pittsburgh,
Pa. ; res. Jamestown, N. Y.
2303. i. CHAUNCEY T., b. July 6, 1829; m, Emeline Rice.
JAMES v., b. Jan. 31, 1834.
MARY J., b. Dec. 16, 1836.
HENRY B., b. Nov. 3, 1839; d. March 13, 1876.
ALFRED D., b. March 28, 1841; m. Emma A. Mason and Alice
Pierce.
ALBERT, b. March 28, 1841 ; d. March 29, 1841.
OLIVER D., b. Dec. 23, 1843-
ELIZABETH M., b. Aug. 8, 1847.
WILLIAM L., b. Jan 13, 1849.
ELLA A., b. Jan. 29, 1851; d. Sept. 18, 1875.
1 133. ROBERT RUFUS FIELD (Samuel, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 22, 1771 ;
m. Jan. 15, 1795, Patty Hoyt, dau. of Jonathan and Abigail (Nash), b. 1775; d.
July 23, 1859. Robert Rutus Field, son of Samuel and Sarah (Childs), b. in Deer-
field, Mass.; he removed in 1791 to Conway, Mass.; in 1796 to Phelps, Ontario
county, N. Y. ; in 1800 to Geneva, N. Y. ; in 1808 returned to Deerfield, where he d. ;
be was for many years toll-gatherer of the Deerfield river bridge at Cheapside ; he
was a farmer.
Robert R., Deerfield, 1841; intestate and insolvent; widow Martha Field; Rich-
ard E. Field, administrator, Aug. 24, 1841. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. July 26, 1841. Res. Phelps, N. Y., and Deerfield, Mass.
2313. i. RICHARD EDWARD, b. Sept. 5, 1796; m. Elizabeth Wait, Mrs.
Sarah T. (Snow) Thompson.
2314. ii. ABIGAIL HOYT, b. Sept. 19, 1799; ra. March 12, 1817, Sylvester
Sage Newcomb, b. Deerfield, Mass., May 6, 1791; d. Dec. i, 1861,
in Fillmore county, Minn. Ch. : i. Robert Field, b. Nov. 22,
i8i7;unm. ; res.. New Grenada, S. A. 2. Ebenezer Everett, b.
Oct. 22, 1819; m. Malinda S. Hoyt; res. Preston, Minn. 3. Syl-
vester S., b. June 30, 1821; res. New Grenada, S. A. 4. Martha
F., b. Aug 21, 1824; m. Whitman R Ford; res. Walnut Lake,
Minn. 5. Tirzah Anne, b. March 12, 1826; d. . 6. An-
toinette, b. Nov. 18, 1828; m. George Babcock; res. Preston,
Minn. 7. George, b. April 18, 1833; m. Sarah Hill; res. Walnut
Lake Minn. 8. Abbie, b. Nov. 30 1840; m. Sherman.
2315. iii. ROBERT RUFUS. b. June 29, 1806; m. Eliza O. Barnard.
2316. iv. TIRZA ANN, bap. April 21, 1809; m. Jan. 22, 1832, John C.
Andrews, of Hartford; she d. March 19, 1856. He was eldest
son of Col. Sidney ; res. New Britain, Conn. ; he was a trunk and
harness manufacturer; she d. March 19 1856; he m., 2d, 1863,
Susan Hayden; res. Montague Mass. Ch : i. Alfred Hobart,
b. Nov. I, 1833. 2. Arthur Wellington, b. Sept. 9, 1835. 3. Ann
Field, b. Nov. 9, 1837; m. Walter Weir. 4. Mary Jane b. April
20, 1841; d. Sept. I, 1842. 5. Sidney Wadsworth, b. July 25,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 445
2317-
2318.
11.
2319.
Ill,
2320
IV.
2321.
V.
2322.
vi.
1843; d. Aug. 4, 1855. 6. Delia Jane, b. Sept. 2, 1846. 7. John
Augustine, b. Nov. 30, 1850.
1 135. SAMUEL EDWARDS FIELD (Samuel, David. Samuel, Samuel, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., July 31, 1775;
ra. Jan. 29, 1809, Clarissa Clapp, dau. of John and Eunice (Smead), b. July 22, 1782;
d. March 8. 1831 ; he was a farmer.
Samuel E., of Deerfield, 1S48; Feb. 13, 1849, probated; Seth and Sarah C.
Field, executors, Nov. 6, 1849; sons, John, David O. Seth; daughters, Clarissa C,
Eunice, Sarah C. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. Nov. 4, 1848. Res. Great River, Mass.
SARAH CHILDS, b. Aug 27, 1810; d. unm. Nov. 29, 1887.
SAMUEL EDWARDS, b. Nov. 19, 1812; d. April 4, 1834.
JOHN, b. Nov. 4, 1814; m. Mehitable Clesson.
DAVID OTIS, b. Nov. 27. 1816; d. Nov 23. 1853.
CLARISSA CLAPP, b. Nov. 22. 1818.
SETH, b. Oct. 31, 1820; unm. ; res. one mile below Cheapside
Bridge, Deerfield, Mass.
Seth, of Deerfield, 189S; d. unm. Nov. 6, 1898; niece, Jennie
T. Palmer of Deerfield; niece, Martha Potter, of Deerfield;
nephew, Samuel Field, of Deerfield. — Franklin County Probate.
2323. vii. EUNICE, b. Jan. 22, 1823. Eunice, Deerfield, Sept. 7, 1897; died
unm. July 5, 1897; no husband ; brother, Seth. of Deerfield; sis-
ter Clara C, of Deerfield; deceased brother, John Field; Samuel
Field, Jane F. Palmer, Mrs. M. W. Potter, his children. —
Franklin County Probate.
1138. GEORGE PLUMB FIELD (Samuel, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Deerfield, Mass., July 22, 1781;
m. June 22. 1808, Sylvia Hawks; d. Aug. 12, 1854. George Plumb Field, son of
Samuel and Sarah (Childs), was b. in Deerfield, Mass. ; he was for a time engaged
in the manufacture of nails which he gave up and engaged in the baking business
at Cheapside; in 1830 he removed to Greenfield, where he continued the business
until his death, which was caused by being run over by the cars on the railroad
near Cheapside, while on his return from a visit to Seth Field. He was a man of
the strictest integrity, and had the confidence and respect of all who knew him or
had any business with him. He m. Sylvia, dau. of Paul and Lois (Waite) Hawks,
of Deerfield, b. Nov. 26, 1782.
George P., of Greenfield, May 8, 1855; George Field appointed administrator;
also mentioned as guardian of Francis Field, minor, and Tirzah Field, an insane
person, heirs-at-law; Tirzah was daughter, and Francis, grandson of George P.
Field. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. April 18, 1855. Res. Greenfield, Mass.
2324. i. TIRZAH, b. April 9, 1809; d. unm. Feb. ib, 1857; non compos
mentis.
2325. ii. LOIS HAWKS, b. Nov. 26, 1810; m. Jan. 19, 1830. Frank Hawks,
of Newark, N. J.
MARY, b. Sept. 14, 1812; d. unm. April 16, 1864.
MARTHA, b. April 6, 1814; m. Oct. 26, 1834, Abel Moore, of
Athol, Mass.; she d. in Athol, Mass., Nov. 2, 1835, leaving a
son.
GEORGE P., b. Dec. 10, 181 6; m. Sarah McClellan.
FRANCIS, b. Oct. 18, 1820; d. May 16, 1831.
2326.
ill.
2327.
IV.
2328.
V.
2329.
VI.
446 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2330. vii. SYLVIA, b. Nov, 8, 1822; m. May 20, 1851, Joseph Day, of Green-
field; res. Peoria, 111.
2331. viii. ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 5, 1824; m. May, 1849, Washburne Severance,
of Greenfield; she d. Aug. 28, 1851,
1 140. WILLIAM FIELD (David, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of David and Hannah (Childs), b. in Con-
way, Mass., 1775; he removed in 1806 to Albany, N. Y. ; in May, 1817, to Geneva,
N. Y., where he d. ; he was an extensive carriage and sleigh maker in Albany;
he m. Filana, dau. of Elihu and Hepsibah (Dickinson) Field, of Guilford, Vt, b.
Dec. 13, 1787; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1857. Res. Albany, N. Y.
2332. i. DAVID ELIHU, b. Oct. 16, 1815; m. Sarah Castle.
2333. ii. A DAUGHTER, b. in 1818; d. 1824.
1142. DOCTOR DAVID FIELD (David, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of David and Hannah (Childs), b. in Con-
way, Mass., July 25, 1782; a physician; he settled in 1804 in Albany, N. Y. ; in 1806
removed to Geneva, N. Y., where he d. Feb. 14, 1855; he m., about 1811, Hannah
Crittenden, probably from Conway; d. in 1815; m., 2d, July 4, 1816, Electa,
dau. of Perez and Elizabeth (White) Hastings, of Hatfield, Mass., b. Jan. 15, 1792;
d. March 3, 1865. Res. Geneva, N. Y.
2334. i. MARY ELIZABETH, b. May 13, 1818; m. June 16. 1841, Dr.
Genet Conger, of Geneva, now (1890), Cleveland, Ohio.
2335. ii. PEREZ HASTINGS, b. Oct. 27, 1820; m. Clara Electa Eddy.
2336. iii. SARAH E., b. March 13, 1823; m. Dec. 26, 1852, John P. Hogarth,
of Geneva, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 27, 1856.
2337. iv. GEORGE WHITE, b. March i, 1826; m. Eliza Bement and Mary
Jones.
1144. JAMES FIELD (David, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of David and Hannah (Childs), b in Conway, Mass.,
July, 1787; he settled first in Albany, N. Y. ; in 1823 removed to Palmyra, N. Y. ; in
1833 to Palmyra, Mich.; in 1842 to Adrian, Mich.; he d. in Kenosha, Wis., March
16, 1863, while there on business; he was one of the first to put a through line of
canal boats on the Erie canal, which he ran several years; at the time of his death
he was connected with the Northwestern Transportation Co. The following
obituary notice is taken from an Adrian paper: "Death of an old and esteemed
resident. Died at Kenosha, Wis., while on a business visit, James Field, in the
seventy-fifth year of his age. In the death of Mr. Field, Adrian has lost another of
those who were among the earliest settlers of the county, and one of the most per-
severing, energetic men who have ever done business here. He has been for many
years, we believe, the general agent of the Northwestern Transportation Company;
an employment which necessarily required most of his time away from home,
which would have constrained most men of his age to withdraw from business, but
the energy of his youth was not at all abated by age, and he therefore literally died
with his harness on. In all his business relations he has uniformly sustained the
reputation of an honorable, upright Christian." He m. at Palmyra, N. Y., Jan.
13, 1824, Cynthia A., dau. of Salmon and Charlotte Hathaway, b. in North Adams,
Mass., April 4, 1805; d. at Adrian Feb. 2, 1872. Res. Adrian, Mich.
2338. i. WILLIAM DICKINSON, b. Oct. 20, 1824; m. Jennie E. Chesley.
2339. "• ANN SOPHIA, b. Sept. 15, 1826; d. July 20, 1827.
2340. iii. CAROLINE AMELIA, b. June 6, 1829; d. Sept. 21, 1829.
2341. iv. JAMES MADISON, b. Nov. i, 1831.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 447
2342. V. EUROTAS HASTINGS, b. Jan. 26. 1833; m. Mary L. Cleveland.
2343. vi. CHARLOTTE HATHAWAY, b. Nov. 9, 1834; d. March i, 1843.
2344. vii. HENRY HATHAWAY, b. Nov. 28, 1837.
2345. viii. MARY JANE, b. July 21, 1840; unm. ; res. Painesville, Ohio.
2346. ix. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 25. 1841 ; d. July 24. 1842.
2347. X. CATHERINE, b. Jan. 9, 1844; m. Albert Peppon; res. Painesville.
2348. xi. EDWARD PAYSON, b. June 23, 1845; m. Susie Adams.
1 147. RUFUS FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard. William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in Deerfield,
Mass., Jan. 17, 1774; he removed in 1795 to Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y. ; in 1800
to Bakersfield, Vt., where he d. of paralysis Jan. 15, 1849; ^® ™-' 1796, Lydia
Davis, probably of Greenfield, Mass., b. , d. Dec. i, 1813, aged 33; m., 2d, Jan.
12, 1815, Hannah, dau. of Nathan Billings and widow of Joel Webster, b. in Shutes-
bury, Mass., Jan. 20, 1778; d. Jan. 25, 1863. Res. Bakerstield, Vt.
2349. i. HANNAH, b. Nov. 12, 1798; m. Nov. 23, 1818, Seth P. Huntley,
of Hardwick, Vt. ; d. November, 1877.
OLIVER, b. 1800; d., 1803.
EBENEZER WILKINSON, b. March 10, i8o4;m. Adah T. David
and Sarah Cooper.
MIRANDA, b. 1806; d. 1809.
LYDIA, b. 1807; m. Jan. 29, 1828, Nathan Phillips, of Newfane,
Vt. ; d. Dec. 31, 1861.
RUFUS, b. Nov. 7, 1808; d. Dec. 22, 1830.
CHARLES, b. Sept. 22, 1811; m. Harriet Marcy and Mary Davis.
SAMANTHA, b. Feb. 2, 1816.
DIANTHA, b. April 7, 1818; m. Nov. 5, 1856, Lyman Walker, of
Enosburg, Vt.
2358. X. CYNTHIA, b. May 8, 1828.
1 148. CAPTAIN HORACE FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt)
(95), b. in Deerfield, Mass., Nov. 2, 1775; he removed in 1795 to Phelps, Ontario
county, N. Y. ; in 1806 to Alexandria, Va., where he d. Jan. 3, 1841 ; he commanded a
company of militia in the battles about Washington and Alexandria, which were
burned by the British, Aug. 25, 1814, by which he lost nearly all his property. While
in Alexandria he was engaged in trade and in the tobacco business; he m. about
1804, Myers. Res. Alexandria, Va.
2359. i. OLIVER, b. July 13, 1805; m. Jane Dixon.
FILANA, b. ; m. James Patterson, of Baltimore, Md,
HORACE, b. .
PAMELIA, b. .
RODOLPHUS. b. .
HORACE, b. .
PAMELIA, b. .
1 149. JONATHAN FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in Deer-
field. Mass., 1777; he removed in 1795 to Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y. ; m 1806 to
Alexandria, Va., where he was engaged in trade and tobacco business; about 1845
he removed to Kentucky, where he d. in 1865, leaving a widow, but no children.
1151. OLIVER FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard. William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in Deer-
2350.
11.
2351-
111.
2352.
iv.
2353-
V.
2354.
vi.
2355.
vu.
2356.
viu.
2357-
IX.
2360.
11.
2361.
iii.
2362.
IV.
2363.
v.
2364.
VI.
2365.
vii,
448 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2366.
2367.
11.
2368.
Ill,
2369.
iv.
2370.
V.
field, Mass., 1781; went with his father to Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., in 1796; in
1802 removed to Amsterdam, N. Y. ; in 1808 to Schenectady, N. Y. ; in 1810 to Sodus,
N. Y., where he d. in 1820; he m. about 1805 Olive Crandall, widow of Keyes,
of Amsterdam; d. in Sodus, N. Y., in 1818. Res. Sodus, N. Y.
SILAS CRANDALL, b. Jan. i, 1807; d. Azubah M. Harlow.
RUFUS W., b. Dec. 11, 1809; m. Catharine M. Monroe.
HANNAH, b. 1812; d. in Geneva, N. Y., in 1824.
CEPHAS, b. 1815; drowned in Lake Ontario Nov. 12, 1833.
ANNA, b. April 10. 1818; m. Selah B. Avery, of Waterloo, N, Y. ;
d. in Oakland, Cal., in 1856.
1153. CEPHAS FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel. Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in Deer-
field, Mass., Sept. 17, 1785; he went with his father in 1795 to Phelps, N. Y. ; in 1809
removed to Sodus, N. Y. ; in 18 10 returned to Phelps; in 1821 removed to Lyons,
Wayne county; in 1823 returned to Sodus; in 1837 removed to Allegan, Mich., where
he d. March 15, 1861. While in Sodus he was engaged in the manufacture of salt,
Finding ihat unprofitable, he abandoned it. After his removal to Allegan, he was
engaged in mercantile and transportation business. He enlisted early in the war
of 1812, and served until peace was declared. He was at the burning of Black
Rock and Bufialo by the British Dec. 30, 1813; at the capture of Fort Erie July 2,
1814; battle of Bridgewater July 5, 1814; Lundy's Lane July 25, 1S14, and at the
defense of Fort Erie, where the British commander, General Drummond, was killed,
Aug. 15, 1 814, and various skirmishes on the Canadian frontier. He d. March 15,
1861. He m., 1805, Elizabeth, dau. of John J. S. and Polly E. (Hawks) Taylor, of
Phelps, b. in Deerfield, Mass., Aug. i, 1784; d. in Allegan, Mich., Dec. 24, 1839.
Res. Sodus, N. Y.
2371. i. WELLS, b. June 12, 1807; m. Mary Ann Mcintosh.
2372. ii. NANCY, b. Sept. 6, 1809; m. Jan. 24, 1830, William Pullen,
now of Allegan, Mich. ; d. Dec. 4, 1877. He was b. Phelps,
N. Y., June 26, 1805; d. Jan. 8. 1883. Ch. : i. S. Elizabeth
Van Buren, b. Feb. 5, 1831; m. June 14, 1854, Allegan, Mich.
2. George Pullen, b. July 14, 1832; m. Sept. 20, 1855; d. Oct.
8. 1858, aged 26 years. 3. William W. Pullen, b. March 29,
1835; m. Oct. 14, 1863, Otsego, Allegan county, Mich. 4. Harriet
Pullen, b. June 15, 1837; d. Aug. 22, 1839. 5. Phoebe A. Priest,
b. Nov. 10, 1839; m. March 16, 1863, Allegan, Mich. 6. Cornelia
R., b. Sept. 18, 1842; m. Nov. 21, 1879, Joseph W. Ely; res.
Allegan, Mich.; he was b. March 18, 1840. Ch. : (a) Georgia
W infield Ely, b. Sept. 9. 1879; m. Nov. 8, 1898; present name,
Georgia W. Sithes, Millgrove, Allegan county, Mich. 7. N. Ellen
Lonsbury. b. Oct. 7, 1844; m. Oct. 12, 1869, Allegan, Mich. 8.
Julia E. Winslow, b. March 10, 1847: m. Oct. 6. 1868; d. Aug.
16, 1874, aged 27 years. 9. Anastasie Warner, b. Jan. 11, 1849;
m. Oct 5, 1880, Allegan, Mich. 10. John W. Pullen, b. Nov. 3,
1851; m. June 14, 1881, Allegan, Mich. ; George F. Pullen, son of
George, deceased, Allegan, Mich. , James H. Winslow, son of
Julia Winslow, deceased, Hastings, Barry county, Mich.
2373. iii. ELIZABETH HAWKS, b. May 3. 1811; m. Jan. 29, 1832, Oramel
Fish, of Sodus, N. Y. ; d. in Allegan, Mich., Aug. 19, 1875. He
was b. Charltmont, Mass., June 12, 1805; d. Feb. 27, 1857; reF,
Allegan, Mich.; she d. Aug. 19, 1875. Ch. : i. Cephas Field, b.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 449
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V.
2376-
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2378.
vm.
2379-
IX.
Aug. 17, 1845; m. Aug. 19, 1869, Adelia Delight De Pew, b. May
12, 1845; res. 218 Waring street, Cleveland, Ohio. Ch. : (a)
Flora Eliza Fish, b. Allegan, Allegan county, Mich., Aug. 24,
1870; m. June 29. 1893, O. L Blanchard, 1246 Superior street,
Cleveland, Ohio, (b) Arthur Cephas Fish, b. Dec. 2, 1876, Alle-
gan, Mich.; m. April 10, 1898; res. 258 ist street, Detroit,
Mich, (c) Anna Marie Fish, b. Dec. 2. 1S76, Allegan, Mich. ; res.
210 Waring street, Cleveland, Ohio.
CONSTANTINE CEPHAS, b. Feb. iS. 1813; m. Mary Warner.
SOPHIA, b. March 3, 1815; ni. 1840. William J. Niles, of Allegan,
Mich.
JOHN TAYLOR, b. June 12. 1817; m. Eliza A. Hathaway.
JAMES, b. Dec. i, 1819; d. May 7, 1821.
CORNELIA, b May 26, 1822; d. April 26. 1828.
CHARLES STUART, b. Oct. 24, 1824; m. Eliza Jane Warner.
1 1 55. RODOLPHUS FIELD (Oliver. David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in
Conway, Mass., June 11, 1790; went with his father in 1796 to Phelps, Ontario
county, N. Y. ; at the breaking out of the war of 1812 he was residing in Bakers-
field, Vt., and enlisted at Burlington. Vt., in the Third Regiment, United States
heavy artillery; he was in the bombardment of Burlington, Aug. 2, 1813; the battle
of Chateaugeay, Oct. 26, 1813; La Colle's Mill, Canada, March 30, 1814, and the
battle of Plattsburg, Sept. 11, 1814; at the close ot the war he settled in Utica,
N. Y. ; in 1818 removed to Sodus, N. Y., where he resided; a pensioner.; he m.
April 28, 1S15, Rachel, dau. of Aaron and Susan (Walkins) Williams, of Utica,
N. Y., b. Aug, 8, 1800; d. Dec. 29, 1875. Res. Sodus, N. Y.
LURANCY, b. Jan. 29. 1816; d. April 10, 1838.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, b. Dec. 15, 1820; m. Emily Tucker.
ELIZABETH, b. Dec, 25. 1824; m. Jan. i, 1841, Joshua Lepper,
of Sodus, N. Y.
CHARLES, b. June 16, 1826; drowned May 11, 1839.
MORRIS, b. Jan. 8, 1829; m. Louisa Degen.
OLIVER C, b. Nov. 10, 1830; m. Nancy P. Graves.
MARIA, b. Oct. II, 1833; m. Jan. 4, 1850, Nathan May, of Sodus,
CLESSON, b. Nov, 15, 1835; m. Mary Jane Featherly.
CATHERINE C, b. March 15, 1837; m. Oct. 16, 1861, Ashur
Warner, of Cleveland, Ohio.
WARREN A., b. Jan. 3, 1840; m. Elmira C. Haroun.
MARY. b. Aug. 31, 1842; m. Jan. 20, 1864, William H. Mumford,
of Sodus, N. Y.
1157. CHARLES FIELD (Oliver, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William. William), son of Oliver and Keturah (Hoyt), b. in Phelps,
N. Y., Nov. 21, 1796; he removed March i, 1816, to Sodus Point. N. Y., where he d.
March 17, 1880; he was a zealous and influential member of the Methodist church
more than forty years; he m. March 28, 1818, Polly, dau. ot Asa Hewitt, of Sodus,
N. Y. ; no issue.
1 160. HON. HENRY FIELD (Elihu. David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elihu and Hepsibah (Dick-
inson), b. in Deerfield, Mass., Aug. 18, 1779; went with his father in 1787 to Guilford,
Vt. ; in 1803 removed to Elbridge, N. Y. ; in 1838 to Bellevue, Iowa, where he d.
2380.
2381.
ii.
2382.
iii.
2383.
iv.
2384.
V.
2385.
vi.
2386.
vii.
2387.
Vlll,
2388.
ix.
2389
X.
2390.
XI,
2391.
1.
2392.
11.
2393-
111.
2394.
IV.
450 FIELD GENEALOGY.
April i8, 1 868. While in Elbridge he was engaged in farming, merchandise and
other business relations. He held various county and town offices and represented
Onondaga county in the legislature in 1822; he m. Dec. 20, 1807, Lucinda Fris-
bie, of Branford, Conn., b. Feb. 17, 1783; d. May 5, 1858. Res. Elbridge, N. Y.
FREDERICK, b. Oct. 8, 1808; d. Feb. 18, 1809.
HENRY, b. Feb. 12, 1810; m. Jane A. Potter and Mary Bail.
FREDERICK, b. Aug. 20, 1812; m. Hannah F. Peck and .
JULIA, b. Jan. 3, 1814; m.. May 31, 1838, John S. Ball; m., 2d,
Jan. 21, i860, William A. Warren, of Bellevue.
2395. V. MATILDA D., b. June 15, 1816; m. Jan. 16, 1851, William A.
Warren, of Bellevue, Iowa; d. Sept. 24, 1858.
2396. vi. PLINY ASHLEY, b. July 10, 1818; m. Jane H. Lamberton.
2397. vii. LUCINDA, b. July 20, 1820.
2398. viii. GRATIA EMILY, b. Sept. 13, 1S23; d. Jan. 5, 1824.
1 161. CAPTAIN ELIHU FIELD (Elihu, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. June 6, 1781; m. April 13, 1808, Pamelia
Burt, dau. of Ithamar, b. 1784; d. Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1872. He was the son
of Elihu and Hepsibah (Dickinson), b. in Deerfield, Mass. ; went with his father in
1787 to Guilford, Vt., where he resided until his death, Sept. 3, 1864. He was a
prominent man in town, holding various town offices, the duties of which he dis-
charged to the satisfaction of his townsmen. He was adjutant of the First Regi-
ment of Vermont Militia during the war of 18 12, the duties being very arduous.
He was the first postmaster appointed in town, Jan. i, 1819, which office he held
twenty years, when he resigned. He was a member of the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1836, when the Government Council was changed to the Senate, which he
opposed, but afterward acknowledged the change was a good one. He represented
the town in the Legislature in 1842 and 1843. He m. April 13, 1808, Pamelia, dau.
of Ithamar and Prudence (Dickinson) Burt, of Guilford, b. in Deerfield, Mass., Dec.
27, 1783; d. Aug. 10, 1872. She was well versed in the early history of the country,
and always kept herself well informed regarding the industrial and political history
in which she took great interest. During the great Southern Rebellion she was
greatly interested in the result, thinking the war was brought on by a few Southern
leaders to aggrandize themselves, and form a despotic government based on
slavery. She was strongly opposed to woman suffrage, thinking it without
woman's sphere of usefulness; and said political affairs should be left for men to
attend to, considering it out of propriety for women to attend the polls. She was
charitable to the poor, and respected by all her neighbors. He d. Sept. 3, 1864.
Res. Guilford. Vt.
RODNEY BURT, b. Feb. 25, 1809; m. Louisa H. Chamberlain.
CORA ARABELLA, b. Dec. 30. 1810; m. Aug. 15, 1836, Samuel
Houghton, Jr., of Guilford, Vt. ; removed to Springfield, Ohio;
she d. s. p. March 7, 1875.
LAURA PAMELIA, b. July 25, 1812; d. July 19, 1833.
JANE SOPHIA, b. Feb. 10, 1816; d. Aug. 27, 1819.
JANE SOPHIA, b. Sept. 2. 1820; d. Dec. 23, 1866.
1162. PLINY ASHLEY FIELD (Elihu, David, Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elihu and Hepsibah (Dickinson),
b. in Deerfield, Mass., June 2, 1783; went with his father in 1787 to Guilford,
Vt. ; he removed in 1808 to Black Rock, Erie county, N. Y. ; he was drowned in the
Niagara river by the capsizing of a boat May 31, 18 17. His buildings were burned
and nearly all his personal property destroyed by the British when they captured
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2400.
11.
2401.
iii.
2402.
IV.
2403.
V.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 451
2404.
2405.
11.
2406.
111.
240S.
2409.
11.
2410.
111.
the place, Dec. 29, 1S13. He afterward rebuilt and kept a tavern known as the
Vermont House, which was very popular and extensively known to travelers, which
was burned in 1S79. ^^ ™- ^^ Black Rock Sept. 17, 1810, Olivia, dau. of George
and Susan ( ) Babcock, b. in Preston, Conn., Oct. 13, 1787; shem., 2d, 1822, Isaac
Jennings; m., 3d, May 15, 1S46, Dr. John R. Mitchell, of Northampton, N. Y. ; she
d. in Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 10, 185S. Res. Black Rock, N. Y.
CHARLOTTE ANN, b. Oct. 6, 1811; d. Dec. 23, 1813.
GEORGE PLINY, b. Nov. 11, 1813; m. Elizabeth Vose.
CAROLINE AUGUSTA, b. Oct. 3, 1815; m. July 20, 1831, George
Hedge, of Buffalo. N. Y.
2407. iv. CHARLOTTE OLIVIA, b. Aug. 26. 1817; m. March 29, 1841,
James D. Sawyer, of Buffalo, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 12, 1877.
1 169. ELIJAH FIELD (Oliver, Moses, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Longmeadow, Mass., Dec. 29, 1780; m. May
8, 1806, Cynthia Terry, dau. of Col. Asaph and Penelope, of Enfield, b. June 2,
1787; d. 1823. He d. July 18, 1857; State records say he d. Aug. 23, 1S57. Res.
Longmeadow, Mass.
NAOMY, b. May 29, 1S08.
ELIJAH, b. Sept. 13, 1810; res. Philadelphia; d. there.
CYNTHIA, b. Feb. 24, 1813; m. Edmund Sackett, of Westfield,
Mass. ; removed to Illinois.
2411. iv. ANNA, b. June 15, 1815; m. October, 1834, Theodore Noble, of
Rome, N. Y.
2412. v. MARY TERRY, b. April I, 1S17; m. Robert McChester, of Long-
meadow ; went to Illinois.
2413. vi. AARON, b. July 25, 1819; d. Aug. 21, 1834.
2414. vii. LORINDA, b. Feb. 2, 1822; m. Aug. i, 1841, David Ashley, of
West Springfield, Mass.
1171. CALEB COOLEY FIELD (Oliver, Moses, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Oliver and Ann (Cooley), b. in
Longmeadow, Mass., March 29, 1787; d. Sept. 19, 1859. He inherited the old
homestead of his great-grandfather, Thomas Field. He m. Jan. 19, 1814, Sarah
L.. dau. of Asahel and Sarah (Lankton) Cotton, of Longmeadow, b. March 17, 1793;
d. Nov. 3, 1863. Res. Longmeadow, !Mass.
2415. i. OLIVER, b. March 27, 1815; m. Lucy H. Hatch.
2416. ii. FLAVIA H., b. June 25, 1817; m. Sept. i, 1840, George B. Gleason,
of Buffalo, N. Y. ; d. May 7, 1844.
2417. iii. MOSES, b. June 21, 1820; m. Ann J. Pierson.
1177. ALFRED LORENZO FIELD (Peter R., Simeon, Thomas, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Colebrook, N. H., April 16,
1809; bap. Enfield, Conn., June 30, 1816; m. Enfield, Conn., May 28, 1838, Eliza-
beth Lusk, b. Aug. 19, 1S14, Enfield, Conn., in the homestead which still belongs to
the Lusk family; d. Dec. 14, 1868; killed by the cars at Delevan, near his Beloit
home. He removed in 1842 to Lebanon, N. H. ; in 1844 to Colebrook, N. H. ; in
1853 to Beloit, Wis. Alfred L. Field was in the early days postmaster in Beloit;
owner of a flour mill ; cashier in the bank; trustee of the Female Seminary; one of
the founders of and deacon in the Second Congregational church ; merchant and
quartermaster during the civil war of Fortieth Wisconsin Regiment. He d. Dec. 14,
1868. Res. Beloit. Wis.
2418. i. MARY LUSK, b. March 29, 1S40; d. July 31, 1S41.
2419. ii. SYLVESTER GRAHAM, b. May 19, 1843.
452 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2420. lii. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 26, 1845; m. Oct. 25, 1871, James
Hale Bates; res. 64 Remsen street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ch. : i.
James Field, b. Sept. 21, 1872; d. June 21, 1874. 2. Elizabeth
Graham, b. Dec. 10, 1873; d. Rome, Italy, Jan. 5, 1890. 3. Helen
Phelps, b. Aug. 13, 1875; d. July 16, 1884. 4. Carolina Lusk, b.
Sept. 17, 1876; d. Dec. 17, 1878.
2421. iv. JAMES ALFRED, b. Aug. 8, 1847; m- Caroline L. Whitney,
1 179. DOCTOR JUNIUS LEAVENWORTH FIELD (Edward, Simeon,
Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of
Edward and Sarah (Baldwin), b. in Waterbury, Conn., Feb, i, 1808; graduated at
Yale College in 1831; a physician; he settled in Wolcott, and later in Cheshire,
Conn.; in removed to Unadilla, Mich., where he d. Nov. 23, 1867; he m. Oct.
30, 1831, Mrs. Maria, dau. of James and Betsey (Shaw) Briggs, of , widow of
Mr. Packard. Res. Unadilla, Mich.
2422. i. JAMES E., b. Dec. 20, 1S32; ra, Loretta Beal and Sarah Beal.
2423. li. SARAH E.. b. March 18, 1837; d. March 14, 1846.
2424. iii. EUGENE B., b. May 24, 1840; d. Aug. 9, 1840.
2425. iv. CALVIN B., b. Jan. 20, 1844; d. Sept. 20, 1847.
1180. HENRY BALDWIN FIELD (Edward, Simeon, Thomas, Samuel, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Waterbury, Conn., Jan. 11, t8ii;
m. New Haven, Conn., June 14, 1836, Sarah Ann Bulklej', b. Nov. 28, 1813; she was
dau, of Franklin and Content (Mix).
Until nearly forty years of age he lived in Waterbury and New Haven, but on the
discjvery of gold in Calitornia, he joined the great company of forty-niners and
went to the Pacific coast in search of the precious metal. He returned East m 1851,
and again took up his residence in Waterbury. In 1855 he was appointed secretary
and treasurer of the Waterbury Gas Light Company. From that time until July,
1883, the management of the company was in his hands. To his faithfulness, per-
severance and integrity the success of the business was chiefly due. He m. Sarah
A. Bulkley, dau. of Captain Francis. He had two children. He d. in Waterbury,
Jan. I, 1892. Res. Waterbury, Conn.
2426. i. A DAUGHTER, b. March 21, 1841 ; d. same day.
2427. ii. FRANCIS BULKLEY, b. Sept. 16. 1843; m. Ella Scoville Cook,
Nov. 22. 1870; postoffice address, Waterbury, Conn.
2428. iii. CHARLES HENRY, b. March 21, 1849; m- Elizabeth Rockwell
Tremaine.
1 190, THOMAS FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Saybrook, Conn., Oct. 5, 1794; m. July
20, 1821, in Coxsackie, N. Y., Mariah Van Slyke, b. 1805; d. Nov. 29, 1868. He
was a farmer, and went to New York State in 1809. He d. Oct. 3, 1858. Res.
Port Byron and East Durham, N. Y.
2429. i. SAMUEL, b. May 16, 1822. He went to Oregon in 1850, m. and
had four children He went to the gold fields, and was reported
killed by Indians in 1858, but this is not so. He was quite pros-
perous, and resided in Oregon. In 1847 he started across the
plains to California and Oregon ; at the age of 22 years he was in
the Crimean war; was wounded twice; the United States granted
him for his services 600 40 acres of land, 300.20 for himself, 300.20
for his wife.
2430. ii. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 16, 1826; m. Nov. 11, 1848, Joseph
FIELD GENEALOGY. 453
Keeler; res. Catskill, N. Y. He was b. Sept. 20, 1826; is an
undertaker and furniture dealer. Ch. : i. Newton D. Keeler, b.
Aug. 22, 1849; m. 1872, Fannie, dau. of Rev. Millard; he d. Sept.
15, 1873; he was an undertaker and bookkeeper in his father's
store at the time of his death; the other children died young.
The village suffered no ordinary loss in the recent death of
Newton D. Keeler. It will be difficult to fill his place in the con-
fidence and esteem of the business community. All who had
dealings with him bear cheerful testimony to his quiet and gen-
tlemanly conduct. We have never know a young man of twenty-
four more highly honored and beloved by all ages and classes.
This was evident on the day of his funeral. Such a concourse of
people as crowded the church, aisles, vestibule and steps is not
often seen on a secular day. It was a spontaneous tribute of
respect to the business capacity and moral worth of the deceased.
He was free from the vices which degrade ana curse many young
men. He was thoughtful and studious, and had a mind of won-
derful grasp and comprehension. This writer often conversed
with him on questions of profound interest, and was surprised to
find him so thoroughly acquainted with the various subjects
under consideration. About four years since, under the pastorate
of the Rev. Z. N. Lewis, the deceased professed faith in Christ
and united with the Methodist Episcopal church in this village,
since which time till his death, which occurred on Monday, Sept.
15, he has been known as a quiet, consistent, earnest follower
of the Lord Jesus. He was also very efficient and useful in the
Sunday-school, being both secretary and treasurer at the time of
his death. He was united in marriage to Miss Fannie C, daughter
of Rev. J. Millard, Oct. 23, 1872, who now mourns her irreparable
loss. Of their uncommon devotion to each other I may not now
speak. Family worship was maintained till within two or three
days of their separation. His- father in-law says of him, "I never
knew a more perfect character. ' ' Newton Keeler died as he lived.
A few hours before death his father asked "How does it look on
the other side?" He answered, "Beautiful, glorious, heavenly."
Then pausing to rest, he sang :
" 'Tis a heaven below
My Redeemer to know,
And the angels can do nothing more
Than to fall at his feet,
And the story repeat.
And the Lover of sinners adore."
—Catskill. N. Y., Paper.
2431. iii. JOHN, b. Jan. 13. 1832; m. Mary Jane Field.
1 191. HENRY WILLIAM FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, Samuel, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William) b. Aug. 8, 1790; bap. Coxsackie,
N. Y., Nov. 27, 1796; m. in iSii, Jane Thompson, a Quakeress, b. 1796; d. April
20, 1833; m., 2d, Catherine Emily Newell, d. Dec. 20, 1836; m., 3d. Mabel Close,
d. April 30, 1883; he was a farmer. He d. Oct. 24, 1874- Res. Durham, N. Y.
2432. i. GEORGE, b. Jan. 22, 1812; m. Rebecca Vanhone and Catherine
HoUenbeck.
454 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2435.
V.
2436.
VI.
2437-
vu.
2438.
viii.
2439-
IX.
2433. iii. HENRY, b. June 11, 1821: m. Asenath Ferguson and Catherine
Bennett.
2434. iv. ANN ELIZA, b. June 15, 1825; m. Rowland, but d. s. p. Aug.
21, 1867.
JULIETTE, b. Sept. 10, 1826; d. unm. Dec. 9, 1869.
RICHARD, b. Sept. 10, 1829; m. Emeline A. Manvel.
JANE ANN, b. April 5, 1833; "i- Gibbs; a dau., Ann Gibbs,
res. Polo, 111.
HARRIET EMILY, b. Oct. 9, 1834; d. unm. March 22, 1890.
CATHERINE, b. Dec. 11, 1836; m. Wm. Henry Snyder, d. Cairo,
N. Y., January, 1863; she d. Sept. 5, 1896. Ch. : i. George L.
Snyder, b. May 21, 1858, Sunside, N. Y. 2. William Snyder, b.
Aug. 22, i860, Catskill, N. Y. 3. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Oct. 4, 1862;
m. Nov. 12, 1884, George R. Peck, b. April 18, 1862; is a farmer;
res. s. p. South Egremont, Mass.
2440. ii. WILLIAM ELI, b. July 24, 1840; m. Mary A. Meddaugh.
1197. ROSWELL FIELD (George, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of George and Martha (Smith), b. in North-
field, Mass., March 19, 1777; d. July 31, 1835; he m. Oct. 23, 1803, Eunice, dau. of
Simeon and Jerusha (Stratton) Alexander, of Northfield, b. Feb. i, 1783; d. Feb.
14, 1821.
Roswell, of Northfield, 1836; Ezekiel Wood, guardian, Aug. 23, 1836; be d. July
21, 1855; Geo. Field appointed administrator, Nov, 6, 1855; Simeon A. Field hold
undivided seventh in estate in common with Eliza Graves, Chas. P. Field, Adeline
Merriam, heirs of Jerusha A. Kelton, Horace F. Field and Sarah A. Holton ; Simeon
A. and Horace F. were sons.
Res. Northfield, Mass.
2441. i. ELIZA, b. March 15, 1804; m. James Merriam and Wyman Groves,
of Northfield: she d. Sept. 3, 1891.
2442. ii. SIMEON A., b. Oct. 13, 1805; m. Mrs. Adeline (Merriam)
Stratton.
2443. iii. LUCRETIA, b. July 20, 1807; d. Feb. 15, 1818.
2444. iv. ADELINE, b. Sept. 20, 1809; m. June 29, 1837, James Merriam,
of Northfield; d. 1855. He was b. Northfield April 9, 1814; d.
Feb. 25, 1899; was a farmer. Ch. : i. Ellen M. Merriam, b. Sept.
22, 1838; unm.; res. Northfield Farms, Mass. 2. Eunice A.
Savage, b. July 19, 1840; postoffice, Montague City. 3. William
E. Merriam, b. Aug. 28, 1842; Northfield Farms, Mass.
4. Charles Field Merriam, b. March 19. 1845; d. Oct. 7, 1876.
5. Julia E., b. May 19, 1848; d. Feb. 11, 1852. 6. Frank A., b.
April 13, 1852; d. Nov. 13, 1S52. She d. Nov. 17, 1891.
2445. V. CHARLES P., b. Sept. 17, 1813; m. Mary J. Rosenbury and Elnora
S. Pratt.
2446. vi. JERUSHA A., b. June 16, 1816; m. Merrill M. Kelton, of North-
field; d. Aug. 31, 1855, s. p.
2447. vii. HORACE FRANKLIN, b. March 18, 1818; m. Mary E. Gage.
2448. viii. SARAH A., b. Feb. 20, 1821; m. May 26, 1842, Horace Holton, of
Northfield, son of Horace, b. July 31, 1812; she d. March 6, 1865;
he m. Fanny Webb; three children; one was Sarah Estelle, b,
Feb. 10, 1843; m. March 15, 1869, John Francis Rice, b. May 24,
1842; res. 39 Pacific street, Fitchburg, Mass. Ch. : i. Sarah
FIELD GENEALOGY. 455
Florence Rice, b. Jan. i6, 1870; d. Nov. 7, 1871. 2. Theo. Francis
Rice, b. Aug. 6, 1871; m. Aug. 6, 1894, Alice Elizabeth Harper;
postoflfice address, South Framingham, Mass. 3. Walter Field
Rice, b. Oct. 2, 1873; m. Oct. 28, 1896, to Abbie Louise Lamb;
postoffice address, 85 Day street, Fitchburg, Mass.
1 199. HON. GEORGE FIELD (George. Seth. Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Massachusetts, June 16,
1781; m. Dec. 2, 1805, Phila Holton, dau. of Elisha and Louise (Benjamin) Holton,
b. March 11, 17S6; d. Oct. 22, 1840; m., 2d, Feb. 16, 1841, Mrs. Ruth (Holton) Scott,
dau. of Elijah and Rhoda (Root) Holton, and widow of Martin, b. Feb. 7, 1792; she
m., 3d, April 13, 1857, Job M. Dickinson, and d. Nov. 21, 1869; he was Representa-
tive in 1833. He was a type of [the early New England settlers; industrious and
intelligent, honest and upright in his dealings with others, prizing and working for
his home and family, and respected by all. A member of the church and constant
in attendance with his family, doing all he could for education where he lived,
letting nothing but sickness keep his children from school, giving them as good an
education as his means would allow. In a few words, he lived for his home, his
Church, the schools and his native town, never missing a town meeting, if it were
possible for him to be there. He was a good farmer for those times. He was a
selectman of Northfield in 181S, 1S19 and 1820; a Representative to the Legislature
in 1833. He carried on an extensive farm, and was also a good carpenter. He was a
stern but just man, fond of his family, and desirous of giving his children a good
education.
George, of Northfield, June 2, 1856, recorded; wife, Ruth; sons, Alfred Russell
Field, Caleb Clesson Field, George, Jr. ; daughters, Louise, wife of Samuel Mer-
riman; Phila, wife of the late Hiram Withington; son, Alfred, executor. — Frank-
lin County Probate.
Elisha Holton, father of Mrs. Field, was b. in Northfield, Mass., 1756; m. to
Lois Benjamin in June 9, 1785; she was b. in Hardwick, Mass., in 1757; her
father's name was Caleb Benjamin, and moved to Wendell. Their children were:
I. Phila Holton, b. March 11, 1786. 2. Electa Holton, b. March 2, 1788. 3. Elisha
Holton, b. March 28, 1790. 4. Elihu Holton, b. March 28, 1792. 5. Eliphalet Holton,
b. Aug. 2, 1796. 6. Lois Holton, b. March 19, 1802; she d. July 29, 1803. The
Holtons were of good family relations respected by friends and neighbors, and
their descendants are scattered from New England to California.
George d. March 8 (State records say March 10), 1856. Res. Northfield, Mass.
GEORGE, b. April 2, 1806; d. July i, 1810.
SON, b. April 3, 1808; d. April 4, 1810.
DAUGHTER, b. Feb. 19, 1809; d. Feb. 27, 1809.
CALEB CLESSON, b. May 27, 1810; m. Hannah C. Danforth,
Mrs. Anna S. Carter and Martha Joslyn.
MARTHA S.. b. Jan. 9, 1813; d. unm. Sept. 16, 1832.
ALFRED RUSSELL, b. Oct. 28, 1815; m. Sarah N. Allen, Mary
H. Allen and Rebecca J. Williams.
2455. vii. LOIS B., b. Nov. 17, 1817; m. Nov. 12, 1837, Samuel Merriman.
She d. Sept. 9, 1890. He was son of Levi, was b. May 12, 1807;
d. Dec. 21, 1854; res. Northfield. Ch. : i. Clesson, b. Nov. 28,
1838; m. Helen M. Montague. They had one son, Arthur C.
Merriman, b. June 11, 1868, his mother dying three days later.
Clesson carried on his father's large farm until 1882, when he
removed to Leominster, where he still lives, and where his son
2449.
2450.
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456 FIELD GENEALOGY.
conducts a large horn manufactory. 2. Mary, b. Nov. 24, 1840;
d, Feb. 23, 1844. 3- Crosby, b. May 25, 1844; d. Feb. 23, 1845.
4. Ella, b. Nov. 4, 1846; m. Sept. 17, 1867, J. Augustus Barber;
she d. s. p. Leominster, Oct. 15, 1889. 5. Russell, b. Oct. 22,
1851; d. July 31, 1853. 6. George, b. May 22, 1854; d. April
II, 1857-
2456. viii. GEORGE, b. April 4, 1820; m. Susan A. Brainard.
2457. ix MARY, b. March 18, 1823; d. April 23, 1840.
2458. X. PHILA, b. March 25, 1826; m. Feb. 21, 1848, Rev. Hiram Withing-
ton, a Unitarian clergyman, b. July 29, 1818; d. Oct. 30, 1848; she
res. s. p. Leominster, Mass. He was son of Isaac Withmgton,
of Dorchester, Mass., b. Aug. 7, 1772; d. Feb. 10, 1854; m. Dec.
15, 1799, Mary Turner, of Hanover, Mass., b. Nov. i, 1781 ; d. Jan.
I, 1854. Rev. Hiram was b. July 29, 1818, m. Nov. 17, 1844,
Elizabeth Humphrey Clapp; shed, in Leominster, Mass., Dec. 3,
1845. The only issue was by the first wife, a son, Wm. Clapp
Withington, res. 41 Stanley street, Dorchester, Mass. Rev. Hiram
was educated at the schools of his native town, and began teach-
ing at the age of sixteen in Hanover. At seventeen was teachmg
in the grammar school in Dorchester. From early youth he was
interested and took part in the Sunday-school, where he was liked
by the pupils very much. He wished to study for the ministry,
and was encouraged by his minister. Rev. Mr. Hall. He entered
the divinity school at Cambridge in 1841 for three years, and at
the close of that time was settled as pastor of the First church in
Leominster in December, 1844, and on account of illheallh was
obliged to resign in 1848, and died in Dorchester Oct. 30, 1848. It
was with great regret to both himself and people that he was
obliged to separate from them. His disposition was mild and
affectionate and yet firm. His manners winning, and his voice
particularly pleasing. There was a small memoir published con-
cerning him by his intimate friend. Rev. Joseph H. Allen, of
Northboro. One friend said of him at the time, "That though he
died young, his life was long, for it was crowded to its close with
noble aims and lofty endeavors."
2459. xi. PRUSIA, b. March 15. 1829; d. Dec. 22, 1834.
2460. xii. MORRIS M., b. March 10, 1834; d. July 29, 1839.
1201. JESSE FIELD (George, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of George and Martha (Smith), b. in North-
field, Mass., Oct. 5, 1787; he is probably the Jesse who m. Experience, dau. of
Joshua Smead, b. 1789; removed to Norway, N. Y.
1203. ELIHU FIELD (George, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of George and Martha (Smith), b. in North-
fitld, Mass., Nov. 10, 1794; settled in Athol, Mass.; he ra. Elizabeth Stratton.
Res. Athol, Mass.
A SON.
A SON.
A DAUGHTER.
A SON.
A DAUGHTER.
PROSPER JOSEPH, b. about 1836; last heard of was in Oregon.
2461.
2462.
11.
2463.
iii.
2464.
iv.
2465.
v.
2466.
vi.
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2469.
ni.
2470.
IV.
2471.
V.
2472.
vi.
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VI 1.
2474-
vii:
1206. SYLVESTER FIELD (Rufus. Seth, Zechariah. Samuel, Zechariah.
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Norlhfield. Mass., July 13, 1770; m.
Jemima Freeman, dau. of Daniel and Jemima. He d. 1847. Res. Northfield, Mass.
2467. i. THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. Jan. 6, 1804; m. Maria Durkee,
2468. ii. HORATIO, b. April 2r, 1814; m. Lucinda Brigham and Frances
Maria Mason.
HOLLIS, b. Dec. 8, 1816.
LYDIA, b. Nov. 8, 1819.
SYLVANUS, b. Dec. 11, 1809; m. Deborah Bonney and Mrs.
Lurana (Parkman) Robbins.
AHAZ. b. Oct. 13, 1805; m. Mary Brown.
JOSIAH, b. April 2, 1807; m. Lydia Carrier,
viii. JEMIMA, b. March 14, 1811; m. April 29, 1838, Evander G.
Marsh, of Vernon, Vt. ; she d. Sept. 15, 1880.
2475. ix. FRANCIS, b. May 11, 1822; m. Harriet Deraing.
1209. HOLLIS FIELD (Rufus. Seth, Zechariah, Samuel. Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Jan. 22, 177S; m. Jan. 21.
1806, Betsey Jennings; she m., 2d, Oct 12, 1813, Obed Morgan, of Gill; d. April
30. 1857.
HoUis. of Northfield, d. June. 22 1813; filed; wife Betseym., 2d, Morgan before
fully administering on husband's estate; de bonis non; letter of administrator dated
Jan. 4, 1814. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Northfield, Mass.
2476. i. ROSWELL. b. April ir, 1808; a physician; res. in Gill, Mass. ;
owner of the sandstone quarries at Turner's Falls, containing
bird and other tracks; d. Nov. 26, 1882; unm.
Dr. Roswell, of Gill, 1883; d. Nov. 25, 1882; half-brothers, Obed
Morgan, Jr., of Deerfield; Elijah S. Morgan, of Sunderland; half-
sisters, Jerusha A. Marble, of Gill; Mary E. Morgan, of Gill;
nephews, Cornelius O. Field, of Westfield; Albert A. Field, of
Gill; niece, Eugenia M. Foster, of Gill. Gives to Mt. Herman
School for Boys in Gill entire cabinet of fossils, footprints, shells,
minerals and natural and artificial curiosities; also the sum of
$1,600, $1,000 of which is to be used in enlarging and replenishing
said cabinet, and that $600 shall be used in providing a suitable
building lor said cabinet or in making such provision as shall
seem best to directors of said school. Gives $r,ooo for purpose of
founding a library in school district No. 4 at Northfield Farms,
principal to be invested, interest only to be used in sustaining
and replenishing said library. — Probate Records.]
2477. ii. D WIGHT, b. June 19, 1810; m. Mary A. Allen.
1210. RUFUS FIELD (Rufus, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard. William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., June 16, 1780; settled in
Erving, Mass.; d. July 7, 1858; he m. Hannah Jennings, b. July 21, 1777; d. July
21, 1825; he was a farmer. Res. Erving. Mass
2478. i. ELIZA, b. ; m. Silas Bruce, of Erving, Mass.
2479. ii. RUFUS. b. May 20, 1812: m. Azubah N. Benjamin.
1214. SETH FIELD (Rufus, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of Rufus and Elizabeth (Field), b. in Northfield,
Mass., May 13, 1791; he m., Feb. 9. 1814, Polly, dau. of Lemuel and Sarah (Moffitt)
30
458 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2480,
2481.
ii.
2482.
iii.
2483.
iv.
2484.
V.
2485.
Vl.
2486.
vii.
2487.
viii,
2488.
ix.
Coy, of Northfield; b. July 23,^1795; m., 2d, Fox, of Coleraine, Mass., widow
of Sylvanus Hastings. Res. Northfield, Mass.
ELIAL GILBERT, b. 1816; m. Fanny D. Pratt.
WILLARD, b. 181B.
SARAH JANE, b. 1820; m. John Perry, of Amherst, Mass.
ALVANUS W., b. ; m. Sylphiana Whipple.
SETH, b. .
FIDELIA, b. ; m. Addison Beach, of Pittsford, Vt.
ENOS, b. .
MARY ANN, b. ; m. Willard Fisher, of Brattleboro, Vt.
ALMIRA J., b. ; m. Harrison Cole, of Brattleboro, Vt.
1 21 7. HENRY FIELD (Henry. Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, 'Richard, ^William, William), b. Northfield, Mass,, Oct. 3, 1789; m. Dec. 29,
1814, [Mary Simonds, dau. of Capt. William, b. Aug. 5, 1790; d. Dec. 24, 1848.
Henry Field, son of Henry and Rhoda (Stratton), was b. in Northfield, Mass. ; he
was killed by being drawn over the dam embankment at Webster's Mill by a blind
horse.
Henry, of Northfield. March 25, 1833, filed; children, William Henry, Morgan,
Elijah Carpenter, Albert, Mary Ann, George Artemas, Asa Sanderson, Erasmus,
Martha, Julia (minors), Lucretia; Asahel Sawyer, guardian; wife, Mary. — Franklib
County Probate.
He d. March 5, 1833. Res. Northfield. Mass.
HENRY W., b. Nov. 26, 1815; d. Nov. 22, 1838.
MARY A., b. April 9, 1817; m. Sept. 22, 1827,* George H. Waters,
Waterbury, Conn.
ELIJAH CARPENTER, b. March 28, 1819; m. Louisa H. Starr.
ALBERT ADAMS, b. Feb. 13, 1821; m. Eliza Morgan.
GEORGE ARTEMAS, b. March 20, 1823; m. Elizabeth Wheelock.
ASA SANDERSON, b. Aug. 22, 1825; m. Laura Jewell.
ERASMUS JARVIS, b. May 23, 1827; m. Sarah Sergeant.
MARTHA E., b. March 18, 1829; m. Eli Porter, of New Britain,
Conn.
2497. ix. JULIA ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 18, 1831; m. D. Gilbert Wilkins, of
Leyden; she d. June, 1873.
2498. X. LUCRETIA, b. .
1218. CHARLES F. FIELD (Henry, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., April i, 1794; m.
Dec. 21, 1820, Electa Mattoon, dau. of Samuel, b. March 20, 1796; d. May 16, 1823;
m., 2d, Dec. 20, 1827, Mary Harriet Alexander, dau. of Elijah and Polly (Field), b.
Dec. 31, 1806.
Charles F. Field, of Northfield, 1875; wife, Mary H. ; daughters, Rhoda S., wife
of Lucius O. Field; Sophia B., wife of Chas. H. Stearns; Isabella A., wife of
Joseph C. Swan; Mary H. Field; Sarah E., wife of Samuel R. Furrow; Frances H.
Field ; Clarissa J. Field ; Roxanna B. , wife of John W. Mann ; son, Frederick F.
Field, Elijah A. Field, Otis E. Field; witnessed by Simeon A. Field.
He d. March 14, 1875. Res. Northfield, Mass.
2499. i- CYRUS WASHBURNE, b. Nov. 19, 1821; d. July 18, 1862.
2500. ii. RHODA STRATTON, b. April 28, 1829; m. Lucius O. Field.
2501. iii. SOPHIA BEAUFORT, b. June 1. 1830; m. Feb. 27, 1853, Simeon
A. Spafiord; m., 2d, July 16, i86r, Charles H. Stearns.
♦History of Northfield, but probably 1837.
2489.
i.
2490.
u.
2491.
iii.
2492.
IV.
2493-
V.
2494.
VI.
2495-
vu.
2496.
vin.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 459
2502. IV. ISABELLA ALEXANDER, b. July 20, 1831; m. April 16, 1856,
Joseph C. Swan, of Northfield.
2503. V. MARY H., b. Feb. 20, 1833.
2504. vi. FREDERICK F., b. March 9, 1834; m. and resides at St. Paul,
Minn.
2505. vii. SARAH E., b. Oct. 18, 1835; m. April 3, i860, Samuel R. Furrow,
of Westfieid.
2506. viii. HOPE F., b. Oct. 20. 1837.
2507. ix. CLARISSA J., b. March 29, 1839; m. Oct. 12, 1876, Delavan C.
Johnson.
2508. X. ROXANA B., b. Aug. 8, 1840; m. Oct. 9, 1866, John Wesley Mann,
of Northfield.
2509. xi. ELIJAH A., b. Feb. 9, 1842; m. Mary Jane Holton.
2510. xii. CHARLES H., b. July 12. 1844; d. Jan. 5, 1872.
Charles H., of Northfield, 1872; Chas. F. Field appointed
administrator of estate of Chas. H. Feb. 6, 1872; father of Chas.
H. Field; sister, Sophia S. Stearns. — Franklin County Probate.
2511. xiii. GEORGE J., b. Nov. 4, 1845; d. Oct. 11, 1848.
2512. xiv. OTIS EVERETT, b. July 10, 1847.
2513. XV. ELIZA ELECTA, b. Jan. 6, 1850; d. Sept. 9, 1851.
1219. ZENOPHON FIELD (Henry, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., April 18, 1797; m. in
1821 Clarissa Harris, b. 1797; d. July 15, 1883. Res. Northfield and Northampton.
Mass.
MARSHAL D., b. May 13, 1822.
MARY S., b. June 10, 1824,
EDWARD E., b. Nov. 16, 1826.
DWIGHT D., b. Feb. 4, 1828. '\^
ELVIRA A., b. March 10, 1830.
WELLS S., b. Aug. 23, 1831. ;
HENRY H., b. April 6, 1835.
CLARISSA, b. April 20. 1837.
1223. DAVID HITCHCOCK FIELD (Seth, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 25, 1798;
m. Harriet J. .
Inventory of David H. Field, of Brookfield, 1833; wife, Harriet J. Field;
Nathaniel Paine, judge.
Account of Harriet J. Field, administratrix of the estate of husband, David H.
Field, late of Brookfield, 1833 ; Nathaniel Paine, judge.
It will be seen by the above that he died intestate. No children are mentioned.
— Worcester County Probate.
He d. July 3, 1S33. Res. Brookfield, Mass.
1232. THEODORE FIELD (Theodore, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard. William, William), son of Theodore and Catherine (Parker),
b. in Brimfield, Mass., Oct. 28, 1799. He removed to Ware village, Mass., where
he d. Jan. 18, 1873; he was a dyer; he m., Sept. i, 1824, Almira Allen; d. Aug. 16,
1857; m., 2d, Sept. 5. i860, Elizabeth Barr; she res. in Ware. Res. Ware, Mass.
2522. i. GEORGE PARKER, b. July 17, 1825; d. Dec. 7, 1835.
2523. ii. ALMIRA OLIVIA, b. Oct. 6, 1S26; m. Sept. 16, 1853, Dr. Oscar
David Cass; d. in Denver, Col., Sept. 20, 1870, s. p.
2514.
1.
2515-
11.
2516.
111.
2517.
iv.
2518.
V.
2519-
vi.
2520.
Vll.
2521.
viii.
460 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2524. iii. CAROLINE MARIA, b. July 18, 1828; m. Nov. 26. 1849, John H.
Knapp; d. Sept. 20, 1870. He was b. Elmira, N. Y., March 29.
1825; d. Oct. 14, 1888, at Menomonie, Wis.; she d. Jan. 31, 1854.
John Holly Knapp was son of Gen. John H. Knapp and Harriet
Seely, of Elmira, N. Y., where he was born March 29, 1825, and
in 1835 removed with his parents to Fort Madison, Iowa. On
June I, 1846. he engaged in lumber manufacturing at Menomonie,
Wis , founding the business which grew to be the Knapp. Stout
& Co. Company, said to be the largest lumber concern in the
United States. He married Caroline Maria Field, and one child
was born to them and named Henry Eno Knapp. Mrs. Knapp
died Jan. 31, 1854. Mr. Knappafterwardsmarried Valeria Adams.
Henry Eno was b. March 14, 1851. in Fort Madison, Iowa; m.
June 12, 1879, Jessie Thomas, of Ripon, Wis.; res. Menomonie.
Henry E. Knapp attended Denmark Academy and Ripon College ;
m. June 12, 1879, Jessie Thomas, of Ripon, Wis. ; no children. He
is a member of the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company, and has been
actively engaged in the lumber busmtss since 1874, and res. at
Menomonie, Wis. Is a 32 degree Mason. Henry E. Knapp enlisted
in Ludington Guards, Wisconsin State Militia, Nov. 21, 1876; was
on that date commissioned sergeant; commissioned second lieu-
tenant Sept. 28, 1880; resigned after over five years' service June
21, 1882; re-entered the service and commissioned second lieu-
tenant Jan. 18, 1883: iirst lieutenant July 21, 1883; resigned June
13, 1884, and was honorably discharged.
2525. iv. CATHERINE ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 2, 1832; m. May 10, i86c,
George Potwin Eaton. She d. Sept. 27, 1897, at Orange, N. J.
John Potwin Eaton, only son of George Potwin Eaton and Cath-
erine Elizabeth (Field), was b. July 31, 1869, and m. Emma
Louisa Jackson June 19, 1895, at Menomonie, Wis., and res. at
St. Paul, Minn., where he is cashier for Y. & L. Coal Company.
They have one child, Henry Field Eaton, b. December, 1898.
CHARLES EDGAR, b. March 17, 1835: d. unm. Feb. 13, 1871.
HARRIET NEWELL, b. Feb. 15, 1839; d. Oct. 24, 1850.
HARRIET ALLEN, b. Aug. 8, 1841 ; d. July 16, 1843.
WILLIAM THEODORE, b. Aug. 26, 1845; he d. unm. May 30,
1898, in Denver, Col.
1233. CHARLES FREDERICK FIELD (Theodore. Seth, Zechariah, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Theodore and CatHferine
(Parker), b. in Brookfield, Mass., Sept. ir, 1802. He settled in Monson, Mass. ; in
1829 removed to Amherst, Mass.; in 1836 to Gill, Mass., and in 1848 to Akron,
Ohio. In 1849 he went overland to California, where for three years he was
engaged in furnishing supplies for the miners. In 1853 he returned and purchased.
a farm in Johnstown, Rock county. Wis. In he sold and removed to St.
Louis, Mo., where he d. July 28, 1869. He m. Sept. 6, 1826, Emily Penelope, dau.
of Rodolphus and Hannah D. (Hollister) Field, of Gill, b. July 10, 1803; d. in St.
Louis, Mo., Aug. 9, 1869 (see). Res. Akron, Ohio.
2530. i. ANNA FIDELIA, b. Nov. 8. 1827; m. June 8, 1863, Warren Reed
Parker, of St. Louis, Mo., s. p. ; res., 4964 Lotus avenue.
2531. ii. EMILY GRATIA, b. Sept. 6, 1829; m., Oct. 23, 1849. Frederick
L. Rice, of Wayland, Mass., d. April 26, 1852; m., 2d, March
2526.
V.
2527.
vi.
2528.
VII.
2529.
via.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 461
30, 1865, RoUin Richmond, of St. Louis, s. p. ; he d. May 21,
1895; res. 4964 Lotus avenue.
2532. iii. HELEN POMEROY, b. Jan. 17, 1834; m. Dec. 21, 1856, De Witt
Clinton Blackman, of Johnstown and of Buffalo, he was b.
April 12, 1834: d. July 14, 1899; she res. 4964 Lotus avenue, St.
Louis. Ch. : i. Claren Sidney, b. July 21, 1859; m. Per-
kins; res. Buffalo, N. Y. 2, Fred. De Wilt, b. July 19, 1865.
2533 iv. EDWARD PRENTICE, b. March 9, 1839; m. Agnes Cook.
2534. V. CHARLES PRENTICE, b. Dec. 5, 1842; m. Caroline B. Rich-
mond.
1234. ORUS FIELD (Theodore, Seth, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Theodore and Catherine (Parker), b. in
Brimfield, Mass., Nov. 8, 1804. He settled in Southbridge, Mass., where he resided
several years. He afterwards traveled extensively in the United States and the
West India Islands with an exhibition. He then settled in Detroit Mich., where
he kept a hotel for several years. He d. in Boston, Mass., where he went for med-
ical treatment, Feb. 25, 1853. The State records style him "Gentleman" at his
death. He m. Catherine Fish, of ; she d. from the eftects ot chloroform taken
for the extraction of a tooth ; no issue.
1235. NATHAN FIELD (James, Gains, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John Richard, William, William), b. in Surry, N. H,, Aug. i, 1765. He was one of
the first settlers of Peacham, Vt, going into town by marked trees, carrying on his
back from Keene, N. H.. seed corn, with his axe and other baggage. He made a
purchase of 600 acres of land and cleared it mostly with his own hands, with very
little hired help; getting it into a good state of cultivation and suffering the priva-
tions of all new countries. He sold and removed to Greensboro, Vt., where he d.
Nov. 10, 1859. Hem., November, 1794, Lucina, dau. of Jonathan Sumner, of Keene,
N. H., b. March 25, 1763; d. March 19, 1796; m., 2d, April 29, 1798, Hepsibah Bailey,
of Bath, N. H., b. June 6, 1764; d. Aug. 16, 1857. Res. Peacham, Vt.
2535. i. LUCINA S., b. Dec. 13, 1795; m. June 13, 1820, Simeon Harvey.
He was b. Nov. 22, 1792; d. Jtme 4, 1866, in Danville, Vt. ; she
d. Jan. 29, 1857; he was a manufacturer. Ch. : i. Elijah D., b.
July 2, 1821 ; d. Feb. 26, 1879. 2. Betsey Lucina, b. March 16,
1823; d. Feb. 23, 1844. 3. Nathan Field, b. Dec. 29, 1824; d. June
28, 1898. 4. Charles b. March 15, 1826; d. April 2t, 1827. 5.
Charles Field, b. June 10, 1829; d. May 22, 1895. 6. Abba M., b.
April 4, ; d. Sept. 4, 1854. 7. Mary A. W., b. Aug. 30, 1834;
m. Oct. 7, 1868, Russell Underwood; res. 4 Cross street, St.
Johnsbury. Vt. ; he was b. Feb. 26, 1826; d. Sept. 30, 1876; was
a bridge builder; s. p. 8. A. Clarke, b. Aug. 7, 1836; 31 Pearl
street, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 9. E. Olin, b. May 16, 1839; Lincoln,
Neb., First National Bank.
2536. ii. SARGEANT, b. Dec. 5. 1799; d. Nov. 30, 1800.
2537. iii. SARGEANT, b. June 25, 1802; m. Sarah B. Cobb.
2538. iv. MARY, b. Jan. 29, 1804; m. Jan. 27, 1824, Elisha N. Wood, of
Peacham, Vt. ; d. in Elgin, 111., Jan. 27, 1877. He was b. Water-
ford, Vt., June 17, 1802. Ch. : i. Nathan F. Woods, b. Dec. i,
1825; d. Nov. 5, 1847. 2. Mary F. Woods, b. Jan. 12, 1829; d.
July 19, 1891. 3. Annie E. Woods, b. Aug. 11, 1835. 4. Newell
E. Woods b. Feb. 14. 1841. 5. Joseph Woods, b. Nov. 22, 1831;
m. at Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 14, 1871, Elizabeth Tilford. 6. Frank-
462 FIELD GENEALOGY.
lin, Peacham, Vt., b. May i6, 1827; m. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. i,
1851, Mary Douglass Tilford, b. in Scotland, 1832; res. Philadel-
phia, Pa., 651 North 44th street; is a publisher and editor.
Ch. : (a) Kittie E. Woods, b. 1854, Jersey City; m. March
17, 1880, A, R. Allen, now of Wyckoft, N. J. (b) Frank Tilford
Woods, b. Chicago. 111., April 6, 1862; now in Jersey City,
N. J. ; m. Ellen Smithwick, of Philadelphia, (c) Charles Douglas
Woods, b. Allegheny City, Pa., Dec. 31, 1874.
2539. V. CHARLES B., b. Dec. 20, 1805; m. Abigail Cobb and Merol
Clark.
2540. vi. NATHAN, b. Feb. 29, 1808; d. Dec. 8, 1810.
2541. vii. ANN ELIZA, b. Oct. i, 1S09; m. June 17, 1837, Milo Blodgett, of
Peacham, Vt. ; d. Jan. 6, 1843.
2542. viii. LUCY MEHITABLE, b. Sept. 27. 1811; m. March 16. 1835,
Orville Jennison, of Danville, Vt. He was b. March 17, 1808, in
Walpole, N. H. ; d. in New Hampton, Iowa, July, 1885; was a
farmer; she d. March 16, 1864. Ch. : i. Lucy Augusta Thomp-
son, b. May 9, 1839; m. Jan. 22, 1865; res., 66 Montague street,
Brooklyn, N. Y. 2. Miss C. R. Jennison, b. June 25, 1837; res.,
3301 Laclede avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 3. Helen Eliza, b. Nov. 25,
1840; d. March 13, 1843. 4. Martha Ann, b. Nov. 4, 1843; m.
Jan. 29, 1870, in Grinnell, Iowa, Newell E. Woods, b. Feb. 14,
1841, s. p. ; res. Dresden, N. Y.
2543. ix. NATHAN, b. Jan. 13, 1S14; m. Abbie E. Pratt.
1241. JAMES FIELD (James, Gaius, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of James and Mary (Woodcock), b. in Nelson,
N. H. He settled about 1785 in Peacham, Vt., where he d. He m. Betsey Johnson.
2544. i. LUCY, b. October, 1800.
1246. OTHNIEL FIELD (Joshua, Gaius, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard. William, William), son of Joshua and Thankful (Robbins), b. in
Winchester, N. H., April 18, 1771. He went with his father in 1786 to Brandon,
Vt. ; in 1817 removed to Batavia, N. Y. ; in 1835 to Berlin, Ohio, where he d.
March, 1850. He m. . Res. Berlin, Ohio.
2545. i. A SON, b, ; d. in infancy.
1250. CALVIN FIELD (Joshua, Gaius, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Winchester, N. H., Nov. 21, 1777. He
went with his father in 1786 to Brandon, Vt. ; in 1809 removed to Batavia, N. Y. ;
in 1831 to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he d. Feb. 28, 1849. He was killed while
traveling on the road in Ingham county with a man by the name of Hyde, who
suddenly turned and dealt him a mortal blow with an axe, causing his death. Hyde
was arrested and tried, and sentenced to the State's prison for seven years. He
was an officer in the heavy artillery during the war of 1812; was in the .battles of
Queenstown, Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, and continued in the service
until the close of the war. He was living in Mason county at the time of his death.
He m., Nancy, dau. of Thomas Rice, of Clarendon, Vt.. b. ; d. ; m., 2d,
1832, Asenath Strickland, of Ann Arbor, Mich., b. ; she m.. 2d, Willing,
of Dallas, Clinton county, Mich. Res. Ann Arbor, Mich.
2546.
2547-
2548.
WARREN L., b. ; m. Ardine Pratt.
i. A DAUGHTER, b. .
ii. A SON, b. .
FIELD GENEALOGY. 463
2549.
IV.
2550.
V.
2551-
vi.
2552.
vn.
2553-
vm.
2554-
2555.
11.
2556.
iii.
CALVIN, b. Oct. 3, 1812; ra. Samantha Strickland.
NANCY, b. i8i8; m. 1838, Samuel Cate, of Batavia, N. Y.. now
of Decatur, Mich. ; d. November, 1863. Mrs. Frances Lyon,
dau. of Nancy, South Bend, Ind.
HELEN A., b. August, 1833; d. 1856.
MARY, b. November, 1835.
DENNIS, b. iS39;d. 1843.
1 25 1. PAUL FIELD (Joshua, Gains, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Winchester, N. H., April 10, [1779. He
went with his father in 1786 to Brandon, Vt., and inherited the homestead. He was
a very worthy man. and was highly esteemed by all his neighbors. He was killed
by being hooked by an ox Oct. 21, 1834. He m. Dec. 3, 1810, Mary, dau. of Jona-
than Stearns, of Brandon, b. in Hardwick. Mass., Aug. 15, 1790; d. Sept. 8, 1851.
STEARNS, JR., b. July 10, 1813; m. Anna Trainer.
BURGESS PAUL, b. Jan. 6, 1817; m. Lydia W. Hemenway.
GEORGE F., b. June 2, 1819; m. Byra A. Munger and Mrs. Mary
Sampson.
2557. iv. SARAH A. E.. b. March 15, 1824; m. Oct. 21, 1844, Stephen
Alden, of Brandon.
2558. V. CAROLINE L, b. Jan. i, 1827; m. Feb. 10, 1857, S. D. Wing, of
Brandon.
2559. vi. ADELINE J., b. Jan. i, 1827; m. Feb. 10, 1857. Alfred Knapp, ot
Brandon; d. July 21, 1879.
2560. vii. MAHALA, b. Aug. 13, 1830; m. April 14, 1852, John Barker, of
Brandon.
1253. DOCTOR RODOLPHUS FIELD (Joshua, Gains, Zechariah, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Joshua and Thankful
(Robbins). b. in Winchester, N. H., June 17. 1783. A physician. He settled in
Cornwall, Vt., in 1810; removed to Crown Point, N. Y. ; d. ; he m. Matilda
Allen, of Crown Point ; no issue.
1260. WILLIAM FIELD (William, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Nov. 23, 1785; m.
May 8, 1808, Mary Woodward, dau. of John and Sally Drury, b. April 25, 1787; d.
Feb. 8, 1868. He was a painter.
William, of Northfield, died intestate, insolvent; administrator appointed Feb.
12, 1850, by Geo. Grinnell, probate judge; wife Polly had dower allowed.
He d. Dec. 24, 1849. Res. Northfield, Mass.
2561. i. SARAH PETTEE, b. April 2, 1809; m. May 23, 1839, John Lee,
ot Vernon, Vt., and Southington, Conn. ; res. New Britain, Conn.
WILLIAM E., b. Sept. 9, 1811; m. Lucretia E. Dickinson.
ABIGAIL H., b. Jan. 9, 1814; m. Oct. 23, 1833, Josiah Jennison,
Jr., of Northfield; d. at Hartford, Conn., Aug. 26, 1863.
HAMPTON E., b April 15, 1816; m. Sarah Turner.
STORER WOODBURY, b. Nov. 30, 1819; m. Lucy Ann Jones.
FRANKLIN, b. Aug. 11, 1824; m. Mary Goldsmith.
NEWTON SAMUEL, b. Jan. 22, 1833; m. Electa G. Atkins.
1268. JESSE FIELD (Asa, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Vermont, Dec. 27, 1802; m. Lancaster, N. Y.,
Jan. 17. 1844, Harriet Amelia Wakelee, of Lancaster, N. Y., b. April 17, 1817; d.
Sept. 4, 1878. He was b. at Pawlet, Vt, and moved in childhood with his father
2562.
11.
2563.
111.
2564.
iv.
2565.
V.
2566.
VI.
2567.
vii,
464 FIELD GENEALOGY.
and family to what was then Clarence, now Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y., where
his father bought a farm about thirteen miles east of Buffalo, N. Y. During the
excitement previous to the war of 1812, he used to tell ot training a company
of young Indians in military style, much to the gratification of the older Indians.
He gained a common school education, and in young manhood traveled considerably
through the west on some lumber or milling business, doing a deal of it on horse-
back and meeting with many adventures peculiar to the times. In 1844 he m. Miss
Harriet A. Wakelee, and went to housekeeping at the old farm homestead after
purchasing the other interests. Here he lead the lite of a thrifty and well-
bred farmer. Here his four children were born — Jessie, Asa W., Scott,
and Edward C. In 1863 he sold the farm and moved with is family to the
village of Lancaster, about three miles distant. He bought the leading dry goods
store in the village, and later was appointed postmaster, which latter position he
held at the time of his death, which occurred Feb. 21, 1881. In politics he was a
Whig and staunch Republican, and came near exterminating a Copperhead who
exultingly announced the assassination of Lincoln. He was not a church member,
though a regular attendant at the Presbyterian church, and was for a long time
trustee. He was of quiet and kindly disposition, respected by all, fond of an
argument, with a keen sense of humor. He d. Feb. 21, 1881. Res. Lancaster, N. Y.
2568. i. JESSIE AMELIA, b. Dec. 17, 1844; m. Jas. B. Hanvey, Aug. 29,
1865; d. Nov. II, 1875. Jessie, the eldest of the family, was b. at
Lancaster, N. Y. ; graduated at Miss Bryan's Seminary; m. Mr.
James B. Hanvey; three children were born of this union; one
died young shortly after her mother. He d. Oct. 15, 1886; res.
Rochester, N. Y. Ch. : i. Florence Evelyn Hanvey, b. Nov. 17,
1870; m. Aug. 12, 1896, William L. Mead; address, 51 Orlean
street. Rochester, N. Y. 2. Alice Gertrude Hanvey, b. June 8,
1872; d. March, 1876. 3. Wallace Field Hanvey, b. April 14,
1867; m. Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1898, Florence G. Chapin, b.
April 18, 1872; res., s. p., 29 Kenwood avenue, Rochester, N. Y. ;
he is a furniture designer.
2569. ii. ASA W.,b. Jan. II, 1848; unm. ; res., Saginaw, Mich. AsaW.,b. at
Lancaster, N. Y., went as a young man to Battle Creek, Mich. ;
spent most of his boyhood and young manhood in this place,
living with his uncle Clem Wakelee. After finishing school, he
worked for a time in his uncle's dry good^ store, and later
accepted a position in the First National Bank of Battle Creek,
acquiring in that institution a thorough knowledge ot the banking
business. Later he was called to San Francisco, Cal., to assist
his uncle Henry Wakelee in the management of his afitairs. Was
secretary of the Golden City Chemical Works; secretary and
treasurer of the California Theater Co. After eight or ten years
in San Francisco, he returned East and accepted a position in a
Saginaw bank. He was induced to enter the political field, and
ran for county treasurer, but was defeated. He was for a time
manager of the Saginaw Street Railway System, but not long
ago resigned that position to assume the management of a
branch of the Bank of Saginaw, at East Saginaw, where he now
resides, a bachelor.
2570. iii. SCOTT, b. Feb. 23, 1852; m. Emma Skinner and Katherine E.
Waterbury.
2571. iv. EDWARD CLEM, b. Nov. 19, 1855; m. Alice D. Harlow.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 465
1273. WILLIAM FIELD (Asa, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Pawlet, Vt., Oct. 17, 1792. He removed in
i8n to Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y., where he d. Aug. 2, i860; he m. .
1274. ASA FIELD (Asa, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. in Pawlet, Vt. , Aug. 13, 1794. He went with his
father in 181 1 to Lancaster, Erie county, N. Y. ; in 1824 removed to Middleburg,.
Vt. ; in 1830 to Buftalo, N. Y. ; in 1832 to Ravenna, Ohio; in 1834 to Akron, Ohio;
d. Jan. 14, 1869; he ra.. Sept. 18, 1825, at West Haven, Vt., Betsey, dau. of Isaac
and Mary (Winter) Cady, b. in Pawlet, Vt., Aug. 13, 1794; d. in Buftalo, July 9,.
1832; m., 2d, June 15, 1835, at Royalton, Ohio, Mary Ann Catherine Cady, sister
of first wife, b. Jan, 12, 1810; d. June 15, 1895. Res. Akron. Ohio.
2572. i. ANGELINE, b. Feb. 9, 1827; m. Jan. 26, 1848, Cyrus Masters, of
Akron, Ohio, now a widow at Mt. Morris, N. Y.
2573. ii. GUY, b. March 30, 1836; d. Feb. 19, 1853.
2574. iii. PETER, b. July 3, 1838. He enlisted Nov. 20, 1861, in Capt. Cullen
Bradley's Sixth Ohio Battery, in which he served during the War
of the Rebellion; was discharged and re-enlisted Dec. 12, 1863, as
a veteran, and was honorably discharged; d. from disease con.-
tracted in the service July 15, 1866.
2575. iv. PAUL, b. Jan. 14, 1842; m. Fidelia McConnaughey.
2576. v. FRANCES E., b. June 27, 1843; m. June 9, 1862, Richard F.
Palmer, of Akron. She d. April 26, 1898. He is a commercial
traveler; with his sons he is a breeder and shipper of high class
s. c. black Minorcas fowls. Ch. : i. Jesse Dwight, b. Feb. 22,
1866. 2. Joseph Asa, b. July 7, 1868; m. Sept. 27, 1892, Libbie
Alice Prier. Ch. : (a) Clarence Asa Palmer, b. June 15. 1894.
(b) Frances Elizabeth Palmer, b. Oct. 25, 1B97; he is stenogra-
pher and private secretary. 3. Frank L., b. Dec. 31, 1863.
JOHN AUGUSTUS, b. March 14, 1845; m. Isabella Baker.
JESSIE, b. Jan. 27, 1847; d. Feb. 27, 1853.
PARK B., b. Aug. 7, 1850; m. Anna E. Smith.
1284. SILAS FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah. John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, April 12, 1779, m. Oct. 24, 1805,
Ruth Bryant Faxon, b. Bridgewater, Sept. 18, 1789, dau. of Benjamin and Ruth
(Bryant) ; d. March 27, 1880, aged ninety-one years, six months and ten days. He
d. June 27, 1862. Res. Northfield. Mass.
BENJAMIN F., b. Sept. 23, 1806: m. Elizabeth S. Towne.
SILAS, b. 1809; was a supercargo; d. at sea m 1833.
ELIZABETH, b. . Res. Northfield.
AUGUSTA, b. . Res. Northfield.
FRANKLIN, b. in 1815; unm. He was abroad for several years
in Calcutta and Japan; was a merchant. "Franklin, Northfield,
March 2, 1897; died Jan. 21, 1807. Brother, Joseph W., of North-
field; sisters Augusta and Moaria, of Northfield; children of
deceased brother: B. F. Field, William DeWitt Field and
Fanny Field, of Northfield." — Franklin County Probate.
2585. vi. NATHANIEL BRYANT, b. June 8. 1817; d. October. 1818.
2586. vii. MARIA A,, b. in 1818; unm. "Maria A., Northfield, April 6.
1897; died March 8, 1897; single woman. Next of kin: Brother
Joseph W., of Northfield (administrator); sister, Augusta Field,
of Northfield; nephews, Benjamin F. and William DeGough;
2577-
VI.
2578.
Vll.
2579-
Vlll.
2580.
1.
2581.
11.
2582.
iii.
2583.
iv.
2584.
V.
466 FIELD GENEALOGY.
niece, Fanny Field, of Northfield. Mentions in will, Bertha F.,
wife of William De G. Field; Amelia D., wife of Joseph W.
Field; deceased brother, Franklin Field. "—Franklin County
Probate.
2587. viii. RUTH, b. in 1823; d. young.
2588. ix. JOSEPH W., b. May 24, 1S26; m. Amelia Deblois Bush.
128s. HON. ELISHA FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechar-
iah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Jan. 28, 1781 ; m. Miriam
Hancock. Elisha Field, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Mattoon), born in Northfield,
Mass. He removed to Boston. Mass., and engaged in commercial affairs. He
raised a company of men in the War of 1812, called the Sea Fencibles, which he
commanded. He was for a time United States consul at the Cape De Verde
Islands. He was a sea captain in the East India trade, and died at Batavia, Island
of Java. East Indies, in 1817. Res. Boston, Mass.
2589. i. MARY P., b. ; m. James Mattoon. Res. Lancaster, Mass.
2590. ii. MARTHA A., b. ; m. Bemis. Res, Northfield, Mass.
2591. iii. ELISHA, b. Jan. 6, 1817; m. Mary Flint.
1287. JUSTIN FIELD (Samuel, Samuel, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b., Northfield, Dec. 22, 1784; m. Nov. 22,
1810, Harriet Powers, dau. of Thomas and Hannah, b. Dec. 9, 1790; d. Nov. 14,
1845. He moved to Boston in 1828 and engaged in busmess. He was a lawyer. He
d. in Stoughton, May 23, 1862. Res. Northfield and Boston, Mass.
JUSTIN, b. Oct. 22, 1811; d. Nov. 30, 1814.
THOMAS POWERS, b. Jan. 12. 1814; m. Maria A. Daniels and
Charlotte Coit.
JUSTIN, b. April 10, i8i6; m. Caroline C. Wilde.
HARRIET, b. May 21, 1819.
SAMUEL STILLMAN, b. Oct. 17. 1821.
EDWARD LINCOLN, b. Feb. 22. 1825.
WILLIAM PAISLEY, b. Dec. 27, 1828; d. May, 1859.
MARY EUGENE, b. March 22, 1831; d. in 1831.
1298. DOCTOR JOHN FIELD (Spencer, Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechar-
iah, John. John. Richard, William, William), son of Dr. Spencer and Betsey (Frink),
b. in Oakham, Mass., Nov. 3, 1777. He was a celebrated physician. He removed,
in 1803, to Barre, Mass., in 1805, to Rutland. Mass.; in 1808 to New Braintree,
Mass.; in 18 12 returned to Oakham. He was drowned while fishing in Demond
Pond, in Rutland, Aug. 28, 1815, with his uncle, Frink, who fell out of the boat, and
in trying to get in capsized it. Dr. Field wanted him to take hold of the stern of
the boat, and he would row it ashore. Regardless of his wishes, Dr. Frink said he
would get in, with the above result. A man passing by succeeded in rescuing Dr.
Frink, but before he could reach Dr. Field he sank and drowned. A monument of
stone was erected on the spot, but now, 1899, has nearly all disappeared.
Dr. John Field, of New Braintree, administrator, appointed 1815; wife, Rhoda
Field; Nathaniel Paine, judge. Guardian appointed for Charles Field, son of John
Field, late of New Braintree. — Worcester County Probate.
He married Aug. 22, 1799, Phebe, dau. of Joseph and Katherine (Monroe)
Bowrnan, of New Braintree, b. June 30, 1780; d. in Alton, 111., Sept. 28, 1839.
2600. i. CHARLES EDWIN, b. Sept. 10, i8oo.
2601. ii. ELIZABETH DAUR, b. May 31, 1802; d. March 22, 1810.
2602. iii. SPENCER, b. Feb. 8. 1804; ra. Harriet Block.
2603. iv. JOHN, b. Jan. 17, 1806; d. infancy.
2592.
1.
2593.
11.
2594-
iii.
2595-
IV.
2596.
V.
2597-
VI.
2598.
vu.
2599-
vm,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 467
2604.
V.
2605.
VI.
2606.
vii.
2607.
viii,
s6o8.
1,
2609.
ii.
2610.
Ill,
2611.
iv.
2612.
V.
2613.
vi.
1311.
W
ERASMUS DARWIN, b. Oct. 29, 1807; d. June 3, 1809.
JOHN BOWxMAN, b. Nov. 12. 1809.
JABEZ UPHAM, b. Nov. 3, 1811; d. Aug. 25. 1813.
HARRIET, b. Sept. 14, 1814; m. Sept. 12, 1837, George Curtiss,
of Worcester. Now resides in Warren, N. J.
1305. ERASTUS FIELD (Walter, Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard. William, William), b. Northfield, Dec. 24, 1791; m. Jan. 29, 1821,
Hannah CoUender, dan. of Benjamin and Sally (Lawton), b. 1800; d. April 14, 1872.
Erastus, of Northfield; April 27. 1853; wife, Hannah; daughters, Sarah E.
Elizabeth, wife of Joseph B. Callender, of Cambridge ; Eloisa Antoinette, Lucre-
tia; son Thomas J., who is named executor.
Hannah C, Northfield, 1872; died April 14, 1870; next of kin: son Thomas J. ;
daughters Sarah C, Elizabeth Field Callender and Antoinette Field; all of North-
field. The administrator was the son. Thomas J., appointed May 14, 1872, which
leads me to think the date of this death may have been 1872 instead of 1870, as
the record states (L. C. K. ) — Franklin County Probate.
He d. Feb. 23, 1853. Res. Northfield, Mass.
THOMAS J., b. March 3, 1822; m. Hannah Mattoon.
SARAH E., b. Feb. 24, 1824.
ELIZABETH, b. June 17, 1826; m. June 25, 1850, Joseph B. Cal-
lender. Res. Cambridge, Mass.
ELOISA ANTOINETTE, b. Dec. 13, 1828.
ERASTUS, b. Sept. 12, 1831; d. Feb. 7, 1832.
LUCRETIA, b. Feb. 14, 1833; d. Jan. 11, 1856.
WALTER (Walter, Paul. Zechariah. Samuel, Zechariah. John, John,
Richard. William, William), b. Northfield, Oct. 22, 1805; m. Jan. 8, 1834, Mary
Holton. dau. of Horace, b. Aug. 9, 1808; d. June 4, 1847; m.. 2d, Feb. 28, 1849,
Anna Lyman, dau. of Elisha and Margaret Lincoln, b. Sept. 12, 1809, d March
19, 1880; m., 3d, Aug. 31, 18S1, Lydia Smith. He was killed by falling from the
great beam of his barn.
Walter, Northfield, 1881; died Dec. 17, 1881; widow, Lydia; son, George W.,
of Keene, N. H. ; grandchildren, Walter F. Wheeler and Elizabeth Wheeler, of
Spencer, Mass.: children of daughter Ann Wheeler and Edward R. Wheeler;
nephew, Thomas J. Field, of Northfield, appointed executor. — Franklin County
Probate.
17, 1881. Res. Northfield, Mass.
ANNA, b. Aug. 2, 1838; m. June 25, 1865, Dr. Edward R.
Wheeler, of Elmira, N. Y- She d. Sept. 9, 1873.
GEORGE W.. b. July 14, 1840; m. Fanny Swift.
CLARISSA M., b. March 15, 1850; m. March 8, 1854.
131 5. LUCIUS FIELD (Zechariah, Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah, John
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Northfield, Mass., March 29. 1792. He
settled in 1815 in Marlboro, Vt. ; in 1819 went to Winchester, N. H., where he kept
a noted tavern until 1830, when he removed to Troy, N. Y., and engaged in the
clothing and auction business. In 1868 he removed^to Highland Park, 111., where
he died Jan. 25, 1876. He m. Oct. 25, 1813. Lucia, dau. of Lucius and Anna (Pom-
eroy) Hubbard, of Chester, Vt., b. June 12, 1795. He d. Feb. i, 1882.
2617. i. LUCIUS HUBBARD, b. Sept. i, 1814; d. May i, 1815.
2618. ii. LUCIUS, b. March 11, 1816; d. Jan. 4, 1885.
2619. iii. WILLIAM POMEROY, b. Jan. 5, 1818; deaf mute; d. May 19,
1843.
Hed.
Dec.
2614.
i.
2615.
ii.
2616.
iii.
468 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2624.
vm,
2625.
ix.
2626.
X.
2627.
xi.
2620. iv. ANNA M., b. Jan. 4, 1820; m. Dec. i, 1841, Asa Keyes Allen, of
New York. Res. Highland Park, 111. He was b. Aug. 25,
1816; d. Aug. 9, 1873. Ch. : i. Charles Spencer Allen, b. Oct-
27, 1842; d. April 19, 1866. 2. Frederic Dwight Allen, b. July
31, 1850; d. Oct. 16, 1851.
2621. V. CHARLES SPENCER, b. Feb, 5, 1822. He settled in Texas,
and was killed at the battle of Salado, between the Mexicans and
Texans, Sept. 18, 1842.
2622. vi. HENRY MARTYN, b. March 17, 1825; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Jan. 24, 1846.
2623. vii. ABIGAIL MATTOON, b. March 17, 1825; m. May 25, 1847, Stew-
art Hardinge, of Brooklyn, N. Y. He was b. Aug. 29, 1823; d.
Oct. 23, 1855. Res. 5515 Madison Av., Chicago, 111. Ch.: i.
Margaret Anne Hardinge, b. March 26, 1848. P. O. address, 5515
Madison Av., Chicago, 111. 2. Lucius Field Hardinge, b. Oct. 2,
1850; m. Dec. 24, 1869; d. Sept. 2, 1869. 3. Lucia Hubbard
Hardinge, b. Feb. 22, 1852; d. Jan. 4, 1864. 4. Benjamin Henry
Hardinge, b. Dec. 10, 1853; d. July 29, 1854. 5- Minnehaha
Hardinge, b. July 16, 1855. P. O. address, 5515 Madison Av.,
Chicago, 111.
DORASTUS FITCH, b. June 17, 1827; d. Dec, 1894.
HUBBARD, b. May 27. 1831; m. Mrs. Charlotte (Downer)
Williams.
CORNELIUS ROBBINS, b. Dec. 3, 1833; d. Jan. 15, 1835.
CORNELIUS ROBBINS, b. Sept. 29, 1836; m. Sarah E. Henry.
1322. SPENCER FIELD (Zechariah, Paul, Zechariah, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Zechariah and Abigail (Mattoon), b.
in Northfield, Mass., Oct. 8, 1806. He removed to Kentucky, later to New Orleans,
La., where he resided. He m. April 28, 1829, Clara Humphrey, of Athol, Mass.
2628. i. FREDERICK F.. b. •; m. Mary Bonney.
2629. ii. SPENCER, b. ; m. .
1325. JUDGE CHARLES FIELD (Zechariah, Paul. Zechariah, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John. Richard, William, William), b. Athol, Mass., June 9, 1815;
m. July 28, 1856, Caroline C. Alden, b. Jan. 27, 1829. Charles Field, the youngest
of twelve children of Zechariah and Abigail (Mattoon) Field, was born in Athol,
Mass. He is a representative of the eighth generation in descent from Sir John
Field, the astronomer, who was born at Ardsley, England, in 1525. He began his
education in the public schools of Athol, and attained high rank as a scholar, espec-
ially in mathematics and the languages, in the educational institution from which
he graduated. He read law in the office of Hon. Daniel Wells, of Greenfield, Mass. ,
afterward chief justice of the court of common pleas, and on the completion of a
three years' course of study, he spent several years in the west and southwest,
principally in Kentucky and Illinois; in the latter state taking the stump for Gen-
eral Harrison, in the Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign ot 1840. Returning to
New England after an absence of four years, he settled in Athol, his native town,
where he conducted a profitable law business, until 1884, when he was appointed
judge of the District Court, which office he still holds. In 1857 he represented his
town in the House of Representatives, that being the last year before the state was
divided into districts ; and in the two years following he was a member of the state
Senate. A Republican in politics, he was chosen a Presidential elector in i860,
after which he left the field of politics altogether, and confined himself to the duties
FIELD GENEALOGY. 469
of his profession. Judge Field was admitted to the bar in 1843, and is one of the
vice-presidents of the Worcester County Bar Association. A pronounced Unitarian
of the Channing type, he held the office of president of the Worcester County
Unitarian Association for two successive terms, declining a re-election, and for
many years served on tlie executive committee. He was married to Caroline C.
Alden, whose first American ancestors on both sides were "Mayflower" Pilgrims.
She is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of John and Priscilla Alden. On
the maternal side Mrs. Field is a greatgranddaughter of Major John White, who
was a direct descendant of Peregrene White, born on board the Mayflower, in Cape
Cod harbor. Mrs. Field is the author of the popular novel, "Two Gentlemen of
Boston," and mother of one son, Charles Field, Jr.
Res. Athol, Mass.
2630. i. CHARLES, b. March 18, 1857; unm. Res. Athol. He was b. in
the city of Cambridge, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and attended private and public schools in Athol, Mass. ; fitted
for college with private tutors, and at Phillips' Academy, And-
over; graduated B. A. at Williams College in 1881 ; read law in
his father's office, at Athol, for three years and attended lectures
for two years at the Boston University School of Law; was
admitted a member of the Massachusetts bar in June, 1886, and
has continuously practiced his profession at Athol since his
admission.
1327. DOCTOR GEORGE A. FIELD (Hubbard, Paul, Zechariah, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Lyndon, Vt., Aug. 2, 1825;
m. in Sutton, Mass., June i, 184S, Louisa Rawson, b. April 26, 1827, dau. of Dr.
Levi and Alice (Temple). She was m., 2d, as his second wife, July 5, 1859, Rev.
A. Decatur Spalter, of Sutton, who was b. in Grafton, Mass., 1816, son of John and
Elizabeth. Was a practicing physician ia Grafton. Dr George d. in Columbia,
Cal., Dec. 3, 1853. Res. Grafton, Mass.
2630^^. i. LEVI RAWSON, b. March 22, 1849; <i- Aug. 25. 1851.
1330. RUDOLPH US WRIGHT FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer,
Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Grass Hill, Gill,
Oct. I, 1769, bap. Northtield, Mass., Oct. 22, 1769; m. Sept. 14, 1797, Hannah
Dwight HoUister, b. Aug. 24, 1775. She m. , 2d, 1818, Hon. Josiah Pomeroy, who
was b. Sept. i, 1767.
Hannah Dwight IJoUister, b. Aug. 24, 1775, in Eastbury Society, Glastonbury.
Conn. ; was a dau. of Captain and Deacon Elisha HolHster, and his second wife. Mrs.
Penelope (Dwight), ot Belchertown, Mass., dau. ot Jonathan Graves, Jr., of Belch-
ertown, and Margaret (Strong). She married Sept. 14, 1797, as her first husband,
Rodolphus Wright Field, of Grass Hill, in Gill, Franklin county, Mass. , born at
Grass Hill, then a portion of Northfield, Mass., Oct. i, 1769, son of Ebenezer Field,
3d, of Grass Hill, and Eunice (Wright), of Northfield. (Grass Hill orginially
belonged to Northfield, it being later cut off to form the northern boundary oi the
town ot Gill.)
Rodolphus Wright Field died at his home, Grass Hill, March 12, 1816, aged
torty-six years. He was short in stature, and of a delicate constitution ; his com-
plexion was dark, and his hair dark. Although slight in physique, his mental
powers were extraordinary, showing especially marked mathematical talent.
Among the employments of his comparatively short life, may be mentioned the
compilation of an almanac, thus indicating that he possessed an astronomical ten-
dency, which he no doubt inherited from his illustrious ancestor, John Field, the
470 FIELD GENEALOGY.
astronomer. By trade he was a saddler, and in addition, a prosperous farmer.
Being naturally endowed with intellectual tastes, he found time to pursue and enjoy
studies in literature.
Hannah Dwight Hollister, as the widow of Rodolphus Wright Field, married
about 1818, her second husband, Hon. Josiah Pomeroy, Jr., of Warwick, Mass. She
being his second wife. She died as his widow, June 16, 1867, at the venerable age
of nearly ninety-three years. Her death occurred in Providence, R. L, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Gratia Electa Hawkes. She was taken for burial to Gill,
Mass., and in its cemetery, within her own family lot, her remains were placed,
surrounded by a numerous kindred. She was liberally educated, having been a
pupil at the Academy of Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, in Northampton, Mass., a
renowned institution of learning in its day. Dr. Dwight became later, the illustri-
ous president of Yale College. In her girlhood Hannah D. Hollister is said to have
been "a belle in Glastonburv." She was gifted with remarkable physical strength,
possessing likewise, great mental strength. She is remembered as a woman of high
moral worth, and integrity. By all classes of society she was esteemed and
respected, her fine judgment and large benevolence rendering her the center of the
circle in which she moved. Coming into the place, when it was conparatively new,
which for more than fifty years became her home, she identified herself with its
best interests, "the moral, educational and social enterprises of the times, receiving
her prompt and full sanction." Having fervent piety, her earnest prayers were
largely for the younger portion of the community, desiring particularly for them,
the greatest possible benefits. In stature she was rather above medium height, and
of commanding presence. She had large brown eyes, dark hair, and fair com-
plexion. Her features were prominent, and bore the Puritan characteristics.
Hon. Josiah Pomeroy, Jr., born in Northampton, Mass., Sept. i, 1767, was a son
of Josiah Pomeroy and Joanna (Wright), of Northampton, and of Warwick, Mass.
He married as his first wife, Mary Barnes, of Warwick, born., in Marlboro, Mass.,
March 29, 1765. She died in Warwick, June 5, 1816. He died in Greenfield, Mass.,
March 18, 1848, in his eighty-first year. His death occurred suddenly, while in
Greenfield attending to business from an attack of apoplexy, having fallen upon the
street in a faint, from which he never recovered. He possessed a powerful physique,
being over six feet in height, having broad shoulders, and an erect, stately carriage.
He had great ability,' and represented his district, as a member ot the Legislature
ot Massachusetts at Boston. His genial nature and kindly disposition gained for
him the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends. He was a great musician,
a powerful singer, his loud deep-toned voice being full of melody.
Honorable, Captain and Deacon Elisha Hollister, born in Glastonbury, Conn.,
in 1722, was the youngest child of Thomas Hollister and Dorothy (Hills), of Glaston-
bury. He married about 1748, Experience Robbins, daughter of Richard Robbins, of
Wethersfield, and Martha. She died July 7, 1765, aged thirty-seven years. He mar-
ried, as his second wife. Mrs. Penelope Dwight, widow of Elisha Wright, of Belch-
ertown. Mass., daughter of Jonathan Graves, Jr., of Belchertown, and Margaret
Strong. Captain and Deacon Elisha Hollister settled in East Glastonbury, where
he was a farmer, and an inn-keeper, also a captain of militia. He served as an
officer in the war of the Revolution. The Revolutionary records of the State of
Connecticut, under the official seal of the adjutant-general, Andrew H. Embler,
show that "Elisha Hollister served as captain in the Sixth militia regiment in 1777"
He was also a member of the Connecticut Corhmittee of Correspondence, appointed
June 23, 1774, "to receive and answer all letters and to promote and forward such
contributions as shall be made in this town" (Glastonbury) "for the relief of our dis-
tressed friends in Boston," etc. He was a deacon of the church. In the year 1764
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he represented the town of Glastonbury in the Legislature of Connecticut. He died
in East Glastonbury, Nov. 12, 1800, and was buried among his kinspeople, in the
Wassuc burying-ground, the most ancient cemetery in East Glastonbury.
Eliza Anna Ives, daughter of Leverett Joseph Ives, and Fidelia Elvira (Field),
was born in Akron, O., Nov. 12, 1841; married Nov. 12, 1863, on her twenty-second
birthday, at Richmond, Ind.. in St. John's Protestant Episcopal church, by Rt. Rev.
John Wakefield, D. D., the rector. Charles Calhoun Kellogg, of Chicago, 111., born
in Cornwall, Litchfield county, Conn., June 27. 1S33. He died in Chicago, Jan. 10,
1871. She died in Chicago, Oct. 15, 1870. She received her education at the
Cleveland Female Seminary, Cleveland, O. She was familiarly known as "Lida."
She possessed marked personal beauty, and a well formed statue of medium height.
She had large, handsome, expressive brown eyes, light hair, and a fair, rosy com-
plexion. Having a social nature, her conversation, at times, overflowed with pleas-
antry and with sparkling wit. She died upon the threshold of a promising woman-
hood.
Charles Calhoun Kellogg, was a son of Hon. Frederick Kellogg, of Cornwall,
Conn., and Ruth Robinson (Calhoun), of Cornwall, He removed to Chicago, 111.,
where he was secretary and treasurer of the Barnum & Richardson Car "Wheel
Manufacturing Company, which position he held at the time of his early death, in
1871. Ch. : I. Anna Ruth Kellogg, b. in Chicago, Feb. 6, 1865. 2. Helen Kellogg,
b. in Chicago. Jan. 9, 1867. She was educated at St. Agnes school, Albany, N. Y.
Hon. Frederick Kellogg, born in Cornwall, Conn., was a son of William Kellogg
and Dennis (Swift), daughter of Gen. Heman Swift. In 1829 Hon. Frederick Kel-
logg married Ruth Robinson Calhoun, born in Cornwall, daughter of Dr. John Cal-
houn and Sarah (Fay). In 1S27, according to the annals of Cornwall, Frederick
Kellogg is registered a merchant. In 1829 he succeeded his father to the office of
town clerk, which position he held sixteen years, until 1845. From 1830 to 1840 he
represented Cornwall four years in the Legislature. In 1840 he was appointed
county commissioner, retaining the position three years. In 1852 he was chosen
judge of probate, in which office he remained, with the exception of two years, until
constitutionally disqualified. Ruth Robinson Calhoun was a daughter of Dr. John
Calhoun and Sarah (Fay), of Cornwall, son of John Calhoun, of Woodbury, Conn,
Sarah Fay was a daughter of Sarah (Robinson) and Benjamin Fay. Sarah Rob-
inson, as the widow of Benjamin Fay, married for her second husband, Gen.
Heman Swift, We thus learn that the mother, Dennis (Swift), of Hon. Frederick
Kellogg, and the mother, Sarah (Fay), of Mrs. Frederick Kellogg were step-sisters,
the former being a daughter, and the latter, a step-daughter of Gen. Heman Swift.
William Kellogg, of Cornwall, Conn., was a son of Deacon Judah Kellogg, of
Colchester, Conn., and Mary (Tomlinson), of Stratford, Conn. He married Den-
nis, daughter of General Heman Swift, of Cornwall. In 1820, upon the death of his
father, William Kellogg succeeded to the office of town clerk of Cornwall, and held
it until his death, in 1829, which was nine years.
Hon. and Deacon Judah Kellogg, of Colchester, Conn., married Mary Tomlin-
son, of Stratford. Conn. She was an aunt of the late Governor Gideon Tomlinson,
of Connecticut. In 1774 Deacon Judah Kellogg removed to Cornwall, where on
June 20, 1776, he was chosen deacon of the church. "He was a gentleman of liberal
education," having graduated from Yale College, class 1763, For many years he
was a member of the general assembly, and thirty-six years clerk of the town.
The office of town clerk descended to his son, and to his grandson, embracing a
period of sixty-one years. "Deacon Judah Kellogg," relates the history of Corn-
wall, "was a man whose counsel was sought when questions of civil law were
involved." He died in 1820.
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Gen. Heman Swift, born in Wareham, Plymouth county, Mass., became an
early settler of Cornwall, Litchfield county. Conn" History records him as having
married four wives, one of which, as Mrs. Sarah (.Fay) was the grandmother of Ruth
Robinson Calhoun, while his daughter, Dennis Swift, by another wife, became the
mother of Hon. Frederick Kellogg, the husband of Ruth R. Calhoun. In relation
to General Swift we find the following beautiful tribute to his memory, on pp. 406
and 407, third volume of "Travels in New England and New York," by Timothy
Dwight, S. T. D., LL.D., late president of Yale College, 1822: "Cornwall is partic-
ularly distinguished for being the residence of Hon. Maj.-Gen. Heman Swift. This
gentleman was born in Wareham, in the county of Plymouth, Mass. The only edu-
cation which he received was that of a parochial school. Soon after his removal to
Connecticut, when a young man, he was chosen a representative to the Legislature.
In the American army he rose to the rank of brigadier-general. After the Revolu-
tionary war was ended he was elected a member of the council. He resigned his
seat at this board in 1802. For many years he was judge of the court of common
pleas, for the county of Litchfield. He was distinguished for native strength of
mind, regularly directed to practical and useful objects, and he solicitously sought
improvement from the sources which were within his reach. In this manner he
acquired extensively that knowledge which fits a man to be serviceable to his fellow-
men. His affections were soft and gtntle, his conversation mild, and unassuming.
But his conceptions were bold and masculine, and his disposition invincibly firm.
When he was once assured of his duty, nothing could move him from his purpose.
Hence he possessed an independence of mind, which all men reverenced, and all
bad men dreaded. As an officer, though distitute of the brilliancy so coveted in
that character, he was highly respected by his fellow officers, and loved by the sol-
diers, every one of whom approached him with a certainty of being justly and
kindly treated. His bravery was that of Putnam, tempered with consumate prud-
ence. As a judge, probably no man ever held a more equal balance. As a coun-
cillor, he was wise, he was humble, sincere, upright, generous, charitable, and emi-
nently pious. The great inquiry of his life was, what was his duty? and his great
purpose, to do it." The biographer of General Swift relates of him that "he was a
personal friend of General Washington, by whom he was held in high esteem, and
•who once paid him a visit at his home in Cornwall." He was an officer in the old
French and Indian wars, serving likewise through the war of the Revolution.
The archives of the state of Connecticut, under the official seal of the Adjutant-Gen-
eral Andrew H. Embler, relate that "General Heman Swift, of Cornwall, com-
manded the Seventh regiment Connecticut line, formation of 1 777-1 781, and the
Second regiment Connecticut line, formation of 1781-1783."
Anna Ruth Kellogg, familiarly known as "Ruth," daughter of Charles Calhoun
Kellogg and Eliza Anna Ives, was born in Chicago, 111., Feb. 6, 1865. She was
educated at St. Agnes School Albany, N. Y. ; married as her first husband, June 7,
1888. in Christ church , East Orange, N. J., by Rev. Horace Bishop, the rector,
assisted by Rev. Dr. L.W. Bancroft, rector of Christ church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
William Edward Mathews, secretary of the Crescent Watch Works, Brooklyn, son
of Edward Loree Mathews, of Brooklyn, and Rebecca (Holliday), born in Glasgow,
Scotland. He was born in Brooklyn, Sept. 8, 1862; died in Brooklyn, March 18.
1891. (Edward Loree Mathews, born in New York City, was a son of William
Edward Mathews, born in London, England, and Hannah Loree, born in New
Brunswick, N. J., daughter of Dr. Ephraim Loree and Catharine (Vorhees), daugh-
ter of Vorhees and (Schuyler). Ch. : i. Loree Schuyler Mathews, b. in
Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1890; d. in New York City, April 23, 1897, of malignant scarlet
fever. Anna Ruth Kellogg, as the widow of William Edward Mathews, married
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her second husband, in Bath, N. Y., June 24, 1897, Walter Edwin Hodgman, of
Yonkers, N. Y. He was born in Bath ; is connected in business with the Otis Ele-
vator company, at Yonkers.
Mary Bishop Ives, daughter of Leverett Joseph Ives and Fidelia'Elvira (Field),
was born in Akron, O., April 8, 1846. She was educated at the McLean Female
Seminary, Indianapolis, Ind. ; married in Newark, O., at St. John's Protestant
Episcopal church, by Rev. William Bower, the rector, Feb. 23, 1869, William Fred-
erick Kidder, of New York City, born July 29, 1842, on the "old Amos farm," at
Hackensack, N. J., son of William Kidder, Jr., born in Boston, Mass., and Rebecca
Ann (Ackerman), born in New York. William Frederick Kidder was the founder
ot the large and flourishing proprietary medicine house, in New York, of Kidder
and Wetherell, having a branch establishment in London, England. He took up
his residence in East Orange, N. J., becoming there a prominent citizen, and largely
interested in real estate. He is a Free Mason of high degree, and a Knight
Templar. William Kidder, Jr., born in Boston, Mass., settled in New York City,
where he married Rebecca Ann Ackerman. He was a son of William Kidder, a
well known chemist in Boston, and Charlotte Augusta (Adams). Rebecca Ann
Ackerman, daughter of Ackerman and Catherine J. (Bogert), was bom in New
York City, on the "old General Rutgers estate," situated upon the east side of the
city, near what is now Catherine street. "Rutgers Pike and several adjacent streets
formed an original portion of that estate." Catherine J. Bogert was a daughter of
Col. John Gilbert Bogert, an officer of the war with England of 1812. He descended
from Tennis Guysbert Bogert, who emigrated from Heykoop, in Holland, about
1625, and became one of the early settlers of New Amsterdam. Charlotte Augusta
Adams, born in Boston, Mass., was a daughter of Samuel Adams and Thankful
(Chamberlain), both natives of Boston. He being familiarly known as "merchant
Samuel Adams," to distingush him from his cousin. Governor Samuel Adams, the
patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Both Samuels were descend-
ant of Henry Adams, who came to New England in 1632. Ch. : i. Lida Ives Kid-
der, b. in New York City, July 24. 1872. 2. Leverett Ives Kidder, b. in New
York City, July 24, 1872; d. in New York City, July 27, 1872. 3. Rebecca Ives
Kidder, b. at Watsessing, in West Orange, N. J., Sept. 21, 1875.
Rodolphus W., of Gill, 1816; wife, Hannah D. ; children, Eliza Dwight Field,
Penelope Emily, Fidelia Elvira, Feronia Drusilla, Josephine M., Gratia Electa,
Clarissa Aurelia. Probated June 10, 1816. — Franklin County Probate.
He d. March 12, 1816. Res. Gill, Mass.
2631. i. ELIZA DWIGHT, b. Nov. 10, 1799; m. March 26, 1818, John Joyce
Pierce, of Greenfield, Mass. ; d. May 2, 1878. John Joyce Pierce
was a staunch Democrat and his descendants have followed in
his line. They are all Episcopalians. He was of Greenfield,
Mass.; was b. May 26, 1793; d. there, March 22, 1878. Shed,
there May 2, 1878. Ch. : i. Anna Ferona, b. June 30, 1827; m.
Theodore Dehone. He d. New York City, Nov. 2, 1863. 2. John
Dwight, b. May 29, 1837; m. Ruth Abbott Page. Two children.
Res. Greenfield, Mass. 3. Charles Prentice, b. Sept. 3, 1838; m.
. Res. Greenfield. Eliza Dwight Field married John Joyce
Pierce. She was born at Grass Hill, in Gill. He was born in
Greenfield, Franklin county, Mass. Both died there. Their
youngest child, Capt. Charles Prentice Pierce, died while on a
visit from his home, in Greenfield, Mass., at Keene, N. H., April
23, 1889. Their oldest child, Mrs. Anna Ferona (Pierce) Judah,
31
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has since died, also a daughter of their second son, John Dwight
Pierce. He d. Keene, N. H., April 23, 1889.
2632. ii. PRENTICE HOLLISTER. b. Oct. 24, 1800; d. March 9, 181 3.
2633. iii. EAIILY PENELOPE, b. July 10, 1803; m. Sept. 6, 1826, Charles
Frederick Field, of Gill; d. in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 9, 1869. (see.)
2634. iv. FIDELIA ELVIRA, b. March 31, 1805; m. April 25, 1832, Lev-
erett Joseph Ives, at Perrysburg, N. Y., where she was engaged
as school teacher. She traced her lineage through a number of
original settlers of New England, among whom are Samuel
Wright, of Northampton; Elder John Strong, of Northampton ;
Lieut. John Hollister, Richard Treat, of Weathersfield, Conn.
She possessed great energy, activity and strength of character.
Through all her years ot residence in Akron. O., her gentleness
of spirit and large benevolence secured her many friends. She
d. Aug. 14, 1886. She was liberally educated, having been a
pupil at the select school for young ladies, of Miss Mary Lyon, in
Ashfield, Mass., who afterward become the founder of the Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary. Fidelia E. Field was likewise a
scholar at the Wesleyan Academy, in Wilbraham, Mass., under
the instruction of its gifted principal. Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fisk.
She married at Perrysburg, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., April 25
(so recorded in her tamily Bible), 1832, Leverett Joseph Ives, b.
in West Springfield, Mass., Sept. 18, 1806. She d in East
Orange, N. J., Aug. 14, 1886, aged eighty -one years, four months
and fourteen days. He d. in East Orange, Sept. 20, 1876, aged
seventy years, two days. Like her ancestor, Mrs. Fidelia E.
Ives, possessed energy, activity, remarkable physical strength, a
high moral tone of character, fervent piety and executive ability.
Her honesty of purpose, her gentleness of spirit, and her large
benevolence, gained her many kindly friends. Her birthplace
has been renamed Mount Hermon. It forms the seat of Mr.
Dwight L. Moody's famous institution of learning. The name
was changed from Grass Hill to Mount Hermon by Mr. Moody,
when he or his co-workers became a purchaser of the property.
The original farm houses of Ebenezer Field, 3d, and of his son,
Rodolphus W. Field, are yet standing upon their early sites, and
are used for purposes required by the institution. Ebenezer
Field, 3d, became a purchaser of this large New England farm,
when the locality now called Gill, was known as Northfield.
At the marriage of his son, Rodolphus Wright Field, with Han-
nah Dwight Hollister, he set off from it eighty acres as a wed-
ding gift to his son. There all of the children of Rodolphus
Wright Field and Hannah Dwight Hollister were born. Lev-
erett Joseph Ives, son of Joseph Ives and Sarah (Bishop), was
born in West Springfield, Ireland Parish, Mass., Sept. 18, 1806.
He died in East Orange, N. J., Sept. 20, 1876, aged seventy years
and two day. The line of descent, paternally, of Leverett Joseph
Ives, comes from William Ives, born 1607, a member of the New
Haven colony, 1639, who arrived in America, 1635, a passenger on
the ship Truelove, from London, Robert Dennis, master. He is
recorded a signer on June 4, 1639, of the Fundamental Agreement
of Guinnisprack, being likewise mentioned as one of "the sixty-
JUDGE CHARLES FIELD.
See page 468.
CHARLES FIELD, JR.
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See page 476.
MRS. PA.MELIA H. RENWICK AND SON, WILLIAM G
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three original Free Planters of the colony of New Haven." He
married Hannah . Joseph Ives, son of William Ives and
Hannah , married Jan. 2, 1672-3, Mary Yale, born April 16,
1650, daughter of Thomas Yale and Mary (Turner). Mary
Turner was a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Turner, a founder of
the New Haven colony, and prominent otherwise in American
colonial affairs. He was an original charter member of the
ancient and honorable artillery company of Boston, being the
twelfth signer upon its roll. Captain Turner, with Deputy
Governor Thomas Gregson, were of that "godly company," who
perished on the so-called Phantom ship, and each was an ancestor
of Leverett Joseph Ives. Lieutenant and Deacon Samuel Ives,
son of Joseph Ives and Mary (Yale), was born in New Haven,
Conn., Nov. 6, 1677. He died there Nov. 24, 1726, aged forty-
nine years, He married Jan. 3, 1706, Ruth Atwater, born in New
Haven, Dec. 31, 1688, daughter of Jonathan Atwater and Ruth
Peck. Ruth Peck being a daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Peck and
Joanna (Kitchel). "Rev. Jeremiah Peck, in 1660, according to
an act of the court, was established in the Hopkins collegiate
grammar school of New Haven, and there taught the languages
and science." Capt. Jonathan Ives, son of Deacon Samuel Ives
and Ruth (Atwater), was born in New Haven, March 14, 1716-17.
He married Feb. 19, 1737-8, Thankful Cooper, of New Haven,
born April 11, 1721, daughter of Joseph Cooper, of New Haven.
Capt. Jonathan Ives had four sons, all of whom are said to have
served faithfully in the war of the Revolution. Jeremiah Ives,
son of Capt. Jonathan Ives and Thankful Cooper, was born in
New Haven, Nov. 19, 1738; married June 7, 1768, Hannah Bas-
sett, born in New Haven (that portion now North Haven), Dec.
26, 1739, daughter of Abraham Bassett, of North Haven, and
Mehitable (Street), of Wallingford. Joseph Ives, son of Jeremiah
Ives and Hannah Bassett, was born in New Haven, Feb. 2, 1771 ;
married Sarah Bishop, born in New Haven, Feb. 3, 1777, daugh-
ter of Isaac Bishop and Sarah (Macomber), both of New Haven.
Joseph Ives and Sarah Bishop were the parents of Leverett Joseph
Ives. In his maternal line, Leverett Joseph Ives descended from
Deputy Governor James Bishop, a prominent member of the
New Haven colony, through his son Deacon Samuel Bishop, Sr.,
and Mrs. Hannah (Talmadge), widow of Enos Talmage, daugh-
ter of Thoms Yale and Mary (Turner) (Mrs. Hannah (Yale) Bishop
was a sister of Mary Yale, wife of Joseph Ives), whose son was
Deacon Samuel Bishop. Jr., who married Abigail Atwater,
daughter of Ebenezer Atwater and Abigail (Heaton), and had son
Isaac Bishop, who married Sarah Macomber, and had daughter
Sarah Bishop, who married Joseph Ives. Sarah Bishop and Joseph
Ives were the parents of Leverett Joseph Ives. About the year
1833, Mr. Ives removed from Lodi, Cattaraugus county, N. Y.,
where he settled soon after marriage to Hamilton, in the Province
of Ontario. In the spring of 1837, owing to the outbreak of the
Canadian rebellion, being unwilling to swear allegiance to the
British crown, he removed to Cleveland, O., and in the following
autumn became a resident of Akron, O., where he lived twenty-
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three years, acquiring prominence there in the drug trade. He
identified himself largely in the interests of the growing young
town, was energetic in promoting its early progress, and may be
truly styled, as one of its pioneers. In i860 he removed to Chi-
cago, 111. After remaining in the West a number of years, he
returned East, and settled in East Orange, N. J. He died at his
residence there Sept. 20, 1876, aged seventy years and two days.
"He was honest and upright in his dealings with men; a good
citizen, a kmdly friend and neighbor, his manners were pleas-
ing," he was full of hospitality, and a helper to the oppressed.
In politics he originally belonged to the Whig party. In 1848 he
voted the Republican ticket, upholding anti-slavery, and ever
after firmly adhered to those party lines. He was a personal
friend of "Old John Brown, the martyr," and presented him with
a rifle when he started on "his mission to Kansas." Ch. : i.
Helen Pomeroy, b. June 27, 1836; m. Jan. 2, 1861, Edwin Louis
Bomeisler. She received a liberal education, and was graduated
from the Ontario Female Seminary, Canandaigua, N. Y., class
1854; married Jan. 2, 1861, in Trinity church, Protestant Episco-
pal, Chicago, 111., by Rev. James Pratt, the rector, Edwin Louis
Bomeisler, b. Nov. 15, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. Edwin L. Bo-
meisler was b. Nov, 15, 1827. Res. 255 Hancock St., Brooklyn,
N. Y. Mr. Edwin Louis Bomeisler died on the nth of June,
1900, at 255 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N. Y., of apoplexy; aged 72
years, 6 months, 25 days. The tuueral services were conducted
by Rev. Charles M. Homer, rector of St. James Protestant Epis-
copal church of Brooklyn. His remains were interred in
Woodlawn cemetery. New York City. Ch. : i. Louis Edwin
Bomeisler (only child), b. July 22, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa.;
m. June 11, 1890, Natalie HoUiday Cantoni, b. Aug. 6, 1S69,
in Borough of Brooklyn, N. Y. By profession, a counsellor
at law. Ofl!ice, 27-29 Pine St., Borough of Manhattan, N.' Y.
Res. 255 Hancock St., Brooklyn. Ch. : (a) Louis Edwin
Bomeisler, Jr., b. April 3, 1891, in Brooklyn, (b) Douglass Mor-
timer Bomeisler, b. June 20, 1892, Brooklyn. (c) Natalie Ives
Bomeisler, b. June 11, 1898, Brooklyn. Res. 255 Hancock St.,
Brooklyn. Louis Bomeisler, the eldest son of Nathan Loebl
Bomeisler and (Heller), of Munich, Bavaria, was born in
Munich, Nov. 15, 1790. Born of wealthy parents, who held a
high position in the social ranks of the splendid Bavarian capital,
Louis Bomeisler was reared in the midst of a refined and culti-
vated home environment, receiving therein rare privileges,
bestowed with unbounded generosity. He was liberally edu-
cated, his early instruction and preparation for college being con-
ducted under the watchful care of a capable private tutor, who
accompanied his pupil upon an extended tour through Europe,
visiting Russia, Poland, and Asia Minor. ' He completed his
course of study at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany,
excelling in the languages, seven of which he became master,
and also in mathematics. At an early age he ioined the allied
forces of the French and Bavarians, under the Emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte, and served as aide-de-camp to one of Napoleon's
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generals at the battles of Jena and Austerlitz. In 1815 he was
decorated by King Louis XVIII. of France, at Paris, with the
"Order of the Lily," which order was granted by the King to
the National Guards of France, Mr. Bomeisler being a member of
that organization. On Dec. i, 1S16, he was initiated into the
order of Free Masons, at Paris. About 181 8 he came to Amer-
ica, landing at Philadelphia, not however, with the intention of
remaining, but being taken seriously ill with a fever, his attend-
ant physician. Dr. Benjamin Rush, who became his life-long
friend, induced him to make Philadelphia his permanent resi-
dence. On April 23, 1819, the Masonic records of Philadelphia,
state, "Brother Louis Bomeisler was admitted to membership in
Herman Lodge, No. 125, F. and A. M." On April 13, 1824, he took
the oath of Freedom in Philadelphia. On May 15, 1824, he mar-
ried Mrs. Elizabeth Murra3% of Philadelphia, widow of George
Murray, daughter of Col. Daniel McKaraher and Susanna (Dun-
woody). Louis Bomeisler upon settling in Philadelphia became
a shipping merchant. Having his place of business on Front
street, adjoining that of Stephen Girard. Mr. Bomeisler was
public-spirited, and largely indentified himself with some of
Philadelphia's early interests. He was courteous, affable, refined
and dignified, and may be said to have been one of "nature's
noblemen." He died in the city of his adoption, Sept. 28, 1856,
aged sixty-four years, tea months and sixteen days. Elizabeth
McKaraher, the youngest child of Col. Daniel McKaraher and
Susanna (Dunwoody). was born in Philadelphia Jan. 4, 1794. She
married as her first husband, in Philadelphia, George Murray,
son of John Murray, Jr., of Philadelphia, and Susan (Elton), of
Burlington, N. J. They were members of the Society of Friends,
called Quakers. He was a son of John Murray and Elizabeth,
who belonged to the early Quaker Murray family of New York
City, which has perpetuated the name in various localities of that
great metropolis. The birth of Elizabeth McKaraher occurred in
the southern part of the city of Philadelphia, then known as
"Society Hill." She died, as the widow of Louis Bomeisler, in
her native city, June 16, 1876, at the age of eighty-two years, six
months, twelve days. She was a gentlewoman of rare ability,
and of charming personality. Beloved in her home, she pos-
sessed, likewise, a large circle of friends. She inherited not only
the beauty of her mother, but in addition, the strong, physical
and mental qualities of her Scotch-Irish ancestors.
Col. Daniel McKaraher, born about 1751, in Londonderry, Ire-
land, came to America, landing in Philadelphia, perhaps shortly
previous to 1777. In the Pennsylvania archives it is recorded
that "on July 31, 1777, Daniel McCaracher took the oath of allegi-
ance to the new government." He was an Irish patriot, and fled
from his native land to escape persecution on account of his
patriotism. In America he served in the Revolutionary war. and
was one of the unfortunate sufferers at the siege of Valley Forge,
who in departing therefrom left foot-prints of blood upon the
frosty pathway along which they moved. He was a devout mem-
ber of the Third Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, located at
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Fourth and Pine streets, which during the war of the Revolution,
was used by the British soldiers as a stable for their hort^es.
Upon his return home, at the close of the war, he ordered his
church-pew rebuilt, at his own expense, it having continued in
use among his descendants to the present generation. He mar-
ried in Philadelphia, Mrs. Susanna Hamill, widow of William
Hamill, daughter of John Dun woody and Susanna (Cresswell). In
his native city, Londonderry, he became a member of the order
of Free Masons. The Masonic records of Philadelphia relate,
concerning him, that "Brother Daniel McKaraher, a past master,
was admitted to membership in lodge No. 9, F. and A. M., in
this city, Jan. 4, 1784, and was elected worshipful master of said
lodge in 1794." He died at Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1811, "in the
sixtieth year of his age," as per his tombstone. He was buried
with military and Masonic honors. His remains lie interred in
the Third Presbyterian ground, at Fourth and Pine streets, Phil-
adelphia. Upon his tombstone appears the military title of col-
onel, and surrounding it are Masonic emblems. He was not only
an uncompromising Scotch Irish Presbyterian, but he embodied
the unswerving characteristics of honor, uprightness and bravery,
which mark that vigorous nation. Susanna Dunwoody, born at
Fagg's Manor, Chester county. Pa., was a daughter of John
Dunwoody (but one o originally) and Susanna (Cresswell). At
the time of her marriage to Col. Daniel McKaraher, she was the
widow of William Hamill, a native of the north of Ireland, a son
of the Scotch- Irish race. She possessed great physical strength,
and uncommon personal beauty. It being said of her that "sh®
was the handsomest woman who went into Brandywine Manor
meeting house." Her eldest brother. Dr. James Dunwoody,
who removed shortly prior to the Revolutionary war, from
Chester county, Pennsylvania, to the town of Simbury, in Georgia,
is an ancestor on the maternal side of Hon. Col. Theodore Roose-
velt, governor of the state of New York. John Dunwoody was a
native of Donegal, in the north of Ireland, and belonged to the
sturdy, sterling Scotch-Irish race. Having received an education
in his native land, he followed the occupation of a school master,
at Fagg's Manor, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He there
married Susanna Cresswell, daughter of William Cresswell and
Mary of Fagg's Manor. William Cresswell is mentioned as
one of the earliest settlers of Fagg's Manor. The Cresswell
family came from England prior to the middle of the eighteenth
century. "They entered at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
landing high up," viz., at its head, "m Maryland." Some of
them crossed the border into Pennsylvania, and settled in Ches-
ter county.
Louis Edwin Bomeisler, the only child of Edwin Louis Bom-
eisler and Helen Pomeroy (Ives), was born in Philadelphia, July
22, 1862. At the age ot five years he was admitted into the school
ot the Deiitschen Frien Gemeinde, in Philadelphia, of which Herr
Friedrich Schiinemann Pott, was director, continuing under
German tuition until the age of eleven years, thus acquiring
fluency in the German tongue. In 1873 his parents removed
FIELD GENEALOGY. 479
from Philadelphia to New York City, when he became a pupil
of grammar school, No. 35, ot which Prof. John A. Forbes was
the well-known and able superintendent. Among the branches of
learning in which this young student excelled, was that of elocu-
tion, being called upon to give recitations in the evening schools
of New York City. May 12, 1877, an interesting biographical
sketch, together with a portrait of Louis Edwin Bomeisler
appeared in Frank Leslie's magazine, entitled, "The Boys' and
Girls' Weekly," in which he is mentioned as one of "the distin-
guished scholars of the New York schools." June 19, 1877, he was
graduated from grammar school, No. 35, and in the following
autumn entered the college of the city of New York, remaining
there two years. In that institution he was the champion
athlete of his class. In 1879 he took a course of study at the
Commercial College, in New York, of Prof. S. S. Packard, upon
leaving Columbia College School of Mines, where he pursued
the special course in assaying. In September, 1886, he was
admitted to the Law School of Columbia College, in New York,
from which he was graduated in the class of 1888, with the degree
of LL. B. He is a member of the law firm of Dill, Bomeisler
& Baldwin, having their offices at Nos. 27 and 29 Pine street,
New York. He is one of the best known after-dinner speakers
in the city of New York. Being a prominent member of the
Masonic order, he was initiated into the Acanthus Lodge, No.
719, F. and A. M., in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1891; passed as a
Fellow Craft, Feb. i, 1892; raised as a Master Mason, Feb. 15, 1892;
elected Senior Warden, Dec. 16, 1895; elected Master, Dec. 21, 1896;
retired, Dec. 20, 1897; elected trustee, Dec. 20, 1897; re-elected
trustee, Dec. 19, 1898; retired Dec. 18, 1899. Jan. 31, 1899, he
was admitted a member of the Mystic Shrine. Is a member of
all the Scottish Rite bodies, and is a thirty-second degree Mason.
He married June 11. i8go. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Natalie HoUiday
Cantoni, born in Brooklyn. Aug. 6, 1869. The officiating clergy-
man being Rev. Charles Homer, rector of St. James Protestant
Episcopal church, in Brooklyn. She was a daughter of Salva-
tore Cantoni and Clarissa Douglass (Olsen). Natalie H. Cantoni
was educated at the Adelphi Academy, in Brooklyn, and at the
convent of St. Elizabeth, Madison, N. J. Taking at the latter
institution, in June, 1888, "the Golden Crown of Honor," pre-
sented by Bishop Wigger of the diocese. It being the highest
prize bestowed.
Salvatore Cantoni born in Venice, Italy, was a son of Leon
Vita Cantoni and Rosa (Cesanna), Venetians by birth; but the
ancestors of Rosa Cesanna were natives of Greece. Mr. Can-
toni was decorated by King Humbert of Italy, with the order of
the Crown of Italy, which bestows the title of chevalier with the
rank of knight. For a number of years he held the office of pres-
ident of the Italian colony of the United States, performing hon-
orably and creditably his duties in that position. He was a
banker in New York City. He died suddenly, at Bay Shore,
Long Island, N. Y., June 21, 1896. Clarissa Douglass Olsen,
daughter of James William Olsen and Clarissa (Douglass), was
480 FIELD GENEALOGY.
born in New York City. James William Olsen, born in Chester,
England, was a son of Olsen, a native of Denmark, and
(Mortimer), born in Chester, England. Mr. Olsen possessed
remarkable intellectual ability, being offered the professorship
of astronomy and mathematics in Rutgers College. He was a
prominent politician in New York City, and belonged to the
Republican party. He was private secretary to Hon. A. Oakley
Hall.
Clarissa Douglass, born in New York City, was a daughter of
John Douglass and Mrs. Jane (Mikels). John Douglass was born
in Scotland, but settled in Dublin, Ireland. Later he came to
America, where, in New York City, he established himself in the
linen trade. He was a Scotch Irish Protestant. Mrs. Jane Mikels,
(born Jane Haynes), was at the time of her marriage to John
Douglass the widow of Jacob Mikels, of New York City. He
was her second husband. She married Jasper Miller; m., 2d,
Jacob Mikels; m. 3d, John Douglass.
The children of Louis Edwin Bomeisler and Natalie Holliday
(Cantoni) were: i. Louis Edwin Bomeisler, Jr., b. Friday,
April 3, twenty-five minutes after ten a. m., at No. 255 Hancock
St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; baptized Wednesday, May 28, eleven a. m.,
in St. James Protestant Episcopal church, by Rev. Charles
Homer, the rector, who also christened and married the mother ;
sponsors, Olive Douglass Cantoni, of Brooklyn, Dr. Parker
Syms, of New York, and the father. 2. Douglass Mortimer
Bomeisler, b. Monday, June 20, 1892, half past twelve, a. m., at
No. 255 Hancock St., Brooklyn; baptized Thursday, Jan. 26, 1893,
five p. m., at No. 255 Hancock st., the residence of his parents,
by Rev. Charles Homer; sponsors, Austin E. Pressmger, of
New York, Edna Mortimer Cantoni, of Brooklyn, and the father.
3. Nathaniel Ives Bomeisler, b. Saturday, June 11, 1898, six
a. m., at No. 255 Hancock St., Brooklyn. (Her birth occurred
on the eight anniversary of her parents' marriage.) Baptized
at Freeport, Long Island, N. Y., Sunday, Sept. 24, 1899, at fifteen
minutes to three p. m., in the church of the Incarnation Protest-
ant Episcopal, by Rev. Arthur Loundes, D. D., the rector;
sponsors, Edna Mortimer Cantoni, of Brooklyn, Mrs. Florence
Bomeisler, of East Orange, N. J., and Paltiel Rowland Bomeis-
ler, of East Orange.
2. Sarah Bishop, b. Feb. 8. 1838; d. Aug. 26, 1839. 3. Prentice
Field, b. Nov. i, 1840; d. Nov. 7, 1840. 4. Eliza Anna, b. Nov.
12, 1841; m. Nov. 12, 1863, Charles C. Kellogg, b. June 27, 1833.
Ch. : I. Ann Ruth, b. Feb. 6, 1865; m. June 7, 1888, William
Edward Mathews, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1861; d. in Brooklyn,
March 18, 1891, of acute Bright's disease. Ch. : (a) Loree Schuy-
ler Mathews, b. in Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1890; d. in New York,
April 23, 1897, of malignant scarlet fever. Mrs. Anna Ruth (Kel-
logg) Mathews, m., 2d, in Bath, N. Y., June, 1897, Walker
Edwin Hodgeman. They reside at Yonkers, N. Y. William
Edward Mathews was an only child, and on his father's side
descended from the Lorees and Schuylers. His mother was
Holliday, a native of Glasgow, Scotland. 2. Helen, b. Jan. 9,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 481
1867. Eliza A. d. in Chicago, Oct. 15, 1870. Charles C. d. Jan.
10, 1871, in Chicago. 5. Mary Bishop, b. April 8, 1846; m. Feb.
23, 1869, William Frederick Kidder. Among the three children
of Mr. and Mrs. Kidder is Lida Ives Kidder, a twin, born in New
York, July 24, 1S72. Dr. Case incorrectly records her death;
she is yet living, and grown to womanhood. Her twin brother,
however, died, as Dr. Case has it, three days after birth.
2635. V. FERONA DWIGHT, b. March 20, 1807; m. 1839, Rev. Daniel
Fairchild, of Saratoga, N. Y. ; d. in Illinois, March 24, 1869. He
was b. 1804; was of the Methodist Episcopal conference, and d.
some time in i860. She d. in Galesburg, 111., Aug. 24, 1869. Her
name was changed by act of the legislature from Ferona Drus-
cilla to Ferona Dwight. Ch. : i. George Heber, b. Kent,
Conn., July 4, 1840. 2. Clarissa Field, b. July, 1842; d. s. p., in
Glenwood, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1862.
2636. vi. JOSEPHINE MARIETTE, b. March 15, 1809; m. March 13, 1839,
at Troy, O., Thomas Hunt Goodwin, of Akron, O. He was b.
Oct. 10, 1810, in Bale de Verte, Nova Scotia. Res. Akron, O.,
where he d. May 3, 1893. Ch. : i. Alfred Davidson, b. Aug. 23,
1840; m. July 21, 1863, Lucinda Caroline Chapman, b. Nov. i,
1846. Res. St. Johns, N. B. ; iive children. In 1868 he went to
St. Johns, N. B., where he engaged extensively in the commis-
sion business, and acted for a time with credit as United States
vice consul. He was United States consul for Paraguay also.
The great fire of 1877 swept away his entire property, and he
removed to Baltimore, Md., where he took charge of the sub-
scription business for several large publishing firms of New
York, Boston, and Philadelphia. He died in Baltimore, Jan. 18,
1880, of typhoid fever. His widow resides 529 West Market St.,
Akron, O. Ch. : (a) Howard Glenn Goodwin, b. March 8, 1866.
(b) Mabel Clare Goodwin, b. Oct. 11, 1S74. (c) Flora Josephine
Goodwin, b. Sept. 19, 1876. 2. Clarissa Aurelia, b. Sept. 7, 1842;
unm. ; d. in Akron, O., Aug. 10, 1883. 3. Pamela Helen, b,
March 2, 1845; m. June 16, 1879, William Renwick. Res.
Davenport, Iowa, and Claremont, Cal. Ch. : (a) William Good-
win, b. Berlin, Germany, Jan. 10, 1S86. He d. Jan. 12, 1889.
Mr. Renwick was a son of Hon. James and Elizabeth (Locherby),
both natives of Scotland. 4. Prentice Field; d. young.
2637. vii. GRATIA ELECTA, b. April 16, 1813; m. June 5, 1834, Rev. Philo
Hawks, of Charlemont, Mass. Res. Barnstable, Mass. He was
b. June 5, 1810; of the Methodist Episcopal conference. Ch. :
I. Clarissa Field, b. April 6, 1836; m. John A. Francis and John
Pollard Ellis, of Boston. Two children — one each husband. 2.
Philo Prentice, b. Nov. 9, 1838; m. Aug. 7, 1862, Abby Jane
Gayton. One child. 3. Abigail Dwight, b. Feb. 12, 1841; m.
April 27, 1874, Benjamin Sumner Proctor, of Boston. 4. Emma
Fitch, b. Aug. 6, 1843; d. Nov. 15, 1867. 5. Dr. William Hines,
b. Oct. 25, 1845; graduated Brown University, Providence, R. I.,
1867, and University of Pennsylvania as M. D. in 1874; surgeon
in United States army; m. Oct. 25, 1887, Laura Sprague Tenny,
b. in Methuen, Mass., April 14, 1849, dau. of John Tenny, b.
Sept. 12, 1799, i° Dumbarton. N. H., and his wife, Augusta
482 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Sprague, b. Aug. 22, 1819, in Salem, Mass. Both Gratia E. Field
and Philo Hawkes had the same progenitor, in John Hawkes;
colonial settler in Deerfield, Mass. Her line of descent being
Joanna Hawkes, daughter of John and (?: Was his wife,
Elizabeth Ward) married William Arms (Dr. Case makes it
incorrectly Orme^. Their daughter, Elizabeth Arms, m. Eben-
ezer Field, the first, of Deerfield; their son Ebenezer, 2d; their
son Ebenezer, 3d; their son Rodolphus W., father of Gratia
Electa Field. Rev. Philo Hawkes died at his residence, in
Barnstable, Mass., June 7, 1891, from heart failure, aged eighty-
one years; a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal denomina-
tion. Mrs. Gratia E. Hawkes died at the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Benjamin Summer Proctor, at Southboro. Mass. (Abba
Dwight Hawkes), June 21, 1894, aged eighty-one years. She and
her husband were married June 5, 1834, on his twenty-fourth
birthday. "They lived for fifty-seven years an exceptionally
happy life." Dr. Case, in HoUister History, omitted their
youngest child, Ella Blanche Hawkes, born Feb. 16, 1852; m.,
at Providence, R. I., March 29, 1880, John Magrath Kelly,
born in Boston, Mass. 1 have not Mr. Kelly's date of
birth. They reside in Surrey, London, England. He was a
son of John D. Kelly, a native of Ireland, and Mary Ursu-
line Magrath, born in Maiden, Mass. Ch. : i. Paul Herrick
Kelly, b. June f, 1882, in Providence, R. I. 2. Agnes Kelly, b.
April 20, 1886, in London, England. 3. Joseph John Kelly, b.
July 7, 1888, in London, England. Probably more. In religion,
Roman Catholic.
2638. viii. CLARISSA AURELIA, b. Oct. 28, 1815; d. Feb. 7, 1835.
1332. EBENEZER SERENO FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Sam-
uel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Ebenezer and
Eunice (Wright), b. in Northfield, Mass. ; bap. May 7, 1775. He was sent oft to Gill,
Mass., in 1793. He d. suddenly, supposed m a fit, at Claremont, N. H., while there
on a visit. May 30, 1820. He m. 1802 Amelia, dau. of Samuel and Rebecca (Bridg-
man) Connable, of Bernardston, Mass., b. Dec. 24, 1781; d. Aug. 15, 1831. Res.
Gill, Mass.
2639. i. MINERVA ALTHEA, b. Oct. 26, 1803; m. April 3, 1824, Samuel
C. Stevens, of Guilford, Vt. They removed to Illinois, where
she d. Jan. 5, 1846. They had six children.
2640. ii. BARNARD WARREN, b. Sept. 5, 180S; m. Sarah Rachel Cush-
man.
1336. LOREN SHELDON FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), bap. Northfield, Mass., April 9,
1786. He inherited his father's homestead which he sold in and removed to
Marietta, Ohio, where he remained but a few years, returning to Gill, Mass., in a
Pennsylvania covered wagon which was a great curiosity to the inhabitants of the
town, himself and family broken down in health from malarial disease, and losing
most of his property in consequence of removal. Previous to his leaving, his
mother's third and personal property were fortunately invested in a homestead in
Gill, Mass., which was nearly all they had to fall back upon, and he resided there
with his mother until his death. He m. July 14, 1S07, Mary Hubbard, of Green-
field, Mass.
\
See page 500
FIELD HOME, BELFAST, ME., RESIDENCE JUDGE BOHAN P. FIELD.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 483
2641.
i.
EMELINE, b.
2642.
ii.
DIANA.
2643.
iii.
MARY.
2644.
iv.
LOUISA.
2645.
V.
EBENEZER.
2646.
vi.
HUBBARD.
m. Severance, of Northfield, Mass.
1339. JUDGE BOHAN PRENTICE FIELD (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer,
Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Ebenezer and
Eunice (Wright), b. in Northfield, Mass., May 23, 1773; graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1795. He commenced the study of law in Portsmouth, N. H., and
afterward entered the office of Hon. Samuel Dana, of Amherst, N. H., where
he finished his studies preparatory to being admitted to the bar. After being
admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, he removed in 1798 to North Yarmouth,
Me., being the first lawyer to settle in that place. In 1799 he removed to Belfast,
Me., and became the pioneer of his profession in that town, which was then in
Hancock county, and in 1800 contained but 674 inhabitants, and in i860 contained
5, 520. Mr. Field lived through the period of its growth from its humble beginning,
forty-four years. On the organization of the county of Waldo in 1827, he was
appointed by Governor Lincoln, chief justice of the Court of Sessions for the
county, which was a surprise to him, as they were political opponents. He con-
tinued to discharge the duties of the office for the term of ten years with industry
and to the satisfaction of the county. He was a well read lawyer and his opinions
were regarded as good authority and entitled to great weight. He rarely appeared
as an advocate but when he found it necessary or expedient to address a jury he
did it with force and clearness, without any display ot rhetoric, arguing for the
cause and not for outside efi:ect. He was valued in the community where he lived
for his general intelligence, soundness of judgment and integrity of character.
He d. March 13, 1843. The following tribute to his memory is from the pen of Hon.
Mr. Williamson, of Belfast. Speaking of Mr. Field as a magistrate and referee, in
which capacity he was often employed, he says; "No man entered on the investi-
gation of the rights of parties freeer from passion and prejudice, and no man exer-
cised a sounder judgment. Hence his decisions were uniformly correct and satis-
factory. Such was his known integrity of character and singleness of purpose, that
he received a thousand unsought tokens of public favor and confidence. Few men
ever died more highly esteemed by all who knew him." He m. Oct. 23, 1S07,
Abigail, dau. of Benjamin and Mary (Mann) Davis, of Bilerica, Mass., b. Oct. 23,
1787; d. Nov. 3, 1863.
HENRY CUMMINGS, b. Sept. 14. 1809; m. Areneth Harriman.
WILLIAM PATTON. b. Jan. 31, 1811; m. Sarah Ingram.
ABIGAIL ELEANOR, b. March 2, 1812; d. Oct. i, 1813.
EBENEZER WRIGHT, b. Sept. 23, 1813; d. Oct. 7, 1813.
CHARLES DAVIS, b. Aug. 5, 1814; m. Eliza Osgood.
BOHAN PRENTICE, b. Sept. 11, 1815; m. Lucy Haraden.
GEORGE WARREN, b. Dec. 9, 1818; m. Lucy H. Humphrey.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. Oct. 10, 1820; m. Caroline Williams
Toby and Annie Fuller Toby.
2655. ix. EDWARD MANN, b. July 27, 1822; m. Sarah Ross McRuer.
1346. ROSWELL FIELD (Abner, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel. Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Dec. i, 1789; m.
Dec. 12, 1S13, Peace Cook, of Tiverton, R. I. He kept tavern in that town.
He went from Northfield about 1827 to Sunderland; kept tavern at the house now
2647.
1.
2648.
ii.
2649-
111.
2650.
IV.
2651.
V.
2652.
VI.
2653.
Vll.
2654.
VUl,
484 FIELD GENEALOGY.
occupied by Mrs. Abigail L. Gilbert, and afterwards at the present Mt. Toby
House; removed to Hartford after 1830; m. Peace Cook, of Tiverton. R. I. She d.
Sept. 22, 1862, at the house of Samuel Dunlap. He d. Nov. 24, 1846; buried in
Sunderland. The eldest five children were born in Northfield. Res. Sunderland,
Mass.
2656. i. SARAH ELECTA, b. Dec. 13, 1814; m. Samuel Dunlap.
2657. ii- ALBERT ROSWELL, b. Sept. 27, 1816.
2658. iii. JUDITH MATILDA, b. in 1827; d. Oct. 11, 1831.
2658>^. iv. GEORGE, bap. July 6, 1828.
2658X. V. MARIA, bap. July 6, 1828.
2658>^. vi. ELIZABETH WHITING, bap. July 6, 1828; m. Dec. 24, 1839,
Austin F. Rowe.
2658>^. vii. STEPHEN, R. B., d.'Aug. 6, 1S27, aged 18 months.
2658^. viii. MARY EMELINE, bap. July 4. 1830; d. Aug. 17, 1831, aged 19
months (gravestone).
2658I4:. ix. AMELA ]\I., d. Nov. i, 1847, in Boston, aged 17 years, 7 months
(gravestone).
2658%. X. JULLIET MARY, bap. Nov. 23, 1834; m. Sept. 6, 1855, Charles
H. Sweet.
1348. GEORGE P. FIELD (Abner, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Abner and Mary (Mattoon), b. in
Northfield. Mass., April 19, 1794. He m. Dec. 2, 1818, Pamelia, dau. of Thomas
Bardwell, of Deerfield, Mass., b. Nov. 11, 1795; d. April 24, 1836.
2659. 1. GEORGE P., b. .
1353. MOSES FIELD (Moses D., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William. William), son of Moses D. and Patience (Smith), b. in
Surry. N. H., July 9, 1769; d. Jan. 31, 1815. A farmer. He m. 1796 Molly, dau. of
Peter Hayward, of Surry, b. 1763; d. Aug. 24, i8o3.
AMOS, b. 1797; d. Feb. 7, 1S07.
HASKINS, b. Feb. 8, 1801; d. Feb. 22, 1801.
PATIENCE, b. 1803; m. John Pierce, of Springfield, Vt.
JERUSHA, b. May ic, 1805; d. Sept. 26, 1805.
RISPAH, b. 1806; m. Clark, of Gilsum, N. H.
A DAUGHTER, b. 1808; m. Eleazer Wilcox, of Surry, N. H.
1358. ISAAC FIELD (Moses D., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah. John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Moses D. and Patience (Smith), b. in
Surry, N. H. He removed in to Pennsylvania, where he d. He ra. Dolly,
dau. of Jonathan Robinson, of Surry, N. H.
2666. i. LUCIA, b. ; m. Fish, of Pennsylvania.
2667. ii. PRESCOTT, b. .
' 2668. iii. LOUISA, b. ; m. Kimball, of Pennsylvania.
1359. ELIPHAZ FIELD (Moses D., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William. William), son of ]\Ioses D. and Patience (Smith), b.
in Surry, N. H., Feb. 20, 1784; d. Jan. 18, 1S72. He inherited the homestead.
He m. Susanna, dau. of Jonathan Robinson, of Surry, N. H., d. Aug. 17, 1853.
aged 65.
2669. i. JONATHAN R., b. Dec. 3. 1812; m. Julia F. Morton.
2670. ii. ELIZA C, b. Sept. 16, 1814; d. Jan. 15, 1835.
2671. iii. EMELINE S., b. Dec. 19, 1817; m. April, 1845, Daniel Burr, of
Marlow, N. H.
2660.
1.
2661.
ii.
2662.
iii.
2663.
iv.
2664.
V.
2665.
VI.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 485
2072. iv. SARAH JANE, b. Feb. 16, 1820; m. May, 1844, Henry T. Ellis,
of Marlow, N. H.
2673. V. LUCIA M., b. Jan. 15, 1823; unm. ; res. Brattleboro, Vt.
2674. vi, GEORGE, b. May 21, 1826; d. Feb. 4, 1S27.
2675. vii. LEWIS D., b. Dec. 6, 1828; d. Jan. 22, 1829.
1361. CYRUS FIELD (Moses D., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, Tohn,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Surry, N. H., Nov. 20, 1789. He removed in
to New York, where he d. He m., Nancy, dau. of Simeon Baxter, of Surry,
N. H., b. 1795; d. March 5, 1S20; m., 2d, Sarah, dau. of Peter and Sarah (Kidder)
Joslyn, of Surry, N. H. Res. Surry, N. H.
2676. i. HARRIET, b. — — ; m. Coryill; a dau. is Mrs. Wm. H.
Allen, of Riverside, 111.
RHODA, b. .
WILLIAM B., b. June 28, 1S16; m. Esther Amelia Yontz,
MARY, b. .
HIRAM, b. .
CHARLES, b. .
1363. ZENAS FIELD (Mcses D., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William, son of Moses D. and Patience) (Smith) (123), b.
in Surry, N. H., in 1795. He removed in to Pennsylvania, where he d. He
m. Follett,
2677.
11.
2678.
lU,
2679.
IV.
2680,
v.
2681.
vi,
2682.
i.
RHODA, b. .
2683.
ii.
ELIPHAZ. b.
2684.
iii.
MOSES, b. .
2685.
iv.
ISAAC, b.
268b.
V.
NELSON, b. .
2687.
vi.
MARY, b. .
1366. SOLOMON FIELD (Solomon, Moses. Ebenezer. Samuel. Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary (Wright), b. in
Conway, Mass., Nov. i, 1776. He removed about 1805 to Verona, N. Y. He m.
March, 1796, Ruth Porter, of Hawley, Mass., b. .
2688. i. ASABEL WRIGHT, b. 1797; d. Sept. 10, 1801.
2689. ii. WILLIAM, b. .
1367. REUBEN WRIGHT FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary
(Wright), b. in Conway, Mass., April 3, 1779. He removed in 1806 to Buckland,
Mass., where he d. Jan. 24, 1863. A farmer. He m., April 14, 1806, Polly, dau,
of Zebulon and Alice (Chase) White, of Buckland, b. April 11. 1782; d. May 15,
1808; m., 2d, June 3, 1809, Abigail L., sister of first wife, b. Oct. 3, 1787; d. June 8,
ZEBULON WHITE, b. June 19, 1807: m. Roxanna Giles.
REUBEN WRIGHT, b. May 12, 1808; d. May 21, 1808.
SOLOMON, b. iSro; d. 1810.
MARY WHITE, b. Feb. 27. 1812; m. Dec. 14, 1836, Dexter
Atkins, of Buckland. He was b. March 19, 1812; d. Nov. 24,
1885; she d. March 29, 1885. Ch. : i. Sarah Abigail Atkins, b.
Oct. 15, 1840; date of death unknown. 2. Dexter Ashman Atkins,
b. Sept. 27, 1847; iiow residing in Springfield, Mass.
2694. V. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 22, 1815; d. .
2695. vi. LUCY WRIGHT, b. Jan. 8, 1818; m., 1844, Willard Packard; m,,
1840.
2690.
2691.
11.
2692.
111.
2693.
IV.
486 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2699.
1.
2700.
11.
2701.
111.
2702.
IV.
2703.
V.
2704.
VI.
2d, June 16, 1853, Samuel A. Clark, of Hawley. She res. Hawley,
Mass., s. p.; d. Oct. 4, 1898; Mr. Clark was b. April 24, 1812; d.
March 26, 1898.
2696. vii. REUBEN WRIGHT, b. Aug. 14, 1820; m. Harriet L. Parker and
Mary Elizabeth Severance.
2697. viii. POLLY, b. 1823; d. 1823.
2698. ix. ABIGAIL ALICE, b, Dec. 12, 1824; m. Jan. 20, 1853, Alphonzo
Dickinson, of Hadley, Mass.
1368. SILAS FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary (Wright), b. in Conway,
Mass., Sept. 3, 1781; d. May 19, 1862. He was a blacksmith. He m. Aug. 12, 1804,
Gratia Thankful, dau. of Timothy and Silence (Bartlett) Callm, of Conway, b. in
Sunderland, 1784; d. Jan. 6, 1867.
, b. April 12, 1805; d in infancy.
, b. March 6, 1806; d. in infancy.
, b. Feb. II, 1807; d. in infancy.
, b. Dec. 4, 1807; d. in infancy.
, b. Oct. 26, 1808; d. in infancy.
CHARLES NELSON, b. Oct. 26, 1810; m. Anna Newhall and
Rebecca D. Tolman.
2705. vii. GRATIA, b. Jan. 17, 1817; m. Jonathan M. Thompson, of Colrain;
he d. in Conway, July, 1879, where she now resides.
1369. HORACE FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Conway, Mass., April 14, 1784. He
removed to Ashiield, Mass., where he d. March 16, 1831. He m. Dec. 3, 1808,
Zerviah, dau. of Moses and Abigail (Bacon) Burnham, of Montague, Mass.. b. Jan.
25, 1787; d. Aug. 26, 1862. He was a farmer.
Horace, of Conway. Oct. 11, 1831, filed; Zerviah, wife; no heirs mentioned
beside wife Zerviah. — Franklin County Probate.
2706. i. HORACE LOREN, b. July 2, 1809; m. Mary S. Sherman.
2707. ii. LOVINA BARDWELL. b. Oct. 17, 1812; m. May 31, 1837,
Stephen Averill, of Wilmington, Vt. He was b. Nov. 27, 1802;
d. March 19, 1887; was a farmer; she resided in Wilmington, Vt.
Ch. : I. Phoebe Jane Wellman, Wilmington, Vt., b. April 8,
1838; m. Aug. 8, 1861. 2. Diadonnia Pulsifer, b. June 6, 1839;
d. June 3, 1858, Peoria, 111. 3. Ellen Maria, b. Nov. 24, 1840; d.
Sept. 17, 1842, Wilmington, Vt. 4. Stephen Franklm, b. July
22, 1843, Peoria, 111. 5. Charles Henry, b. March 23, 1845, Wil-
mington, Vt. 6. Lucius Wilcox, b. Dec. 27, 1S46, Wilmington,
Vt. 7. Mary Cliftordier Lyon, b. Sept. 30, 1850; m. June, 1871 ;
d. April 6, 1875, Wilmington, Vt. 8. Abigail Electa, b. March 8.
1852; d. March 16, 1869, Wilmington, Vt. 9. Emerette Louise
Giftord, b. Sept. 4, 1854, Wilmington, Vt. ; m. Dec. 4, 1879; ^es.
Wilmington, Vt.
ALVIN S., b. Nov. 2, 1814; m. Sylvia Crafts.
ELIJAH, b. Dec. 16, 1817; m. Emerette L. Hill.
ELECTA, b. Feb. i, 1820; d. Aug. 29, 1822.
MOSES B., b. Oct. 25, 1822; m. Lucinda Edson.
ABIGAIL B., b. March 29. 1825; m. Feb. 15, 1841, Emerson C.
Foote, of Conway. He was b. June 10, 1818; d. June 11, 1899;
was an undertaker. Ch. : i. Zerviah (Foote) Packard, b. May
2708.
111.
2709.
IV.
2710.
V.
27II.
VI.
2712.
vu.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 487
19, 1843; m. John B. Packard March 22, 1864. d. May 21, 1872.
2. William Harlow Foote, b. March i, 1848; d. Aug. 6, 1851. 3.
George F. Foote, b. May 28, 1853; d. March 2, 1856. 4- Jose-
phine L. (Foote) Batchelder, b. Nov. 24, 1856; m. Wm. K.
Batchelder, March 10, 1875. 5. Anna R. (Foote) Holcomb, b.
May 9, 1S59; m. Fred Holcomb Dec. 30, 1S80. 6. Fannie R.
Foote. b. May 9, 1865; d. May 23, 1865.
2713. viii. ELECTA, b. Aug. i, 1827; m. Dec. 28, 1843, Edward Howland, o£
Greenfield, Mass.; d. 1847.
2714. ix. PAMELIA S., b. May 18, 1830; d. Jan. 18, 1831.
1370. JOEL FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary (Wright), b. in Con-
way, Mass., Oct. 27, 1786; d. Sept. 3, 1838. He m. Feb. 10, 1820, Philinda, dau. of
Samuel and Rebecca (Nims) Wilder, of Deerfield, Mass., b. July 30, 1794; she d.
Sept. 15, 1890, aged 96.
Joel, of Conway, Dec. 18, 1838, filed; Philinda Field, wife, and guardian of
Joel, Rebecca, Mary P., all under fourteen years of age. Another paper filed Oct.
8, 1839, gives- Austin Rice as guardian for Consider, Israel W. and Mary W., minor
children above age of fourteen.
Mrs. Philinda, of Conway; will filed 1S91; no husband. Daughters, Mrs.
Samuel Jackson, of Brighton, Mass. ; son, Joel Field, of West Springfield, Mass. ;
granddaughters, Mrs. Etta (Field) Dowding, Mary W. Field, Lizzie M. Field, all
of Conway, Mass. ; Mrs. Idella Albee, of Charlemont ; Mrs. Chas. Fisher, of Hart-
ford, Conn. ; grandsons, Frank Field, of Conway, Mass. ; Edgar Field, of Hartford.
Conn. — Franklin County Probate.
2715. i. CONSIDER WILDER, b. Dec. 4, 1820; m. Mary A. Field.
2716. ii. ISRAEL WILDER, b. Feb. 20, 1823; m. Elizabeth A. Ranney.
2717. iii. MARY WRIGHT, b. April 11, 1825; m. April 16. 1846, Samuel
Jackson, of Brighton, Mass. He was b. April 14, 1817; d. Aug.
5, 1S98; was a farmer. Ch. : i. William Jackson, b. March 13,
1848; m. April 27, 1886; civil engineer, address, city engineer. City
Hall, Boston. 2. Edward Field Jackson, b. Dec. 23, 1849; m.
March 28, 1890; clerk; address. Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111.
3. Mary Elizabeth Jackson, b. Oct. 11, 185 1. 4. Frank Henry
Jackson, b. April 27, 1854; mining engineer; address, 105 Broad-
way, Los Angeles, Cal. 5. Andrew B. Jackson, b. March 12,
1856; d. April 24, 1856. 6. Albert Samuel Jackson, b. May 4,
1858; d. Jan. 17, 1874. 7. Louis Lincoln Jackson, b. March 12,
1861; m. July 2, 1896; professing chemist; address, 3323 Lucas
avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 8. Fred Wilder Jackson, b. Nov. 2, 1863;
m. Oct. 20, 189S; address. Union street, Brighton, Mass.
2718. IV. JOEL, b. Sept. 20, 1827; m. Fanny Mellen.
2719. V. REBECCA, b. Nov. 19, 1829; m. Samuel Ward, of Buckland, Mass.
Ch. : I. , b. ; m. E. J. AUbe; res. Charlemont, Mass.
2720. vi. MERCY PHILINDA, b. Feb. 17, 1831; m. George C. Dole, of
Shelburne, Mass.; d. Feb. i, 1871. He res. Greenfield, Mass.
Ch. : I. Geo. C. Dole, d. in infancy. 2. Amelia S. Dole- Ford,
Ashfield, Mass., b. March 14, 1853. 3. Melissa M. Dole-Soule,
570 Barry street, Fremont, N. Y. ; b. Dec. 30, 1855. 4. Charles S.
Dole, Shelburne, Mass. ; b. March 31, 1857. 5. George F. Dole,
Shelburne, Mass.; b. March, 1859. 6. Fred L. Dole, 928 West
488 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Eighth street, Kansas City, Mo.; b. April, 1865. 7. Edward
Dole, d. when two and a half years old. 8. Mary Philinder, b.
Aug. 31, 1862; unm. ; is a physician; res. Greenfield, Mass.
1371. CHESTER FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary (Wright), b. in
Conway, Mass., Dec. 27, 1788. He settled in Deerfield; in 1829 returned to Con-
way, where he d. Oct. 22, 1855. He m., Oct. 13, 1813, Sophia, dau. of Amasa
and Lucy (Eames) Loveridge, of Deerfield, b. 1794; d. April 3, 1841 ; m. 2d, Rebecca,
dau. of Stephen and Elizabeth (Jordan) Johnson, of Vernon, Vt., widow of Moses
Munson, of Greenfield, Mass., b. March 15, 1797; d. April 10, 1876.
2721. i. MILO WRIGHT, b. 1814; d. in infancy.
2722. ii. CHESTER, b. Sept. 4, 1816; m. Louisa Blanchard and Marietta
Perley.
2723. iii. SOPHIA, b. Oct. 20, 1818; d. March 5, 1829.
2724. iv. PERSIS, b. Oct. 4, 1821; m. April 11,1844, Porter Mitchell, of
Greenfield, d. Jan. 14, 1870.
2725. V. AUSTIN, b. Sept. 10, 1825; m. Sarah Rockwood and Mrs. Martha
Butler C^apik
2726. vi, CAROLINE, b. Oct. 9, 1827; d. July 23. 1S42.
2727. vii. LOIS ANGELIA, b. 1S30; d. Sept. 10, 1836.
1372. ELIJAH FIELD (Solomon, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), son of Solomon and Mary (Wright), b. in Con-
way, Mass., Nov. 13, 1791; m., Oct. 15, 1818, Philana, dau. of Henry and
Experience (Chase) Arms, of Conway, b. Oct. ig, 1798; d. June 10, 1828; m, 2d,
Jan. 30, 1829, Nancy Gray, dau. of Luther and Eunice (Alden) Ranney, of Ashfield,
Mass., b. Oct. 24, 1811; d. August, 1872. Was a farmer and manufacturer. He
d. Sept. 18, 1871. Res. Ashfield, Mass.
272S. i. HARRIET PAMELIA, b. Nov. 28. 1819; d. Nov. 18, 1843.
2729. ii. HENRY ARMS, b. Sept. 9, 1823; m. October, 1853, Ellen M ;
d. May 7, and May 15, 1857, in the Franklin County Probate
Records, his wife Ellen M. is mentioned, but no children. Res.
Ashfield.
SOLOMON, b. Aug. 25. 1821; d. Feb. 25, 1831.
PHILANA, b. Jan. 23, 1826; m. October, 1850, Liberty Pease, of
Ashfield. Res. Farragut, Iowa,
GEORGE, b. May 13, 1829; m. Sarah Lyon Pierce.
ELIZA ARMS, b. March 8, 1832; m. October, 1851, Charles H.
Forbes, d. April 21, 1881. Ch. : i. Frank H. Forbes, North-
wood, Iowa.
2734. vii. SOLOMON ELIJAH, b. July 8, 1834; m. Nov. 5, 1870, Celestia
I. Eastman. Res. Shenandoah, Iowa. Ch. : Henry, Weber,
Martha. Jessie, Solomon E., Leanna R., Susanna.
2735. viii. HELEN LUCINDA, b. March 2, 1837; m. Nov. 27, 1856, Charles
E. Williams, of Deerfield. He was b. Feb. 29, 1824. Res. South
Deerfield, Mass. Ch. : i. Henry Field, b. July 30, 1858; m.
July 24, 1880; postoffice. South Deerfield, Mass. 2. Mary Niras,
b. Dec. 14, i860; m. Oct. 20, 1885; postoffice, Mrs. H. W. Read,
Atlantic, Mass. 3. Charles Wellington, b. Nov. 8, 1864 ; d. Nov.
3, 1887. 4. Nellie Russell, b. March i, 1867; d. June 18, 1S91.
5. Alice Maud, b. March 26, 1871; m. June 22, 1898; postoffice,
Mrs. George A. Goodell, Barnard College, New York, N. Y.
2730.
111.
2731-
IV.
2732.
V.
2733-
VI.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 489
2736. ix. AMELIA SOPHIA, b. Nov. 5, 1839; m, June 17, 1866, Truman
Bowman, of Amherst. Res. Ashfield. He was b. Oct. 26, 1832.
Is a farmer, and was in the civil war in the Fifty-second Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers. Ch. : i. Harry Goodell Bow-
man, b. May iS, 1867.
2737. X. FRANKLIN HERBERT, b. Sept. 19, 1849; m. Laura Weston.
1376. EDWARD FIELD (Noah, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Feb. 6, 1780; m. July 28, 1803, Nancy Ingalls,
b. Rehoboth, Mass., March 11, 1786; d. Oct. 5, 1842. Of the large family of Edward
Field and their wives, all are believed to be dead except Mrs. Amelia Field, wife of
Henry B. Field, who is now seventy-five years old, and lives with her son. Nelson
Field, in Stow township. Summit county, Ohio. The family is scattered over the
United States, from Massachusetts to Oregon. Austin and Edward settled in Mich-
igan. Hannah, Obed and Henry settled in Summit county, Ohio, and nearly all
their descendants live near there. Nancy lived at Wesley ville, Pa., and Dexter
moved to Colorado. Chester's and Noah's children live near Summit county.
Dexter Field, Jr., lives at Salem, Oregon. The family is one of strong vitality and
muscular endurance. Nearly all have been tillers of the soil. In connection with
their agricultural pursuits they carry on some auxiliary work, such as milling, car-
pentering, teaching school and the like. Genius, industry and firmness of will-
power are inherent qualities and crop out all along the line. It seems to be a family
trait to want to "build a home" from the digging of the cellar drain to the final
strokes of the paint brush. Several of their homes have been thus built, and a
great many buildings in Summit and Medina counties of Ohio bear the Field "trade
mark," i. e., the impress of the saw and hammer. He d. Feb. 14, 1849. Res.
Deerfield, Mass. .
OBED S., b. May 28, 1814; m. Mrs. Mary L. C. Page.
CHESTER, b. July 20, 1817; m. Celesta Porter.
HENRY B., b. Dec. 26, 1815; m. Amelia Delashmot.
NANCY, b. Aug. 4, 1804; m. June 15, 1829, Frederick Fitch. She
d. Jan. 25, 1884, in Stow, Ohio.
OTIS, b. Oct. 17, 1805; m Mary Ingalls.
AUSTIN, b. March 14, 1807; m. Sarah Ann Compton and Matilda
Stokins.
EDWARD, b. Aug. 25, 1808; m. Eliza Fuller.
TRYPHENA, b. Nov. 23, 1809; d. Aug. 26, 1836.
HANNAH, b. June 7, 1811; m. August, 1836, Thomas Porter.
She d. April 21, 1881. Ch. : i. Miles Porter. 2. Lauren Porter;
res. Ghent, Ohio. 3. Janette Porter. 4. Jane Porter; m.
Emery; res. Ghent, Ohio.
2747. X. HARVEY, b. Jan. 29, 1813: d. Dec. 2b. 1819.
2748. xi. HARVEY, b. April 20, 1820; n. f..k.
2749. xii. HARRIET, b. April 20, 1820; m. Oct. 24. 1844, Nathaniel Wilson.
She d. June 13, 1851.
2750. xiii. MARY, b. Nov. 5, 1821; m. October, 1843, L. W. Porter. She d.
Dec. 5, 1844.
2751. xiv. DEXTER W., b. May 14, 1823; m. Mrs. R. Wilson.
2752. XV. NOAH, b. June 11, 1827; m. Mrs. Julia Ann Owen.
1377. OBED FIELD (Noah, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Whately, Mass., March 8, 1782; m. Tabatha
Aldridge. He joined the Shakers at Shelby, N. Y. Res. Shelby, N. Y.
32
2738.
1.
2739-
11.
2740.
111.
2741.
IV.
2742.
v.
2743.
VI.
2744-
vii.
2745.
VIU.
2746.
IX.
490 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2753. i. ORRIN D., b. Sept. 5, 1812; m. Nancy Dobson.
2754. ii. MARY, b. ; m. Page.
2755. iii. LUCY, b. ; m, Page.
2756. iv. JANE, b. ; m. Tabor; res. East Shelby, N. Y.
1385. SOLOMON FIELD (Medad, Moses, Ebenezer. Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Medad and Phoebe (Gould), b. in
Northfield, Mass., Jan. 6, 1801; d. Feb. 6, 1848. He m. Prudence Gould; she m.,
2d, Willard Priest.
2757. i. ELECTA, b. ; m. Oratio Stratton, of Northfield, d. Aug. 15,
1843.
1386, CORPORAL SHARON FIELD (Phineas, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Oct. 17,
1785; m. Aug. 2, 1814, Mrs. Betsy Lamb Hastings. Sharon Field, son of Phineas
and Diadama (Morgan), b. in Northfield, Mass., Oct. 17, 1785; d. Dec. 19, 1868. He
served as corporal in Captain Mattoon's company of artillery two months at Boston
in 1 8 14, and on their return to Northfield they showed the people the great profi-
ciency they had acquired in artillery practice while in service, notwithstanding the
soiled uniforms they returned in. He m. Aug. 2, 1814, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel
and Mary (Ryder) Lamb, widow of Hezekiah Hastings, of Phillipston, Mass., b.
Oct. 17, 1784. He d. Dec. 29, 1848. Res. Northfield, Mass.
SAMUEL, b. May 27. 181 5; m. Sarah Woodbury.
REUBEN M., b. Oct, 6, 1816; m. Harriet M. Scott.
MARTHA, b. July 3. 1818; d. Dec. 14. 1868.
MARY E,, b. June 10 1820; d. Oct. 16, 1822.
ANSEL, b. Jan. 27, 1823; d. Aug. 15. 1825.
ELECTA T., b. March 12, 1828; m. Feb. 4, 1845, D. F. Caller; res.
Greenfield.
2764. vii. ELIZABETH A., b. Aug. 11, 1828; m. June, 1853, Jones Fisher,
of Brattleboro; m., 2d, November, 1864, Dr. Philander Pierce, of
Warwick, Mass.
1374. DEACON PHINEHAS FIELD (Phineas, Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Phinehas and Eunice
(Lyman), b. in Northfield, Mass., April 14, 1799. He removed in 1838 to Charle-
mont, Mass. A deacon and an antiquarian. He traveled extensively in the South-
ern States in 1830, and was advised by a friend in Savannah, Ga., on account of his
anti-slavery principles, not to let the people know he was from Massachusetts,
fearing he might be ill-treated. Mr. Field replied: "I shall never deny the place
of my nativity." When calling upon a planter for entertainment, on being asked
where he was from, he replied, "From Massachusetts, sir," and was always well
entertained. He served two years on the Christian and Sanitary Commission at
the front during the great Rebellion of 1861-64, and was deputed to examine those
that applied for assistance to prevent fraud in procuring help. He had been for
several years collecting Indian relics and the early history in Franklin county,
Mass., tor the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association of Deerfield, of which he
was an active member. He d. Aug. 29, 1884. He m. May 11, 1831, Chloe Max-
well, dau. of Col. Roger and Chloe (Maxwell) Leavitt, of Heath, Mass., b. May 21,
1803; d. July 4, 1874. She was a well educated woman and took great interest in
the advancement of society, and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. No
issue.
Phineas, Charlemont. 1841 (name spelled also Phinehas), d. Aug. 29, 1884; no
2758.
1.
2759-
11.
2760.
Ill,
2761.
iv.
2762.
V.
2763.
vi.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 491
widow. Deceased brother Sharon Field's children, Electa T. Collor, of Guilford;
Elizabeth A. Pierce, of Northfield. Deceased sister Diadema Field Jewell's chil-
dren, Diadema S. Harris, of Filating, Potter county, Pa. ; Lura F. Dimgers, of
Filating, Potter county, Pa.; Lucy F. Hoyt, of Irving, Marshall county, Kan.;
Sarah T. King, of Gilletts, Bradford county, Pa. Grandniece, Lucy A. Jewell, of
Pennsylvania. Late brother Moses Field's children, Lucius Field, of Clinton,
Mass. ; Frank E. Field, of Clinton, Mass. ; Josiah A. Field, of Leominster, Mass. ;
Catherine S. Russell, of North Hadley, Mass. ; Christiana C. Stockbridge, of North-
field. Mass. Winesses. Reuben W. Field, Mary E. Field, Kimball S. Field. The
will is signed Phinehas.
1397. DEACON MOSES F, FIELD (Phineas, Moses, Ebeuezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Northfield, Mass., Aug. 11,
1808; m. Nov. 13, 1839, Catherine Swan Alexander, dau. of Josiah and Myra
(Lyman), b. Feb. 26, 1818; d. April 24, 1895. Moses Field was a carpenter by
trade, but health becoming poor, bought a farm and carried it on until his last sick-
ness. He died of typhoid fever at the Massachusetts General Hospital, succeeding
an operation for stone m the bladder. He was honest, conscientious, frugal, a lover
of music and quite a musician; a hard worker in the Congregational church of
which he was a member and supporter until his death.
Moses, of Northfield, Aug. 4, 1868, filed. Wife, Catherine. Children, Chrissie
C, Josiah A., minors.
He d. in Boston March 21, 1868. Res. Northfield, Mass.
2765. i, LUCIUS, b. Aug. 15, 1840; m. Annie S. Harrington and Mary A.
Wilmarth.
2766. ii. MYRA, b. May 15, 1843; d. Jan. 25, 1846.
2767. iii. FRANCIS E,, b. Feb. 23, 1845; m. Maria R, Smith.
2768. iv. CATHERINE S., b. June 5, 1847; m. Oct. 19, 1869, H. Clement
Russell, of North Hadley, Mass. He is a farmer; was b. Oct*
8, 1844.
2769. v. CHRISTIANA C, b. Feb. 12, 1833; m. Oct. 19, 1869. Frank G.
Stockbridge; res. Northfield.
2770. vi. JOSIAH ALEXANDER, b. Oct. 21, i860; m. Fannie E. Osborn.
1399. REV. ELIJAH H. FIELD (John M., Moses, Ebenezer, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of John M. and Martha
(Harris), b. in Sullivan, N. H. , Oct. 3, 1796. A Methodist minister. He removed
to Ohio; d. at Saint Paris, Ohio, Oct. i, 1878. He m. June 8, 1828, Ann, dau. of
— — Taylor, of Hamilton, Ohio.
2771. i. JOHN, b. .
2772. ii. A DAUGHTER, b. .
1401. JOHN FIELD (John M., Moses, Ebeuezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John. Richard, William, William), son of John M. and Olive (Clark), b. in Sullivan,
N. H. , April 17, 1803. He removed in to Jaffrey, N. H., where he d. He m.
March 26, 1826, Olive C. Morse, of Fitzwilliam, N. H., b .
2773. i. JOHN, b. .
2774. ii. MARIA, b. ; m. .
1405. AARON FIELD (Jesse, Aaron, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William. William), son of Jesse and Lydia (Burke), b. in Bernards-
ton, Mass., Aug. 25, 1780; d. Feb. 14, 1807. He m. Lovina, dau. of Scott, of
Bernardston, b. ; she m., 2d, Timothy Hale, of Bernardston.
2775. i. RODNEY AUGUSTUS, b. ; m. Theola Plummer.
2776. ii. AARON WESSON, b. Jan. 13, 1807; m. Harriet Hamilton.
492 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2778.
11.
2779.
111.
2780.
IV.
1410. JESSE FIELD (Jesse, Aaron, Ebenezer, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Bernardston, Mass., Aug. 25, 1792, where he
resided on the old homestead. He m. December, 1818, Lurancy Parmenter, dau. of
Elias and Sarah (Snow) Scott, of Bernardston, b. Jan. 30, 1798; d. Oct. 3, 1876.
He d. May 6, 1883. Was a farmer.
2777. i. MARY HOYT, b. March 30, 1820; m. March 6, 1851, Richard
Bagg, of Montague, Mass. She d. May 30, 1888. He d. June,
1893, s, p.
AARON WESLEY, b. April 5, 1822; d. Aug. 16, 1825.
JOHN BURKE, b. June 27, 1824; m. Sarah H. Hubbs.
SOPHRONIA LURANCY, b. Dec. 26, 1829; m. March 21. 1855,
Alonzo Graves, of Greenfield, Mass. He was b. April 15, 1818.
Is a carpenter and joiner and farmer. Res. Pine Grove Farm,
Greenfield. Ch. : i. Burke Field Graves, b. Oct. 18, 1858; m.
Dec. 8, 1S85. 2. Cyrus Stowell Graves, b. July 27, 1863; m. Sept.
15, 1887. 3. Mary Lucinda Graves Cromack, b. Aug. i, 1868; m.
Oct. 21, 1891, J. B. Cromack. P. O. address of all Greenfield,
Franklin county, Mass.
2781. V. AARON WESLEY, b. Oct. 31, 1837; m. Jennie S. Raymond and
Alice Bremen,
2782. vi. HARRIET LOVINA, b. Oct. i, 1826; m. Oct. 9, 1 866, Otis C.
Chittenden, of Leverett, Mass. Res. North Hadley, Mass. He
was b. March 4, 1815; d. s. p., Aug. 20 1892. Was a merchant
and postmaster.
1412^. NATHANIEL REED FIELD (Daniel, Daniel, Joshua, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Daniel and Mary, b. in
Bolton, Conn.; bap. April 8, 1784. He went to Tolland, Conn., where he learned
the tailors' trade. In 1804 he removed to Salisbury, Vt. ; later to Leicester, Vt.,
where he d. May 4, 1863. He m. in 1804 Ruth, dau. of Daniel and Millicent Noyes,
of Salisbury, b. in 1787; d. in Rutland, January, 1882, aged ninety-five.
2783. i. DANIEL GORDON, b. November, 1805; m. Elizabeth Towne.
2784. ii. WILLIAM MORTON, b. Sept. 5, 1813; m. Minerva K. Daven-
port.
2785. iii. FRANCES ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 9, 1819; m. 1834, Levi Briggs,
b. Bedford, Mass. He was sheriff of Rutland county, Vermont,
and d. in Rutland, She d. in 1883. Ch. : i. Delia June Briggs,
b. in 1837; m, Edward Hinds d. Ch. : (a) John Hinds, Ticon-
deroga, N. Y. 2. Clara F. Briggs, b. March 16, 1841 ; unm. Res.
Leicester Junction, Vt. 3. Henry Briggs, b. in 1844; d. .
4. Anna Louise, b. in 1848; m. M, L. Faulkner, Castleton, Vt.
1415. JOHN FIELD (David, Daniel, Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of David and Bettie (Squires), b. in Tolland, Conn.,
July 3, 1791; went with his father, in 1801, to Somers, Conn., where he d. May 6,
1876. He m. Nov. 13, 1815, Anna Gowdy, of Enfield, Conn., b. 1796; d. June 12,
1874.
2786. i. JOHN SHERMAN, b. Dec. 26, 1816; m. Mary S. Charter.
2787. ii. AMELIA A., b. October, 1818; m. Dec. 31, 1841, George S. Bil-
lings, of Somers, Conn.; d. March 15. 1874. Ch, : i. Edwin J.,
b. Nov. 8, 1843; m. Dec. 28, 1865, Ella S. May, b. October, 1847;
d. Feb. 14, 1892. He d. Middletown, Conn., Nov. 26, 1895. Was
a farmer. Ch. : (a) John E. Billings, b. April, 1870, in Somer-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 493
27SS.
111.
2789.
iv.
2790.
V.
ville, Conn ; m. Feb. 22, 1899. (b) Grace Hoffman; m., Feb. 22,
1S99. Res. Springfield, Mass. (c) George R., b. Jan. 9, 1869; ™-
Ellington, Conn., Jan. 24, 1894, Mrs. Annie E. (Raymond) Pratt,
b. Dee. 18, 1865. Res. Rockville, Conn. ; owns a steam laundry,
and is one of the town assessors.
MARTIN H., b. July 18, 1821; m. Harriet Kingsbury.
MARY A., b. May 29, 1823; m. "Wolcott Janes, of Bolton, Conn.
THEODORE D., b. Aug. 9, 1825; m. April 11, 1854; d. Aug. 13,
1895.
2791. vi. LUCENA A., b. Aug. 31, 1833; m. Nov. 27, 1850, John Parkhurst,
of Somers; removed to Pennsylvania. She d. Feb. 2, 1895.
2792. vii. EUGENE, b. July 4, 1836; m. Delinda McCann.
2793. viii. IRENE, b. July 4, 1836; m. Dec. 31, 1855, John Osborne, of Wind-
sor, Conn.
2794. ix. CHESTER, b. Nov. 22, 1843. He enlisted in Company K, Four-
teenth regiment Connecticut volunteers, and d. from wounds
received in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. — his eighth engage-
ment.
1417. DANIEL FIELD (David, Daniel. Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of David and Bettie (Squires), b. in Tolland,
Conn., Aug. 9, 1794; went with his father to Somers, Con., in 1801; in 1821 removed
to Springfield, Mass., where he d. June 11, 1831. He was employed in the United
States armory. He m. Oct. 12, 1815, Cherry, dau. of Asa and Hannah (Dibble)
Wood, of Somers, b. March 19, 1798; d. April 15, 1838.
2795. i. EMELINE, b. May 10, 1816; m. Dec. 20, 1838. Henry Hancock
Hulburt. He was b. Feb. 25, 1816; d. Sept. 7, 1891 ; was a
farmer. She resides 75 High St., Rockville, Conn. Ch. : i.
Charles Henry Hulburt, b. Aug. 8, 1839; m. Dec. 25, 1861. Res.
23 Pearl St., Norwich, Conn. 2. Emma Jane (Cady), b. Aug.
18, 1843; m. June 8, 1863. Res. 75 High St., Rockville, Conn.
3. Elizabeth Ann Hulburt, b. Nov. 20, 1845; d. Dec. 25, 1845.
4. George Daniel Hulburt, b. Jan. 11, 1848; m. Sept. 3, 1871; d.
Aug. 28, 1878. 5. Sarah Amelia (Parker), b. Sept. 5, 1852; m.
Jan. 17, 1874; d. Oct. 29, 1874. 6. Libbie Lucinda (Humes), b.
June 25, 1855: m. Dec. 25, 1871. Res. HazardviUe, Conn. 7.
Isadore Ellen (Collins), b. July 17, 1858; m. April 7, 1880; d. May
20, 1883.
DANIEL, b. March 8, 1818; d. June 8, 1818.
AURELIA, b. Jan. 25, 1820; m. Philo Fuller, of Somers.
LOREN, b. April 8, 1822; m. Mary Ann Deming and Mary A.
Cooley.
HENRY, b. Sept. 16, 1823.
CHESTER, b. Sept. 27, 1825; d. April 8, 1827.
ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 10, 1827: d. Dec. 7, 1845.
CHARLES W., b. Oct. 21, 1830; d. Aug. 22, 1836.
1419. CHESTER FIELD (David, Daniel Joshua, Samuel, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), son of David and Bettie (Squires), b. in Somers,
Conn., Aug. 9, 1802; d. Sept. 9, 1855. Hem. Nov. 27, 1850, Rhoda Tiffany, d.
Nov. 20, 1852; no issue.
1420. CHAUNCEY FIELD (David. Daniel, Joshua. Samuel, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of David and Bettie (Squires), b. in Somers,
2796.
11.
2797.
ill.
2798.
IV.
2799.
V.
2800.
VI.
2801.
vii.
2802.
viii.
494 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Conn., July 20, 1804; d. Feb. 14, 1871. He m. Dolly, dau of Peter and Polly Smith;
d. July 12, 1841,
2803. i. CHAUNCEY, b. .
2804. ii. RALPH, b. ; d Nov. 11, 1859,
1423-6. CAPTAIN FRANCIS FIELD (Francis, Nathaniel Joshua, Samuel,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Vermont; m. Diadema
Bolton; d in 1828; m., 2d, He was a farmer; was in the war of 1812. He d.
Jan. 15, 1864. Res. VermontviUe, Mich.
2804XA. HORACE BOLTON, b. May 8, 1824; m. Olive . He d.
September, 1892; a son Frank resides Gresham, Mich.
2804 >^. ii. MARINDA, b. Sept. 21, 1822; m. Nov. 14, 1839, Teachout.
Res. Cleveland, O.
2804^. iii. EMILY, b. April 28, 1819; m. July, 1838, C. B. Bostwick, b. April
I, 1800. He d. in 1864; m., 2d, John Phillips; he d. 1870, and
she m.. 3d, John McFarland. Res. Painesville, O. Ch. : Athalia
M. Guinn Erwin, and Julia M. Bostwick the last two deceased.
Athalia, b. 1840; m. in i860. Present name, Mrs. A. B. Turney.
Address, Painesville, O. Guinn E., b. March ig, 1845.
2804%. iv. ROBERT, b. ; d. .
2804 ?4:. V. NETTIE, b. ; d. .
2804%. vi. CHARLES BYRON, b. . Res. Petoskey, Mich.
2804-2. vii. EMILINE, b. . She d. Carson City, Mich., in 1882.
2804-3. viii. WAKELEY, b. . Res. Buffalo, N. Y. A son Daniel resides
St. Louis, Mo.
2804-4. ix. OSCAR A., b. June 29. 1847; m. Maria Lunsden.
2804-5. X. GEORGE ALBERT, b. . Killed at the battle of the Wilder-
ness in the Civil war.
1423-7. WILLIAM SYLVESTER FIELD (Francis, Nathaniel, Joshua, Sam-
uel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. May 29, 1791; m. Nel-
son, N. Y., March 20, 1817, Orphia Haskell, b. July 25, 1791; d. in 1833. He d.
Sept. 2, 1872. Res. Rochester, N. Y., and Dansville, Mich.
2804-6. i. HENRY HORACE, b. Aug. 12, 1819; m. Maria Anthony. Res.
Dansville, Mich.
2804-7. ii. FRANCIS HASKELL, b. Aug. 2, 1821 ; d. August, 1892.
2804-8. iii. WILLIAM LYSANDER, b. Jan. 7. 1828; m. and resides St.
Johns, Mich.
2S04-9. iv. ROSENA MALVINA, b. Sept. 22, 1829; m. May 2, 1852, Daniel
Marshall Patterson. Res. Conneaut, O. He was b. March 8,
1822; d. Nov. 22, 1892; was a marble and granite dealer. Ch. :
I. Charles F. Patterson, b. Feb. 26. 1B56; m. Sept. 4, 1873, Mary
A. Gibson. Res. Conneaut. 2. Mary Alice Patterson, b. July 11,
1853; d. Aug. 20, 1854. 3. Edward Hascal Patterson, b. July 30,
1858; last heard from Valparaiso, South America. 4. Sarah
Nellie Patterson, b. June 17, 1869; m. Bates, present name.
Res. Conneaut.
1423-9. ALBERT FIELD (Francis, Nathaniel, Joshua. Samuel, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Sunderland, Vt.. March 26, 1795; m.
Arcade, N. Y., June 24, 1824, Azubah Jackson, b. Feb. 11, 18 10. He was a farmer.
He d. Monroe, Ogle county. 111., Aug. 29, 1872. Res. Arcade, N.Y., and Monroe, 111.
2804-10. i. ALBERT, b. May 11, 1828; m. Lany M. Crill.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 495
1423-11. DOCTOR ABEL VVAKELEE FIELD (Francis. Nathaniel, Joshua,
Samuel, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Bennington, Vt.,
July 26, 1802; m. Gorham, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1826, Zilpha Witter, b. Nov. 22, 1802; d.
April 13, 1894. Abel Wakelee Field was born in Bennington, Vt. He was the
youngest of a family of ten children, of Francis and Naomi (Wakelee) Field. His
surviving family know but little of his early life, except that he received a good
common school education. He married Zilpha Witter, eldest daughter of Elijah
Witter, in the town of Gorham, Ontario county, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1826. To them
three children were born, Archelaus G., Orestes G. and James W. His occupation
was that of operator in the carding department of a woolen mill, in the meantime
pursuing the study of medicine, with the aid of such books and helps as he could
command. In the year 1838 he removed from Gorham, where he owned a small
home, with one acre of land, to Cataraugus county. New York, and from there by
way of raft on the Conewarigo and Ohio rivers to Ohio, where he settled in Darby
Plaines, and afterward in Amity, Madison county, in 1842, where he continued in a
fairly lucrative practice, until the time of his death, Aug. 2, 1851. His death was
tragic, having been accidentally (as is supposed) thrown from his sulky at night on
returning from a professional visit. He made no open profession of religion ; was
a Democrat in politics; was of social disposition, and had the esteem and respect
of the community where he lived. His surviving partner died April 13, 1896, aged
ninety-four years. He d. Aug. 2, 1851. Res. Gorham, N. Y., and West Canaan, O.
2804-11. i. ARCHELAUS G., b. Nov. 15, 1829: m. Harriet W. Weatherby.
2804-12. ii. ORESTES G., b. Jan. 19, 1832; m. Josephine Dille Latham.
2S04-13. iii. JAMES W., b. May 20, 1837; m. Mary Reynolds.
1425. HON. ORRIN FIELD (Elisha, Elisha, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Ruth (Kirkham), b. in
Cornwall, Vt., June 12, 1792; d. March 16, 1882. He was one of the leading men in
town, holding various town offices. He was also a military man, rising to the rank
of major, when he resigned. He held the office of justice of the peace for forty-six
years, and in 1880 was still in commission. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional church, in Cornwall, over fifty years; said he had trodden some crooked
paths, that were he to live his life over again he would try to straighten. He
represented the town of Cornwall m the legislature in the years 1856-57. He was
in the battle of Plattsburg, N. Y., Sept. 11, 18 14, starting from Cornwall upon an
hour's notice. Many of the men were without money for expenses ; he fortunately
had about $25, which he shared with his associates. He received a pension, and
said the back pay and what he had received amounted to about what he spent with
compound interest, and it was very acceptable in his old age. But three of the
company were living and in receipt of pensions in 1880. He attended the Centen-
nial celebration of the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1877, where his grandfather
and father participated. He m. March 22, 1815, Maria, dau. of John and Olive
(Caswell) Alvord, of Cornwall, b. May 17, 1797; d. March 13. 1826; m., 2d, Aug. 16,
1826, Hannah, dau. of Deacon Calvin and Euseba (Harwood) Drury, of Pittsford,
Vt., b. May 21, 1795; d. May 4, 1836; m., 3d, Oct. 20, 1836, Mrs. Almira (Scott)
Searl, dau. of Deacon Philips and Lois (Clark) Scott, of Bridport, Vt., b. Dec. 15,
1810; d. April 4, 1843; m-. 4th, Dec. 5. 1844, Rhoda, dau. of Abel and Rhoda
(Ormsbee) Weeks, widow of Solomon Weeks, of Cornwall, b. in Pawlet, Vt., July
II, 1798; d. May 31, 1884, s. p. The obituary notice was as follows: "Another of
the aged and esteemed citizens of Cornwall passed from this to another world, on
March i6th: Major Orrin Field, born June 12, 1792; and it seems but fitting that
when one who has reached such advanced age, and who has ever taken so much
496 FIELD GENEALOGY.
interest in the affairs of the town in which he lived lies down to his eternal rest, a
word should be spoken in his memory. In the death of Major Field his family has
lost a loving husband and an aflfectionate father, the church another of its aged mem •
bers, and the community a good neighbor and a faithful citizen. Always quiet and
unobtrusive in his manner, a man of gentleness and of few words, still he was one
whose influence for good was widely felt, because of his good judgment. He has
ever felt a deep interest in the good of his town, and has often in the course of his
long life been called to fill offices of trust by his fellow citizens. He has held the
office of justice of the peace for forty-eight years, which office he held at the time
of his death. It is seldom one sees a person so old as he was whose mental faculties
retain so much of their youthful vigor as did his. His memory extended over a
period of about eighty-seven years. He was remarkable for the cheerfulness of his
disposition. Almost to the day of his death he was hardly willing to admit that he
was growing old, or at least he would say that he did not feel much older than he
did fifty years ago. He took much pleasure in looking up facts of former days, and
for the past few years he has been engaged in studying up the genealogy of the
Field family. Had he lived till next June, he intended to have his children all come
home to celebrate with him his ninetieth birthday. Major Field was' one of those who
in the early days went to the call of his country to her defense. He was present at
the battle of Plattsburg, and as health permitted he was wont to go on the morning
of Decoration Day, and decorate the graves of the Revolutionary soldiers and those
of 1812. He represented his town in the legislature in 1856-57. For years he has
made it a practice to keep and publish a list of the deaths in town each year. Much
more might be added about his long and useful life if time and space permitted.
After a life of usefulness 'he came to his grave in full age, like as a shock of corn
cometh in his season.' "
"Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long,
E'en wondered at, because he dropped no sooner,
Fate seemed to wind him up for four score years.
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more,
Till like a clock worn out with beating time,
, The wheels of weary life at last stood still."
2805. i. JULIANA, b. Jan. 18, 1816; m. May 11, 1841, Col. John J. Hern-
don, of Laurenburg, N. C. They are both deceased. He was a
farmer and dentist; was m. in Rutherfordton, N. C, and was b.
March i, 1818, in Virginia; d. Laurenburg, N. C, April 5, 1881.
She d. Aug. 12, 1891. Ch. : i. Benjamin Orin Herndon, b. May
28, 1842; m. June 25, 1865, Elizabeth Adams. He d. Feb. 21,
1890. Ch. : (a) Lorena, d. Sept. 29, 1887. (b) William Thomas,
(c) Sarah Elizabeth. (d) Annie Cicely, (e) Mary Julina. (f)
Carrie. 2. Mary Maria Neal Herndon, b. Jan. 14, 1844; m. Feb.
23, 1871, Benjamm Franklin McGregor. Ch. : (a) John Arthur,
b. Feb. 14, 1872; m. Dec. 24, 1896. Ch. : (i) George Franklin,
(b) Bertie Frank Herndon, b. Jan. 14, 1884. 3. John Joseph Hern-
don, b. Cornwall, Vt. ; was a farmer, dentist and author, and
never married. Res. Conclane, N. C.
•- - 2806 ii. EVALINA PERMELIA, b. Feb. 24, 1818; m. July 24, 1839,
Abijah Abbott, of Cornwall. He was b. Sept. 23, 18 11, in Corn-
wall, Vt, ; d. Madison, Wis., March 23, 1886. She d. Jan. 28,
1886. Ch. : I. Helen M., b. Aug. 12, 1840; d. unm. June 21,
1891. 2. Martha E., b. Aug. 22, 1842; d. unm. Sept. 9, 1886. 3.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 497
Harriet, J., b. 1846; d. unm. 1S55. 4. Charles Field, b. Aug. 16,
1858; m. Sept. 28, 1880, E. Estelle Force, b. April 21, 1859. He
is a marble and granite dealer. Res. Madison, Wis. Ch. : (a)
George O. Abbott, b. Nov. 12, 1882; d. Nov. 24, 1890. (b) Ellis
P. Abbott, b. March 3, 1886. Res. Madison, Wis. (c) Eveline
P. Abbott, b. Jan. 5, 1888.
2807. iii. BENJAMIN S., b. Jan. 17, 1820; m. Emily Ellsworth and Harriet
H. Rowe.
2S08. iv. CAROLINE, b. Sept. 3, 1822; m. Sept. 8, 1841, William H. Lane,
of Burlington, Vt. They are both deceased. Ch. : i. Estelle,
b. ; m. Theodore F. Edgar. Res. Hotel Bartol, Huntington
Av., Boston, Mass. 2. William H., married twice; resides in
Burlington, Vt.
2809. V. GEORGE DRURY, b. June 9, 1827; d. Dec. 19, 1839.
2810. vi. ORRIN ALVORD, b. Jan. 19, 1831; d. Aug. 26, 1833.
2811. vii. HANNAH MARIA, b. Jan. 12, 1833; m. Sept. 11, 1855, Joseph H.
Burbank, of North Brookfield, Mass. Joseph Hearly was the
son of Benjamin Burbank, of Tyngsboro, Mass ; was b. Sept. 24,
1827. Res. North Brookfield, Ch. : i. Frank Orrin, b. Gales-
burg, 111., Nov. 29, 1859; d. North Brookfield, April 9, 1881.
"She has exerted herself to keep up with the family and their
doings. She is a fine, intelligent, grammatical conversationalist ;
acquired knowledge and language so easily through her eyes and
ears that it rendered her impatient of accurate plodding study,
which reveals itself in her case, as in others, behind the pen.
Indeed, I do not know whether or not she had the best advant-
ages educationally considered, but I am sure no one would think
otherwise to hear her in conversation. She is one of the best of
women, whole-souled, vivacious, animated, practical, intelligently
acquisitive and appreciative, with finest colloquial powers, but
unfortunately she is growing feeble with age, and has entirely
too much upon her in boarders, housekeeping, an invalid hus-
band, who has had a stroke of paralysis, and has suffered also
with softening of the brain, to give very much attention to writ-
ing. She has had a hard lot in this life, which would have
crushed others of less fortitude and force of character. Indeed, I
believe from what I have seen and known of the Field tamily,
that its members are possessed of an immense indominative will-
power and unswerving firmness, which largely sustains, supports
and comforts under the severe pressure of labor, trials, reverses
and afflictions."
2812. viii. ORRIN ALVORD, b. Aug. 22, 1834; m. Lenora Abigail Bingham.
2813. ix. HARRIET ALMIRA, b. Dec. 15, 1842; m. June i, 1862, Benjamin
F. Van Vliet, of Weybridge, Vt. Ch. :i. Benson Field, b. .
Res. 125 Bank St., Burlington, Vt.
1426. LUMAN FIELD (Elisha, Elisha, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John.
John, Richard, William, William), b. in Cornwall. Vt., March 28, 1794. He
removed, in 1834, to Galesburg, 111., where he d. Sept. 30, 1846. He m. Dec. 3,
1816, Abigail, dau. of Aaron and Sylvia (Brigham) Delong, of Cornwall, Vt.. b.
April 28, 1799; d. April 19, 1862.
2814. i. LUCINDA M., b. June 16, 1819; m. Aug. 3, 1837, William Heath,
498 FIELD GENEALOGY.
of Wataga, 111. Res. Galesburg. 111. Shed. July ri, 1899. "In
the death of Mrs. Lucinda Field Heath, Knox county loses
another old settler and a great host of relatives and dear friends
lose a loving companion. Her demise occurred at eight o'clock
this morning at the home ot her son, William, 1228 East Main
street. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at two
o'clock at the house. The remains will be interred in Hope cem-
etery beside those of the husband and children. Old age was the
cause of the death of Mrs. Field, as the past few years had been
for her remaruably healthy ones. Mrs. Heath was born June 16,
1819, at Cornwall, Addison county, Vt. In 1836 she removed
with her parents to Knoxville. There on Aug. 3, 1837, she was
united in marriage to William M. Heath, of that village. The
marriage is remarkable in the fact that it was the first marriage
ceremony performed in Knoxville. She and her husband moved
at once upon a farm near Center Point. There she lived for
twenty-eight years, when they moved to Wataga. Seven years
ago she came to Galesburg with her son and has made her home
here ever since. The husband died March 31, 1882. Eight chil-
dren were born to the couple and only two of them, James, of
Chicago, and William, of Galesburg, are living. Two of the
children died in infancy, Sidney F., died at Shenandoah. Iowa,
twenty years ago, and Mrs. Mary Armstrong died at Center Point
in 1874. Another son, Morgan L., who was a soldier in the war
for the Union, died at Springfield, 111., from wounds received.
One brother remains of the family, James D. Field, of Topeka,
Kan., and the late Loyal C. Field was at one time mayor of
Galesburg. A sister, Mrs. Fred Sisson, died in Peoria some years
ago. Mrs. Heath was of distinguished lineage. She was a grand-
daughter of Elisha Field, Jr., and the great granddaughter of
Elisha Field, Sr. Jeremiah Bingham and Elias De Long were
also relatives ot the family. All of these men fought through the
war of the Revolution, and were in the army commanded by
George Washington. By reason of her family connections she
became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was a member of the Chicago Chapter and was admitted to
membership Oct. 7, 1897. Her membership in this patriotic
society was the source of very great pleasure to Mrs. Heath and
she was very proud of her ancestry. The deceased was a mem-
ber of the Congregational church at Wataga for many years.
She was always prominent in the work of the church and as a
neighbor was interested in the welfare of those about her. Dur-
ing her last sickness Mrs. Heath was surrounded by the imme-
diate members of the family, and she was given every possible
attention. With her was Mrs. Harvey Millen, of Galva, a pro-
fessional nurse and an old friend of the family. Mrs. Heath had
a very wide circle of friends. Her long and continuous residence
in Knox county brought her within that circle which numbered
its parts by the hundred. She was an original member of the
Old Settlers society of the county, and was always interested in
its reunions and attended them. Up to the time of her death
her mind was particularly active and as she was^a great lover of
FIELD GENEALOGY. 499
story telling never failed to interest an audience with tales of the
early days in this country." — Galesburg Newspaper.
2815. ii. JANE LORINDA, b. March 14, 1822; m. October, 1840, James
Barry, of Galesburg, 111.; d. May 22, 1854.
2816. iii. LOYAL C, b. Feb. 29, 1824; m. Clara A. Davidson.
2817. iv. SYLVIA MARIA, b. Sept. 15, 1826: m. Oct. 9, 1849, George I.
Bergen. She d. Nov. 15, 1867. He was b. in Clary's Grove,
Dec. 31. 1827, and d. in Galesburg, Feb. 28, 1870. Ch. : i. Loyal
Harry Bergen (named changed to Harry Bergen Wheelock), b.
July 12, 1861; m. Monroe. Mich.. June 15, 1886, Irene Frances
Grosvenor, b. Nov. 10, 1861. He is an architect. Res. 1040
Hinman Av., Evanston. Chicago office, 228 La Salle St. Ch. :
(a) Harry Bergen Wheelock, b. Aug. 14, 1888; d. Aug. 21, 1888.
(b) Sara Grosvenor Wheelock, b. July 24, 1890. (c) Elliot Win-
throp Wheelock, b. June 17, 1896; d. March 8, 1897. (d) Bergen
Field Wheelock, b. March 14, 1894. 2. Mary Lincoln Bergen, b.
May 13, 1859; m- Jan. 25, 1881, Prof. C. C. K. Scoville. Res.
Seneca, Kans. He was b. Sept. 14, 1852; is an instructor in
music. Ch.: (a) Ella Josephine, b. Nov. 7, 1881. (b) France
Kennedy, b. Dec. 12, 1883. 3. Fred Grant Bergen, b. June 13,
1865; m. Aug. 5, 1889, May Mathews, b. Oct. 26, 1867. He is
cashier of the Citizen's State bank. Res. Seneca, Kans. Ch. :
(a) Fredecia Grace, b. June 23, 1890. 4. Frank Delong, b. March
13, 1856; d. Oct. 18, 1856. 5. George A,, b. Nov. 4, 1852; d.
Aug. 22, 1854.
2818. v. MARY ANN, b. Oct. 22, 1829; m. June 20, 1849, Frederick Plura-
mer Sissons, of Peoria, 111., b. Lebanon, Conn., May 14, 1824; d.
Dallas. Texas. Feb. 13. 1895. She d. May 9, 1884. Ch. : i.
William Justin, b. Nov. 5, 1854. Res. 517 E, Twelfth St., India-
napolis, Ind. He m. Jan. 12, 1887, Mary Fennemon. Ch. : (a)
Frederick Plumer Sisson, b. June 20, 1888. (b) Ella Sisson, b.
Aug. 22, 1890. 2. Mary Field, b. April 28, 1859; m- April 8, 1891,
Frank Trumbull. Res. 1439 Franklin St., Denver, Col. 3. Sarah,
b. Dec. 15, 1850; m. in Galesburg, III., Oct. 21, 1869, John M.
Wendelken. He was b. Oct. 31, 1842. Is general, southern
manager for the Emerson Manufacturing company, of Rockford.
111., makers of agricultural implements. They reside at 251
Cadiz St., Dallas, Texas. Ch. : i. Florence Sisson Wendelken,
b. Feb. 12, 1873; d. Aug. 13, 1873. ii. Frederick Sisson Wendel-
ken, b. June 19, 1874, 251 Cadiz St., Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Wen-
delken is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, a Colonial Dame of Massachusetts and Texas, and a member
of the New York Mayflower Society; eighth in descent from
Gov. William Bradford.
2819. vi. JAMES DELONG, b. July 3, 1833; m. Roxy B. Judson.
2820. vii. SARAH SELINA, b. March 11, 1844; m. 1862, Ralph Fitch, of
San Francisco, Cal.
1429. NORMAN FIELD (Elisha, Elisha, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Ruth (Kirkham), b. in Corn-
wall, Sept. 22, 1802. He was a farmer. He removed, in 1849, to Galesburg, 111,
and to Bangor, Wis., where he resided until he moved to Burns, Wis., where he d.
500 FIELD GENEALOGY.
March 24, 1886 He m. Jan. 28, 1834. Happalonia, dau. of Abraham and Lydia
(Stone) Chatterton. ot Whiting, Vt., b. 1807; d. Coin, Iowa, Oct. 7. 1892.
2821. i. RUTH ANN, b. May 9, 1835; m. June i, 1857, Charles W.
Fletcher, of Bangor, Wis.
2822. ii. LYDIA, b. Dec. 29, 1837; m. Justin Cisson, of Yreka, Cal. Res.
Cisson, Cal.
2823. lii. FRANCIS PARKER, b. Nov. 12, 1839.
2824. iv. STUKELY STONE, b. Feb. 27, 1845; m. Nellie Butler.
2825. V. CHARLES CARROLL, b. Jan. i. 1847; m. Adelia A. Marshall.
2826. vi. AMY, b. March 2, 1849; m. Edward Caldwell, of College Springs,
Iowa. Res. Coin, Iowa.
1430. ELISHA CARR FIELD (Elisha, Elisha, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John. Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Ruth (Kirkham), b. in
Cornwall, Vt., April 5, 1813. He moved to Galesburg, 111., where he now resides.
He m. May 6, 1849, Lovina, dau. of John D. Bartlette, of Knoxville, 111., b. in
Vermont, April 12, 1815.
2827. i. FRANCIS HIRAM, b. Aug. 31, 1850; d. Feb. 16, 1851.
2828. ii. CLARA KIRKHAM, b. Sept. 3, 1853; m. Feb. 24, 1874, William
Payne, of New Boston, 111. ; d. May 2, 18S0.
2829. ill. GEORGE HENRY, b. Nov. 25, 1861; d. May 8, 1880.
1437. THEODORE FIELD (Elijah, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tryphena (Cooley), b. in Sun-
derland, Mass., Sept. 22, 1788. He settled in Hawley, Mass., where he d. April 6,
1865. A farmer. He m. Jan. 22, 1814, Deborah, dau. of Isaac and Deborah Tobey,
of Hawley, b. New Salem, April 11, 1787; d. July 2, 1854. Theodore was a farmer,
and resided in Hawley from the age of six years till his death, April 16, 1865.
Although a man of irasible temper he was very religious. His belief in the letter
of the law was so great that he would never consent to having any picture or pho-
tograph made of himself, believing that it would break the commandment, "Thou
shalt not make to thyself any graven image or any likeness," etc. He raised a
large family of children, who were noted for their piety and intellect.
2830.
2831.
2832.
THOMAS CARTER, b. Aug. 7, 1814; m. Content Sanderson.
i. THEODORE TOBEY. b. Dec. 9, 1816; m. Mary A. Crittenden.
ii. DEBORAH, b. Sept. 9, 1818; m. Oct. i, 1845, Freeman Williams,
of Ashfield, now of Bernardston. He was b. Ashfield, Mass.^
Nov. 4, 1812; d. June 29, 18S7; a farmer. Ch. : i. Harris Wil-
liams, b. Sept. II, 1846; m. March 27, 1873, Eva J. Newton. Still
living at Bernardston, Mass., p. o., Athol. Ch. : (a) Annie May,
b. Jan. 22, 1S74; m. Jan. 17, 1894, W. J. Bolton, M. D. Res.
Athol, Mass. (b) Robert Newton, b. July 29, 1877; d. July 24,
1887. 2. Rufus Phillips; res. 86 Washington Av., North Cam-
bridge, Mass. He was b. Jan. 3, 185 1; m. in Boston, June 25,
1894, Lillian Walker, b. Aug. 6, 1854, s. p, Rufus Phillips Wil-
liams, teacher, scientist, author, b. Ashfield, Mass., Jan. 3, 1S51,
son of Freeman and Deborah (Field) Williams ; moved to Ber-
nardston, Mass., when nine years old, and worked on the farm,
going to school at odd times. Taught his first country school in
1870, Clarksburg, Mass. Believing that teaching was his forte
he prepared for college at Power's Institute, Bernardston, and
entered Dartmouth College in 1872, graduating in 1876. Took
postgraduate course at Harvard College in 1878-79, gaining the
FIELD GENEALOGY. 501
degree of A. M. Has been principal of schools in Lincoln, Pres-
ton, North Adams and Lynn, Mass., and Davenport, Iowa. He
accepted a position in 1883 i^^ the English High School, Boston,
Mass., where since 1885 he has been at the head of the chemical
department in this, one of the largest and best schools in the
country. He is author of "Chemical Science," "Laboratory
Manual," "Chemical Experiments," "Elements of Chemistry,"
etc. A total of twenty-eight editions of his books — nearly 200,000
volumes — were issued in America and England from 18S8 to
1899. Mr. Williams has been a member and prominent officer in
many scientific and educational organizations. 3. Mary Ann
Williams, b. Dec. 20, 1855; d. April 23, 1S94. 4. Robert Freeman
Williams, b. Jan. 3, 1858; d. Aug. i, 1869.
2833. iv. SAMUEL TOBY, b. April 20, 1S20; m. Sarah Howe Lamson and
Mrs. Susan E. (Smith) Loomis.
2534. V. CAROLINE, b. Oct. 31, 1S22; m. Rufus Phillips; m., 2d, Joshua
Williams, of Ashfield; d.s. p.
2535. vi. ROSAMOND, b. Oct. 31, 1822; m. Henry Weller. She d. August,
1867.
2836. vii. ELIJAH, b. Oct. 21, 1S24; m. Martha W. Mantor.
2S37. viii. EDMUND LONGLEY, b. July 27, 1831 ; m. Harriet W. Griswold.
1439. REV. PINDAR FIELD (Elijah, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elijah and Tryphena (Cooley),
b. in Sunderland, Mass., May i, 1794. He m. Ciffonette Le-Grass Wilton; m., 2d,
Mary Sewall, of Maine. No issue. Pindar Field was born in Sunderland, Mass.
He prepared for college with William Ferry, of Ashfield, and Rev. Moses Hallock,
of Plainfield, in his native state; entered Williams College in 1818, and continued
a member of it three years. In September. 1821, when Amherst College was
opened, he removed his relation to this institution, and with a classmate and one
other individual, formed the first Senior class. It fell to his lot that year to be the
first president of the Athenian Society, and to organize the "Theological Society,"
afterward called the "Society of Inquiry." Mr. Field was also the founder and
first superintendent of the first Sabbath school in Amherst. After graduation he
was a member of Andover Theological Seminary a year and a half, when he was
solicited to teach and preach among the Penobscot Indians in Maine. After
laboring in this way for some months, he was licensed at Bangor in December, 1824,
and continued still longer to preach in the new settlements along the Penobscot river.
In July, 1826, he was ordained as an evangelist in Madison, N. Y. ; in 1828 assisted
in organizing a Congregational church in Hamilton in the same state, and continued
in the ministry there four years. His first permanent settlement was at Oriskany
Falls, N. Y., where he was installed pastor of the Congregational church, Dec, 31,
1834. In this relation he continued about twelve years. After its close he was for
several years stated pastor of a number of churches in that part of the state, and in
almost all of them was largely instrumental in promoting revivals of religion.
During several of the last years of his life he was too feeble and infirm to have
charge of a church. Mr. Field's Christian character was above the ordinary type.
No one acquainted with him ever questioned his sincerity or the purity of his
motives. In his missionary and pastoral labors, he was most earnest to win his
hearers to Christ. His humility, his simplicity, his love for his fellow-men, and
his devotion to Christ, were all so apparent in his preaching and his intercourse
with others, that his efforts were almost everywhere blessed with great success. He
502 FIELD GENEALOGY.
died at Hamilton, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1873. He was three times married. His third
wife, Mrs. Mary M. (Cony) Field, survives him.
1441. EUGENE FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Rev. Joseph and Sabra (Emerson), b. in
Charlemont, Mass., May 7, 1800, where he resided on the old homestead of his
father; d. June 18, 1881; m. May 20, 1824, Abigail, dau. of Solomon and Huldah
(Hollo way) Hawks, of Shelburne, Mass., b. Feb. 12, 1798; d. Jan. 28, 1893.
Abigails., of Charlemont, 1891; insane; Helen E. Boltwood, of Evanston, 111.,
guardian, March 3, 1891, daughter and only child of Abigail, who is aged and
infirm. — Franklin County Probate.
2838. i. CHARLES EDWARD, b. Aug. 18, 1825; m. Caroline D. Smith.
2839. ii. HELEN AMELIA, b. May 2, 1828; d. Sept. 9, 1829.
2840. iii. HELEN EUGENIA, b. June 6, 1830; m. July 31, 1855, Henry L.
Boltwood, of Amherst, Mass. He was b. Amherst, Mass., Jan.
17, 1 831; was a teacher. Res. 121 8 Benson Av., Evanston, 111.
Ch. : I. Charles Edward Boltwood, b. April 25, 1856; d. Dec. 23,
1884.
2841. iv. THEODORE LYMAN, b. Aug. 8, 1832; d. April 7, 1833.
2842. V. EDWIN AUGUSTINE, b. Aug. 24, 1837; m. Mary Phillips.
1442. DOCTOR JOSEPH EMERSON FIELD (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph,
Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Rev. Joseph and
Sabra (Emerson), b. in Charlemont, Mass., Nov. 12, 1802. A physician. He went
to Texas and was a surgeon in the Mexican and Texan war, and escaped being
assassinated by the Mexicans and returned north. He was employed at the south
by the government during the war of the Rebellion, and since the war resided in
Mississippi and Florida. He m. Julia Jones, of Troy, N. Y. No issue.
1450. HON. ZEBINA FIELD (Paris, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph. Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Pans and Cynthia (Lee), b. in
Leverett, Mass., June 22, 1797. Resided in Benson, Vt., but returned to Leverett.
He was for twenty-one years a justice of the peace and a member of the State
Senate two years. He d. Oct. 14, 1879. He m. Nov. 19, 1821, Sophronia, dau. of
Dr. Abram and Martha (Field) Ball, of Amherst, b. Aug. 8, 1804; d. Jan. 28, 1899.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2843. i. MARTHA, b. March 29, 1823; d. July 5, 1859.
2844. ii. DAN, b. April 19, 1827; unm. Res. Leverett. Is a farmer and
surveyor.
2845. iii. ASA LEE, b. Sept. 15, 1828; d. Dec. i, 1846.
1452. SIMON COOLEY FIELD (Paris, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., May 7, 1799. He
settled, in 1825, in Newport. N. H. ; removed to Lowell, Mass., and d. there Nov.
22, 1877. He m. May 7, 1828, Martha Washington, dau. of Paul and Polly (Hunt)
Keith, of Newport, b. July 24, 1805: d. Dec. 2, 1882. Res. Lowell, Mass.
2846. i. ABBIE REED, b. Nov. 7, 1829; m. July 19, 1849, Philip S.
Mizaner. Res. 274 Salem St., Maiden, Mass. He was b. Dec.
28, 1820; is a pattern maker, s. p.
2847. ii. MARION GAGE, b. Jan. 5, 1832; m. May i, 1855, Daniel Sher-
wood, of Meredith Village, N. H. Res. 79 Vernon St.. Lowell,
Mass. He was b. England Feb. 12, 1831 ; d. Lowell, Mass., May
24, 1887. Inventor of and manufacturer of white lustral wire
ware. Ch, : i. Frank Jewett Sherwood, b. March 7, 1856; m.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 503
Feb. 23, 1888, Annie F. Carey, b. March 9, 1866, Lowell, Mass.
Ch. : Carey Sherwood, b. Aug. 11, 1890.
2848. iii. RHODA ANN, b. Dec. 18, 1833; m. Jan. 23. 1868. Dr. John T.
Smith, of Lowell, Mass. Res. 503.Sixth Av., West, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. He was b. May 3, 1835. J. T. Smith was b. in Indiana,
May 3, 1835; moved to Iowa in 1853; worked on a farm until he
was twenty-one; then went to school; studied medicine; entered
the service in 1861 as surgeon; served until 1865, since which time
has been engaged in fruit and stock raising. For the last five
years has not been engaged in active business. Ch. : i. Ralph
Field Smith, b. Aug. 18, 1871; m. 1893. Address, 503 Sixth Av.,
west. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2849. iv. SOPHIA CHILDS, b. Jan. 24, 1836; m. Feb. 16, 1871, David San-
ford Lyon. Res. 79 Bartlett, St., Lowell, Mass. He was b. Man-
chester, Me., May 20, 1822; d. July 22, 1878; was a farmer, s. p.
2850. v. LUCY WARD, b. April 6, 1838; m. Aug. 7, 1867, William P. Far-
rington, 556 Westford St., of Lowell, Mass. He was b. Mays,
1830. Is retired. Ch. : i. Milo Sherwood Farrington, b. Nov.
2, 1869; d. Oct. 31, 1879.
2851. vi. MARTHA LUCRETIA. b. Aug. 16. 1841 ; m. Dec. 31, 1864, Charles
P. Lord, of Lowell, Mass. She d. s. p., Oct. 4, 1883.
2852. vii. MARY ELVIRA, b. April 2, 1844; d. June 14, 1844.
1453. CAPTAIN ASA LEE FIELD (Pans, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Leverett, Mass., Aug. 17, 1800.
He was a captain of militia for several years, a leading man in town, holding vari-
ous town offices. A thorough business man and a successful farmer. He d. there
Aug. 3, 1885. He m. June 12, 1834, Mary Ward, dau. of Silas and Elizabeth (Wood-
bury) Field, of Leverett, b. Nov. 30, 1807; d. Feb. 25, 1883. Res. Leverett, Mass.
2853. i. GEORGE, b. March 29. 1835; m. Laura A. Bass.
2854. ii. SILAS, b. April i. 1837; d. s. p. July 3, 1898.
2855. iii. EDWARD, b. Jan. 25, 1839; m. Lucy A. Ashley.
2856. iv. MARY E., b. Sept. 26, 1841; d. unm. Nov. 10, 1877.
1457. CEPHAS FIELD (Paris, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Paris and Cynthia (Lee), b. in Leverett,
Mass., July 3, 18 14, where he d. Dec. i^ 1880. He m. Oct. 2. 1844, Editha, dau. of
Abram and Martha (Field) Ball, of Amherst, b. March 12, 1815; d. March 19, 1875.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
HOYT LEE, b. Oct. 12, 1845; d. Feb. 3, 1870.
EDITHA SOPHRONIA, b. Aug. 12, 1848.
LUCY REBECCA, b. Sept. 20. 1850; m. Fowler. Res.
Agawam.
2860. iv. NELLIE HARVILLA, b. March 12, 1856.
1461. HON. HARRISON OTIS FIELD (Silas, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Silas and Elizabeth
(Woodbury), b. in Leverett, Mass., Jan. 20, 18 10, where he resided a deacon in
the Congregational church. He represented the town in the legislature in 1873.
He d. Nov. 15, 1886. Was a farmer. He m. April 2, 1839, Eleanor, dau. of Josiah
and Ruth (Hagar) Pomeroy, of Leverett, b. in Hinsdale, N. H., May i, 1816; d.
July 7, 1895.
Harrison O., Leverett, 1886; widow, Eleanor; daughters, Sarah P., E. Maria.
2857-
2858.
11.
2859.
iii.
504 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2862.
it.
2863.
iii.
2864.
iv.
of Leverett, and Mrs. Tyler T. Clark, of Hawley; Stillman K. Field, administrator,
Dec. 7, 1886.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2S61. i. SARAH POMEROY, b, March i, 1842; m. Nov. 24, 1887, Charles
Henry Field, b. Benson, Vt., Jan. 20, 1827; d. March 3, iSgg.
He fir^t married Nancy Sophia Hobert, by whom he had William
H. Field, Worcester, Mass. ; Charles Mattoon Field, Uxbridge,
Mass; Mrs. Lewella (Field) Angevine, West Willington, Conn.
Mr.s. Sarah Pomeroy (Field) Field, resides, s. p., Leverett, Mass.
ELEANOR MARIA, b. June 26, 1845; unm. Res. Leverett.
HENRY HARRISON, b. July 14, 1849; d. Oct. 4, 1850.
EMILY EASTMAN, b. April 7, 1S52; m. Nov. 6, 1S79, Tyler T.
Clark, of Hawley. Two children.
1465. HON. ALDEN COOLEY FIELD (Elisha, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Persis
(Hubbard), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Aug. 8, 1807. He settled, in 1835, in Leverett,
where he d. Aug. 16, 1885. A manufacturer of woolen goods. He was a member
of the legislature in 1850 and 1858. He had been a justice of the peace since 1845,
and trial justice from 1862 to 1872. Had been selectman and assessor several years.
He m. May 6, 1836, Lucena, dau. of Asa and Clarissa (Eastman) Adams, of Shuts-
burg, Mass., b. 1816; d. May 13, 1837; m., 2d, Nov. 28, 1839, Caroline, dau. of Paris
and Cynthia (Lee) Field, of Leverett, b. Feb. 2, 18 12.
Alden C, of Leverett, will 1885; widow, Caroline; children, Ralph A. and
Carrie M. Field, both of Leverett. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2865. i. RALPH ADAMS, b. March 7, 1837; m. Mary Hobart.
2866. ii. LUCENA SOPHIA, b. Jan. 15, 1841; d. Sept. 13, 1855.
2867. iii. CAROLINE MATILDA, b. July 12, 1843; unm. Res. East Lev-
erett, Mass. For twenty-eight years she was a teacher, is now a
merchant.
1466. ELIJAH STRATTON FIELD (Elisha, Jonathan. Joseph, Joseph.
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Persis (Hub-
bard), b. in Sunderland, Mass., July 2, 1809. He settled, in 1834, in Moravia,
Cayuga county, N. Y. In 1857 he was appointed a keeper in the State Prison, at
Auburn, and removed there. In 1863 he was appointed by the sheriff jailor of Cay-
uga county. As he was about closing the-* prison on the evening of March 14, he
was struck with an iron bar by a prisoner named Albert E. Perry, and fell sense-
less. Perry rushed out into the kitchen, broke out a window, and escaped. Mr.
Field lingered until three o'clock Tuesday morning, March 18, 1873, when he expired.
The authorities were notified by another prisoner. Perry was afterward recaptured,
and sentenced for life at hard labor in the State Prison. He m. Oct. 9, 1835, Mary
W., dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Nettleton) Wright, of Deerfield, Mass., b. Feb.
3, 1813. She res. with her son, Henry P., in Louisville, Ky. Res. Auburn, N. Y.
2868. i. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 28, 1836; m. 1854. Edward D.
Parker, of Auburn, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 27, 1864,
2869. ii. LUCRETIA MARIA, b. Sept. 14, 1837.
2870. iii. HENRY PHILLIPS, b. Oct. 27, 1839; m. Mary Alexander.
2871. iv. MARTHA AMANDA, b. Nov. 15. 1841.
1469. JONATHAN SPENCER FIELD (Elisha, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William. William), son of Elisha and Persis (Hub-
bard), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Jan 3, 1816. He settled in Deerfield ; in 1872 removed
FIELD GENEALOGY. 505
to Montague, Mass., where he resided. He m. Dec. 30, 1846, Sarah, dau of Ben-
jamin and Sarah (Jenkins) Cobb, of Deerfield, b. March 15, 1818; d. Feb. 24, 1879.
He was a farmer. Res. Montague, Mass.
2872. i. EMMA ELIZA, b. Nov. 11, 1848; m. Nov. 11, 1867, James B.
Marsh, of Montague. He was b. March 8, 1844. Is a dry-goods
merchant, s. p.
2873. ii. ALICE COBB, b. Aug. 2, 1850; m. Feb. 10, 1875, Charles D.
Everett, of South Deerfield. He was b. Nov. 11, 1849;; d. April
9, 1897. Res. Montague, Mass. Ch. : i. Sarah Elsie Everett,
b. July 16, 1877. 2. Mabel Christine Everett, b. July i, 1882.
3. Marguerite Field Everett, b. Sept. 21, 1892.
2874. iii. ETTA LEE, b. Aug. 4, 1859; ™- Nov. 11, 18—, James B. Marsh.
of Montague.
2875. iv. LUCIUS SPENCER, b. Aug. 22, i86i; m. Nellie J. Raymond.
1473. ELISHA HUBBARD FIELD (Elisha, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Elisha and Persis (Hubbard),
b. in Deerfield, Mass., April 11, 1827. He settled, in 1854, in Worcester, Mass. ; in
1856 removed to Galesburg, 111., where he d. Nov. 25, i860. He m. April 20, 1854,
Nancy, dau. of Aretas and Nancy (Sanderson) Scott, of Whately, Mass., b. Sept.
25. 1834. She m., 2d, Horatio Rockwood, of Greenfield, Mass. Res. Galesburg,
111.
2876. i. CATHERINE M., b. Feb. 17, 1855; m. Dec. 2, 1873, Dr. Franklin
Dewey Beals, of Greenfield, Mass. He was b. Jan. 16, 1851; d.
March 9, 1897. Ch. : i. Elisha Rockwood, b. Nov. 5, 1875. Res.
10 Union St., Greenfield, Mass.
1475. DEACON HORACE WILEY FIELD (Walter, Jonathan, Joseph,
Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Walter and
Elizabeth (Wiley), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Jan. 10, 1814. He removed to Leverett,
where he resided, a deacon in the Congregational church, and farmer; d. Nov.
10, 1888. He m. Dec. 31, 1839, Elizabeth Miranda, dau. of Justin and Abigail
(Taylor) Hillman, of Conway, Mass., b. Conway, July 4, 1848; d. Hatfield, June
23, 1880. Res. Leverett, Mass.
2877. i. EDWIN WILEY, b. Jan. 29, 1841; m. Sarah Hall.
2878. ii. HENRY HILLMAN, b. Oct. 8, 1843; m. Marietta Wade.
1476. DEACON ABNER FIELD (Walter, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., Dec. 27,
1 8 16. He removed to Leverett, where he resided, a deacon in the Congregational
church, and a farmer. He m. Oct. 10, 1841, Wealthy J., dau. of John and Susan
(Taylor) Putney, of Goshen, Mass., b. Dec. 10, 1821: d. Sept. 19, 1882. He d. Feb.
13, 1893. Res. Leverett, Mass.
2879. i. MARIA ELIZABETH, b. July 19, 1844; m. May 19, 1869, Wil-
liam H. Ashley, of Leverett. He was b. Feb. 16, 1844. Is a
farmer. Ch. : i. Walter F., b. May 18, 1871. 2. Rose A., b.
Feb. 19, 1877; m. Sept. 6, 1895, William Briggs. 3. Harry W., b.
March 19, 1879. 4- Charles L., b. Jan. 15, 1882. 5. Susie L. , b.
Sept. 6, 1886. Postoffice address of all, Leverett, Mass.
2880. ii. HORACE WILEY, b. Jan. 24, 1846; m. Susan Hubbard.
2881. iii. CHARLES TAYLOR, b. Aug. 15, 1847- He enlisted May 29,
1864, in Company L, Second regiment Massachusetts Volunteer
Cavalry. He was taken sick with the measles at Vienna, Va., June
33
506 FIELD GENEALOGY.
4,1864, and sent to the United States Hospital, atTenallytown,Md.
After he recovered he assisted in taking care of the wounded. He
returned to his regiment in the winter of 1864-65, and went up the
valley of Virginia through Leesburg. He was badly wounded in
the foot at the battle of Five Forks, April i, 1865; while assisting
Lieut. S. F. Tucker, who was severely wounded, from the field,
while under a heavy fire from the enemy. He was honorably
discharged from Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C. for dis-
ability, June 16, 1865.
2882. iv. SUSAN ELECTA, b. July 5, 1849; m- March i, 1892, Moses Field.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
1478. FRANKLIN FIELD (Walter, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., March 21, 1820.
He removed, in 1866, to Montague, Mass., where he resided. Was a farmer. He
d. May 23, 1898. He m. Nov. 24, 1845, Alma, dau. of Aretas and Nancy (Sander-
son) Scott, of Whately, b. Nov. 30, 1822; d. May 7, 1892.
Alma S., Montague, Nov. 6, 1896; d. May 7, 1892; husband, Franklin Field;
children, Minnie S. Crafts and Nancy S. Field, of Montague, daughters ; Frank A.
and Fred E. Field, of Montague, sons.— Franklin County Probate.
Res. Montague, Mass.
2883. i. MINERVA SCOTT, b. June 25, 1S47; m. Nov. 28, 1868, Irving B.
Crafts, of Whately. Res. Montague, Mass. She was b. Oct. 11,
1844; d. Sept. 30, 1890. No children living.
2884. ii. FRANKLIN A., b. Jan. 20, 1851; m. Ruth W. Fuller.
;; 2885. iii. NANCY SCOTT, b. June 11, 1859; unm. Res. Montague, Mass.
2886. iv. FREDERICK E., b. Nov. 7, 1861; m. Rose M. Small.
1479. JOHN WILEY FIELD (Walter, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Sunderland, Mass., April 5, 1822.
He removed to Hatfield, Mass., where he resided until he moved to. North Amherst.
He m. Nov. 5, 1848, Julia Maria, dau. of Horace and Clarissa (Perry) Warren, of
Williamsburg, Mass., b. April 29, 1823; d. June 18, 1889. He d. Nov. n, 1897.
Res. Hatfield and North Amherst, Mass.
2887. i. FANNY ELIZABETH, b. April 17, 1851; d. January, 1853.
2888. ii. WILLIAM E., b. Jan. 20, 1853; d. Aug. 5, 1873.
2889. iii. GERTRUDE E., b. May. 8, 1855; m. May 4, 1878, Monroe P.
Marsh. Res. North Amherst, Mass. He is a farmer; was b.
Feb. 17, 1849. Ch. : i. Mary Warren Marsh, b. April 11, 188 1.
2. Charles Monroe, '^b. Dec. 22, 1885; d. Nov. 15, 1898.
2890. iv. WALTER P., b. Jan. 12, 1859; unm.
2891. v. JOHN CLIFFORD, b. Nov. 2, 1861; m. March 12, 1886, Alice G.
Plumb. Res. Northampton.
1481. WILLIAM WALTER FIELD (Walter, Jonathan, Joseph, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William) b. in, Sunderland, Mass.. Aug.
17, 1826. He settled in Whately, where he now, 1880 resides. Their silver wed-
ding was celebrated, where about one hundred relatives and friends attended, and
an address was given by James M. Crafts, Esq. , the genealogist of Whately. He
m. Dec. 25, 1853, Sarah, dau. of Rufus and Lucy (Morton) Sanderson, and wid. of
Silas B. Frary, of Whately, b. Sept. 2, 1826. Res. Whately and Conway, Mass.
2892. i. GEORGE DWIGHT, b. Sept. 16, 1855; m. Anna C. Hein and Ida
R. Ott.
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2893. ii. IDA CLARA, b. Jan. 28. 1857; m. Sept. 11, 1876, Charles Edwin
Bard well, of Whately. He was b. July 9, 1854. Is a farmer.
Ch. : I Fred Walter, b. Jan. 15, 1880.
1483. HON. CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD (Martin. Seth, Jonathan.
Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Newfane, Vt.,
April 24, 1803; m. July 29, i8a8, Julia Anne Kellogg, of Cooperstown, N. Y., dau.
of Silas, b. Oct. 6. 1809; d. April 9. 1886.
The Vermont Phoenix, ot Brattleboro, Vt., has this obituary: The well-known
form of Charles K. Field has passed from among us forever. For many months his
friends have been admonished by his faltering steps that the end was near, and his
own remarks have indicated that he was fully conscious of the fact; but when it was
reported that he was hopelessly ill, a feeling of sorrow settled over this community
which was greatly deepened by the intelligence of his death. Mere casual acquaint-
ances were often repelled by his somewhat rough exterior and blunt remarks, but
those who knew him intimately and looked through the surface into his heart,
esteemed and loved him. He came of a distinguished family, his lineage being
traceable to John Field, the astronomer, who was born in London about 1520. and
who died at Ardsley. England, about 1587. His grandson. Zechariah Field, came
to Massachusetts and settled in Dorchester about 1630, but a few years later moved
to Hartford, Conn., and died in Hatfield. Mass., in 1666. From him the line is easily
traced to Martin Field, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was bom in
Leverett, Mass., Feb. 12, 1773, graduated at Williams College in 1798, studied law
with his uncle. Lucms Hubbard, at Chester, Vt., and settled at Newfane at the
opening of this century. He was a man of rare natural ability, of varied and
extensive acquirements, and for thirty years was eminent in his profession and one
of the leading men of the state. His wife was sister of the late Hon. Daniel Kel-
logg, of this town. Their younger son, Roswell M. Field, was one of the most
brilliant and able men Vermont ever produced. He removed to St. Louis in 1839,
and soon became the compeer of the most eminent lawyers of the West. For many
years before his decease, in 1869, he was called the Nestor ot the Missouri bar.
Charles K. Field, the oldest son, was bom in Newfane, April 24, 1803. fitted for col-
lege at Amherst, Mass., enterec^ Middlebury College at the age of fifteen and grad-
uated in 1822. After studying law three years in the office of his father, he was
admitted to the bar ot this county and commenced the practice of his profession in
Newfane; in 1828 he removed to Wilmington, where he resided for ten years,
representing that town in the legislature in 1835-36-37-38; he was a delegate from
that town in the State Constitutional Convention in 1836. In 1838 he returned to
Newfane, where he resided until 1861, representing that town in the legislature in
1853-54-55-60, and also representing it m the Constitutional Convention in 1843-50-57.
In 1 861 he moved to this town, where he has since resided. He was elected a
member of the Council of Censors in 1869, and chosen president thereof at its first
session, and in 1870 represented Brattleboro in the Constitutional Convention. Thus
it will be seen that he had large experience in legislative bodies, where he always
exerted great influence and did much toward shaping the legislation of the state.
Mr. Field inherited many of his father's characteristics, especially his sarcasm,
humor and faculty for relating stories, of which he possessed an inexhaustible store.
He was a great reader, and the best ancient and modem authors were as familiar
to him as were his village neighbors. His memory was wonderful ; he remembered
all of value that he ever read or heard, and had it at instant command; this, with
his quick perception, originality, powers of description, wit and humor, made him a
most entertaining man in conversation, a brilliant public speaker and a formidable
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adversary in forensic debate. His judgment of men was unerring; a distinguished
jurist of this state once said of him that it made little difference what men said to
him, he seemed to look right mto their minds and read their real thoughts. He was
a skillful lawyer, few men wielding a keener rapier than he, and he apparently
possessed every requisite of a most effective jury advocate ; but though he always
commanded a large practice, he mainly left the trial of jury cases to others, regard-
ing that as an uncertain and unsatisfactory field of enterprise. He was widely
known throughout this state, and highly regarded for his brilliant abilities. He
possessed a kind, sympathetic heart, retained the strongest attachment for his
friends, and was an honest man. He was the last of that generation of men com-
posed of the Bradleys, the Kelloggs, the Shafters and the Fields, who for more than
half a century gave eminence to the bar of Wildham county, and whose names will
always shine in the galaxy of Vermont's distinguished men. Mr. Field was married
in 1828 to Julia A. Kellogg, of Cooperstown, N. Y., who survives him ; he leaves
three children, Mrs. E. P. Jewett and Henry K. Field, of Montpelier and Mrs. H. C.
Willard of this town.
He d. Sept. 18. 1880. Res. Brattleboro, Vt.
2894. i. JULIA KELLOGG, b. Oct. 14, 1829; m. Jan. 15, 1861, Elisha
Payne Jewett, of Monpelier. He was b, Lebanon, N. H., 1801;
d. Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 19, 1894. Was a banker, She d. Dec.
30, 1890. Ch. : I. Ruth Payne, b. Oct. 11, 1865; m. Sept. 2,
1885, Prof. John W. Burgess. Res. 323 West 57th St., New
York, N. Y. He is professor of law in Columbia University.
Was b. Aug. 26, 1844. Ch. (a) Elisha Payne Jewett Burgess.
He (Prof. Burgess) was b. in Conersville, Tenn. ; attended Cum-
berland University, Lebanon, Tenn. ; was graduated at Amherst
College, 1867 (Ph.D., LL. D.); was admitted to the bar at
Springfield, Mass., in 1869; was professor of English literature
and political economy at Knox College, 1869-71; studied history,
public law and political science at Gottingen. Leipzig and Ber-
lin 1871-73; became professor of history and political science
Amherst, 1873-76, and since 1876 professor of political science and
constitutional law and dean of the faculty of political science at
Columbia. He has published the following: Political Science
and Comparative Constitutional Law; The Middle Period; and
many essays on historical, political and legal subjects, in the
Political Science Quarterly and other magazines.
2895. ii. MARTIN, b. April 24, 1831; d. Sept. 3, 1861.
2896. iii, ESTHER SOPHIA, b. Jan. 5, 1834; d. April 17, 1837.
2897. iv. MARY HUBBARD, b. Aug. 5, 1839; m. June i. 1868, Henry C.
Willard, of Brattleboro. Res. Greenfield. He was b. March 22,
1836, in Greenfield, Mass. Is a druggist. Ch. : i. David Wil-
lard, b. March 2, 1871, at Brattleboro. Present address, Univers-
ity Settlement, 184 Eldridge St., New York City.
2898. V. HENRY K., b. June 3, 1848; m. Kate L. Daniels.
1485. HON. ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD (Martin, Seth, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Newfane, Vt., Feb. 22,
1S07; m. St. Louis, Mo., May 30, 1848, Frances Maria Reed, of St. Louis, Mo.,
b. Newfane, Vt., June 2, 1806 ;d. Nov. 18, 1856, dau. of Merrill and Sally (Townsley).
Roswell Martin Field, son of Gen, Field, was b. in Newfane, Vt. ; d. at
St. Louis, Mo., aged 62 years. He fitted for college with Rev. Luke Whitcomb, of
HON. CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD.
See page 507.
HOS. ROSWELL MARTIN FIELD.
See page 508.
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Townshend, Vt., and entered Middlebury College in the autumn of 1818, at eleven
years of age. Graduating in 1822, he studied law with Hon. Daniel Kellogg, of
Rockingham, Vt., and was admitted to practice in September, 1825, at eighteen
years of age. He practised law in Windham county from 1825 to 1839, when he
removed to St. Louis, where he remained until his death. He represented the
town of Newfane in the General Assembly of the State during the years 1835 and
1836. He was elected state's attorney for Windham county in 1832, 1833, 1834 and
1835. While a member of the Legislature in 1835, he wrote an able report in favor
of abrogating the rule of the common law excluding atheists from giving testimony
in courts of justice. The proposition failed of adoption, but in 1851 it was renewed
by Hon. Loyal C. Kellogg, of Benson, then a member of the House of Represent-
atives, and passed into a law. Since that period "no person is deemed incompetent
as a witness in any court matter or proceeding on account of his opinions on mat-
ters of religious belief." The special pleas which he drew and filed in the libel suit
of Torrey vs. Field, reported in the tenth volume of Vermont Reports, were
declared by Judge Story to be masterpieces of special pleading. These contribu-
tions, with the exception of a multitude of briefs in cases reported in the Vermont
and Missouri reports, are all the memorials of his learning that are left. He was a
finished scholar, and read Greek, Latin, French, German and Spanish, besides
having an extensive acquaintance with English literature and general science. He
could speak with great fluency, not only French, but German. He was frequently
employed in suits by reason of his great familiarity with foreign languages, for the
mere purpose of correcting any errors of interpreters in their translations of the
testimony of foreigners who could not speak English, and whose evidence was
necessarily communicated to a court and jury by an interpreter. It was as a lawyer
that he won his greatest distinction. When he went to St. Louis in 1839, he had to
contend with such men as Benton, Gamble and'^Bates. To none of these was he
second in legal attainment, sound judgment and keen foresight. As an advocate
he was eloquent, and as a lawyer, learned. His attainments were of that solid char-
acter that they served him upon every professional emergency. His first distinction
at the bar was obtained in cases involving the intricate old Spanish claims, which he
mastered at an early day. His opinions always had great weight in the superior
courts of the State, and at the time of his decease he was esteemed as the ablest
lawyer at the Missouri bar. By the junior members of the profession he was
regarded as an oracle, and freely gave advice to all young lawyers who sought his
counsel. He cheerfully and readily aided young men of talent and worth whom he
found struggling for success and position against poverty and adversity. He
gained a national reputation in the famous Dred Scott case, which he started and
carried on until the appeal was entered in the United States Supreme Court, when
he turned it over to Montgomery Blair, then residing at Washington. In the dark
days of the Rebellion, during the years 1861 and 1862, when the friends of the
Union in St. Louis and Missouri felt that they were in imminent danger of being
driven from their homes and their estates confiscated by rebels and traitors. Gen-
eral Lyon, General Blair and R. M. Field were among the calm, loyal and patriotic
men who influenced public action and saved the city and State. In his social rela-
tions he was a genial and entertaining companion, unsurpassed in conversational
powers, delighting in witty and sarcastic observations and epigrammatic sentences.
He was elegant in his manners, and bland and refined in his deportment.
He was a skilful musician, and passionately fond of children, and it was
his wont in early life to gather them in groups about him and beguile
them by the hour with the music of the flute or violin. He was confiding
and generous to a fault, but for a few years before his decease he became
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reserved and distrustful, had but few intimate associates, and mingled but little in
general society, for his confidence had been violated, his generosity abused, and his
charities wasted. He was utterly devoid of all ambition for power and place, and
he uniformly declined all offers of advancement to the highest judicial honors of the
State. Judge Hamilton, of the Circuit Court of St. Louis, in his address to the
bar, suggests of him that "he was always under the controlling influence of princi-
ple, faithful towards his clients, honorable and upright with his professional
brethren, and in all his relations, social, political and professional, frank and
sincere to a fault. His heart was warm with the sweetest charities of humanity,
and his friendships were as enduring as life itself." His proficiency in other walks
of learning than the law would have rendered him remarkable if he had been unac-
quainted with jurisprudence. It was the accuracy, no less than the extent of his
knowledge, which distinguished him above those around him. He seemed to have
mastered the principles, the foundation of every subject with which he claimed any
familiarity, and it was part of his nature to claim nothing to which his title was
not perfect. He never used words without appropriate ideas annexed to them.
Nothing of the kind of knowledge which remembers the rule, but leaves forgotten
or never knew the reason of the rule. His scholarship was critical and exact.
He made the perusal of the Greek and Latin classics his most delightful pastime.
In fact, he resorted to this and scientific research, particularly in the department of
pure mathematics, for his chief mental recreation. It is greatly to be regretted that
he neglected to combine, with his cessations from professional labor, some employ-
ment which would have revived and strengthened his physical frame. He was
averse to active exercise, and for some years before his death he lived a life of
studious seclusion which would have been philosophical had he not violated, in the
little care he took of his health, one of the most important lessons which philosophy
teaches. At a comparatively early age he died of physical exhaustion, a deteriora-
tion of the bodily organs, and an incapacity on their part to discharge the vital
functions, a wearing out of the machine before the end of the term for which its
duration was designed. The defects of his character were due to a complete
absence of the incentive to exertion which rivalry causes. It is obvious to all who
read this slight censure, how unassailable is the man of whom it can be said that
his principal defects arise from a want of one of the weaknesses of humanity. He
was eminently qualified to serve as well as to adorn society, and in all likelihood he
would have found in a greater variety of occupation some relief from the monoto-
nous strain under which his energies prematurely gave way. He possessed in full
measure the capacity for rendering this service, but unfortunately he shrank from
offering himself for its performance. It is not a paradox to say that if he had been
more covetous of gain and of fame, more susceptible to the spur of emulation, and
less firmly persuaded of the things ordinarily proposed as the reward of ambition,
his life would have been happier and more useful to mankind. If he had possessed
more ambition, his reputation would have been national, and he would have
ranked among the most distinguished lawyers of the country. At a session of the
Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, soon after the decease of Mr. Field, Samuel
Knox, Esq. , a member of the bar, suggested to the court that it had lost an able
and faithful counselor and its highest ornament in the death of Mr. Field. He was
so modest in all his greatness, said Mr. Knox, as never to excite envy, so varied in
his gifts, so extended his attainments, so wide his range of thought, that no person
in his society could experience anything but pleasure, in his conversation anything
but profit and delight. Uniting great industry and acquirements with the most
brilliant wit and genius, well and accurately informed on all subjects, both in
science and the arts, endowed with a memory that retained whatever it received.
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with quick and clear perceptions, the choicest, most felicitous and forcible language
in which to clothe his thoughts, no one could doubt his meaning or withhold the
tribute of wonder at his power. His statements were always terse and clear, his
arguments cogent and logical, his conclusions difficult to evade. In a long and
eventful professional life, no charge of duplicity or unfairness, no cunning trick, no
suspicion of dishonor ever tarnished his fair fame, or raised the slightest doubt of
the highest professional honor and personal integrity. One thus distinguished is
no ordinary loss — a loss to the court, to the profession, to the community in which
he lived. Mr. Knox then offered the report of a committee, appointed by the St.
Louis bar, at a meeting called to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of Mr.
Field, and moved that the report be entered upon the records of the court, "an
enduring memorial of the love and regard ot the members of the St. Louis bar for
their departed brother." Judge Wagner, in behalf ot the court, responded as fol-
lows:
"The members of this court have heard with the deepest regret of the death
of R. M. Field, and the warm and deserved tribute which has just been paid to his
memory receives an assenting response from the hearts of all those who knew him.
On the decease ot our lamented friend and brother, the bar of Missouri has lost
one of its brightest ornaments. To a naturally keen, vigorous and analytical mind,
he added a thorough mastery of legal principles combined with high scholarly
attainments. Perhaps no man at the bar of this State ever brought to the consid-
eration of any question a greater amount of exact legal learning or clothed it with
a more impressive and attractive logic. When he gave the great energies and
powers of his mind to a cause, he exhausted all the learning to be had on the sub-
ject. He studied law as a science and delighted to examine its harmonious struc-
ture and explore its philosophic principles. So deeply was he imbued with its true
spirit, and so great was his reverence for its excellence, that he maintained them
with the most jealous regard and would sooner have failed in success than have
won a cause by trenching upon a sound legal rule. He made no parade of learn-
ing, and in his social intercourse he had a childlike simplicity. With his profes-
sional brethren he was full of courtesy and kindness, and his whole conduct was
marked by entire integrity and perfect truth. He adorned every circle in which he
moved, and so beautiful was his life in all its relations that he won and enjoyed the
esteem and regard of all who knew him. It is fit and proper that the death of such
a man should be marked by all the honors which we can pay to his memory. It is
just that we should pay this last tribute as an evidence of our appreciation of his
great abilities and exalted virtues. It is therefore ordered that the report of the
proceedings of the bar, which have been presented, be entered of record on the
minutes of this court, and out of respect for his memory it will be further ordered
that this court do now adjourn."
He d. July 12, 1869. Res. St. Louis, Mo.
THEODORE FRENCH, b. 1849; d. in infancy.
EUGENE, b. Sept. 2, 1850; m. Julia S. Comstock.
ROSWELL MARTIN, b. Sept. i, 1851 ; m. Henrietta Dexter.
BRADLEY, b. 1852; d. in infancy.
CHARLES KELLOGG, b. 1854; d. young.
FRANCES VICTORIA, b. 1S56; d. Jan. 18, 1857.
1487. CUTLER field; (Spencer, Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Spencer and Hannah (Cutler), b. in Rich-
field, N. Y., July 4, 1809. He studied law in the office of Hon. Joshua Spencer, of
Utica, N. Y. He settled in Cooperstown. Otsego county, N. Y. ; from there he
2899.
i.
2900.
11.
2901.
111.
2902.
IV.
2903.
V.
2904.
VI.
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removed to the city of New York, where he d. July 13, 1858. He m., April 13,
1834, Maria E. Davenport, b. 1815; d. April 12, 1837; m., 2d, April 12, 1845, MaryW.,
dau. of William A. and Abby Ann (Strong) Cook, b. April 15, 1823; she m., 2d,
Jerome A. Clark, of Batavia, N. Y. ; d. May 10. 1869; no issue.
1488. SETH FIELD (Spencer, Seth, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John, John,
Richard, William, William), son of Spencer and Hannah (Cutler), b. in Richfield,
N. v., Aug. 2, 1812. He settled in Cooperstown, N. Y., where he resided. He
was elected, in 1852, sheriff of Otsego county for three years, the constitutional limit
until a space of three years had elapsed. He m. 1835, Lucy Ann Conant, b. Sept.
10, 1813. Res. Cooperstown, N. Y.
2905. i. MARY JANE, b. Dec. 27, 1842; d. May 8, 1843.
2906. ii. GEORGE SPENCER, b. Feb. 22, 1846.
1494. CALVIN FIELD (Luther.'William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), son of Luther and Beulah (Broad), b. in
Leverett, Mass., 1804, where he d. Sept, 20, 1846. He m. 1843, Tamar Aldrich, of
Bernardston, Mass.
Calvin, of Leverett, Oct. 3, 1846, filed. Wife, Climena T. Speaks of child; name
not given. Witnessed by Asa L. and Harrison O. Field. — Franklin County
Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2707. i. FOWLER, b. Jan. 3, 1845; d. Aug. 29, 1846.
1499. STILLMAN FIELD (Erastus, William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Erastus and Salome (Ashley), b. in
Leverett, Mass., Dec. 28, 1802; d. May 22, 1878. A farmer. He m. Dec. 20, 1832,
Arvilla, dau. of Lucius and Virtue (Ashley) Field, of Leverett, b, Nov. 5, 1807; d.
June 17, 1883.
Arvilla Field, Leverett, 1883. No husband. Daughters, Cynthia B. Field,
Ellen V. Wells. Son, H. Addison Field, All of Leverett. Two children of Lauretta
Hayward, late of South Amherst.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2908. i. ELLEN VIRTUE, b. Jan. 12, 1835; m, Dec. 20, 1844. J. S. Wells,
of Fairfield, Ohio.
2909. ii. LUCIUS, b. Oct. 17, 1837. He enlisted in Company — , Second
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; was with his regiment in
Louisiana; d. from disease contracted in the service after his
return to Hatfield, Aug. 17, 1863.
2910. iii. CYNTHIA BARDWELL, b. Aug. 5, 1839. Cynthia B., ot Lev-
erett, July I, 1897. Died May 28, 1897. Sister, Ellen V. Wells.
Nephew, Canez S. Hayward. Cousins, Mary L. Morgan, Henri-
etta Field. To Miss Ida, daughter of Wm. and Elizabeth Field,
$25. — Franklin County Probate.
2911. iv. LAURETTA ASHLEY, b. Oct. 18. 1841 ; m. Jan. 20, 1869, C. E.
Hayward, of Amherst; d. May 27, 1876.
2912. V. HENRY COLEMAN, b. June 16, 1843; d. May 3, 1844.
2813. vi. HENRY ADDISON, b. Feb. 3, 1845. Henry Addison, Leverett,
Oct. 4, 1892. Died Jan. 8, 1892. Next of kin, sister Cynthia B.
Field, of Leverett; Mrs. Ellen V. Wells, of Springfield. Brother-
in-law, Chas. E. Hayward, and nephew, S. Carey Hayward, both
ot South Amherst. — Franklin County Probate.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 513
1500. ERASTUS SALISBURY FIELD (Erastus. William, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, "William, William), son of Erastus and Salome
(Ashley), b. in Leverett, Mass., May 19, 1805. He m. Dec. 29, 1831, Phoebe Oilman,
of Springfield, Mass., dau. of David and Phoebe, b. Oct. i, 1807; d. Aug. 14, 1859.
He is an artist, and has made a specialty of portrait painting. The pictures of Caleb
Hubbard and wife contained in the History of Sunderland are reproductions of his
work. Res. Leverett, Mass.
2914. i. HENRIETTA, b. Nov. 6, 1832; res., unm., Monson.
1502. PHINEHAS FIELD (Erastus, William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Erastus and Salome (Ashley), b. in
Leverett, Mass., March 13, 1&09. He removed in 1855 to North Hadley. Mass.,
where he d. Dec. 28, 1877 (State Records say Oct. 25). He m. Nov. 27, 1834,
Thankful Matilda, dau. of Deacon Silas and Mary E. (Woodbury) Field, of Leverett,
b. April 25, 1812. Hadley is one of the old mother towns of the Connecticut valley,
and has a long and interesting history. A large mass ot information concerning its
settlement and its connection with the Indian war has been given. The settlement
was commenced in 1659 by a company of persons residing in Hartford, Wethersfield
and Windsor, m Connecticut. The company held a meeting at the house of
Nathaniel Ward, one of the company, in Hartford, on April 18, 1659, where fifty-
nine and one set down as ''not fully engaged" signed an agreement for their
mutual regulation and government, pledging themselves to remove to the planta-
tions ' 'purchased of the Indians at Nolwotogg, on the east side of Connecticut,
beside Northampton," as early as Sept. 29 of the following year; to pay their
several proportions of the land purchased, as well as for the purchase of Hockanum,
"which had been mortgaged by the Indians to Joseph Parsons of Northampton;" to
raise all common charges by assessments upon the lands taken up by the company,
and not to sell their land until they had lived in the town for three years, and, after-
wards, to none but such as the town should approve. It was also agreed that those
who went up within three weeks from that time should have their choice in lots,
provided they took them together. On Nov. 22, 1659, a committee of seven, chosen
for the purpose, made an assessment of 180 pounds to pay for land and the minis-
ter's maintenance. Res. Hadley, Mass.
EDWARD, b. Nov. 11, 1835; d. Aug. 9, 1837.
HENRY, b. July 19, 1838; d. Oct. i, 1838.
AUSTIN, b, Feb. 11, 1840; m. Orphelia M. Field.
CLARISSA, b. Sept. 19, 1843; d. Nov. 28, 1864.
MATILDA, b. Nov. 5, 1845; d. Oct. 23, 1846.
ADIN WILMARTH, b. Dec. 13, 1853; m. Lucinda Pratt.
1506. HON. FREDERICK W. FIELD (Heman, William, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Leverett, Mass., Jan.
20, 1819; m. May 14, 1843, Caroline Adams, dau. of Ransom and Dolly (Keet),
b. Oct. 20, 1819; d. March 3, i860; m., 2d, Auburn, Mass., Nov. 20, 1861, Sarah M.
Rice, b. Aug. 30, 1839. dau. of Compact and Prudence (Wood).
Frederick W. Field, b. at Leverett, Mass., son of Heman Field and Achsah
Abbott; was m. at Leverett, Mass., to Caroline Adams, dau. of Capt. Ransom
Adams, of Leverett; she d., and he m. Sarah M. Rice, at Auburn, Mass.; both are
now living at Leverett. Occupation, farmer. Was a member of the General Court
of Massachusetts, session of 1868, and has frequently held oflBces in the town of
Leverett. Ch. : By his first wife— William Fred Field, Leverett, Mass.; and
Heman H. Field, Chicago, 111. By his second wife — Fannie M., wife of Brainard C.
2915.
2916.
11.
2917.
111.
2918.
IV.
2919.
V.
2920.
VI.
514 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2921.
1.
2922.
11.
2923.
111.
2924.
iv.
2925.
V.
2926.
vi.
Field, Worcester, Mass. ; Lucia M. Field, Leverett, Mass. ; Henry J. Field, Green-
field, Mass., and Judson L. Field, Chicago, 111.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
WILLIAM FRED, b. April 11, 1855; unm. ; res. Leverett.
HEM AN H., b. May 17, 1857; m. Mintie G. Steams.
FANNIE J., b. May 3, 1864; m. July 25, 1883, Brainard C. Field;
res. 202 Beacon street, Worcester, Mass.
LUCIA M., b. Jan. 26, 1869; unm. ; res. Leverett.
HENRY J., b. May 11, 1870; m. Myrtle Brown.
JUDSON L., b. Oct. 8, 1871 ; m. Elizabeth Peck Field.
1509. EDWIN G. FIELD (Heman, William, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Heman and Achsah (Abbott), b. in
Leverett, Mass., March 24, 1823. He removed to Amherst, where he resided until
he moved to Worcester. An insurance agent. He d. September, 1899. He m.
Sept. 20, 1843, Nancy S., dau. of Salmon and Susan G. Clark, of Sunderland, Mass.,
b. Nov. 5, 1822; d. May 14, 1885. The Worcester Spy says: "As the result of heat
prostration Friday, Edwin G. Field, one of the oldest insurance men in this city,
died Tuesday morning at his home, 39 Richards street, aged 76 years. He was
born in Leverett March 24, 1823. After an education in the public schools and
academy near his native town, he went to Amherst, and in 1865 was installed in
the insurance business in that town. In 1877 he came to this city and continued in
business. For the past nine years he had an office in the Clark building. His wife
died in 1885, and his only son, A. Carey Field, teacher in Worcester High School,
died five years later. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Edward P. Ingraham." Res.
Amherst and Worcester, Mass.
2927. i. AUSTIN CAREY, b. April 14, 1850; m. Mary Barnes.
2928. ii. EDWIN FAYETTE, b. Oct. 26, 1852; d. Aug. 12, 1874.
2929. iii. ROSA EVA, b. Aug. 25, 1858; m. June 23, 1884, Edward P. Ingra-
ham ; res. Worcester, Mass. He was son of Emery Dexter and
Martha (Preston) Ingraham. Ch. : i. Winnifred Rose, b. March
17, 1889.
1 51 1. WILLIAM D WIGHT FIELD (William, William, Jonathan. Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of William and Roxana M.
(Kellogg), b. in Leverett, Mass., July 22, 1823. He settled in Ware, Mass. In 1852
removed to Washington, D. C. ; in 1854 to Springfield, Mass. ; in 1858 returned to
Ware; in 1879 was in Albany, N. Y. ; in 1882 in Hotel Warwick, Springfield. He
d. Nov. 28, 1883, in West Springfield. He m. May 2, 1849, Carrie, dau. of Cyrus V.
and Nancy (Ricliardson) French, of Barnard, Vt., b. Nov. i, 1825. She res. 33
Alaska street, Roxbury, Mass. He was quite a popular hotel man, having been
connected with the United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, Willard's, Washing-
ton, and in New York; also twelve years at the Delevan, Albany, N. Y. Res.
Springfield, Mass.
2930. i. EMMA MARIA, b. April 21, 1851; unm.; res. 22 Alaska street.
Roxbury, Mass.
2931. ii. ANNA DWIGHT, b. Oct 29, 1852; m. Oct. 8, 1874. Lewis H.
Parkhurst, of Boston.
2932. iii. GEORGE PARKER, b. Aug. 20, 1854.
2933. iv. ABBA WILLARD, b. Dec. 12, 1859.
1512. CHARLES HENRY FIELD (William, William. Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah. John. John, Richard, William, William), son of William and Roxana M.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 515
(Kellogg), b. in Benson, Vt., Jan. 20, 1827. Now resides in Leverett. He d. March
3, 1899. He m. May 2, 1848, Nancy Sophia, dau. of Richard and Sophia (Bartlett)
Hobart. of Leverett, b. June 29, 1826; d. Oct. 9, 1882. Res. Leverett. Mass.
2934. i. WILLIAM EDGAR, b. Aug. 23, 1849; ™- Eliza Cutler.
2935. ii. CHARLES MATTOON, b. Jan. 16, 1851; m. Isabella Lee Smith
and Mattie L. Gedney.
2936. iii. IDA ELVIRA, b. March 2, 1853; d. Feb. 4, 1854.
2937. iv. LIZZIE LUELLA, b. Nov. i. 1854.
1514. STILLMAN KELLOGG FIELD (William, William, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William. William), son of William and Roxana W.
(Kellogg), b. in Benson, Vt, Dec. 6, 1834. Now resides in Leverett. He m. Jan.
6, 1864, Mary Eliza, dau. of Dexter and Pamelia (Merchant) Moore, of Leverett,
Mass., b. Feb. 12, 1838; no issue. He is a farmer. Res. Hillsboro. Mass.
1515. EDWARD PAYSON FIELD (William, William, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John. Richard, William, William), son of William and Roxana
M. (Kellogg), b. in Benson, Vt., July 9, 1837; res. in Leverett; was railroad station
agent. He m. Jan. 17, 1866, Martha L., dau. of Seth and Lucy (Gilbert) Wood, of
Leverett, b. Sept. 9, 1842. Is a merchant.
Res. 76 Green street, Fitchburg, Mass.
2938. i. RICHARD DWIGHT, b. March 28. 187S.
2939. ii. BERTHA MAY, b. Jan. 12, 1884.
1517. FRARY FIELD (Sylvanus, Jonathan. Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Sylvanus and Cynthia (Field), b.
in Leverett, Mass., May 28, 18 10. He m. September, 1840, Juha A. Comins, of
North Hadley, Mass.
Frary Field, of Leverett, died Dec. 20, 1884. Widow, Julia A. Sons, Brainard
C. and Alfred T. Field; both of Leverett.— Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2940. i. ALFRED FRARY, b. June 16, 1843; m. Anna M. Gilbert and
Katherine Jane Hfendrick.
3941. ii. BRAINARD CORWIN, b. July 22, 1858; m. Fannie J. Field.
1518. DEXTER FIELD (Sylvanus, Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John. John, Richard, William, William), son of Sylvanus and Cynthia (Field), b. in
Leverett, Mass., Aug. 9, 1812. He removed in 1847 to Montague; in 1854 to Marl-
boro, N. H., where he d. Sept. 13, 1867 (town records). He m. March 8. 1837,
Celinda, dau. of Deacon Andrew and (Spooner), of Oakham, Mass., b. Oct. 7.
1815; d. August, 1894. Was a farmer.
Dexter Field, b. in Leverett, Mass., Aug. 9, 1812. m. Celinda Spooner, of Oak-
ham, Mass., about March, 1835; they lived on a farm in Leverett until the spring
of 1847. where his three oldest children were born. He moved on to a farm in
Montague, Mass., in the spring of 1847, living there until the spring of 1854, when
he traded his farm for one in Marlboro, N. H. In Montague his two daughters
were bom. He lived in Marlboro until his death on Sept. 3, 1867. In the month
of March, 1863, he buried the three youngest children within eight days, of
diphtheria. He was of a very social disposition, and was well liked by his friends
and neighbors, always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. In religion
he was a Unitarian, and used to sing in the church choir in Montague and Marl-
boro. He was buried in Marlboro, N. H. ; was 55 years and 24 days old.
Res. Marlboro, N. H.
2942. i. CHARLES ALLEN, b. June 25, 1838. He moved to Montague
516 FIELD GENEALOGY.
with his parents when about eight years old, and to Marlboro
when about sixteen years. He worked on the farm, attending
school in the winter. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company
F, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers; went to New Berne and in
the Roanoke expeditions, but was not in any battle, as he was
not able to keep up with his regiment. In the spring of 1863 was
discharged from the army, from the hospital at Newport, R. I. ;
was not able to do anything for several months, then only the
lightest of work for several years. About 1874 or 1875 he bought
a farm in the southwestern part of Jaftry in company with his
brother Daniel A., and worked it together for three or four years,
finally buying out Daniel and carrying it on alone for three or
four years. Finding his health giving out, he was obliged to leave
the farm, and worked by the day as he felt able, living with his
mother most of the time, until her death in August, 1894. For
about a year he lived in the house where his mother died, but
failing so fast, he was obliged to go away with other friends,
dying in Troy, N. H., about May 15, 1896, of consumption, in his
fifty-eighth year. Was buried in Marlboro in the family lot.
2943. ii. DANIEL ADAMS, b. July 19, 1840; m. Mary E. Brown.
2944. iii. ARTHUR WELLS, b. Aug. 2, 1846; m. Sarah D. Stimson.
2945. iv. STELLA CELINDA, b. Aug. 31, 1849; d. March 17, 1863.
2946. v. FRANCIS DEXTER, b. Sept. 15, 1851; d. March 4. 1863.
2947. vi. EDWIN LEROY, b. Nov. 20, 1856; d. March 21, 1863.
1519. JOSEPH SAWYER FIELD (Sylvanus, Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Sylvanus and Cynthia
(Field), b. in Leverett, Mass., Aug. 19, 1822, where he resided; d. March 21, 1883.
He m. March 5, 1845, Sarah B., dau. of Robert Lawton, of Leverett, b. Oct. 4, 1820.
Joseph Sawyer, Leverett, 1883. Widow, Sarah B. Sons, Albert and Herbert S.
Daughter, Cynthia Field. All of Leverett. Charles Lawton assisted the sons in
settlement of the estate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 11, 1847; d. Sept. 22. 1861.
ALBERT, b. Oct. 25, 1850; m. Mollie Beers; res. Leverett.
CYNTHIA, b. May 5, 1852; m. Sept. 8, 1885, Robert Lawton
Peckham; res. Leverett.
FRANKLIN, b. July 6, 1859; d. Feb. 15, 1864.
HERBERT S., b. July 6, 1859; m. Sunderland, Mass., May 30,
1883, Louise Field Whitaker, b. May 11, 1865. He is a farmer.
Res. s. p., Leverett, Mass.
1522. HARRISON FIELD (Lucius, Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah,
John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Lucius and Virtue (Ashley), b. in
Leverett, Mass., June 13, 1813; d. May 20, 1877. He m. Dec. 17, 1835, Persis
Jerusha, dau. of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miles) Moore, of Leverett, b. Sept. 9, 1813;
d. June 29, 1891.
Harrison, of Leverett. Widow, Persis J. Field. Only child, Bradford M.
Field.
Persis J., Leverett, Feb. 2, 1892; died June 29, 1891; no husband. Only next
of kin, a son; Bradford M. Field, administrator. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2953. i. BRADFORD MOORE, b. March 30, 1838; m. Sarah E. Brown.
2948.
2949.
n.
2950.
ni.
2951-
iv.
2952.
V.
WILLIAM DWIGHT FIELD.
See page 514.
J0SP:PH G. FIELD.
See page .518.
DK. GEORGE E. FULLER.
See page 517.
See page 519.
PRINCESS BRANCACCIO.
See page 570.
CAPT. PUTNAM FIELD
See page 520.
See page 521.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 517
1525. WILLIAM EATON FIELD (Levi, Jonathan, Jonathan, Joseph. Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Levi and Rachel (Kingsley),
b. in Wilmington, Vt., Aug. 30, 1807. He learned the printer's trade in Brattleboro,
Vt., and in 1830 removed to Boston, where he d. Jan. 15, 1876. He m. April 15,
1840, Sarah Rogers, dau. of Josiah and Frances (Fessenden) Nichols, of Phipps-
burg. Me., b. Feb. 8, 18 16.
Petition for administration Feb. 7, 1876. Sarah Rogers Field, widow of deceased,
appointed. Deceased husband, William E. Field, died Jan. 15, 1876. Children,
Frances K. Bullard, wife of Gardner W. BuUard, daughter, Wm. N. Field, son.
All of Boston. — Suffolk County Probate.
Res. Boston, Mass.
2954. i. FRANCES KINGSLEY, b. November, 1842; m. Gardner W.
Bullard, of Boston, Mass.
2955. ii. WILLIAM NICHOLS, b. Aug. 29, 1850; m. Sarah B. Coudry.
1 531. DEACON DE ESTANG SALISBURY FIELD (Alpheus, Jonathan.
Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah. John, John, Richard, William. William), son of
Alpheus and Caroline (Adams), b. in Leverett, Mass.. Aug. 24, 1813. A deacon.
He was engaged several years in farming. He m. May 21, 1835, Editha Crocker,
of Sunderland, Mass.. b. April 18, 1817; d. Jan. 17, 1888. He now resides in Los
Angeles, Cal., 645 Coronado street. Mr. Field was for many years a merchant in
Amherst, Mass. Then for some years he was superintendent ot the Working
Woman's Home in New York city. He was for many years deacon of the Congre-
gational church in Amherst. Retiring from business in 1876, he went to live in
California with his son. While in New York city he was assistant superintendent
of schools there. Res. New York, N. Y. , and Los Angeles, Cal.
2955. i. SARAH EDITHA, b. Oct. 11, 1836; d. March 14, 1853.
2956. ii. CAROLINE FIDELIA, b, Oct. 7, 1838; m. June 21, 1877, Dr.
George E. Fuller, of Monson, Mass. Dr. Fuller, of Monson,
Mass., was born Dec. 25, 1838, at Wilbraham, Mass. ; is the son
of Jonathan Smith and Abiah (Hyde) Fuller; grandson ot
Ephraim Fuller, and is of the eighth generation from Edward,
brother of Dr. Samuel Fuller, who came to this country in the
Mayflower in 1620, and settled at Plymouth. After an element-
ary education in the public schools, he became a clerk in the
drug store of Dr. Wm. Holbrook, at Palmer, Mass., 1854-56; was
graduated from Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., in 1859 ;
matriculated at Amherst College, class of 1S63, and received the
degree of A.B. (extraordinary) from the same in 1893, his course
having been interrupted by army service. He was hospital stew-
ard of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-64,
and as hospital steward of the United States army, was stationed
at the Army Medical Museum. Washington, D. C, 1864-66; at-
tended two courses of lectures at the University of Georgetown,
Medical Department, and was graduated M.D., in 1865; also took
a course of study at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital in 1889. Dr. Fuller practised medicine in Brimfield,
Mass., 1866-68, and has been located at Monson since the latter
year. He is a member of Eastern Hampden Medical Association,
president in 1880-94; of Hampden District Medical Society, pres-
ident in 1894; of the Massachusetts Medical Society, councillor
for several years ; of the American Medical Association ; Araeri-
518 FIELD GENEALOGY.
2957.
111.
2958.
iv.
2959.
V.
can Academy of Medicine ; of the New England Meteorological
Society; president of Monson Free Library since 1877; a director
in Monson National bank since 1891; examining surgeon for
state aid, 1867-68; is past master 'in Day Spring Lodge, F. and
A. M. ; and surgeon of Marcus Keep Post, Grand Army of the
Republic. Dr. Fuller is the author of papers on "Typhoid
Fever," "Eclampsia," "Post Partum Hemorrhage," "Epilepsy,"
"Diphtheria," etc., read before the various medical societies.
Dr. Fuller m. 1865. Hattie S. Green, of Monson, who d. in 1876,
leaving one child, Alice Green, b. 1866; m., 2d, Carolina F. Field;
m., 3d, 1892, Asenath S. Green, of Wales, Mass. She d. s. p.
Nov. 9, 1 89 1.
EDWARD SALISBURY, b. Oct. 30, 1840; m. Sarah M. Hubbard.
MARY S., b. Sept. 3, 1844; d. Feb. 9, 1845.
FRANCES FELICIA, b. Oct. 7, 1847; d. Sept. 27, 1850.
1533. REV. LEVI ALPHEUS FIELD (Alpheus, Jonathan. Jonathan,
Joseph, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Alpheus and
Caroline (Adams), b. in Leverett, Mass., Sept. 17, 1821 ; graduated at Amherst Col-
lege in .'1846; studied theology at Andover, Mass.; was ordained in 1849, and
preached in Mitteneague and West Springfield, Mass. , about two years and a half,
when he was settled over the Union Congregational church in Marlboro, Mass.,
Aug. 31, 1853, where he d. October, 1859. He m. March 4, 1851, Nancy M. Holmes,
of Monson, Mass.
2960. i. EMMA W., b. Oct. 20, 1857; m. Jan. 19, 1878, Harlan Page, of
Monson, Mass.
1534. MOSES SPELLMAN FIELD (Jonathan, Moses, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Stanstead, Canada, June 9,
181 1 ; m. Dec. 21, 1837, Margaret Innes Gibb, dau. of Rev. Joseph, late of Banff,
Scotland, b. April 25, 1815; d. March 29, 1897. The residence of the family is near
the old homestead m Stanstead. Mr. Field has studied and traveled a great deal of
his life, but of late has lived at home. A farmer and mechanic. He was the inventor
of the hand drag hay rake. He d. April 13, 1887. Res. Stanstead, Canada.
JOSEPH GIBB, b. Oct. 20, 1838; unm. ; is a farmer; res. Stanstead.
ALONZO, b. Sept. 18, 1840; d. San Francisco, Cal., April i, 1879.
EDWARD S., b. Feb. i, 1841; m. Phoebe A. Tichworth.
ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 4, 1845; d. Sept. 16, 1874, Albert Clark, of
Stanstead.
HELEN MARGARET, b. May 5, 1847; unm.; res. Stanstead.
DAVID GIBB, b. Feb. 27, 1849; ni. Ella Tilton.
MARY ANNA, b. Aug. 6, 1852; d. Jan. 24, 1885.
1542. OSMOND H. FIELD (Moses, Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Leverett, Mass., May 10, 1830. In 1849 ^^
engaged in the book peddling business, but not proving profitable, he abandoned it.
In 1852 he started to look up a home, and after traveling 1,500 miles on horseback,
he finally, in 1853, settled as a farmer in Kiantone, Chautauqua county, N. Y.,
where he now resides. He has taken an active part in all public affairs, church,
school and agricultural societies, and is a man of considerable influence in all aftairs.
He m. Feb. 7, 1854, Lydia A., dau. of Imri and Mary (Hale) Perry, of Kiantone,
b. in Dover, Vt., Jan. 9, 1830. Res. Kiantone, N. Y.
2968. i. CAROLINE MARIE, b. July 4, i860; m. June 3, 1879, Richard
2961.
1.
2962.
11.
2963.
111.
2964.
IV.
2965.
V.
2966.
VI.
2967.
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FIELD GENEALOGY. 519
Howard, of Frewsburg, N. Y. Res. Jamestown, N. Y. She
was b. July i6, 1855. Ch. : i. Louis Field Howard, b. Aug. 11,
1880; postoffice address, Jamestown, N. Y. 2. Inez Lydia
Howard, b. Jan. 29, 1882; postoffice address, Jamestown, N. Y.
3. Richard Harley Howard, b. Sept. 11, 1883; postoffice address,
Jamestown, N. Y. 4. Ralph Montague Howard, b. Feb. i, 1890;
postoffice address, Jamestown, N. Y.
2969. ii. FREDERICK CLINTON, b. July ii, 1865; m. E. Blanche
Garfield.
1544. MOSES FIELD (Moses, Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zechariah, John,
John. Richard, William, William), son of Moses and Rhoda (Putnam), b. in Lever-
ett, Mass., Nov. 12, 1833. He settled in 1855 in Michigan; in 1857 in the State of
New York; in 1858 returned to Leverett, satisfied with his experience in the west-
em country, and concluded Leverett was as good a place as could be found, where
he resided. He d. Feb. i, 1900. He m. Aug. i, 1864, Ellen M., dau. of Charles D.
and Eliza (Howard) Hobart, of Leverett, b. ; d. March 27, 1874. Res. Lev-
erett, Mass.
2970. i. CHARLES HOBART, b. 1865. Lieut. Charles H. Field was a
native of Leverett, where his father, Moses Field, a well known
fanner, still resides. He was thirty-three years old, and many
years ago, after leaving home, was apprenticed to a farmer. He
did not like the work on a farm, came to Greenfield and found
employment in one of the shops. For the past ten years or even
more he has been employed by Wells Brothers & Co., manufac-
turers of tools. He has been one of their skilled draftsmen and
superintendent of the No. 2 factory. He made his home at the
residence of Mrs. H. C. Denham. He was unmarried. He has
been for several years a member of the Republican lodge of
Masons, and at the time he left Greenfield he held the office of
junior warden of the lodge, and was the captain-general of Con-
necticut Valley commandery. He was an ardent lover of the
wheel, and was always relied upon to organize the bicycle riders
for the parades. He was active in the fire department, and one
of its officers. When L company'was organized, Nov. 21, 1887,
he enlisted and worked his way up from private to first lieuten-
ant. He was an excellent soldier, and had hosts of friends and
acquaintances. He was anxious to go to the front, and consid-
ered it a duty to serve his country. His mother died a number
of years ago. He was unmarried. When Company L was organ-
ized Nov. 21, 18S7, Charles H. Field enlisted in the ranks and
worked his way up. He was elected second lieutenant April 17,
1 89 1, and May 6, 1892. was elected first lieutenant. He has been
a thorough, loyal soldier, working hard for the success of the
company and regiment. When the call for volunteers came.
Lieutenant Field was anxious to go. He said it was a pleasure to
serve his country. He was somewhat afraid !that he might not
pass the physical examination of the United States officers, and
rejoiced when he was accepted in the war with Spain. He was
shot through the forehead at El Caney, near Santiago, July i,
1898, dying almost instantly. His body was brought home in
March, 1899, and after impressive funeral services in Greenfield,
520 FIELD GENEALOGY.
taken to Leverett for burial. Lieutenant Field had resided in
Greenfield sixteen years. — Greenfield paper.
2971. ii. MOSES EDWARD, b. October. 1870; d. May 21, 1881.
1546. CAPTAIN PUTNAM FIELD (Moses, Moses, Jonathan, Joseph. Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Moses and Rhoda C.
(Putnam), b. in Leverett, Nov. 10, 1836. In 1854 he entered a printing office
in Winsted, Conn., to learn the art and mysteries of the printer's trade, where he
continued two years. He then spent a short time in Hartford, Conn. ; from there
he started on the usual round of young printers, and previous to i860 had worked
in the various cities and towns from Massachusetts to South Carolina. On the
breaking out of the war of the rebellion in 1861, was working in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He enlisted April 17, 1861, as a private in Company I, Tenth Regiment, New
York State Volunteers, or National Zouaves, and was appointed sergeant. In June,
the regiment embarked by steamer for Fortress Monroe, Va. The regiment was
in reserve at the battle of Big Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861. The regiment garrisoned
Fortress Monroe until the spring of 1862. He was appointed orderly sergeant July
I, 1861. The regiment was engaged in the capture of Norfolk, Va., May 10, 1862,
when it was ordered to join the army of the Potomac before Richmond, where it
arrived soon after the battle of Fair Oaks, May 10, 1862, and joined Warren's
Brigade, General Syke's division. Fifth Army Corps, in which he received his first
baptism of fire at Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862, where he was slightly wounded. He
was at Malvern Hill, but not actively engaged. The regiment then removed to
Harrison's Landing, where it remained a few weeks. On July 8, 1862, he was com-
missioned second lieutenant of Company K. From Harrison's Landing they
marched to Newport News, and took steamer to Acquia Creek, and marched from
there to Falmouth and across the country to Manassas Junction, and participated
in the second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862, after which the regiment marched
to the works about Washington, and soon started through Maryland without being
in any conflict; arrived at Antietam, "where, owing to the extreme care our then
commander had for his soldiers, we were allowed to be passive observers of the
magnificent battle which was fought there by others, Sept. 16 and 17, 1862." Soon
after the regiment was transferred to the Second Army Corps at Harper's Ferry,
the third brigade, third division, which in November marched to Falmouth and
participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. On Feb. 8, 1863, he was
promoted to first lieutenant. Nothing of any importance transpired until April,
when the term of enlistment of the regiment having expired, it was ordered home.
There being some men in the regiment who had enlisted after its organization, they
were consolidated into four companies, and made a battalion under Maj. Geo. F.
Hopper. April 23, 1863, Lieutenant Field was commissioned captain of Company C.
The battalion was detailed as provost guard of the division (Captain Dewey, provost
marshal) which participated in the battle of Chancel lorsville, May 2 and 3, 1863.
The regiment marched from Falmouth to Gettysburg, Pa., and was engaged in that
battle July 2 and 3, 1863. From there back into Virginia as far as the Rapidan
(during the march Captain Field was made provost marshal), where several skir-
mishes took place. Quite a battle was sprung on the division at Bristow Station,
Oct. 14, 1863, on the march back to Bull Run; from there returned to the Rapidan
and went on the Mine Run expedition across the river, starting on Thanksgiving
day. The regiment returned across the Rapidan and went into winter quarters at
Stevensburg, Va. From there Captain Field was ordered to New York on recruit-
ing service, where he remained until August, when he rejoined his regiment before
Petersburg, and was present during a flank movement to Deep Bottom; at the mine
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explosion (at safe distance) and at the battle of Reams Station, Aug. 21, 1864.
Soon after was taken sick and sent to the hospital at Annapolis, Md., and a few
weeks after was sent to the Draft Rendezvous at Springfield, 111., where he acted
as provost marshal of the camp until he was ordered home for mustering out of
service. He was honorably discharged at New York, July 19, 1865, after four years
and three months continuous service. In the fall of 1865 he opened a printing
office at No. 561 Broadway, New York, and the next year took as partner F. B.
Fisher, and removed to No. 19 Chatham street, where he continued until the spring
of 1872, when he sold out to his partner and removed to Greenfield, Mass., where in
March, 1872, he opened a printing office, and in 1873 went into partnership with
E. A. Hall, doing business under the firm of Field & Hall. They also dealt in
stationery and printers' supplies.
He removed in 1887 to San Diego, Cal., where he now resides. He m. Nov.
16, 1869, Kate M., dau. of William and Mary (Whitney) Burt, of Scriba, Oswego
county, N. Y., b. July 7, 1845; d. Oct. 14, 1876. She was a graduate of the high
and training school of Oswego, N. Y., and was a teacher in the schools of the city
of New York. M., 2d, July i, 1880, Anna M., dau. of Henry and Susan M. (Field)
McGafiEey, of Stanstead, Providence of Quebec, Canada, b. Feb. 10, 1847.
Kate M., of Greenfield, Oct. 14, 1876, died. Only son, William P., minor, aged
five years. Putnam Field, husband, appointed administrator. — Franklin County
Probate.
2972. i. CHARLES CLIFTON, b. July 20, 1870; d. Aug. 3, 1870.
2973. ii. WILLIAM PUTNAM, b. Aug. 27,1871; unm. ; res. Brooklyn,
N. Y. His parents lived in Jersey City, N. J., at the time, but
soon removed to Greenfield, Mass. At the age of five his mother
died, and he found his home for four year with relatives in
North Hadley, Mass., and Scriba, N. Y. In 1880 he returned to
Greenfield to live with his father and stepmother, and entered
the public schools. In 1888 his parents removed to San Diego,
Cal. , and he returned to Scriba, N. Y. , and entered the Oswego
High School, where he graduated in 1889. In February of the
coming year he went to California and took a position with the
West Coast Match Co. The enterprise, however, was not a
success, such that in the fall of that year he went to San Diego
to become a salesman in the wholesale hardware house of Todd
& Hawley. Here he remained for two years and a half, but in
February, 1893, he resigned to take a similar position with Haw-
ley Bros. Hardware Co., of San Francisco. In July, 1894, the
spirit of change again came over him, and he left the United
States to travel in Mexico, where he spent several months in
quest of pleasure, profit and opportunity. After stopping some
weeks in the city of Mexico, and visiting all of the other principal
cities and places of interest, he passed through Vera Cruz and
Yucatan to Cuba. Here he found an unsettled condition ; the
revolution which was to result in Cuban freedom was at hand and
business was affected, so he soon took steamer and landed in New
York the last of the year. Here he soon became identified with
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, holding positions of
trust and responsibility, and is at the present time cashier. Early
in 1889 Mr. Field was appointed to the West Point Military
Academy by Congressman Nutting, of Oswego, and on June 14
he reported for examination, but did not succeed in entering, as
34
522 FIELD GENEALOGY.
he was rejected by the surgeons on account of weight. While in
California he served in the National Guard as a private and cor-
poral in Company A, 9th Regiment of San Diego, and as an
ordinary seaman in Company D, Naval Battalion of San Fran-
cisco. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he, with
others, was active m raising a provisional regiment, a tent being
erected for the purpose in Union Square, New York city. Twenty-
two hundred men were recruited, but the regiment was never
mustered, as the National Guard filled the full quota of the State.
Mr. Field then assisted in organizing the 109th Regiment of the
National Guard of New York, and was assigned to the command
of Company D, and commissioned a first lieutenant by Governor
Black. The regiment was "mustered in" June 22, and the sum-
mer and fall were spent in preparing for active service, but the war
was soon over, and after seven months of readiness, the regiment
was "mustered out" Jan. 12, 1899, Lieutenant Field being ren-
dered supernumerary.
2974. iii. KATE LOUISA, b. Oct. 17, 1873; d. July 25, 1874.
2975. iv. HERBERT DEXTER, b. Sept. 27, 1881; res. San Diego, Cal.
1549. HERBERT FITZHENRY FIELD (Moses, Moses, Jonathan, Joseph,
Zechariah. John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Moses and Rhoda C.
(Putnam), b. in Leverett, Mass., May 9, 1842. When a boy he entered a store in
Amherst, Mass., to learn the mercantile business. In 1865 he removed to Kiantone,
N. Y., where he engaged in farming until 1868, when he removed to Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and engaged in mercantile business as hardware merchant. He m.
Sept. 25, 1862, Jennie Isabella, dau. of Emerson and Barbara (Smith) Russell, of
Amherst, Mass., b. Nov. 12, 1842. He d. April 3, 1894. Res. Council Bluffs, Iowa.
ADELLA ELNORA, b. 1863; d. 1864.
ANNA, b. 1865; d. 1869.
HERBERT FITZHENRY, b. March 12, 1876.
EDITHA BELLE, b. Oct. 29, 1877.
CLIFTON RUSSELL, b. Feb. 27, 1881.
1551. GEORGE EDWARD FIELD (Moses. Moses, Jonathan, Joseph, Zecha-
riah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Moses and Rhoda C. (Putnam),
b. in Leverett, Mass., May 26, 1846, where he resided on the old homestead
of Capt. Jonathan Field. He d. May 28, 1895. He m. June 8, 1870, Louisa, dau. of
Elisha and Maria J. (Adams) Ingram, of Leverett, b. March 25, 1848; d. April
8, 1881.
George E., Leverett, May 28, 1895. Myra S., b. Dec. 8, 1877; minor and child
of George E. Field, of Leverett, and Ella Louisa, his wife, now deceased. Austin
Field, of Hadley, appointed guardian. May 22, 1895. — Franklin County Probate.
Res. Leverett, Mass.
2981. i. AMANDA ELIZABETH, b. July 25, 1872.
2982. ii. GEORGE MARTIN, b. Oct. 13. 1873; d. June 15, 1874.
2983. iii. ELMIRA STEBBINS, b. Dec. 8, 1877.
2984. iv. GEORGIA LOUISA, b. March i, 1880.
1560. JOHN FIELD (John, John, John, John, John, William, John, Richard,
William, William), b. Providence, R. I., March 22, 1748; m. Oct. 28, 1770, Marcy
Searle, dau. of Solomon, b. 1747; d. Sept. 28, 1813. His will was probated Dec. 15,
181 1. His sons John and Simeon were executors.
2976.
1.
2977-
n.
2978.
111.
2979.
IV.
2980.
V.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 523
Will of John Field, Probate Docket, Vol. 3. No. A40S5. Will Book 10, page
661. — In the Name of God Amen, I John Field of Providence in the County of
Providence, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Yeoman,
being of a sound disposing Mind and Memory and knowing that "it is appointed
unto all Men once to die" Do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament
in manner and form following. That is to say:
Firstly, I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Marcy Field all my House-
hold Furniture and all Monies and Sureties for Money that shall belong to me at
the time of my decease, either on Book, Account, Bond, or Note — Together with all
the Residue of my Personal Estate after the payment of my just Debts and the
Legacies and Bequests Hereinafter mentioned —
Item. I Give and Devise unto my beloved Son Benjamin Field bis heirs and
assigns forever, the House wherein I now dwell and the Garden attached thereto
and the Lot o? Land on which said House is situated extending Southly as far as
Potters Street and fronting on High Street — I also give to my said Son Benjamin
his heirs and assigns forever the other Garden pertaining to said Dwelling House,
together with all the Land owned by me lying between Elbow Street, John Field
Street and High Street, and one half of the Barn standing on High Street and
Elbow Street —
Item. I Give and Devise unto my beloved Son Simeon Field the Lots of Land
called the Orchard lying between said John Field Street, the Gangway, the old
House Lot and Chesnut Street, to be and remain unto him his heirs and assigns
forever. In like manner I give unto my said Son Simeon the other half of the Barn
aforementioned standing on High Street and Elbow Street.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my beloved Son John Field his heirs and assigns
forever, the Land owned by me lying between Potters Street, High Street and
Elbow Street.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my beloved Son Isaac Field his heirs and assigns
forever the Lot of Land whereon his Dwelling House stands, together with the Lot
adjoining bounded on Chesnut Street.
Item. The Tract of Land lying on the West side of the Street or Road leading
to the Hospital, extending from said Road One hundred feet deep and Northerly
from Capt. Isaac Manchester's Line, to the Line of the Road leading from Benja-
min Hams', I give and Devise to my said Sons John, Samuel, Isaac and the heirs
of my deceased Son Joseph Field, their heirs and assigns forever, to be possessed in
equal Portions, as follows, to wit. First John to begin at the North Bound and take
one quarter, next to him Samuel to take one quarter, next to him Isaac one quarter,
and next to him the heirs of Joseph one quarter.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my Five beloved Daughters, Mary Field, Zer-
viah Field, Sarah Pirce the Wife of Oliver Pirce, Abigail Field and Hannah Field,
their heirs and assigns forever the Lots of Land owned by me, lying on the East
side of the Road or Street leading to the Hospital, and opposite to the Tract last
before Devised (said Lots being Ninety-five feet deep from said Street) to be
divided amongst my said five Daughters in manner following, to wit, Sarah to
begin and take one Lot fortj' feet deep, situated in the Comon, opposite to the por-
tion devised before to my said Son John; And ray four remaining Daughters to
take each an equal Division of the Remainder ot said Lots, Point Street is to be
taken equally out of the Lots adjoining it on each Side. I also give unto my
said five Daughters their heirs and assigns forever. Share and Share alike,
the House Lot and House thereon standing which I lately purchased of Eben
Simmons.
Item. I Give and devise to my beloved Son William Field, his heirs and assigns
524 FIELD GENEALOGY.
forever, One Lot of Land on the South side of South Street forty feet by ninety-five
feet, joining the Lot herein before devised to my Daughter Sarah.
Item. I Give and Devise unto the rightful heirs of my deceased Son Joseph
Field, their heirs and assigns forever, the Lot of Land opposite to the one last
devised to my said Son William, being also forty feet by ninety five feet.
Item. I Give and Devise unto mj^ said Son Samuel Field his heirs and assigns
forever. Two lots of Land owned by me lying on the Pawtuxet Road, adjoinmg
Capt. William Pabodie's Lot each of which Lots is forty feet in front and extend
back ninety-five feet.
Item. One Acre of the Land lying on the Road leading to the Burying Ground,
and adjoining the Land of Samuel Clark and my Brother Daniel Field (to run in
Form with the Westerly Line of my said Brother Daniel) I give and devise in
Manner following, to wit. To my said Son John Field one quarter of an Acre
adjoining Samuel Clark's Land and extending in length with said Clarks Line ;
Then to my said Son Isaac one quarter of an Acre to be taken next to John's ; Then
to my said Son William one quarter of an Acre to be taken next to Isaac's; Then
to the heirs of my deceased Son Joseph one quarter of an Acre to be taken next to
William's, to be and remain unto them the said John, Isaac, William and the heirs
of Joseph their heirs and assigns forever.
Item. 1 Give and Devise the Land owned by me lying on the Cranston Road,
and bounded on the Cross Road leading to my Brother Daniel's line as follows, to
wit. To my said Son John two Acres and an half, so taken as to make a Square;
Then to my said Son Isaac two Acres and an half to be taken next to John : Then
to my said son William two Acres and an half to be taken next to Isaac, to be and
remain unto them the said John, Isaac and William their heirs and assigns forever.
And my Will is that all the Lots herein devised which shall require it by reason of
the Divisions which I have directed to be made be sufficiently Fenced before they
are improved and that the same be done without any expense to my said Sons
Simeon and Benjamin.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my said Son Samuel his heirs and assigns for-
ever, the Land owned by me in Cranston adjoining the Land of Governor Fenner,
Burgess and William Potter together with the Dwelling House thereon standing.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my said Sons Samuel, Simeon and Benjamin,
their heirs and assigns forever all that Wood Lot belonging to me in Johnston
together with the Meadow in Cranston adjoining Land of William Potter and Capt.
William Field.
Item. I Give and Devise unto my said Sons Simeon Field and Benjamin Field,
their heirs and assigns forever share and share alike all the Lands which I may be
seized and possessed of at the time of my decease not herein before devised, they
making up whatever deficiency there may be (if any) in my personal Estate towards
the payment of all my just debts.
Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my said Sons Simeon and Benjamin, all my
Stock, Farming Utensils, Tackling and Apparatus of every kind whatever, to be
equally divided between them Share and Share alike.
Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my said Sons John, Simeon, Samuel, Will-
iam, Isaac and Benjamin, all my wearing Apparel, to be divided equally between
them Share and Share alike.
Lastly. I hereby Nominate, Constitute and appoint my said Sons John Field,
and Simeon Field joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament; hereby re-
voking and annulling all former Wills by me made and establishing and confirming
this and this only as and for my last Will and Testament.
In Testimony whereof I the said John Field have hereunto set my Hand and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 525
Seal the Ninth Day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hun-
dred and eleven. John Field — [l. s.]
Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said John Field,
as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his
request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have
hereunto set our Names as Witnesses.
The name of "Samuel in the 5th line 2d page and the same name
in the eighth line of said page and in the 34th line of sd page wrote on
an erasure and the word 'time' in the 3d page interlined before signing.
Samuel Thurber
Step. Hopkins
Nathan W. Jackson
Proved December 16, 18 11.
He d. Dec. 11, 1811. Res. Providence, R. I.
JOHN, b. Jan. 18, 1771; m. Amey Larkin.
SIMEON, b. 1772: m. Mary A. Warner.
WILLIAM, b. March 6, 1777; m. Betsey Larkin.
SAMUEL, b. ; m. Nancy French.
JOSEPH, b. Aug. 5, 1778; m. Susannah Larkin.
ISAAC, b. 1782; m. Sally Berry.
SOLOMON, b. ; d. unm. In will of his father John no men-
tion is made of a Solomon. Neither is he mentioned in Uncle
Daniel will.
BENJAMIN, b. ; m. Sabra Fiske.
LYDIA, b. ; d. unm.
MARY, b. ; d. unm.
ZERVIAH, b. ; m. Feb. 9, 1820. John Wallen. She d. in
Providence. Ch. : i. Julia, m. Eslick. 2. Adeline. 3.
Polly.
2996. xii. SARAH, b. 1779; m. Nov, 9, 1809, Oliver Price. She d. 1830.
Ch. : I. William, m. Amanda Gorham; had William. 2. Allen
B. 3. Rebecca, d. young. 4. Ebenezer.
2997. xiii. ABBY, b. 1780; m. Sept, 24, 1812, Philip Potter. She d. 1844.
Ch. : I. Abby, d. unm. 2. James, d. in infancy. 3. Frances A.,
m. W. B. Davenport. 4. James, d. unm., July 6, 1845. 5. Philip,
d. young. 6. Thomas, unm. 7. Philipina, d. young.
Arnold V. S. , 7, 429.
Rev. James Wilson records her name as Abigail W. Field.
2998. xiv. HANNAH, b. ; m. Gerard Curtis. She d. s. p.
1561. LEMUEL FIELD (John, John, John, John, John, William, John. Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., Dec. 8, 1750; m. Nov. 14, 1779, Rachel
Downing, data, of William, of Newport, R. I., b. Feb. i, 1762; d. Feb. 8, 1814. He
d. March 22, 1833. Res. Providence, R. I.
LEMUEL, b. ; m. Mary Harding.
WILLIAM DOWNING, b. 1785; d. unm. Oct. 15, 1824.
THOMAS, b. November, 1787; d. Dec. 4, 1790.
DANIEL, b. 1789 (see Daniel following).
NANCY, b. August, 1780; d. Oct. 26, 1781.
CATHERINE, b. 1772; m. Nov. 19, 1830. William James. She d.
1875. Res. Providence. Ch. : i. Mary, m. J. P. Helmas; two
ch., Ceete and Mary. 2. Samuel, m. Tabitha Rhodes; 3 ch.
2985.
2986.
u.
2987.
111.
2988.
IV.
2989.
V.
2990.
VI.
2991.
vu.
2992.
viii.
2993.
IX.
2994.
X.
2995.
XI.
2999.
1.
3000.
11.
3001.
111.
3002.
IV.
3003.
V.
3004.
VI.
626 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3. Almira, d. 4. Andrew, J., b. 1817; d. unrn. 5. O. H. Perry,
m. ; ch. ; res. in the west.
1562. DANIEL FIELD (John, John, John, John, John. William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I,, May 19, 1755; m. Zipporah Benja-
min, dau. ot Phinehas, of Canterbury, Conn., b. April 8, 1763; d. Dec. 5, 1840, s. p.
Her will was probated Dec. 29, 1840. Daniel was executor. His will was probated
Jan.28, 1830. His son Daniel was executor. He had no children, but adopted Daniel,
son of his brother Lemuel above, 3002.
B. 21, 411. From John Field (p. 37), June 27, 1786. Ship street.
Samuel (154)
To Ann Nichols Field.
To Catherine James, widow of William.
Will of Daniel Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 6. No. A5265. Will Book 13,
page 487. — In the Name of God Amen. I Daniel Field ot Providence in the County
of Providence State ot Rhode Island and Providence plantations Yeoman While in
tolerable health, calling to mind that all men must die have thought fit and do
make and ordain this my last will and testament to wit.
First. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Zipporah Field her heirs and
assigns forever, the following property to wit
All the household furniture all Cash on hand my Cows and all the grain and
provisions which may be on hand at the time of my decease.
Second. I give and bequeath to my said wife the rents profits and possession
of my Mansion house and lot on chesnut Street with the Garden adjoining the same
which is on the East side of the house and a priviledge in the wood house also the
pew Number fifty-four on the broad Aisle ot the Methodist Chappel for and during
the term her Natural life.
Third. I give and bequeath to my said wife the profits and dividends that may
arise from twenty Shares in the Roger Williams thirty Shares in the Exchange
Bank Forty Shares in the Union Bank, and Seventy Shares in the Mechanics Bank
for and during her natural life.
Fourth. I give and devise to my Nephew John Field one-half part of a lot of
land on the Pawtuxet turn pike Road containing about one half of one acre being
the Southwesterly part adjoining land of his Excelency James Fenner and the re-
maining half part of said lot I give and devise to Simeon Field and Benjamin Field
my Nephews by them to be equally divided.
Fifth. 1 give and devise to my Nephew William Field all my right title interest
and Claim in and to a certain lot of land with the dwelling house and all other im-
provements thereon Standing Situated on the Westerly side of Chesnut Street being
the Mansion house of my Honored Father John Field deceased.
Sixth. I have divided a Certain tract of land which is Situated on the North-
erly side of Friendship Street into ten house lots and have numbered them from
one to ten commencing at a street leading to the burying Ground and proceeding
on said Friendship Street Westerly the first or Number one I give and devise to
my Nephew Isaac Field measuring forty feet on Friendship Street holding its
course at right angles with said Friendship Street on the westerly line, bounded
Northerly on land of William Field on which it measures about Twenty five feet to
him the said Isaac his heirs and assigns forever. I give and devise to Bennet H.
Wheeler lot Number two measuring forty feet on Friendship Street and holding its
width to land of William Field, to him his heirs and assigns forever, I give to Sam-
uel W. Wheeler Number three measuring forty feet on Friendship Street and hold-
ing its width to land of William Field to him his heirs and assigns forever, I give
FIELD GENEALOGY. 527
to James Wheeler his heirs and assigns forever lot Number four forty feet on
Friendship Street and ninety-five feet back at right angles, I give to Oliver W. Field
his heirs and assigns lot Number five forty feet on Friendship Street and holding
its width ninety-five feet back ; I give to Joseph Harris Field lot Number Six forty
feet on Friendship Street, and holding its width ninety-five feet back to him his
heirs and assigns forever, I give to Green B. Field son of Joseph Field his heirs
and assigns forever lot number Seven, measuring forty feet on Friendship Street,
holding its width back ninety-five feet, I give and devise to John Field son of
Joseph his heirs and assigns lot number Eight measuring forty feet on Friendship
Street and holding its width back ninety-five feet, 1 give and devise to Albert Field
grandson of my Brother Lemuel Field his heirs and assigns lot number nine
measuring forty feet on Friendship Street, and holding its width back ninety five
feet.
Seventh. I give to my Sister Lydia Bowler the sum of fiftv Dollars, I give to
my Sister Abigail Proud the sum of fifty Dollars, I give to the Daughters ot my
Brother John Field, to wit Sally Price, Polly Field Zerviah Wallen, Abigail Potter
and Hannah Curtis one hundred Dollars each.
I give to the Daughters of my Brother Joseph Field, to wit, Susan Field,
Genette Warring, Rebecca Peckham and Betsey Field one hundred Dollars each.
I give to Ann Fry fifty Dollars, I give to Betsey Richmond wife of Galen Rich-
mond one hundred Dollars, I give to Nancy Field wife or widow of Samuel Field
one hundred Dollars, I give to Ann Nichols Field fifty Dollars, I give to Catherine
James Widow of William James fifty Dollars, all the foregoing legacies to be paid
to them by my executor hereinafter named within one year from my decease.
Eighth. I give and devise to the trustees of the Methodist Society in Provi-
dence pews number twenty one sixty-nine and Eighty-nine to be by them lett or
sold as they may think best, and the rents or interest that may arise from them to
be annually paid to the poor of the Methodist Church in said Town forever.
Ninth after all my just debts and all necessary expenses are paid together with
the legacies aforesaid I give and devise all my Estate both real and personal of
every kind and description to my Nephev? Daniel Field Junr his heirs and assigns
forever hereby intending to make him my Residuary Legatee, he having been
brought up by me from a child enjoining upon him to maintain and Support his
Father and my Brother Lemuel Field during his Natural Life.
Tenth I do hereby Constitute and appoint my said Nephew Daniel Field Junr,
my sole Executor of this my last will and testament, hereby annulling and making
void all other and former wills by me made and rattifying this and this only as my
last will and testament given under my hand and Seal at Providence this twenty-
seventh day of Febuary A D. Eighteen hundred and twenty-Eight.
Daniel Field. (l.s.)
The Foregoing Instrument was signed and Sealed in our presence and in
the presence of each other and by Daniel Field declared to be his last
will and testament on the 27th day of Febuary A D 1828
Stephen Branch
James Snow
Cyrus Barker
Proved January 25, 1830.
Will of Zipporah Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 5. No. A6088. Will Book 14,
page 344. — Be it remembered that I, Zipporah Field, of Providence, in the County
of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, widow of Daniel Field late of said Prov-
idence, deceased, being sane in mind, though weak and debilitated in body, in view
528 FIELD GENEALOGY.
of approaching dissolution, do make this my Last Will and Testament, in manner
following, that is to say:
First. My Will and pleasure is, that my Executor herein after named shall
first pay all my just debts and funeral expenses, immediately after my decease.
Secondly. I give and bequeath to my nephew Daniel Field, son of Lemuel
Field, my eight day clock, my great chair, the same that was formerly occupied by
his hon'd uncle Daniel Field dec'd: Also my great bible, the Life of Christ, and
Carter's Letters, to him, his heirs and assigns forever.
Thirdly. I give and bequeath to James Snow, a note of hand which I now
hold against my said nephew, Daniel Field, for three hundred and twenty-five
dollars, or any other note that may be given in renewal of said note: Also, my side-
board, with the case and furniture belonging to the same: also, my largest looking
glass, to him his heirs, and assigns forever.
Fourthly. I give and bequeath to my niece Cornelia Benjamin, my best bed,
and the bed whereon 1 now sleep, together with the bedsteads, cords, bolsterSj
pillows, and all the bedclothing thereto belonging: Also, all my table linen and
napkins ; also, my firepiece, shovel and tongs, brass andirons, eight framed chairs,
one rocking chair, my best mahogany stand, all my flower-pots, one pair Pembroke
tables, my best carpet, all the crockery in the China Closet all my silver spoons,
both large and small, and silver sugar tongs ; also, all the Bank Stock that I may
own at the time of my decease ; to her, her heirs and assigns, forever.
Fifthly. I give and bequeath to my namesake Zipporah B. Field, my second
sized looking glass, one three and a half feet cherry tree dining table, one mahog-
any stand, commonly kept in my lodging room, my second sized brass kettle ; also,.
my warming piece, together with the likeness of the father of Our Country, George
Washington : to her, her heirs and assigns, forever.
Sixthly. I give and bequeath to Betsey Field, wife of William Field, my large
brass kettle ; also, my satin mantle ; to her, and her heirs and assigns, forever.
Seventhly. 1 give and bequeath to Anstis Horswell, my case of drawers, and
the book-case belonging thereto: Also, should there be any property remaining
after my Executor hereinafter named shall have paid my debts and funeral ex-
penses as aforesaid, then I give and bequeath to said Anstis Horswell. thirty
dollars, in addition to the bequest before made to her; the same to be paid to her
by my said Executor as soon as may be after my decease, to her her heirs and
assigns, forever.
Eighthly. I give and bequeath to Harris Field, son of Joseph Field, dec'd, my
best desk, to him, his heirs and assigns, forever.
Ninthly. I give and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my household
furniture, not before enumerated and given away, to Mary Cory, wife of Caleb
Cory, Sarah Mumford. wife of James Mumford, and Abby Parker, daughter of
Bartrum Parker, in equal proportions, share and share alike, to them, their heirs
and assigns, forever.
Tenthly. I give and bequeath all my provisions, groceries, vegetables of
every kind, also all my fuel that may remain on hand, after my decease, to the
Methodist Church to which I belong, in trust to be distributed by them to my most
needy sisters belonging to said Church, after my decease, in such way and manner
as they may think best and most proper.
Eleventhly. I give, devise and bequeath unto said James Snow and Cornelia
Benjamin, all the residue and remainder of ray Estate and estates, whether real or
personal, to them, their heirs and assigns forever, in equal proportions.
Lastly. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my said nephew, Daniel
Field my sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament ; hereby revoking and
FIELD GENEALOGY. 529
3007.
ii.
3008.
Ill,
3009.
IV.
annulling all other and former Wills by me made, and establishing and confirming
this, and this only, as my Last Will and Testament.
In Testimony whereof, 1 do hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty-fourth
day of November, in the Year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two. Zipporah Field (l. s.)
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, and declared by the said Zipporah
Field, as and for her Last Will and Testament, in the presence of us,
who, at the same time, at her request, in her presence, and in the pres-
ence ot each other, hereunto set our names as witnesses to the same.
Hiram Barker,
Joseph W. Davis,
Robert Knight.
Proved December 29, 1840.
He d. Jan. 4, 1830. Res. Providence, R. I.
3005. i. DANIEL, b. in 1789 (adopted from his brother Lemuel) ; m. Lucy
P. Brown.
1563. JOSEPH FIELD (John, John, John, John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., June, 1763; m. Dec. i, 1785, Pru-
dence Carpenter, dau. of Oliver, d. Aug. 25, 1807; m., 2d, Oct. 16, 1808, Mrs. Eliza
(Usher) Burrows; m., 3d, Oct. 7, 1819, Phebe Waller. His estate was administered
upon July 17, 1826, by his widow, Phebe. He d. in 1826. Res. Providence, R. I.
3006. i. J. WARREN, b. ; m. Sally Taber.
HARRIS, b. ; d. unm.
SUSAN, b. ; d. unm. Oct. 4, 1843.
JEANETTE, b. ; m. Hamilton A. Warren. Ch. : i. Joseph.
2. Caroline. 3. Sarah.
3011. v. REBECCA W., b. ; m. Sept. 18, 1821, Isaac Peckham. Ch. :
I. John. 2. Anne. 3. Eliza.
ELIZABETH, b. ; m. Hamilton A. Warren; s. p.
GREEN BURROWS, b. March 2, 1812; m. Mary Thompson.
JOHN W., b. ; m. Pattie W. .
JAMES OLNEY, b. ; d. Sept. 20. 1797.
Prov. Vital Statistics. Oliver W. Field, eldest son of Joseph
Field, born about 1789; married March 31, 1825, Sarah H.
Tabor. Children, Isabel, Louise.
1567. JAMES FIELD (James, John, John, John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I. ; m. Oct. 28, 1773 Rebecca Waterman.
Res. Providence, R. i.
3014. i. LYDIA, b. 1775; d. unm. Jan. 25, 1866.
Will of Lydia Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 9. No. A9071.
Will Book 21, page 288.— I Lydia Field of the City and County
of Providence and State of Rhode Island, being of lawful age
and of Sane mind, do make and declare this my last Will and
Testament, in the following manner.
First. I order my Executor hereinafter named to pay from the
avails of my personal effects if Sufficient and if not, from the Sale
of my Real Estate, all my Just debts and funeral charges.
Second. I give and devise to Rebecca W. Taber wife of Oliver
E. Taber, all my Real Estates with the privileges and appurten-
ances thereof, Situated on Claverick Street in Said City of Provi-
dence to her, her heirs and assigns forever.
301 1.
VI.
3012.
vii.
3013.
30I3>^.
VUl.
. ix.
630 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Third. I give and bequeath to Marian A. Taber Daughter of
Oliver E. Taber the balance of my Personal Estate wherever and
in whatsoever form the Same may be found, to her her heirs and
assigns forever.
Fourth. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Oliver E.
Taber of Said Providence, my Sole Executor of this my last will
and testament hereby revoking and annulling all other and
former wills by me made, and establishing and confirming this,
and this only, as my last Will and testament.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto Set my hand and Seal this
twenty-Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord, Eighteen
hundred fifty -one. Lydia Field (l. s.)
Signed, Sealed, published pronounced and declared by
the Said Lydia Field as, and for her last will and
testament in presence of us, who at the Same time at
her request in her presence and in presence of each
other hereunto Set our names as witnesses to the
Same.
Enos Tucker
Thomas Lincoln
Esek Aldrich '
Proved May i, 1866.
3015. ii. SALLY, b. 1780; m. Nathaniel James. Res. Providence, R. I.
Ch. : I. Rebecca W., m. Oliver E. Taber. Ch. : (a) Marian A.
2. Lydia, m. Randall. 3. Anstiss, uum. 4. Waterman.
5. Martha.
3016. iii. ANSTISS, b. ; d. unm.
1568. WILLIAM FIELD (James, John. John, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. 1., in 1752; m. Nov. 5, 1775, Freelove
Sprague. She d. in 1826. Her will was probated Feb. 27, 1826, and Thomas
Seekel was executor.
Will of Freelove Field. Probate Docket, Vol. 4. No. A4964. Will Book 13,
page 335. — In the Name of God Amen I Freelove Field of Providence in the County
of Providence and State of Rhode Island Widow being of lawful age and of sound
mind memory and understanding but considering the uncertainty of human life do
make this my last Will and Testament in manner following to wit.
First. 1 give and devise to my Son William Field 2nd, my two Daughters,
namely Mary Tripp and Freelove Seekell, and my Grand Daughter Almiry Seekell,
all my Real Estate, to them their heirs and assigns, forever, to be equally divided
between them.
Secondly. I give and bequeath to my Grand Children, namely, Amey Lawson,
John Remington, Mary Remington and Sally Hammond, one hundred Dollars
equally between them, to be paid by my Executor hereafter named, within one
year after my decease.
Thirdly. I give and bequeath to my two Daughters, namely, Mary Tripp and
Freelove Seekel all the residue and remainder of my personal estate after paying
my just Debts and Funeral Charges, equally between them.
Lastly. I hereby nominate and appoint my Son in law Thomas Seekell sole
Executor of this my last Will and Testament; hereby revoking all other and former
Wills by me made, and establishing and confirming this and this only as my last
Will and Testament.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 531
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and seal the Nineteenth day
of December in Year ot our Lord, Eighteenth and twenty five.
Freelove Field (l. s.).
Signed, Sealed, pronounced and declared by the said Freelove Field as and
tor her last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at the same
time at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other
hereunto set our names as Witnesses to the same.
George T. Snow,
Pardon Mason,
Caleb Williams.
Proved February 27, 1826.
He d. in 1816. Res. Providence. R. I.
3017. i. NATHANIEL, b. ; probably d. yoxmg.
3018. ii. STERLING, b. before 1787; d. before 1808.
Cranston, 8, 22. 1S08, Jan. 28. Phebe Field, James Field,
William Field, Rufus Dunham, and Mary Dunham, all of Prov-
idence, to Sterling Field, of Providence, land in Cranston which
was conveyed by Benjamin Dyer to Nathaniel Field, of Provi-
dence, deceased, and which we hold as tenants in common with
Sterling Field and Freelove Field as heirs of said Nathaniel,
deceased.
FREELOVE, b. ; m. July 29, 18 19, Thomas Seekill.
WILLIAM, b. ; m. Oct. 11, 1818, Lydia Warner, s. p.
MARY A., b. ; m. July 5, 1801, Rufus Dunham, m., 2nd,
Tripp.
PHEBE, b. ; m. Peleg Remington. Res. Cranston. R. I.
Cranston, 3, 321. June 14, 1806. Town officials report that
Phebe Field, daughter of William Field, of Providence, and late
wife of Peleg Remington, and her two children, Mary and Sarah
Remington, are living in Cranston.
1569. GEORGE FIELD (James, John, John. John, John, William, John, Rich-
ard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., in 1757; m. Nov, 5, 1792, Sarah
Potter, b. in 1773; d. in 1827. He d. in 1806. Res. Providence, R. I.
3022. i. MARY. b. in 1795; m. George Updike. She d. in 1878; m.. 2d,
Tillinghast. Ch. : i. Anna F.. m. Asa Freeman. Ch. : (a)
Anna. 2. William. 3. John. 4. Mary.
3023. ii. SARAH, b. in 1793; m. July 24, 1814, Jacob French, of Seekonk.
R. I., and, 2d, George French. She d. in 1875.
3024. iii. NANCY, b. 1799; d. unm. March 28, 1881.
1573. BENJAMIN FIELD (James, John. John. John. John, William, John,
Richard, William. William), b. Providence, R. I., in 1777; m. Oct. 5, 1797, Sally
Williams, dau. of Nathan, b. in 1766; d. April 18, 1864. He d. May 14, 1841. Res.
Nantucket, Mass.
EPHRAIM, d. young.
EDWARD, d. young.
EDWARD, b. Aug. 25, 1800; m. Eliza M. Jepson and Abby P.
Herman.
BENJAMIN, d. young.
SARAH ANN. b. 1806; m. John Hill; d. Sept. 3, 1847.
MEHETABLE, b. April 4, 1809; m. Joshua Smith.
BENJAMIN, m. Charlotte Coffin.
3019.
111.
3020.
IV.
3021.
V.
3021^
U vi,
3025.
3026.
11.
3027.
111.
3028.
iv.
3029.
V.
3030.
VI.
3031.
Vll.
532 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3032. viii. ABBY, b. March 10, 1813; d. 1843; m. Elisha Chace. Ch. :
I. Gardiner L. Chace.
3033. ix. CALEB, b. June g, 1815; d. Aug. 19, 1849; m. Elizabeth Gardiner,
b. 1S08; d. May 31, 1878, in Providence.
3034. X. ELIZA, b. Aug. 23, 1820; d. unm. July 22, 1863.
1581. HON. JOSEPH FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard. John, John,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., March 29, 1787;
m. May 23, 180S, Lydia Glover, b. Dec. 17, 1790; d. May 23, 1865.
Among the men who were the builders and founders of Rochester, N. Y., none
did more for its material prosperity and moral advancement than the late Hon. Joseph
Field. He was a native of Taunton, Mass., where he was born March 29, 1787. When
quite young he removed to Dorchester, Mass., where he remained several years.
In 1808 he married Lydia Glover, of that place. On his arriving at his majority he
removed to Walpole, N. H., and shortly after, the spirit of adventure and desire
for a better opportunity for the exercise of his business talents led him to make an
extended journey through the western country and the south, going as far as St.
Louis and New Orleans, much of the journey being made on horseback. It was
after a careful survey of the large territory between these points that Mr. Field
became convinced that western New York promised the most rapid growth and
quickest returns of any section of the country. The village of Rochester, on account
of its magnificent water power, rich contiguous territory and the enterprise of its
citizens, led him to choose it tor his home, settling there in 1827. He engaged in
the commission business with Derrick Sibley, and carried on this and the milling
business for many years. He later became interested in the building of railroads.
He built the old Tonawanda railroad from Batavia to Buffalo, and was at one time
president of the Buffalo and Rochester railroad, now a part of the New York Cen-
tral system. He presided over the initial meeting of the promoters of the Lake
Shore railroad, and the success of this road was largely due to his early efforts ; at
the time of his decease he was one of the largest stockholders. Mr. Field was for
many years a director of the New York Central railroad, and was also largely inter-
ested in Rochester enterprises, being for many years a director and president of
the city bank, and one of the organizers of the Rochester Gas Light Company.
Although not seeking official life, Mr. Field represented the third ward in the
Common Council, and was elected mayor of Rochester in 1848. He so administered
the affairs of the municipality as to win the hearty approval of all citizens, irre-
spective of party. Mrs. Field died at her home in Rochester, but a few years
prior to his decease, which occurred Jan. 27, 1879. Numerous descendants reside in
New York and other Eastern cities ; Mrs. Alfred Ely, his daughter, is the only
descendant residing in Rochester. Mr. Field was a consistent member of St. Luke's
Episcopal church, and for years one of its vestry. He was a man of the strictest
probity, and ot deep religious convictions ; a dispenser of substantial but unostenta-
tious charity, and imbued with a stern sense of honor ; certain is it that his life left
an influence and mark in the community where he resided which time will not
efface.
He d. Jan. 27, 1879. R^s. Rochester, N. Y.
3035. i. ELIZA ANNE, b. in 1811; m. in Rochester, N. Y., Rev. William
Staunton, of Rochester. The Rev. Wm. Staunton, D.D., was
born in the city of Chester, England, on April 29. 1803. He came
to this country when a boy, and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. In
the year 1827 he became a resident of Rochester, N. Y. Here he
entered the ministry in 1833. He had parishes in Palmyra,
HON. JOSEPH FIEI.r.
See page 532.
HON. ALFRED ELY.
See page 533.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 633
N. Y. ; Roxbury, Mass. ; Morristown, N. J. ; Brooklyn, N. Y. ;
Ridgefield, Conn., and Potsdam, N. Y. In 1859 he removed to
New York city, and for thirty years was engaged in literary
work. He was the author of several theological and musical
works, the most important of which was an Ecclesiastical Dic-
tionary. He was a very accomplished musician, and wrote, as
associate editor, nearly all of the musical articles in the first
edition of Johnson's Encyclopedia. He died Sept. 29. 1889, in the
eighty-seventh year of his age. He had seven children four of
whom grew to maturity. She d. April 30, 1884, aged 72. Ch. :
I. John Armitage, b. July 28, 1838; res. Syracuse, N. Y. Grad-
uated Bachelor of Arts at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., 1858;
took his Master's degree at the same college in 1861; graduated
at the General Theological Semmary, New York, in i86i ;
ordained deacon the same year, and priest in 1862; married in
1862 Florence Isabel Capen, of New York city, b. March i, 1844;
d, Feb. 9, 1891 ; was for fourteen months curate in St. Peter's
church, New York. His subsequent charges were: Christ
church, Adrian, Mich. ; St. Stephen's church, Olean, N. Y. ;
Grace church. Watertown, N. Y. ; St. James' church, Skaneateles,
N. Y. ; Trinity church, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Emmanuel church,
Wakefield, Mass., and All Saints' church, Syracuse, N. Y., of
which he is now (1899) rector. Ch. : (a) John Armitage, b. in
Adrian, Mich., April 14, 1864; m. 1892,; res. Springfield, Mass.
(b) Florence Isabel, b. in Watertown, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1879; ^^s.
Syracuse, N. Y. (c) Henry Capen. b. in Skaneateles. N. Y.. Dec.
10, 1877; res. New York city. 2. Mary Frances Staunton; m.
Thomas B. Peck; res. in East 34th street. New York city.
3. William Field, b. Palmyra, N. Y., March 12, 1833; m. Nov.
20, 1855, Mary S. De Wolf Gray, b. Sept. 4, 1828. He d. at
Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1885. She res. Hartford, Conn., 645
Farmington avenue. Ch, : (a) Mary S., b. Dec. 6, 1858; m.
April 22, 1889, Joel E. Hall, d. Brighton, England, July 9, 1891 ;
m., 2d, John Garrett; res. Hartford, Conn., 645 Farmington
avenue. Ch.: i. Mary Gray Garrett, b. July 20, 1895. ii. John
Dugold, b. Dec. 10, 1898. (b) Wm. Field, Jr.. b. Dec. 23, i860; m.
at Tombstone, Arizona, Mary F. Neal; res. Congress, Arizona.
(c) Gray Staunton, b. July 6, 1865; m. Dec. 27, 1887, Jessie Belle
McCuUoch; res. Hartford, Conn. 4. Eliza Ann, b. 1832; m.
William W. Greene, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She d. Nov. 29,
1864. Ch. : (a) Elizabeth, b. ; res. New York City, address,
care W. S. White, Bank for Savings.
3036. ii. EMELINE, b. March 10, 1815; m. June 11, 183S, Charles Cobb, b.
Athens, Vt., Feb. 28, 1815; d. Sept. 16, 1877. She d. Nov. 25,
• 1875; res. Rochester, N. Y. Ch. : i. Sarah Lydia, Cobb, b. ;
m. Henry C. Squier, Dec. 12, 1864; d. Dec. 9, 1865. 2. Josephine
Cobb, d, April, 1845. 3. Emeline Field, b. March 27, 1839; ™-
Dec. 30, 1878, Dr. William Peterson, b. Oct. 17, 1831; d. Feb.
19, 1898; she res. 27 West 86th street. New York city. Ch. : (a)
Florence Cobb Peterson. (b) Alice Peterson. (c) Mary
Peterson.
3037. iii. CAROLINE LYDIA, b. Drewsville, N. H. ; m. May 31, 1842,
534 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Hon. Alfred Ely, b. Feb. 15, 1815; d. May 15, 1892, in Rochester,
N. Y. Ch. : I. Joseph Field, b. March 5, 1843; d. about 1872.
2. Charles Alfred, b. Nov. 6, 1845; d. in infancy. 3. Caroline
Lydia, b. Sept. 7, 1847; d. . 4. Elizabeth, b. July 6, 1850;
d. June, 1889. No living descendants of these children.
Alfred Ely was born in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 15, 1815. He com-
pleted his education at Bacon Academy, New London county, in
that State, where he had for a classmate the late Chief Justice
Morrison R. White, of the United States Supreme Bench. In
1836 Mr. Ely removed to Rochester and began his legal studies in
the office of Smith &, Rochester, one of the most eminent law
firms in the State. As a student Mr. Ely was patient and perse-
vering and mastered the principles ot his profession with great
care. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar, and in a comparatively
short time built up a large practice. As attorney of the New
York Central and Hudson River railroad and of the Buffalo and
Rochester railroad companies, he was very successful. He was
also attorney tor many extensive firms doing business in the
metropolis. He excelled in a high degree as an office lawyer,
showing great familiarity with the rules of practice ; was studious
and accurate in the mastery of a case, and as a pleader was one
of the most skilful. In 1858 Mr. Ely represented his district in
the Thirty-sixth Congress, and enjoyed the honor of having his
political career indorsed by a re-election in the famous campaign
of i860. Mr. Ely's service to his country during the Rebellion,
in respect to the raising of troops, added to which was his deep
interest in the Northern soldiers and the success of the Union
cause, cannot be too highly appreciated. At the first battle ot
Bull Run he was present in person to aid in the Union cause, and
was taken prisoner, and for nearly six months was subjected to
severe cruelty in Libby prison. While there he was indefatigable
in his efforts to alleviate the sufferings of his fellow prisoners.
Subsequently he rendered valuable service to the Union cause in
the publication of his well known book, "Journal of Alfred Ely,
a Prisoner of War in Richmond." This work, pleasing in style
and intensely interesting, had a large circulation and served in a
great measure to mitigate the harshness with which prisoners of
war had previously been treated. In 1862 Mr. Ely resumed the
practice of his profession in Rochester, and continued it until a
few weeks prior to his decease. Mr. Ely's home on Plymouth
avenue was one of the most attractive in the city, and here his
widow, Mrs. Ely, continues to reside. His library was one of the
most extensive and valuable in western New York, while bis
taste in literature was one of the most cultivated. As a public
speaker Mr. Ely was forcible and fluent, and as a writer he was
able and graceful. His friends were numberless, and his chari-
ties and good deeds many and far-reaching, while as a husband
and parent he possessed the rarest virtues. Mr. Ely died May 18,
1892, and his remains were laid at rest a few days later in the
beautiful Ely mausoleum at Mt. Hope.
3038. iv. ALMIRA, b. April 17. 1822; m. in Rochester, N. Y., Lewis
Philip Beers. Ch. : i. Joseph Field, b. ; m. . Ch. :
FIELD GENEALOGY. 535
(a) Andrew Field, (b) Josephine ; res. 103 West Eighty-fifth
street, New York, N. Y. 2. Francis Henry, b. Sept. 2, 1848 ; m.
Dec. 25, 1874, Harriet Elizabeth Freeman, b. Dec. 25, 1855. Ch. :
(a) Wm. Henry, b. Feb. 8, 1876. (b) Almira Field, b. Aug. i,
1878. (c) Francis Field, b. July 21, 1884. He is a mining pro-
moter. Res. 3238 Best street, Highland Station, Denver, Col.
3. Lewis Vileroy, b. ; m. s. p. ; res. Denver, Col.
1582. BRADFORD FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Feb. 22, 1789; m. Sally Weth-
erell; d. 1808; m., 2d, Mary Phillips. He was a farmer and resided on the old
place. Res. Taunton. Mass.. and Marlboro. N. H.
3039. i. BRADFORD, b. ; m. Ellenor Fisher.
3040. ii, GEORGE, b. .
1583. LEONARD FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Aug. 12, 1790; m. there
Lydia Eddy, dau. of Asahel and Lydia, b. Nov. i, 1792; d. May 18, 1882. He was
superintendent of a manufactory of cotton goods. He d. Feb. 24, 1861. Res.
Taunton, Mass.
3041. i. HARRISON, b. Sept. 29, 1816; d. Taunton, Aug. 29, 1861.
1585. GILBERT FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard. William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., June 26, 1793; m. Mary Wil-
lerton, of Boston. He was a printer and associate publisher of the Boston Pal-
ladium.
Petition for administration Feb. 13, 1837, by Mary Field, widow, of Boston;
deceased husband, Gilbert Field, a printer in Boston, who died July 13, 1837. — Bos-
ton Probate Records.
He d. July 13, 1837. Res. Boston, Mass.
1586. ABNER FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William.
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Feb. 13, 1795; m. Rebecca
Delano, of Duxbury; d. Dec. 17, 1877. He d. Oct. 5 or Sept. 28, 1851. Res. Taun-
ton, Mass.
1587. BARNUM FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John. William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., June 11, 1796; m. Frances E.
Field, dau. of Richard M. Field, of Providence, R. I., who d. August, 1881. After
leaving the printing business, in Boston, he fitted for college in Bristol Academy,
and was graduated at Brown University, in the class of 1821. He was for a time
associate editor of the Boston Palladium, and in 1824-2S edited and published the
Independent Inquirer, of Providence, R. I. Retiring from journalism, he was for
many years a prominent public school teacher in Boston.
While in Boston he made himself famous as a teacher, serving in the public
schools there for forty years. When Horace Mann advocated milder disciphne for
the scholars, Mr. Field, as the oldest member, in time of service, in his profession in
the city, successfully led the opposition to the proposed reform in a series of pam-
phlets, known as "The Common School Controversy."
Frances E. Field, of Boston; a widow; Richard M. Field, minor, above four-
teen years old, absent on seas ; Adeline E. Field, minor, under fourteen. Both chil-
dren of late Barnum Field. — Suffolk, Mass., Probate.
Bamum Field: Frances Field, of Boston, petitions to be appointed administra-
trix of estate of Barnum, her late husband; a teacher. Left two minor children,
but no mention of their names in this paper. — Suffolk, Mass., Probate.
536 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Frances E, Field, widow of Barnum Field, appointed guardian of minor chil-
dren of above (Richard M. Field, Adeline E. Field), May 19, 1S51. — Suffolk County
Probate.
He d. May 7, 1851. Res. Boston, Mass.
3043. i. RICHARD MONTGOMERY, b. , s. p. Manager of the Bos-
ton Museum.
3043. ii. FRANCES ELIZABETH, b. ; m. C. L. Riddle. Res. Rox-
bury, Mass.
3043K. iii. TWO CHILDREN; d. in infancy.
3043>^. iv. BARNUM W. ; d. .
3043|<. V. ADELINE ELIZABETH; d. .
1588. ZEBULON FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, Will-
iam, John, Richard, William, William), b. in Taunton, Mass., 1760; m. Olive
White.
Field, Zebulon, Dighton. Private, Capt. Jacob Fuller's company, Col. John
Jacob's regiment; enlisted July 7, 1778; service, 5 months, 26 days, at Rhode
Island; enlistment to expire Jan. i, 1779.
Field, Zebulon, Taunton. Drummer, Capl. Joshua Wilbore's company. Col.
Ebenezer Francis's regiment; pay abstract for mileage, etc., to camp and home;
credited with two days' allowance; company drafted from Taunton, Raynham,
Easton, Dartmouth, Freetown, Berkley and Dighton ; warrant for pay allowed in
council Nov. 29, 1776. Also Capt. Elisha Barney's (loth) company. Col. George
Williams' (3d Bristol county) regiment; service, 25 days; company marched to
Warren, via Rehoboth, on the alarm at Rhode Island of Dec. 8, 1776. Also Capt.
Jonathan Shaw's company. Col. George Williams' regiment; service, i month, i day;
company marched from Raynham, Taunton and Easton, in September, 1777, on a
secret expedition. Also drummer, Capt. Ichabod Leonard's company, Col. John
Hatheway's regiment; service, 20 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiver-
ton, R. I., in April, 1777. Also private, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's company, from Taun-
ton, Whitney's regiment; service, i month. 23 days ; company marched from Taunton
to Providence, R. I. ; roll made up for wages and travel, agreeable to resolve of
April, 1777, and sworn to at Taunton, Sept. 23, 1777. Also private, Capt. Ebenezer
Dean's company. Col. Thomas Carpenter's regiment; service, i month, 4 days;
company marched from Taunton, via Rehoboth and Bristol, to Providence, R. I.,
and thence home. Roll dated Nov. 5, 1777.
Field, Zebulon, 3d. List of men mustered for six months' service at Rhode
Island, by James Leonard, muster-master for Bristol county, dated July 7, 1778;
Col. George Williams' regiment.
Field, Zebulon. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's company. Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. James Williams, Brigadier-General Godfrey's
(Bristol county) brigade; service, 8 days; company marched from Taunton to Tiv-
erton, R. L, on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780.
Field, Zebulon. Private, Captain Pelatiah Eddy's company, Col. Abiel
Mitchel's regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col. James Williams, Brigadier-General
Godfrey's (Bristol county) brigade; service, 8 days; company marched from
Taunton to Tiverton, R. I., on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780. (This name appears
twice on roll.) — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Taunton, Mass.
1589. ABIZER FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard. John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass. ; m. .
Field, Abiezer, Taunton. Private, Capt. Ichabod Leonard's company. Col.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 537
John Hathaway's regiment; serivce, 20 days; company marched from Taunton to
Tiverton, R. L, in April, 1777, by order of Brigadier-General Godfrey.
Field, Abiezer, Taunton. Private, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's company, Col.
Josiah Whitney's regiment; service, i month, 23 days; company marched from
Taunton to Providence, R. I. Roll made up for wages and travel, agreeable to
resolve of April, 1777, and sworn to at Taunton, Sept. 23. 1777.
Field, Abiezer. Private, Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's company. Col. Abiel Mitchel's
regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col. James Williams, Brigadier-General Godfrey's
(Bristol county) brigade; service, 8 days; company marched from Taunton to
Tiverton, R. I., on the alarm of Aug. i, 1780.
Fields, Abiezer, Taunton. Private, Capt. Jacob Kaskins' company. Col. John
Jacobs's regiment; enlisted June i, 177S; service, 11 days; company detached to
guard the shore at Freetown for ten days by order of Brig. Gen. George Godfrey. —
Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Taunton and Norton, Mass.
3044. i. ABIZER, b. 1784; m. Hannah Wilbur.
3044>^. ii. DENNIS, b. .
1590. DARIUS FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John. William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass. ; m. Rachel , b. Norton.
Field, Darius. Private, Capt. Rufus Barney's company. Colonel Carpenter's
regiment; service, 4 days, on an alarm at Rhode Island; company detached to
march to Tiverton, R. I., for 6 days; roll dated July 28, 1780. Also Capt. John
Shaw's company. Col. Abiel Mitchel's regiment; service, 4 days: company marched
to Rhode Island, March 6, 1781, by order of his Excellency John Hancock, on a forty
days' expedition. — Massachusetts State Revolutionary Records.
Res. Taunton, Mass.
3044X. i. BARNEY, b. 1793; d. Jan. 12, 1871.
3044 >^. ii. LUCY, b. May 2, 1799; ^- March 24, 1869; unm.
3044^4^. iii. ADA, b. Jan. 11, 1790; d. May i, 1874; unm.
1591. DAVID FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John. William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Aug. 30, 1774; m. Celia Lin-
coln, b. Jan. 9, 1775; d. May 3, 1859, dau. of David and Jemima (Dean). He was a
farmer. He d. Sept. 25, 1S63. Res. Norton, Mass.
3045. i. CELIA, b. Nov. i, 1801; m. Aug. 16, 1829, Newman WethereU.
3046. ii. DENCY, b. March 25, 1804.
3047. iii. DAVID, b. April 2, 1808; m. Nancy A. Williams.
3048. iv. RATHBURN, b. June 3, 1814; m. Matilda W. Leonard.
1592. JONATHAN FIELD (Zebulon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., in 1781; m. Nov. 21,
1805, Hannah Wilbur, dau. of Simeon and Betsey (White), of Raynham, b. 1784; d.
Oct. 23, 1845. Was a farmer. He d. in Raynham, April 27, 1847. Res. Taunton, Mass.
3048^. i. JONATHAN, b. March 2, 1807; d. Jan. 16, 1833.
3048^^. ii. DANIEL M., b. Oct. 19, 1809; m. ; d. Oct. 9, 1848; sailor.
3048;^. iii. LYSANDER W., b. in 1813; m. Charlotte , b. 1816; d. Dec.
2, 1846. She d. Raynham, Jan. 18, 1855.
3048I4:. iv. HANNAH C, b. .
3048^. V. GEORGE W., b. .
1594. WILLIAMS FIELD (Richard, Zebulon, Richard, John. John, William.
John, Richard, William, William), b. Mansfield, Mass. ; m. June 23, 1795, Margaret
Clapp, dau. of David and Hannah (King), of Norton. Res. Mansfield, Mass.
35
638 FIELD GENEALOGY.
15941^. NATHANIEL FIELD (Nathaniel, Zebulon, Richard, John, John,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b, Taunton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1774; m.
Sarah Leonard, dau. of William and Hannah (Thayer). Was a farmer. He d.
July I, i860. Res. Taunton, Mass.
3048-2. i. SETH W., b. . 3048-5. iv. SALLY, b. .
3048-3. ii. WILLIAM L., b. . 3048-6. v. ORILLA, b. .
3048-4. iii. GEORGE, b. . 3048-7. vi. LUCINDA, b. .
3048- 8. vii. PERHAPS OTHERS.
1594X. BETHUEL FIELD (Nathaniel, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., March 12, 1778; m.
Sally Lincoln, dau. of David and Jemima (Dean). Res. Norton, Mass., and Ches-
terfield, N. H.
3048-g. i. BETHUEL, b. Feb. 18, 1801.
3048-10. ii. SALLY, b. Sept. 6, 1802; d. unm., May 16, 1837.
3048-11. iii. PARDON, b. Sept. 16, 1804.
3048-12. iv. LYDIA, b. Oct. 18, 1806.
3048-13. V. NATHANIEL, b. Dec. 17, 1808; killed by a horse in 1813.
3048-14. vi. JESSE, b. Nov. 3, 1811.
3048-15. vii. HICKS, b. April 13, 1813.
3048-16. viii. MEREDA, b. June 4, 1816.
3048-17. ix. POLLY, b. Sept. 27, 1818.
3048-18. X. FANNY M., b. July 14, 1821.
3048-19. xi. NATHANIEL, b. Jan. 4. 1827.
I594K- ARTEMAS FIELD (Nathaniel, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Taunton, Mass., Dec. 6, 1783; m,
Lucinda Leonard, dau. of William and Hannah (Thayer). Res. Taunton, Mass.
3048-20. i. ARTEMAS, b. Nov. 27, 1807; m. d. Oct. 15, 1890. Res. Taunton.
3048-21. ii. BRADDOCK, b. Dec. 6, 1809.
3048-22. iii. EMORY, b. ; d. aged twelve years.
3048-23. iv. HANNAH, b. ; d. aged two years.
3048-24. V. SARAH, b. 1817.
3048-25. vi. HIRAM, b. i8ig.
3048-26. vii. FLORA, b. 1822; d. in 1839.
3048-27. viii. JOHN, b. Jan. 12. 1824.
1600. EBENEZER FIELD (John, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William. William), b. Attleboro, Mass., July 3, 1769; m. Miriam
. Res. Attleboro, Mass.
3048-28.1. ALMIRA, b. 1797; d. Oct. 25, 1823.
1601. JOSEPH FIELD (John, Zebulon, Richard, John, John. William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 28, 1772; m. Feb. 7, 1799,
Chloe Hatch, b. in 1761; d. Sept. 22, 1833. He d. Oct. 3, 1853. Res. Attleboro,
Mass.
3049. i. JOSIAH, b. Aug. 11, 1799.
3050. ii. JOSEPH, b. in 18—.
3051. iii, CHLOE, b. in 1809; d. Feb. 24, 1837.
1604. JUDE FIELD (Jude, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Norton, Mass., Sept. 21, 1805; m. July 3, 1826,
Miria Parsells, b. Jan. 18. 1810; d. Nov. 5, 1846; m., 2d, March 9, 1847, Nancy
Ann Guerineau, b. Jan. 10, 1813; d. March 21, 1855. Was a nail manufacturer.
He d, March 12, 1856. Res. New York, N. Y.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 539
3052.
1.
3053-
11.
3054-
111.
3055.
iv.
3056.
V.
3057-
VI.
3058.
Vll.
3059-
viii.
3060.
IX.
3061.
X.
MARIA LOUISA, b. Feb. 22, 1828; d. March 13, 1832.
SARAH ANN, b. May 26, 1830; d. July 22, 1830.
MARIA LOUSIA, b. Feb.;i, 1833; m. , Mrs. T. O. Decker 82
Clark Av., Ocean Grove, N. J.
DELIA ANN, b. Sept. 19, 1835; d. Aug. 18, 1836.
HARVEY BROWN, b. June 25, 1837: d. April 18, 1838.
ALBERT FIELD, b. June 4, 1840; m. Maria L. Combes.
DELIA ANN, b. March 6, 1844; m. Sept. 23, 1867, Mrs. C. W.
Combes, 2005 Washington Av., New York City.
JUDE WESLEY, b. Nov. 15, 1848. Res. Philadelphia.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. March 27, 1853.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. March 27, 1853; d. July 16. 1853.
1608. BENJAMIN F. FIELD (Jude, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Nov. 6, 1808, in Norton, Mass. ; m. Aug. 27,
1812, Eveline B. Bradford, b. Plymouth, dau. of Bartlett and Eliza Bradford; d.
Plymouth, Aug. 24, 1855. Was a tailor.
1438. Eveline B. Field, of Plymouth, Mass. ; insane person ; her son-in-law,
James M. Atwood, appointed guardian June 9, 1884. Eveline was the wife of Ben-
jamin F. Field, and the mother of Bartlett B. Field and Helen M. Atwood, wife of
said James.
2814. Eveline B. Field, of Plymouth, Mass., died Aug. 24, 1885. Heirs men-
tioned: Helen M. Atwood, wife of James M. and Bartlett B. Field. James M.
Atwood administrator. (There is no administration on estate of her husband,
Benjamin F. Field, but he died some time between the date of the appointment of
her guardian and the date of the wife's death.) — Plymouth County Probate.
He d. Jan. 2, 1887. Res. Plymouth, Mass.
3061 «^. i. HELEN M., b. ; m. James M. Atwood. ",
3061 >^. ii. BARTLETT B., b. . Res. Plymouth, Mass.
1612. PATTEN FIELD (Solomon, Zebulon, Richard, John, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Norton, Mass., Aug. 20, 1798; m. Louisa
. Was a carpenter. He d. in Salem, Mass., Feb. 16, 1865. Res. Norton, Mass.
3062. i. WILLIAM PATTEN, b. March 27, 1829.
3063. ii. MARIAH LOUISA, b. Feb. 3, 1831.
1617. OLIVER LAMB FIELD (Solomon, Zebulon. Richard, John, John,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Newton. Mass., Sept. 12, 1811; m.
. She d. in Colebrook, N. H. ; m., 2d, Sarah E. .
Will of Oliver L. Field, of Fitchburg, wife Sarah E., second wife; first one
buried in Colebrook, N H., where he requests to be buried, 1879. Son, Washington
P. Field; daughter, Agnes Fletcher. — Worcester County Probate.
He d. Oct. 14, 1878. Res. Fitchburg, Mass.
3063 ■4:. i. WASHINGTON P., b. .
30631^. ii.. AGNES, b. ; m. Fletcher.
1629. OZIAS FIELD (William, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 17, 1798; m. Charlotte
Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Whiting. Res. Roxbury. He was a dry-goods merchant,
Roxbury Mass. His will was proved Feb. 10, 1866.
3064. i. WILLIAM OZIAS, b. March 10, 1838.
3065. ii. CAROLINE ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 6, 1840; m. Sept. 12, i860,
Nehemiah P. Clark, of St. Cloud, Minn.
3066. iii. FERDINAND CLARK, b. Nov. 28, 1842. Res. Dedham, Mass.
540 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1630. JABEZ FIELD (William, Jabez, Richard, John. John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. North Bridgewater, Mass., June 13, 1800: m. Mary
Alger, dau. of Joseph. She d. April, 1841. He was a carpenter.
7654. Jabez Field, of North Bridgewater, died Aug. g, 1868; no will. The
only heirs mentioned, William Field, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Edwin Field, ot
Newton, Mass., both sons of deceased. Edwin Field appointed administrator,
Sept. 14, 1868. — Plymouth County Probate.
He d. Aug. 9, 1868. Res. Brockton, Mass.
3067.
3068.
3069
3070.
WILLIAM, b. Oct. 29, 1824; m. Mary F. P. Whiting.
EDWIN, b. Feb. 17, 1829; m. Sarah M. Whiting.
MARY ANN, b, Dec. 22, 1826; d. Jan. 5, 1827.
MARY JANE, b. Sept. 23, 1832; d. June 24, 1854.
3072.
3073.
3074.
3071. V. RICHARD, b. Nov. 22, 1834.
1634. GALEN FIELD (Ephraim, Jabez. Richard, John, John, William. John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 29, 1788; ra. Mary (Polly)
Thayer, dau. of Asa, b. Aug. 31, 1795; d. Nov. 20. 1874. He settled in North
Paris, on the farm since occupied by S. W. Dunham. He was one of the old-time
schoolmasters in that town, having taught eighteen winters. He also held various
town offices. He d. Oct. 30, 1864. Res. Paris, Me.
JANE CHAPIN, b. April 8, 1820; m. Bradford Keen.
WILLIAM HARRISON, b. Feb. 20, 1822; m. Calista Andrews.
LAURA THAYER, b. Jan. 15, 1824; m. about 1845, George W.
Young. Res. West Paris. He was son of Charles, b. Dec. 14,
1818, in Greenwood; settled in South Paris, Me., and removed to
West Paris; was a blacksmith by trade, and served as drummer
in the 23rd Maine regiment. Ch. : i. Fannie A., b. Jan.
15, 1847; m. Charles M. Lane. Res. Gray, Me. 2. Georgie
A., b. Nov. 6, 1S48; m. Frank W. Barrett. 3. Laura Abby, b.
July 27, 1852; m. William B. Pierce. Res, North Yarmouth,
Me. 4. George Frederick, b. May 9, 1859; m. Jennie Piper.
Res. Boston.
FRANKLIN NELSON, b. July 4, 1828; m. Sobrina Andrews.
CHARLES WALDO, b. Sept. 24, 1831; m. Olive F. Keen.
HIRAM T., b. April 23, 1834; m. Matilda A. Ripley.
MARY T., b. June 21, 1840; m. C. W. Chase.
1635. ANSEL FIELD (Ephraim, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., 1790; m. there 1820, Orra Rip-
ley; m., 2d, Dolly Moore, dau, of Elisha. She d. Feb. 8, 1878. He was a trader
for many years at South Paris, and was postmaster there for some length of time.
He d, Feb. 16, 1868. Res., s. p., Paris, Me.
1638. ZIBEON FIELD (Ephraim, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Dec. 17, 1795; m. April 27, 1818, Lydia Howe, b.
April 28, 1798, dau. of Jacob; d. Nov. 9, 1847; m., 2d, Feb. 29, 1848, Mrs. Cyprian
(Benson) Whitman, dau. of Seth; m., 3d, Mrs. Polly (Howe) Colburn.
Zibeon Field, son of Ephraim, was b. in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1798. Having
accompanied his parents to the wilds of Maine when but a boy, he assisted in the
pioneer labor of clearing and improving a homestead. He subsequently engaged
in farming as a life occupation, artd was one of the influential men of Chesterville,
Me., where he served as selectman and in other offices of minor importance. He
died in 1883, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. His wife, Lydia Howe
3075-
IV.
3076.
v.
3077.
VI.
3078.
vn
FIELD GENEALOGY.
541
3079.
3080.
11.
3081.
111.
3082.
iv.
3083.
V.
3084.
vi.
3085.
vn.
3086.
viii
3087.
ix.
3a88.
X.
3089. xi.
Field, a daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Foster) Howe, bore him seven sons and three
daughters, of whom the following are now living: Ansel S. , residing in California,
having retired from active business; Belinda, of Farmington, Me., the widow of
the late Cyrus W. Bailey; Mason G., an agriculturist, residing at Farmington, Me.,
and Zibeon C.
He d. Jan. 19, 1S83. Res. Paris and Farmington, Me.
ANSEL SMITH, b. April 13, 1819; m. Clarissa Butterfield.
ZIBEON CHAPMAN, b. Dec. 29, 1821; d. Oct. 4, 1823.
FRANCIS BLAKE, b. Dec. 16, 1823; m. Abby Bradbury.
BELINDA, b. Oct. 6, 1828; m. Hiscock, of Farmington.
PERLEY PUTNAM, b. March 22, 1830; m. Charlotte P. Corbett,
Lurency Stone and Mrs. Emma L. Fogg.
ZIBEON CHAPMAN, b. Dec. 25, 1831; m. Lydia A. Corbett.
MASON GREENWOOD, b. April 23, 1835; m. Helen Ripley.
CAROLINE ELIZABETH, b. May 23, 1837; m. Ethiel Welch.
She d. s. p. Feb. 25, 1895, in West Newton, Mass.
DANA AUGUSTUS, b. Aug 9, 1839; m. Melissa A. Holbrook.
LYDIA JANE, b. Oct. 3, 1841; m. Leonard Briggs. Shed. Dec.
30, 1888.
LORETTA, b. Jan. 16, 1849; ^- June 26. 1866, John G. Crawford.
Res. North Paris, Me. He was b. Aug. 13, 1845. Is a farmer.
Ch. : I. Perley A. Crawford, b. Nov. 22. 1866; m. Sept. 25. 1888,
North Paris, Me. 2. Wendell D. Crawford, b. June 13, 1868; d.
Feb. 4, 1885. 3. Carroll W. Crawford, b. Aug. 12, 1870; d. July
2, 1879.
MIRANDA, b. Dec. 29, 1850; m. Sept. 18, 1887, Augustus Bruce.
Res. 24 Chambers St.. Boston, Mass., s. p. He is sexton of
Park Street church, b. April 16, 1850.
ISABELLA, b June 26, 1853; m. Sept. 16, 1877, Algernon Samson
Andrews. Res. Paris, Me. He was b. February, 1857. Is a
farmer. Ch. : i. Minetta Bell Andrews, b. Jan. 24, 1879; d.
March 29, 1S94. 2. Angle Field Andrews, b. Dec. 16, 1880. 3.
Frank Harris Andrews, b. June 17, 1882. 4. Albion West
Andrews, b. April 13, 1885.
1639. ALVIN FIELD (Ephraim, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Paris, Me., Oct. 9, 1800; m. Auburn, in 1825, Olive
Record, b. Dec. 25, 1805; d. Nov. 24, i860. He was a farmer. He d. 1866. Res.
Paris and Portland. Me.
GALEN, b. Dec. 25, 1825; d. Jan. 12, 1851.
RUBY A., b. Sept. 28, 1827; d. 1852.
MARY E., b. Sept., 1830; m. Bradford. Res. E. Poland, Me.
DIANA AUGUSTA, b. ; d. 1854.
MARIA FRANCIS, b. June. 1834; m. William McKenzie. Res.
1168 Fulton St.. Brooklyn, N. Y.
GRANVILLE HARRISON, b. July 10, 1836; m. Sarah T. Sawyer.
OLIVE, b Oct. 27, 1838; d. 1898
ALVIN, b. April i, 1843; killed Aug. 9, 1862, at Cedar mountain
in Civil war.
GEORGE HENRY, b. March 23, 1846. m. in Boston, March 20,
1867, Mayry J. Gray. b. Aug. 20, 1844. He is a salesman. Res.
s. p. 28 Lynn St., Chelsea, Mass.
3090.
3091.
3092.
3093-
11.
3094-
111.
3095.
IV.
3096.
V.
3097-
vi.
309^-
VII.
3099-
Vlll.
3100. IX.
642 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3105.
IV.
3106.
V.
3107.
vii.
3108.
viii,
1641. ZOPHER FIELD (Daniel. Jabez, Richard, John, John. William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 14, 1789; m. there Feb. 6,
1811, Bernice Howard; d. Jan. 28, 1833.
7648. Jesse Perkins appointed to make sale of real estate of Daniel Field, Jr.,
and George Field, May 6, 1834. Daniel Field, Jr., and George Field were minors
and sons of Zopher Field. Petition signed by friends of said minors, to-wit:
Daniel Field, Zopher Field, Austin Howard, William Hall, Ezra Churchill, Lysan-
der Howard. Account filed in this case Oct. i, 1839, shows payment to said Daniel
and George after they both arrived at the age of twenty-one years. — Plymouth
County Probate.
He d. Sept. 6 1863. Res. Bridgewater, Mass.
3101. i. DANIEL, b. Feb. 21, 1814; m. Oct. 6, 1836. Jane Soule, of Dus-
bury. He d. Dec. 20, 1891.
3102. ii. GEORGE, b. May 20, 1818; d. May 9, 1896; unm.
3103. vi. LOUISA, b. Sept. i, 1820; m. May 31, 1836, George Francis Mat-
thews.
3104. iii. HANNAH, b. May 4, 1823; m. Cyrus Howard, Jr. She d. Nov.
6, 1844.
CHARLES COPELAND. b. March 18, 1826; m. Lucy Cobb Cross.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE, b. Oct. 20, 1828; m. Mary Denison
Holmes.
LOUISA, b. Feb. 8. 1816; d. May 6, 1819.
HARRIOT, b. March 26, 1812; m. Nov. 20, 1833, William G.
Howard. She d. Aug. 22, 1845.
1642. WALDO FIELD (Daniel, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., March 8, 1791; m. there Dec.
4, 1816, Abigail Marshall, dau. of Hayward Marshall; m. there, 2d, March 29, 1820,
Sally Perkins, dau. of Mark, b. May 8, 1795; d. Feb. 19, 1878.
7670. Waldo Field, of North Bridgewater, yeoman. Mark Perkins appointed
administrator, March 7, 1826. His estate was insolvent. No will. No heirs men-
tioned. Allowance made to the widow, but her name not given.
7668. Sally Field, of Brockton, Mass. She died on the 19th of Feb., 1878,
leaving two sons, Waldo Field, of Brockton, and Perez P. Field, of West Bridge-
water. No will. — Plymouth County Probate.
He d. Jan. 29, 1826. Res. North Bridgewater, Mass.
WALDO, b. Feb. 9, 1821; m. Ellen F. Hayden.
PEREZ PERKINS, b. April 5, 1823; m. Lovice M. White.
MARSHALL, b. April 3, 1818; d. unm. March 19, 1841.
7663. Marshall Field, of North Bridgewater. Waldo Field
appointed administrator April 5, 1842. Sureties on bond, Perez
Marshall and Sally Field. No will, and no heirs mentioned.
Marshall died at sea on his return trip from Cuba.
1644. JOHN FIELD (Barzillia, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John.
Richard, William, William), b. Bridgewater, Mass., Dec. 15, 1796; m. there October,
1817, Olive Thompson, dau. of James.
7658. John Field, of North Bridgewater, died Jan. 20, 1866. He left widow,
Olive Field. Children, Franklin Field, Charles T. Field, Barzillia Field, Caroline
Field and Olive Bumpus, wife of E. B. Bumpus, all of North Bridgewater. Also,
John Field, of Freedom, Minn., Clarissa Allen, wife of William Allen, of California,
Elizabeth Brett, wife ot Frank Brett, of Randolph, Mass., and two grand children,
John F. Field and Harriet Field, minors, of Raynham, Mass. John F. Field and
3109.
!•
31 10.
11.
31"-
Ill,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 543
3II2.
1.
3113-
11,
3114-
111.
3II5.
iv.
3II6.
V.
Harriet Field were children of his son, Eustace Field, deceased. In his will he
mentions John F. Field and Charles Field, sons of his son, John Field, of Freedom,
Minn. He also mentions Alice P. Field, wife of his son, Franklin Field. — Plymouth
County Probate.
He d. Jan. 20, 1866. Res. North Bridgewater, Mass.
FRANKLIN, b. April 7, 1822; m. Alice P. Simmons.
CHARLES THOMPSON, b. Oct. i, 1836.
BARZILLIA, b. Feb. 17, 1842; m. Aug. 11, 1874, Lizzie P.
Kimball.
CAROLINE, b. Aug. 27, 1839.
OLIVE, b. June 16, 1820; m. Nov. 10, 1839, Elisha B. Bumpus, of
North Bridgewater.
3117. vi. JOHN, b. March 19, 1834; m. Carrie Rosa Woodbury, of Rochester,
Minn.
3118. vii. CLARISSA, b. Jan. 5, 1832; m. William W. Allen, of Mansfield.
Res. California.
3119. viii. ELIZABETH, b. April 11, 1829; m. March 2, 1856, Frank Brett,
of Randolph, Mass.
3120. ix. EUSTACE, b. May 17, 1824; m. Maria Snow.
3121. X. OWEN, b. July 24, 1826; m. Hannah P. Tobey.
1648. LUCIUS FIELD (Barzillia, Jabez, Richard, John, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. North Bridgewater, Mass., June 11, 1811; m. Mary
B. Thomas. He was an employe of the Boston & Albany railroad. George Jen-
nings was appointed administrator of his estate April 7, 1863. He d. March 22,
1863. Res. Needham. Mass.
3122. i. CAROLINE, b. March 12, 1856; d. June 11, 1863.
3123. ii. MARY, b. ; unm. Res. Hotel Oxford, Boston. Is a public
school teacher.
3124. iii. LUCIUS, b. '-. Res. Telluride, Col.
3124^^. iv. ALICE, b. ; m. John E. Dudley. Res. Berthoud, Col.
1649. CAPTAIN JOHN FIELD (John. John, Zachariah, Zachariah John,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., Dec. 17, 1761; m.
Nov. 3, 1785, Hannah Gladding, b. 1768. She m. Aug. 8, 1811, James Burr and d.
in 1848. One child by Burr, viz., Edward; was lost at sea.
March 26, 1804, Hannah was appointed administratrix of her husband's estate.
— Providence Probate.
B. 19, 555- Apprenticed to Ralph Merry, Feb. 19, 1783 and goes shares in Sloop
Polly.
B. 9, 381. Probate records: Widow Hannah administratrix.
B. 9, 420. Inventory, March 26, 1804, ;^2,473, 4s, td.
B. I, 279. Estate insolvent.
Feb. 19, 1783. This is 10 certify that I, the subscriber, give liberty to John
Field, who is my apprentice, to go a cruise in the Sloop Polly, commanded by Alfred
Arnold to continue six weeks, and I agree to allow the said John the one-half of all
the prizes that shall be taken during the said cruise whether money or goods of
what name or nature soever. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the
date above signed. Sgd. Ralph Merry.
Witness: Job Reed, Richard Hayes.
He d. February 1800. Res. Providence, R. 1.
3125. i. JOHN ALBERT, b. Jan. i, 1793; m. Deborah Ann Burr and Julia
Ann Tayler.
644 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3126. ii. SOPHIA FRANCES, b. ; ra. May 7, 1807, George Bolles.
Ch. : I. Mary, m. George Clarke. 2. Abby, m. Robert Knight.
3. Eliza, b. Dec. 23, 1796; m. William Dana. 4. Almira, m.
Philip Fisk.
3127. lii. JULIA ANN, b. .
3128. iv. ALMIRA, b. ; m. April 18, 1822, John Miller, his second wife.
Ch. : I. Martha. 2. John. 3. Albeit. 4. Elizabeth.
1653. BENJAMIN FIELD (John, John, Zachariah, Zachariah, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., about 1769; m. June 19,
1798, Sally Carter, of Newport. He was a sailor. His dau. m. a Shedd. Albert
Manchester's wife is a descendant. He resided in Boston.
Arnold 10, 206. Benjamin Field, son of John, m. June 6, 1790, Amanda Femam.
Res. Boston, Mass.
3128^. i. MARIA, b. ; m. Shedd.
1655. JOSEPH FIELD (John, John, Zachariah, Zachariah, John, William,
John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., 1773; m. Sept. 30, 1794,
Lucy Potter. He changed his name to Joseph Fuller. He was adopted by Joseph
Fuller, on condition of changing his name to Fuller, He was married as Joseph
Fuller. The daughter married Aug. 22, 1816, Anthony B. Arnold. They had no
children, but adopted a daughter, Sarah C. H., who was born in Boston, July 9,
1833. She married July 27, 1859, Edwin B. Day, of Providence. They have one
child, Anthony B. Day. He d, Aug. 8, 1845. Res. Providence, R. I.
3129. i. ABBEY POTTER, b. ; m. Aug. 22, 1816, Anthony B. Arnold.
Sarah C. H. Day. adopted daughter of Anthony B. and Abby P.
Arnold; b. in Boston, July 9, 1833; m. July 27, 1859, Edwin
Brinard Day. Ch. : i. Anthony B. Day, b. May 14, i860.
1656. RICHARD MONTGOMERY FIELD (John, John, Zachariah. Zach-
ariah, John, William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., July
8, 1775; m. Feb. 14, 1799, Eliza Snow, dau. of John; m., 2d. Oct. 2, 1816, Caroline
Snow, dau. of Benjamin, of Norwich, Conn., b. Sept. 24, 1793. His will was pro-
bated Jan. 2, 1844; d. May 4, 1871. His widow was executrix.
Will of Richard M. Field. Probate Docket, Vol. vi. No. A6275. Will Book
15, p. 98. — Be it known. That I, Richard M. Field, of Providence, County of Prov-
idence, State of Rhode Island, make and declare this my Last Will & Testament,
in manner & form as follows. —
First. I give, devise & bequeath unto my beloved wife Caroline S. Field, all my
household furniture & my Pew No 84 in the Richmond Street Meeting House to her,
her heirs, executors, administrators & assigns forever;
Secondly. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Caroline, during her nat-
ural life, or so long as she remain my widow, the use, rents, and profits of all the
rest & residue ot my Estate whether real or personal, & in case of her decease, so
much thereof as may be necessary to defray her sickness and funeral expenses.
After which my Will is, that sd Estate both real & personal be proportioned, share
and share alike, to each of my surviving children, to them, their heirs & assigns
forever.
And I hereby appoint my said wife Caroline S. Field Executrix of this my Last
Will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal, this fifteenth day of
November, one thousand, eight hundred & forty three (1843).
Richard M Field, (l. s.)
He d. December, 1843. Res. Providence, R. I.
3136.
vn.
3137-
VUl
3138.
ix.
3139-
X.
3I40.
XI.
3I4I-
xn.
3142.
Xlll,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 645
3130. i. FRANCES ELIZA, b, March 29. 1800; m. Barnum Field (see).
3131. ii. ADELINE JARVIS, b. Feb. 28, 1808; m. Oct. 31, 1833, Vincent
Carr. Ch. : i. Jane. 2. Marietta. 3. Emma. 4. William
Henry.
3132. iii. ABBY CAREY, b. July 8, i8io, m. Dec. 24, 1829, John Edwin
Brown. Ch. : i. Mary Elizabeth. 2. Frank Vincent. 3. John
Edwin, m., 2d, Samuel Edward Snow.
3133. iv. ELIZABETH SNOW. b. April 9, 1814; m. May 16, 1842, John E.
Lamed.
3134. V. CAROLINE SNOW, b. Aug. 4, 1817; m. Nov. 31, 1841, Asa
C. Brownell.
3135. vi. RICHARD M., JR., b. Aug. 2, 1819; d. Aug. 22, 1849; m. Oct.
22, 1845, Aramintha Padelford, b. 1829; d. April 15, 1854.
SARAH ANN. b. April 25. 1821 ; d. April 30, 1821.
viii. JONATHAN RUSSELL, b. June 19, 1822; m. Mary Burke; no
children. He d. April 5, 1881.
MARIA LOUISA, b. July 20, 1824; d. unm. May 4, 1841.
EDWARD HAMPTON, b. Oct. '26, 1826; d. April 12, 1854.
CHARLES T., b. Jan. i, 1829; d. April 9, 1830.
AUGUSTUS HUNTINGTON, b. May 15, 1831; m. .
JOHN ALLEN, b. Jan. 19, 1835; d. unm. Feb. 8. 1871.
1658. ISAAC FIELD (George, Isaac, Joseph, Zachariah, John, William, John,
Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., in 1795; m. Oct. 31, 1816, Sarah
Ann Walcott.
Probate records. B. i, p. 131. Isaac Field, a minor, son to wife of Mathewson
Williams, said Isaac was son of George Field, and was under fourteen years of age
Oct. 5, 1801. Mathewson Williams appointed guardian. John Greene, of Glouces-
ter, objects. This Mathewson Williams was father of William G. Williams.
He d. April 19, 1855. Res. Providence. R. I.
3143. i. ANNA, b. in Providence; m. there, Andrew Ward. Ch. : i.
Clarence. 2. Isabel. 3. Alice. 4. One son.
3144. ii. MARY GREENE, b. in Providence; m. there, James M. Lawton,
s. p. In New York, March i, 1895, James M. Lawton died of
pneumonia. He married for his first wife, Mary Greene, dau. of
the late Isaac Field, of Providence. — Providence Journal, March
4, 1895.
1659. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I.; m. June 4, 1775,
Hannah Moses, dau. of Samuel, of Gloucester. (Other records by her name were
Irons and Janes.) Res. Cranston, R. I.
3145. i. THOMAS, b, about 1777; m. Annie Fanning.
SILAS, b. ; m. Hannah Leavens. Went west.
SAMUEL, b. ; d. unm.
BETSEY, b. ; m. Josiah Colvin.
WILLIAM, b. 1792; m. Betsey Angell.
WATERMAN, b. ; m. Betsey Fenner.
DARIUS, b. 1779; m. Susan King.
1660. JOHN FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas. Thomas. Thomas, William,
John. Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I.. 1743: m. 1766. Elizabeth or
Waite White. He d. 1828. Res. Cranston. R. I., and Tolland, Conn.
3146.
n.
3147.
111.
3148.
IV.
3149.
V.
3150.
VI.
3I5I.
vn,
546 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3152. i. PARDON, b. Sept. 27, 1767; m. Rachel Kent.
3153. ii. BARBARA, b. June 10, 1770.
3154. iii. ROXANNA, b. May 14, 1778.
3155. iv. JOHN, b. June 2, 1780; d. Nov. 24, 1828.
3156. V. JEREMIAH, b. Feb. 14, 1782.
3157. vi. ELIZABETH, b. March 19, 17S4.
1662. STEPHEN FIELD (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I., 1770; m. Parsia
Capwell. He d. April, 1833. Res. Cranston, R. 1.
3158. i. STEPHEN, b. ; m. Martha Yaw and Henrietta .
3159. ii. GUILFORD, b. ; m. Fanny Field.
3160. iii. SALLY, b. ; m. Joseph Burton. Ch. : i. John. 2. Charles.
3. Francis. 4. William.
1670. MAJOR ABNER FIELD (William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas,
Thomas, William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Providence, R. I., July 5,
1754; m. Chloe Whipple; m., 2d, Feb. 22, 1779, Rebecca Payne, dau. of Capt. John,
of Cranston. He was son of Capt. William Field, of Field's Point, Rhode Island.
Abner was noted for his personal bravery. When he heard the news of the battle
of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown he instantly joined the volunteers,
the Pawtuxet Rangers, at Cranston, or Long Neck, now called Pawtuxet Neck^
under Lieut. Col. Oliver Arnold, second detachment. In July, 1778, he was on duty
at Pawtuxet under Col. Benjamin Arnold. During the war he was taken prisoner
and thrust into the notorious Jersey prison ship, where he soon became covered
with vermin. It is said he held a commission in the army, and this is the tradition
in the family.
Major Abner Field's estate was settled by Moses Warner, who was appointed
administrator Dec. 26, 1792. He left three children, William, Robert W. and
Stephen. Robert's guardian was named George Field; widow's name was Rebekah
Payne. The Windsor County Gazeteer states that William died unmarried ; Stephen
married Mary Jordan ; moved to Troy, Wis. Robert married Lydia Field, daugh-
ter of Pardon Field, and moved when an old man to Gerry, N. Y. — Windsor, Vt.,
Probate.
10, 1792. Res. Springfield and Chester, Vt.
WILLIAM, b. in 1780; d. unm.
ROBERT WESCOTT, b. Feb. 28, 1781; m. Lydia Field.
STEPHEN, b. Jan. 10, 1791; m. Mary Jordan.
3163X. iv. ABNER WHIPPLE, b. 1775; m. Betsey Tarbell.
1672. ENSIGN NEHEMIAH FIELD (William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas,
Thomas, William, John, Richard, William, William) b. Providence, R. I., May 15,
1757; m. Aug. 27, 1781, Sarah Whitman, b. Sept. 25, 1761; d. July 21, 1831. Nehe-
miah Field was born at Field's Point, Providence, R, I., where his ancestors had
lived for many years. He was the son of Capt. William Field, a prominent citizen
there. When the news of the battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown
reached him, in company with his brother, Abner, he left the field, where he was at
work, and enlisted in the Continental army. He was a very handsome man, being
distinguished for his personal beauty. He served as ensign in Capt. Jeremiah
Olney's Fourth company, in Col. David Hitchcock's regiment otthe army of observ-
ation in 1775. He d. May 15, 1815. Res. North Adams, Mass.
3164. i. ARTHUR F., b. Dec. 18, 1782; m. Chloe .
3165. ii. AARON LELAND, b. Oct. 14, 1787; m. Anna Ostranda and
Diana Mowry.
Hed.
Dec.
3161.
i.
3162.
ii.
3163.
iii.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 547
3168.
3169.
ii.
3170.
111.
3166. iii. WILLIAM WHITMAN, b. ; d. in infancy.
3167. iv. AMY WAIT, b. ; d. in infancy.
1675. DAVID FIELD (William, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I., March 27, 1763; m.
Mary Greene, dau. of Thomas, of Warwick, b. 1762; d. Dec. 8, 1854. He d. Nov.
17, 1821. Res. Providence, R. I.
STEPHEN G., b. ; m. Harriet Wallace.
THOMAS, b. ; no children.
WAITE, b. ; m. Samuel Gordon. She d. Plainfield, Conn.,
June 13, 1847. Ch. : i, Mary. 2. Emily. 3. Eleanor. 4. David.
3171. iv. SARAH, b. 1796; m. June 22, 1818, Griffin Child, his second wife.
He d. 1862. Shed. 1855. Ch.: i. William G., b. . 2. Anna
M., b. .
3172. v. MARY, b. ; m. Ch. : i. Eliza, m. Feb. 27, 1843, Dennis Dawley.
1682. PARDON FIELD (James, Jeremiah, Thomas. Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I., April 13, 1761; m. Eliza-
beth Williams; d. aged eighty-two. Pardon Field, was b. at Cranston, R. I.,
April 13, 1761, and was the son of James, who was the son of Jeremiah. Pardon
Field came to Chester, Vt., between 1784 and 1788; m. Elizabeth Williams, who
was a descendant of the fifth generation from Roger Williams. Their children
were Hannah, who m. John Kibling; Lydia, m. Robert Field; James, Jeremiah,
Abner, Joseph, Sarah, m. Stephen Austin ; Welcome, Elizabeth and Pardon. He
d. 1842. Res. Chester, Vt.
3173. L HANNAH, b. June 5, 1782; m. John Kibling. Write Stillman
Kibling, Ellisbury, N. Y.
3174. ii. LYDIA, b. May 16, 1784; m. Robert Field, son of Abner, of Ches-
ter, Vt. Ch. : I. Abner. 2. Waite. 3. Hannah, m. Riley
Putnum. 4. Alena. 5. Mary Ann, m. Charles Piper ; no chil-
dren. 6. Maria H. 7. Westcott R. 8. Lydia. 9. William H.
10. Alexander. For this family see elsewhere in this book.
JAMES, b. March 27, 1788; m. Mehetable Thurston.
JEREMIAH, b. May 8, 1790; m. Eliza Seamons.
ABNER, b. Nov. 28, 1793; m. Louisa Griswold.
JOSEPH, b. Jan. 22, 1796; m. Abigail W. Thurston.
SARAH, b. March 27, 1798; m. Stephen Austin. Ch. : i. Betsey,
m. Foster; had son and daughter. 2. Stephen, m. Julia
Fuller. 3. Hannah, m. Frank Fuller.
WELCOME, b. Oct. 14, 1802; m. Calista Earle.
ELIZABETH, b. March 10, 1807; d. Jan. 3, 1808.
PARDON, b. April 10, 1805; m- Mary Hoar and Sarah Fish.
1684. CHARLES FIELD (James, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas. Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Chester, Vt., in 1769; m. there
Jemimah Wilson, b, 1772; d. Aug. 20, 1837. Was a farmer. He d. Dec. 15, 1846.
Res. Chester, Vt.
3183. i. FANNY ROGERS, b. Sept. 14, 1797; m. February, 1823. Warren
Pease. He was b. Weston, Vt., in 1799; d. there in 1865. Was
a cordwainer. She d. May 4, 1884, in Boston, Mass. Ch. ; i.
Mary, b. June 14, 1825; m. July 24, 1851, in Boston, Samuel
Sargent, b. July 27, 1818; d. Oct. 25, 1899, s. p. She resides 409
Walnut Av., Roxbury, Mass.
3175.
111.
3176.
IV.
3177.
V.
3178.
VI.
3179-
Vll.
3180.
viii.
3181.
ix.
3182.
X.
548 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3184.
u.
3185.
m.
318b.
iv.
3187.
V.
3188.
VI.
1686.
D/
CHARLES, b. April 21, 1800: m. Mary Foster.
BETSEY, b. ; m. Moses Hill; lives m Chester, Vt. Shed.
Buffalo. N. Y.
ELON, b. ; m. Nancy Newton.
ORRIN. b. ; m. Mary Hoar.
REST. b. ; m. Micah Cutler. She d. Boston, Mass.
DANIEL FIELD (James, Jeremiah, Thoinas, Thomas, Thomas. Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. I., Sept. 9, 1764; m.
Sarah , b. Chester, Vt, Sept. 22, 1766. Res. Chester, Vt, and Rodman, N. Y.
3i88>^. i. HARRY, b. Dec. 8, 1792.
3188X. ii. GEORGE, b. April 22. 1796.
3i88>^. iii. REUBEN, b. July 27. 1799.
3i88j^. iv. RUSSELL, b. May 26, 1801.
3188%. V. DANIEL, b. June 8. 1803.
318814:. vi. JANE, b. April 9, 1805.
3189. vii. THOMAS, b. March 22, 1807; m. Eliza vS. Hyde.
3i8gj4. viii. LEONARD, b. Feb. 9, i8oq; m. Margaret Gridley.
3189^. ix. CATHARINE, b. Sept 16, 1813.
1687. ELIJAH FIELD (James, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Cranston, R. 1.; m. Mary . Res.
Bristol, R. I.
3189^.1. WILLIAM G.. b. ; m. April 23, 1820, Eliza Bourne Norris,
dau. of Capt John and Hannah.
1690. JAMES FIELD (James, Jeremiah. Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Chester, Vt. ; m. Taylor. Res.
Chester, Vt
MOSES. He was a clergyman.
SENECA. Lived in New Haven. Vt
MARY.
JAMES; d. in 1876-77.
1695. WATERMAN FIELD (Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. South Scituate, R. I., Oct 20, 1772;
m. Dorcas Atwood, of Scituate, b. Dec. 10, 1775; d. Feb. 9, 1848. He d. New Ber-
lin, Sept 15, 1837. Res. Scituate, R. I., and New Berlin, N.'Y.
HENRY, b. Sept 26, 1797; d. Nov. 4, 1826.
ARTHUR, b. June 30, 1799; d. July 14, 1824.
GARDINER, b. July 7. 1801; d. Jan. i, 1836.
WILLIAM, b. Aug. 8, 1803; m. Clarissa Pike and Sarah Ann Bard.
JOHN, b. March 19, 1806; m.. and d. 189S.
WATERMAN, b. April 8, 1808; d. March 23, 1842.
ELLENOR, b. Oct 6, 1810; d. May 18, 1833.
ABBY A., b. March 2, 1812; d. May 2, 1833.
LYDIA, b. April i, 1816; d. .
1696. ISAAC FIELD (Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Scituate, R. I., December, 1774; m.
Sally Fenner. He d. 1S57. Res. South Scituate, R. 1.
3203. i. SAMUEL.
3204. ii. LEONARD.
3205. iii. DAVID, b. June 13, 1809; m. Mercy Ramsdall and Mary Rich-
mond.
3190.
3191-
11.
3192.
ill.
3193
IV.
3194-
3195-
n.
3196.
111.
3197-
IV.
3198.
V.
3199-
VI.
3200.
Vll.
3201.
VUl,
3202.
IX.
•FIELD GENEALOGY. 549
3206. iv. SARAH.
3207. V. LYDIA, b. ; m. Albert Phillips.
1697. PELEG FIELD (Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas. Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Scituate, R. I., Jan. 30, 1776; m. Jan,
24, 1799, Elizabeth Battey, dau. of Joshua, b. Nov. 20, 1780; d. Sept. 27, 1835, at
New Berlin. He was b. in Scituate, R. I., where he was m. and soon removed to
New Berlin, N. Y. , where he began life in earnest, and soon took rank as one of
the most prominent men in the early history of the place. He was identified with
its industries, and was an important factor in the develoi^ment of the infant settle-
ment. He had ten children, three died in infancy and the others lived to occupy
places of trust and influence. He d. Jan. 10, 1837. Res. New Berlin, N. Y.
3208. i. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 9, 1802; m. July 21, 1820, Fabius M. Bradford.
Fabius Maximus Bradford was a lineal descendant of Gov. Wil-
liam Bradford, of Plymouth colony, being in the sixth generation
through the line of his eldest son by his second wife, Major Wil-
liam Bradford. She d. Dec. 10, 1826, and he m., 2d, Emma
Fredenburgh. He d. Binghamton. N. Y., Feb. 18, 1867. Ch. : i.
Mary Minerva, b. June 14, 1821; m. Sept. 18, 1842. Post ofiGce
address, David N. Campbell, St. Johns, Mich. He was b. Jan.
22, 1819. Ch. ; (a) Abbie Elizabeth Bradford, b. Sept. i, 1843;
m. Aug. 19, 1869, Sherman B. DaboU. Lives at St. Johns, Mich.
(b) Annie Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1845; m. May 23, 1877, Warner Bun-
day. Lives at St. Johns. 2. (Second marriage) Sarah A., b.
Feb. 17, 1837. 3. Caroline, b. Jan. 17, 1839. 4- Adelaide, b.
March 29, 1845. 5. Clarence, d. young. Sarah A., m. Dec. 27,
1863, Joseph Outterson. Lives at Syracuse, N. Y. Caroline, m.
in 1854, Benjamin F. Shetterly. She d. June 8, 1872. Her son
George W. lives at . Adelaide, m. June 23, i86r, Mordicai
Bevien, and has seven chilren, all born at Bradford, Stark
county. 111.
3209. ii. GEORGE, b. Oct. 18, 1803; m. Francis A. Brooks.
3210. iii. ELIZABETH, b. Dec. i, 1805; m. Tracey S. Knapp. Shed.
Sept. 22, 1825. He was president of the First National Bank.
Res. New Berlin, N. Y. Ch. : i. Mary G., m. Lewis White.
Res. Binghamton. 2. Reese.
321 1. iv. ORRIN, b. April 28. 1808 ;m. Mary A. Atwoodand Maria J.Whaley.
3212. V. HARRIET, b. Aug. 20, 1810; d. Dec. 9, 1819.
3213. vi. ARNOLD, b. March 25, 1815; m. Ellen D. Bennett.
3214. vii. HORACE, b. July 31, 1818. Capt. Horace Field was born in New
Berlin. N. Y ; m. Mary H. Jaffrey, of Portsmouth, N. H., dau.
of George. Horace B. Field was captain of Third artillery in
the regular army, was educated at West Point. He was lost at
sea, in the steamship San Francisco, Dec. 24, 1853. No children.
3215. viii. THOMAS H., b. .
3216. ix. HELEN S., b. Sept. 17, 1821; m. Aug. 17, 1848, Charles B. Wi-
lliams; no children. She d. in New Berlin, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1893;
was a member of the Episcopal church. He is now president of
the First National Bank of New Berlin.
3217. X. MARION, b. April 4, 1825; d. May 4, 1826.
1698. THOMAS FIELD (Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Scituate, R. I., Dec. 6, 1778: m.
550 FIELD GENEALOGY.
in Cooperstown, N. Y., Thankful Windsor, b. April 24, 1789; d. Nov. 28, 1856. He
was a farmer. He d. in Pascoag, Burrillville, R. I., Dec. 6, 1858. Res. Scituate,
R. 1.
3218. i. JAMES WHIPPLE, b. March 22, 1814 ; m. and .
3219. ii. MARCY ANN, b. March 25, 1816; m. July 24, 1845, Frederick
Vallette. She resides Glen Elder, Kans.
3220. iii. DELIA, b, March 8, 1818; m. April 12, 1838, George Harris.
She d. s. p., Dayton, O., July 28, 1881.
3221. iv. ALDEN PIERCE, b. Feb. 17, 1824, m. Sarah E. Hopkins.
3222. V. JOHN ANGELL, b. Feb. 21, 1822; m. Florinda A. Hopkins.
3223. vi. ALICE WINDSOR, b. Jan. 21, 1820; m. John Phillips. Shed.
Delvan, 111.
3224. vii. LAURA ELIZA, b. July 12, 1826; m. Rev. Alpha Morton. She
d. April, 1895, Paxton, Mass.
3225. viii. ALMIRA SHELDON, b. June 30, 1829; unm. Res. Glen Elder,
Kans.
1699. JEREMIAH FIELD (Thomas, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William William), b. Scituate, R. I., Oct. 27, 1780; m.
there March 7, 1812, Florinda Manchester, b. Feb. 22, 1785; d. Jan. 5, 1870. He_
was a farmer. He d. Dec. 2, 1868. Res. Scituate, R. I.
3226. i. HENRY M., b. July 27, 1813; m. Elizabeth Hixon.
3227. ii. ALBERT G., b. Jan. 26, 1816; m. Ann Eliza Smith,
3228. iii. AUGUSTUS E., b. July 16, 1819; m. Barbaras. King.
3229. iv. JEREMIAH HERBERT, b. April 7, 1822; m. Malvina M.
Knight.
1702. SALATHIEL FIELD (Daniel, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Smithfield, R. I., Oct. 4, 1778; m.
Sept. 22, 1803, Sally Howe, b. Sept. 22, 1780; d. Jan. 29, 1808; m., 2d, Jan. 20, 1809,
Lydia Bragg, b. June i, 1793; d. May 27, 1828; m., 3d, Jan. 29, 1829, Susan Merritt.
of Cohasset, Mass., b. Feb. 14, 1793; d. Dec. 24, 1862. Salathiel settled on the
farm in the west part of the town of Springfield, now owned by his grandson,
Arthur M. Field. He was a farmer and stone mason. He d. Dec. 12, 1865. Res.
Springfield, Vt.
3230. i. LORENZO D., b. June 22, 1804; m. .
3231. ii. DANIEL, b. Oct. 13, 1805; m. Mary Fuller and Elizabeth N.
Stebbins.
3232. iii. SARAH HOWE, b. May 2, 1810; m. Feb 28, 1843. Dr- Asa
Leffingwell Spaulding. For full record of this family see the
family of Dr. Simeon Field, of Enfield, Conn.
3233. iv. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. Nov. 18, 1812; m. Jane M. Dunlop.
3234. V, ^ JOHN BRAGG, b. Feb. 22, 1815; n. f. k.
3235. vi. GEORGE OLCOTT, b. April 10, 1817. He went to California, and
when the Civil war broke out enlisted in one of the regiments
from that state. He was never heard of afterward, and was prob-
ably killed. Unmarried. He was at one time editor of the New
Orleans Picayune.
3236. vii. LINCOLN MICHAEL, b. Sept. 15, 1819; m. Eliza P. Fairbank;
m., 2d, Louisa M. Bowen. He d. in Lowell, Mass., February,
1882. Son John in Fitchburg, Mass.
3237. viii. ABIGAIL BROWN, b. Nov. 24, 1822; m. Aug. 30, 1841, John
Simonds, b. 1812, Elizabethtown, Canada. He d. December, 1856;
FIELD GENEALOGY. 551
was a merchant, and she m., 2d, April 24, 1862, Edward Hall,
of Ellington, Conn., who d. Aug. 19, 1875. She resides Buffalo,
N. Y., with married dau. , 126 Ashland Av. Ch. : i. Mary
Ester Simonds, b. April 27, 1850; m. June 21, 1877, Edward C.
Isaac; d. April 6, 1880. She d. April 6, 1884. Ch. : (a) Edward
Otto Isaacs, name changed to Farnham, b. July 24, 1878. Res.
126 Ashland Av., Buffalo. 2. Orson Josiah, b. September,
1853; d. February, 1854. 3. Sarah M., b. Jan. 20, 1842; m.
Nov. 20, 1872, Dr. Eli Warner, b. March 24, 1843; d. May 28,
1884. Res. Farmington Av., Hartford, Conn. Ch. : (a) Edward
Hall, b. Oct. 21, 1873. (b) Mary Margaret, b. Aug. 11, 1875, both
unm. 4. Grace Hall, b. May 17, 1866; m. Oct. 30, 1889, Charles
E. Farnham, lawyer, Buffalo, N. Y. Present address, 186 Ash-
land Av., Buffalo, N. Y.
3238. ix. MARY JANE, b. May 27, 1828; m. June 9, 1850, Edward Meech.
Res. Charlotte, Vt. He was b. June 20, 1818; d. Feb. 19, 1885.
Was a farmer. Ch. : i. Charles Edgar, b. March 18, 1852; m.
April 25. 1895. 2. William Field, b. June 19, 1854; d. Dec. 12,
1874. 3. Mary Elizabeth, b. June 21, 1856. 4. Abbie Jennie, b.
June 16. i860; m. Oct. 13, 1880, William K. Sheldon; 18 Maple
St., Adams, Mass. 5. Sarah Spaulding. b. July 10, 1862; m. Oct.
27, 1887, Charles A. Austin, 28 Reynolds Terrace, Orange, N. J.
3239. X. LYDIA ANN, b. May 27. 1828; m. June 10, 1852, in Enfield, Conn.,
Adolphus King, son of Col. Jabez King, of Enfield. She resides
20 Beach St., Hartford, Conn. He was b. April 22, 1813; d. Oct.
3, 1865 ; a manufacturer for southern trade. Ch. : i. Lydia Eliz-
abeth King, b. Sept. 27, 1853. 2. Edward Adolphus, b. Feb. 22,
1856; artist; m. June 26, 1883, Eleanor A. Newby, in New York.
Office, 156 5th Ave., New York. 3. Franklin King, artist, b. May
8, i860; m. Florence Maria Waring Parsons, of New York.
Add. 150 Nassau St., New York. 4. Abbie Louise King, b.
April II, 1863; m. Redfieid Howe Allen, of Hartford. Res.
Buffalo.
3240. xi. ELIZABETH CHASE, b. Jan. 10, 1831; m. June i, 1854, Foster
H. Whitcomb. Res. Springfield, Mass.
3241. xii. HANNAH WHITMAN, b. Oct. 4, 1832; unm. Res. Chester
Depot, Vt.
3242. xiii. SUSAN MERRIT, b. Sept. 17, 1834: m. June 15, 1856, Joseph A.
Wilson. Res. Chester Depot, Vt.
3243. xiv. DAVID SALATHIEL, b. Feb. i, 1837; m. Millie M. Shaw.
1705. ARTHUR FIELD (Daniel, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Wil-
liam, John, Richard, William, William), b. Springfield, Vt., Dec. i, 1783; m. in
Cavendish, December, 1813. Laura Rodgers, b. June 30, 1792; d. Sept. 15, 1778. He
worked with his father at blacksmith ing, and manufactured hoes and other farming
tools in the shop by the brook, near the old Field place. His hoes had a great reputa-
tion, and no farm was thought to be well furnished with tools unless it had a "Field
hoe." They were the best tools of the kind then made, and for quality of material,
proper shape, and ease of working they have not been excelled since. In those days
they sold for $1.50 each. Arthur Field was a man of ability, had a wonderful
memory, and was well versed in the history of his town. He d. Oct. 5, 1870. Res.
Springfield, Vt.
552 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3244. i. ARABELLA S.. b. Oct. 18. 1815; m. Feb. 19, 1835, William M.
Messenger. He was a carpenter and built the house now owned
(1895) by F. G. Ellison. He d. Sept. 2. 1849. Ch. : i. Ambre,
d. at age of twenty. 2. Abbie. Res. Dorchester, Mass. 3. Emma,
m. George Demary. Res. Dorchester, Mass. 4. William C,
member of Company A. Third regiment Vermont Volunteers;
wounded in battle June 3, 1S64; d. of wounds Jun6 6, 1S64. 5-
Henry Arthur, d. April 23, 1893.
3245. ii. MARCIA, b. Nov. 4, 1817; unm. Res. Springfield Vt.
3246. iii. RICHARD, b. Jan. 18, 1821; m. Susan Kilbourn.
1714. DAVID SEYMOUR FIELD (Daniel, Jeremiah. Thomas. Thomas,
Thomas, William. John, Richard, William, William), b. Springfield, Vt., April 12,
1800; m. in Vermont, Oct. 27, 1829, Martha Wheeler, b. Aug. 26, 1810; d. June 10,
1889. He was a carpenter. He d. Nov. 3, 1872. Res. Wolcottville, Ind.
3247. i. HELEN M., b. Dec. 7. 1833; m. Miller. Res. Sturges, Mich.
3243. ii. MARGARET A., b. July 23, 1835.
3249. iii. LOUISA M., b. Aug. 19, 1837; m. Oltman. She d. Jan. i3,
1862.
3249>^. iv. HENRY C, b. March 25, 1842. Res. Buffalo, Mich.
3250. V. DANIEL W., b. July 12, 1843.
171 7. REUBEN FIELD (Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Pomfret, Conn., Nov. 22, 1772; m.
there June 21, 1798, Alicey Brayton. He d. 1842. Res. Pomfret, Conn., and Troy,
N. Y.
3251. i. LYDIA, b. Pomfret, Conn., March 20, 1799; m. in Lewisburg, Pa.,
in 181 7, Randall Wilcox. He was b. in Lee, Mass., 1796; d.
1872. She d, in DePere, Wis., m 1878. Ch. : r. Martha, m.
April 29, 1853, Albert C. Robinson, b. Nov. i, 1825; d. Novem-
ber, 1858; dau. Alberta, b. Feb. 10, 1854; m. May 4, 1875, Dorr
Clark. Res. Green Bay, Wis. Ch. : (a) Grace Robinson Clark,
b. Green Bay, June 4, 1876. Present address, Boston School of
Art, Boston. (b) Florence Wilcox Clark, b. Sept. 14, 1879.
Present address, Bryne Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
Randall Wilcox was b. in Lee, Mass., in 1797. In 1836 he
came from that state to De Pere. On his arrival was chosen
president of the DePere Hydraulic Co. He was made president
of the DePere bank, into which he put his own capital, and by
the failure of which he was a considerable loser. He died
in DfcPere, in 1872. 2. Mary C, b. March 10, 1823; m. Sept. 25,
1842, John Wallace Arndt, b. Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1815; d. Jan. 12,
1897. She d. April 12, 1891. Res. Green Bay, Wis. Ch. : (a)
Edward Wilcox Arndt, b. Feb. 8, 1845; d. June g, 1869. (b) Eley
Morgan, b. Nov. 27, 1846; m. Sept. 5, 1866, Charles A.
Lawlon, b. Dec. 16, 1844. He is a founder and machinist. Res.
DePere, Wis. Ch. : i. Edward Wallace Lawton, b. Aug. 20,
1867. ii. Ellen Baird Lawton, b. April 9, 1869. (c) Emily
Hayes Loy, b. March 27, 1848; m. Sept. 5, 1866. (d) Mary C.
Shepard, b. Nov. 28, 1849; d. Oct. 7, 1874. (e) Lizzie Lee Arndt.
(f) Alice Bowering, b. May 8, 1854; d. June 10, 1874. (g) Randall
W. Arndt, b. March 9, 1857; d. Dec. 27, 1874. (h) Lydia Field
Arndt. (i) Martha Ann Byers, b. May 29, 1859.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 553
3256.
1.
3257.
11.
3253.
111.
3259
IV.
3260.
V.
3261.
vi.
3262.
vii.
3263.
viii,
3264.
ix.
3265.
X.
3266.
xi.
3267.
xii.
3252 ii. REUBEN, b. March 20, i8oq; m. and d. Jan. 26, 1886.
3253. iii. ELCEY, b. .
3254. iv. ADELINE, b. .
3255 V. EMILY, b. ; m. Tom Hayes, of Philadelphia. She d. s. p.
before she had been married a year.
1720. JEREMIAH FIELD (Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Thomas. Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Pomfret, Conn., March 21, 1783; m.
Aug. 24, 1806, Hannah Angell, b. Scituate, R. 1.; d. Aug. 11, 1829; m., 2d, Lucine
Durfee, of Killingly, Conn. He d. Dec. 10, 1866. Res. Killingly, Conn.
GEORGE LAFAYETTE, b. ; m. and resides in Killingly.
BARNET AUGUSTUS, b. March 16, 1827; m. Julia Wilson.
HARRIET ANGELINE, lives at Dorchester, Mass.
HANNAH MARIAH. d. May 6, 1889.
ASIA CAROLINE, d. Jan. 18, 1892.
ABBY PHIRRILLA, d. April 6, 1892.
JEREMIAH ANGELL, d. Oct. 4, 1843.
EMILY ANN. d. .
MARY CHARLOTTE, d. March 30, 1S21.
MARY LOUISE, d. Oct. 2, 1823.
FRANCES ELIZA, d. March 17, 1899.
LEAURA, d. .
1723. GOVERNOR WILLIAM FIELD (Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Thomas,
Thomas, Thomas, William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Pomfret, Conn.,
April 12, 1790; m. Stafford, Conn., Nov. 20. 1820, Martha Pinney, b. Nov. 7, 1790;
d. Feb. 27, 1835; m., 2d, at Stafford, April 17, 1839, Juliette M. Johnson. Mr.
Field once wrote that he was descended from William Field, who landed in Rhode
Island about 1634. He died childless, but had made Thomas Field, his cousin or
nephew, his heir. This Thomas Field was great grandfather of the subject of this
sketch. Lydia Colwell, great granddaughter of Roger Williams, was mother of
same subject.
In early life Mr. Field worked at forging machinery, and was a member
of the firm of White, Rawson & Field. In the war of 1812 he served with
a military company at New London. From 1812 to 1826 he kept store in Stafford
street, and at Lafayette Furnace. In 1832 he visited Rockford, 111., where he
bought land and built a house, intending to take up his residence there, but decided
to remain in Connecticut, and again engaged in manufacturing in Stafford. In
1846 he purchased of his brother, Barnet, their father's farm, in Pomfret, and lived
there until 1865, when he returned to Stafford Springs. In 1831 and 1833 was State
Senator; in 1836-37 was comptroller of public accounts. In (the writing is
obscure) and 1850 was again State Senator. In 1855 was chosen Lieutenant Gover-
nor. In 1837 was bank commissioner. Was in religion a Universalist; in politics,
a Democrat in early life, a Republican in later years.
He d. Sept. 20, 187S. Res. Stafford, Conn.
WILLIAM, b. March 12, 1823; ra. Martha Jordan.
MARTHA, b. Aug. 5, 1821; m. Oct. 24, 1849, Austin Ruggles. '
She d. in California, June 25, 1873.
GEORGE, b. Feb. 19. 1827; m. Cornelia B. Last.
GRACE, b. March 28. 1825; d. April 5, 1830.
ANN, b. Nov. 25, 1829; d. unm. in California, April 25, 1861.
3268.
1.
3269.
11.
3270.
iii.
3271-
IV.
3272.
V.
:«
554 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1725. WILLIAM FIELD (Charles, Thomas, William, Thomas, Thomas,
William, John, Richard, William, William), b. Rhode Island; m. . Res.
Hartvvick, N. Y.
3273. i. ELISHA, b. 1799; m. Austis Lippitt.
1726. JOHN WILNER FIELD, B. A. (Joshua, John, John, Jeremiah,
Joseph, Edward, William, John, John, William). He was of Heaton, England,
eldest son and heir, Lord of Heaton, Shipley, Barnaby-moor and AUerthorpe cum
Waplington. Born Aug. 20, 1775; bap. at the church of the Holy Trinity in York;
d. 1839. He m. Anne, eldest dau. of Robert Wharton Myddleton, Esq., of Grimble
Park, in Cleveland county, York, at Easington, Sept. 3, 1812. She d. Feb, 11, 1815,
and was buried at Crambe, near Melton, Yorkshire. His second wife was Isa-
bella Helena, dau. of Captam Salter, R. N., whom he m. in 1839. His residences
were at Heaton Hall and Helensby Lodge, York county, England. He was at one
time an oflScer in the Royal Horse Guards Blue. He was a magistrate and Deputy-
Lieutenant for the West Riding, of Yorkshire, succeeding his father in 1819.
The descendants of Joseph Field, lord of the manor of Heaton, bap. in 1601,
became extinct in the male line, on the death of John Wilmer Field and his brother,
Joshua, neither of whom had a son, and their large estates at Bradford and in other
parts of Yorkshire, passed out of the family. There may be male descendants of
this Joseph Field's uncles, Thomas, William, or George; but on this point the writer
can give no information.
Res. Heaton Hall, Yorkshire, England.
3274. i. MARY, the elder, b. July 21, 1813; bap. at Bradford July 24, 1813,
and christened Sept. 8, 18 13. She m. April 14^ 1836, Lord Oxman-
town, afterwards Earl of Rosse. William, Lord Oxmantown,
was b, June 17, 1800. He was Lord-Lieutenant in the Kings
county and colonel of its militia.
3275. ii. DELIA, the younger dau., was b. Oct. 23, 1814; bap. at Witwell
and christened at Bradford. July 24, 181 5. She m. the Hon.
Arthur Duncombe, son of the first Baron Feversham, and after-
wards admiral and M. P. for East Riding of Yorkshire.
1728. LORD JOSHUA FIELD (Joshua, John, John, Jeremiah, Joseph,
Edward, William, John, John, William), b. May 10, 1778; m. Aug. 17, iSoi, Eliza-
beth Wainman, dau. of William, Esq., of Carrhead, in Craven. Joshua was of
Westner House, in York county, and of Park Crescent, London ; Lord of the Manor,
of Berrythrope cum Kennythrope.
3276. i. ELIZABETH, the elder, b. July 13, 1802; bap. at Bradford Aug.
4, 1802; d. at Harrogate, July 11, 1822, and buried at Bradford.
3277. ii, MARY ANNE, the second dau., was b. Feb. 19, 1805; d. unm. in
1825.
1731. THOMAS S. FIELD (Thomas, Elnathan, Robert, Elnathan, Robert,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Middletown, N. J., Aug. i,
1810; m. there May 12, 1835. Martha Taylor, b. Feb. 25, 1814; d. March 20, 1895.
He d. Feb. 13, 1891. Res. Middletown, N. J.
3278. i. ELINOR; d. in childhood.
3279. ii. THOMAS, unm.; d, Oct. 17, 1862.
3280. iii. JOSEPH T., b. Nov. 9, 1840; m. Isabella Wikoff.
3281. iv. HENRY, b. Aug. 2, 1844; m.^Ada Brooks.
3282. V. SUSAN; b. ; d. in childhood.
3283. vi. EDWIN, b. May 2, 1849; m. Alice M. Hance.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 555
3284. vii. MARTHA, b. Aug. 3, 1856; m. Dr. John H. Van Marten; d, Dec.
3, 1894. Ch. : I. Isabella, b. 1882. 2. Harry, b. 1885.
1732. JOSEPH FIELD (Thomas, Elnathan, Robert, Elnathan, Robert.
Robert, William. William, John, John, William), b. Middletown, N. J., Sept. 26,
1792; m. Euretta Headin. He d. April i. 1897, aged 104. Res. Middletown, N. J.
3285. i. REBECKAH, b. Feb. 20. 1868.
3286. ii. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 29, 1870; m. Nettie Frazer.
3287. iii. EURETTA, b. Feb. I, 1872; m. Joseph Whiting. Ch. : i. Ernest.
2. Dolores.
1738. ELNATHAN FIELD (Elnathan, Elnathan, Robert, Elnathan, Robert,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Middletown, N. J. ; m. there,
Rebeckah Field. Res. Middletown, N. J.
3288. i. ELNATHAN, b. Oct. 2, 1838; m. Annie Hendrickson.
3289. ii. MATILDA, b. ; m. Joseph A. Hendrickson. Ch. : i. Re-
beckah. 2. Matilda.
1740. LIEUTENANT ROBERT FIELD (Robert. Robert, Robert. Benja-
min. Robert, Robert. William. Christopher. John, Christopher, John), b. White
Hill, N. J., 1797; m. 1822, Charlotte Brooks, of Natchez, Miss., b. Oct. 13, 1806; d.
May 31, 1881. The eldest son Robert was b. at White Hill, in 1797. When twelve
years old, he, together with Robert Field Stockton, his cousin, and afterwards com-
modore in United States navy, ran away from home and shipped "before the mast"
on board a man of war. When they |were located by their friends, they were, by
direct appeal to the President, sent to the naval school, then established at Wash-
ington, D. C. As midshipman and lieutenant, he served with credit to himself
and to his flag. He was in the action between the Constitution and Guerriere as
well as in others during the war of 181 2, and the war with the Barbary States.
He resigned his commission in 1822, at the time of his marriage with Charlotte
Brooks, daughter of a wealthy cotton planter of Natchez, Miss., and spent the
remainder of his life on the Anchorage plantation, where he died Aug. 30, 1850,
leaving two sons and three daughters.
He d. Aug. 30, 1850. Res. Anchorage Plantation, Natchez, Miss.
ROBERT, b. Aug. 19, 1842; m. Belle Daniel.
CHARLOTTE BROOKS, b. Nov. 10, 1837; d. July 30, 1857.
WM. BROOKS, b. May 12, 1844; m. Medora Cotton.
MARY DUNBAR, b. May 2, 1849; m. in 1865. Wra. Crane; d.
April 30, 1867. s. p., in Jackson, Miss.
JULIA, b. ; d. in infancy.
HANNAH BOUDINOT, b. ; m. Chancellor McGill ; res.
Trenton, N. J.
3296. vii. ANNIS, b. Jan. 24, 1828; m. Nov. 6, 1845, Dr. P. M. Enders, of
Baton Rouge, La. They had three sons and about six daughters
and both are dead. Their eldest son. Dr. Robert M. Enders,
lives at Little Rock, Ark. ; address, 1701 Gaines street.
1 741. HON. RICHARD STOCKTON FIELD (Robert, Robert, Robert,
Benjamin, Robert, Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John),
b. White Hill, Burlington county, N. J., Dec. 31, i8o3;'m. Salem, N. J.. 1831. Mary
Ritchie; d. 1852. He was a grandson of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence; was graduated at Princeton in 1821; studied law
in the office of his uncle, Richard Stockton, and was admitted to the bar in 1825.
He was for several years a member of the New Jersey Legislature, and in 1838 was
3290.
3291.
11.
3292.
111.
3293-
IV.
3294.
V.
3295-
VI.
556 FIELD GENEALOGY.
appointed attorney-general of the State, which office he resigned in 1844. He was
a prominent member of the convention that met in 1844 to adopt the present consti-
tution of the State ot New Jersej', and in 1851 was chosen to deliver the first annual
address before an association composed of its survivors. From 1847 till 1S55 he
was professor in the New Jersey Law School. Ever taking a strong interest in
educational matters, and especially in the common schools ot the State, he was in
the latter year made president ot the board of trustees of the State Normal School,
then just organized, and thenceforward until his death he wrote all its annual
reports to the Legislature. In November, 1862, he was appointed to the United
States Senate for the unexpired term of John R. Thompson, who died in office.
While a member of that body he delivered an able argument on the discharge of
State prisoners, in which he maintained that the right to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus resided, nn in Congress, but in the President. On Jan. 21, 1863, he was
appointed, by President Lincoln, United States district judge for the district of
New Jersey, which office he held until his death. In 1S66 he was a delegate to the
Philadelphia convention, and throughout his life he was an unflinching advocate of
the Union cause. After his elevation to the bench, he lived in comparative seclu-
sion in his luxurious home at Princeton. Judge Field was a man of varied and
profound learning, gentle, courteous and dignified, and of a charitable disposition.
He was closely identified with his alma mater, which in return conferred
upon him in 1859 the degree of LL.D. Judge Field at the time of his decease
was president of the New Jersey Historical Society, and for many years a valuable
contributor to its publications. "The Provincial Courts of New Jersey," etc., form-
ing the third volume of the "Collections" (1849), is probably his most valuable con-
tribution to historical research. Among his best known addresses, all of which
have been printed, are those "On the Trial of the Rev. William Tenent for Perjury
in 1742" (1851); "The Power of Habit" (1855); "The Constitution Not a Compact
Between Sovereign States" (i 861) ; "On the Life and Character of Chief Justice
Hornblower" (1865); and "An Oration on the Life and Character of Abraham
Lincoln" (1866).
He d. May 25, 1870. Res. Princeton, N. J.
3297. i. EDWARD, b. May, 1841; m. Minna Young.
3298. ii. ANNIS S., b. ; m. Charles McMillan, res, Princeton.
3299. iii. DAUGHTER, b. ; m. Frank S. Conover; res. Princeton.
1746. CALEB SHREVE FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Ambrose, Robert,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Rising Sun Square, near
Bordentown, Burlington county, N. J., Nov. 12, 1778; m. there Jan. 7, 1802, Cath-
erine Thomas, of Springfield, N. J., b. April 25, 1781; d. July 16, 1816. He was
interested in the iron works at White Hill, and was instrumental in having the
steamboat Phoenix built there, about the year 1810. She was not a success, as she
was not able to stem the tide. Dr. Brognard, a French gentleman who had a share
in the enterprise, proposed cutting it in two and making wood boats out of her.
She was sold to John Stevens, who took her to Hoboken, where a more powerful
engine was put in her, and she was run for many years on the Delaware. He d.
Nov. 12, 1846. Res. Bordentown, Burlington county, N. J.
3300. i. ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 25, 1809; m. in 1836, Joseph J. Aaronson; she
d. April 24, 1878. He was b. Sept. 21, 1805; d. April 8, 1877.
Ch. : I. John Henry Aaronson, b. Feb. 26, 1839; d. Philadel-
phia, Feb. 22, 1894. 2. Caleb Field Aaronson, b. Dec. r, 1843; d,
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 20, 1894. 3. Anna Mary Aaronson, b. Feb.
7, 1850; m. Geo. Henry Ivens, April 30, 1875; d. Dec. 3, 1897, at
FIELD GENEALOGY. 557
her home in St. Paul, Minn. She left one child, b. March i8,
1878, at Philadelphia, named Edith V. Ivens; her present address
is Horton Station, Kent county, Md. 4. Emma Louisa Aaronson,
b. June 23, 1854; unm. ; res. 2007 Norris street, Philadelphia, Pa.
3301. ii. MARY ANN, b. July 23, 1803; m. Pennock; she d. Septem-
ber, 1886.
3302. iii. ISAAC, b. Feb. 28, 1811; d Feb. 9, 1896; res. Bordentown..
3303. iv. SOLOMON, b. July g, 1812: d. Jan. i, 1886.
3304. V. CATHERINE, b. July 16, 1816; unm. ; res. 1940 North Nineteenth
street, Philadelphia, Pa.
3305. vi. TIMOTHY, b. Oct. 6, 1805; m. Juliet P. Davidson.
Mrs. Anna Hutchinson, Trenton, N. J., dau. of Timothy;
Emma L. Aaronson, Bordentown, N. J., dau. of Abigail;
Elizabeth Arned, Trenton, N. J., dau. of Isaac; Francis F.
Clarkson, Philadelphia, Pa., son of Solomon.
174S. BENJAMIN FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Ambrose. Robert, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Mansfield, Burlington county, N. J., in
1776; m. Nov. 15, 1801, Martha Tallman, d. in 1806; m., 2d, May 18, 181 5, Ann
Zelley, b. March i, 1796, d. in 1869. He was a cabinetmaker. Fieldsboro is a
small village situated on the bank of the Delaware river, one mile southwest of
Bordentown, Burlington county, N. J. He d. 1848. Res. Fieldsboro, N. J.
3306. i. SARAH, b. ; m. Ezra Biddle.
3307. ii. REBECCA, b. ; m. Asa Rodgers.
3308. iii. MARGARET A. OLDEN, b. 1818; m. Thomas Atkmson; she d.
; he emigrated to the west and was drowned. Descendants
res. in St. Louis, Mo., and Salt Lake City.
3309. iv. ELEANOR W., b. 1820; m. John Single; res. Fieldsboro; she m.,
2d, Wm. Atkinson, of Bordentown.
3310. V. JOSEPH COOK, b. in 1823; m. Sarah Armit; he d. s. p. in 1868.
3311. vi. ABIGAIL A., b. 1827; m. Geo. Steward. Ch.: i. Henry. 2.
Lydia Ann; m., 2d, Geo. W. Cross; res. EUisdale, N. J. Ch. :
3. Miller H. 4. Anna F. 5. Cora.
3312. vii. WM. AMBROSE, b. Jan. 9, 1832; m. July i, 1859, Perley E.
Adams, b. Jan. 8, 1832; d. Aug. 11, 1891; m., 2d, Kate E. Lei nard;
res. s. p. 1457 Myrtle street, Oakland, Cal.
3313. viii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. April 14, 1834; m. Hannah C.
Stephens.
3314. ix. RACHEL J., b. May 20, 1838; m. in Bordentown, N. J., James
Strode, b. May 18, 1832; res. 451 Penn avenue, Elmira, N. Y.
Ch. : I. Anna Mary Strode, b. Nov. 7, 1858; m. March i, 1888.
2. William A. Strode, b. May 4, 1867; m. May 8, 1S94. 3. G.
Lewis Strode, b. June 4, 1872.
3315. X. MARTHA A., b. 1816; d. young.
1749. THOMAS FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Ambrose. Robert, Robert, Will-
iam, William, John, John, William), b. Bordentown, N. J. ; m. Rebecca Woodward,
dau. of George Woodward, of Rural Park. He was born in Bordentown, N. J.,
moved to Philadelphia, where for many years he was au India merchant. Res.
Philadelphia, Pa.
3316. i. MARY (only child), b. ; m. Thomas Wood. He was a coal
merchant of Bristol, Pa., and later a farmer near Mansfield
Square. He was a brother of George Wood, a celebrated lawyer
558 FIELD GENEALOGY.
of New York, and the wife of Gen. Wm. H. Montgomery, United
States Army. Thomas died in 1876, and was buried in Upper
Springfield cemetery. He was a keen sportsman, genial, high-
minded, honorable, and was one of nature's noblemen.
1751. ISAAC FIELD (Joseph, Benjamin, Ambrose, Robert, Robert, WilHam,
William, John, John, William), b. Bordentown, N. J. ; m. Martha Woodward, dau.
of George and sister of Rebecca; m., 2d, Mrs. Mary (Biddle) Bates; m., 3d,
Malinda P. . He was for many years a supercargo in the India trade, and
afterwards entered into partnership with his brother Thomas in Philadelphia.
While a supercargo of the ship Washington, Captain Jefferson, on his return to
this country from China, she was stranded in the shoal waters off the coast of
Sumatra. "While thus situated, she was attacked by the natives in a fleet ot boats
from shore. They successfully repelled them for several days, the boat was at last
got off, and proceeded to port. Then the yellow fever broke out on board and the
captain and many of the crew died, and she was abandoned as unseaworthy.
American ships were scarce in those waters in those days, and knowing the heavy
loss that would be incurred in disposing of so valuable a cargo in that port with no
market, Mr. Field, after strenuous exertions and giving heavy bonds of release to
the insurance companies and greedy officials, succeeded in regaining possession of
the goods, and with a crew of the natives and Malays — all of whom were unaccus-
tomed to such long trips, succeeded, however, in securing their services for the
home trip. Mr. Field was obliged to enter into bonds with that government for
the safe return of all the men. The boat finally reached Philadelphia, which port
she never again left. This was in the year 1835, and the visit of the Malays, at that
early period being quite a novelty, they attracted considerable attention. On the
July 4, Mr. Field took them by steamboat to his old home at White Hill, N. J.
They numbered thirty-one, including a cannibal. They enjoyed eating cherries
very much, the cannibal swallowing the stones. Mr. Field on his next voyage
returned them all to their homes, but the cannibal, for whom he was not under
bonds and who wished to remain in this country, did not return. He married a
colored woman, became a sincere Christian, and accumulated quite a little property
selling pies and cakes around the streets of White Hill, Mr, Field's home. There Mr.
Field always resided ; he was well known in the community, for his genial and kind
disposition and polished manners. — Bordentown, N. J., Register, Aug.i6, 1878.
Mr. Field's second wife was the daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Biddle, of
Burlington county, N. J. Res. White Hill, N. J.
3317. i. MALCOM MACARTHUR, b. . Unfortunately for his son
Malconi, the father in the Indies saved the life of a Spanish
don, who out of gratitude claimed the privilege of educating the
son. Malcom was reared in luxury and pride, amidst bull fight-
ing and fandangoes. He would have made a splendid Spaniard,
but at the age of seventeen he returned home and entered the
family and store of a most estimable and strict Friend. The
change was like the transplanting of hot-house plant on an
iceberg. With too much life in him to settle down he became a
bright man, but wandered away.
3318. ii. HENRY, b. . He resided on the old place at White Hill and
on the breaking out of the Mexican war enlisted, and while serv-
ing in that country was killed.
3319. iii. ISAAC, b. . He was a soldier in the Union army, and d. in
New Orleans, La.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 559
I753>^. AUSTIN FIELD (Austin, Benjamin, Ambrose, Robert, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Flushing, L. I., about 1774; m. there
Mary Cornell; she d. there. He d. in 1836. Res. Flushing, L. I.
3319^. i. THOMAS, b. ; m. and had children, but address unknown.
33ig'/i. ii. BENJAMIN PRINCE, b. March 27, 1800; m. Eliza Post.
3319^. iii. ANN.
3319^. iv. MARGARET.
3319%. V. MARY.
1756. PETER FIELD (Peter, William, Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Salem, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1783; m. in
Quaker Hill, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1806, Ann Akin, b. 1786; d. Oct. i. 1866. After Peter
Field, Sr. , gave up the jewelry business in New York, his son Peter, Jr. , followed the
business extensively. His granddaughter has a silver teapot and set of silver
spoons he gave her mother, and the spoons bear his stamp. He was robbed one
Sunday during mid-day of $10,000 worth of goods. An acquaintance in a church,
which was opposite his store, saw a man dressed as he dressed go three times to the
door and try a key, and he wondered why Mr. Field went to his store on Sunday.
The famous detectives, Hays brothers, were put on track, and arrested one of the
richest men in New York, who lived in grand style and had apparatus for working
and melting all metals. He kept his books, and in these books was registered the
number of things he had stolen from Peter Field, Jr. He was sent to Auburn State
Prison for ten years. Mr. Field had had bills printed and sent all over the country
giving the facts of the robbery, little thinking the bold thieving was done by a
neighbor. He d. Sept. 18, 1847. Res. New York City and Brutus, N. Y.
HENRY AIKEN, b. Nov. 22, 1S20; m. Julia M. Evertson.
JOHN A., b. .
MARGARET, b. .
AMANDA, b. .
EDWARD, b. .
MARY, b. .
AUGUSTUS, b. . Augustus was an officer in the Civil war,
and went to the West Indies many years ago and has not been
heard from since he was m Libby Prison during the Civil war.
He was incarcerated there for a year.
1757. AMBROSE SPENCER FIELD (Peter, William, Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Hudson, N. Y., July
9, 1785; m. in New York, Susanna Ryerson, b. July 11, 1803, d. July 5, 1884. He
was a watchmaker. He d. April, 1837. Res. New York, N. Y.
3327. i. ELMA, b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. Aug. 27, 1844, Charles Ellis Fol well;
res. 407 Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. He was b. Nov 18,
1810; d. April 30,1871; was in the insurance business. Ch. : i.
Ida May (Ballard), b. June 15, 1848; m. June 23, 1871 2. Charles
Francis, b. Jan. 16, 1851; m. October, 1S83. 3. Harry Dudley, b.
Oct. 17, 1852; d. Aug. 25, 1865. 4. Arthur Thomas, b. Sept. 20,
1854; m. December, 1877. 5. Agnes Russell, b. Dec. 23, 1856;
m. Dec. 23, 1875; d. Sept. 16, 1883.
1760. WALTER FIELD (Peter, William, Samuel, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Albany, N. Y,, July 16, 1798; m.
there Maria Simonton. He d. June 18, 1829. Res. Auburn, N. Y.
332S. i. CATHERINE M., b. ; m. Wilson; res. 109 Baker avenue,
Syracuse, N. Y.
3320.
3321.
11.
3322.
111.
3323-
IV.
3324-
V.
3325-
VI.
3326.
Vll.
560 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Somers, N
. V
3329-
i.
3330.
11.
3331.
Ill,
1767. OLIVER FIELD (William Van W., William, Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Nov. 13, 1808; m.
Jan. 9, 1833, Lydia Crane, dau. of Thaddeus, of Somers, N. Y., b. Jan. g, 1813; d.
May 4, 1891. He d. in Blairsville, Pa., Sept. 28, 1840. Res. South East and
THADDEUS CRANE, b. Nov. i, 1S36; m. Julia Ingersoll.
ELBERT, b. Nov. 4, 1833; m. Lydia P. Howe.
SYBILLA, b. Dec. 17, 1838; d. Oct. 11, 1843.
1782. SAMUEL AUGUSTUS FIELD (Stephen, William, Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. South East, N. Y.,
May 2, 1819; m. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 17, 1874, Frances Bussey, b. Nov 17, 1841.
Samuel Augustus Field, of Quaker parentage, b. May 2, 1819, in South East, Put-
nam county, N. Y. Here he passed his early boyhood, assisting his father in his
extensive nursery during the summer and attending the village school in winter.
Before attaining his majority he left home, and for some time was employed as a
clerk in a store in North Salem, Westchester county, N. Y. Later he went to
Ridgefield, Conn., to learn a trade, but his health being unequal to the close con-
finement necessarv, he removed to Danbury, Conn., where he formed a partnership
with Mr. Wm. Jackson, engaging in a large manufacturing business and conduct-
ing a general store, remaining there eleven years. Then deciding to go west and
"grow up with the country," he migrated to Milwaukee, Wis. ; locating there in
1850. He very soon embarked in the real estate business, in which he was very suc-
cessful, and amassed a moderate fortune. In 1874 he married. Retiring from
business at that time, he has traveled extensively both at home and abroad. He has
lived several years in Europe, spending his winters usually m Florence and his
summers in Germany and Switzerland. He is an old habitue of Carlsbad and other
German spas. Has visited Sweden, Norway, Russia, etc. He has now a beauti-
ful home on Juneau Place, Milwaukee, on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan,
one of the most delightful and picturesque spots in the Cream City. Here, sur-
rounded by choice paintings, statuary, curios, souvenirs -of his travels, he spends
his days tranquilly, varied by occasional short trips across the Atlantic. For his
years Mr. Field is a most remarkably well preserved man, and with his erect car-
riage, elastic step and flashing eyes, bids fair to make the century mark, as his
hosts of friends predict.
Res., s. p., Milwaukee, Wis., 303 Martin street.
1783. WILLIAM PENN FIELD (Charles, William, Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Ulster county,
N. Y., Sept. 29, 1804; in- m Newburgh, Nov. 22, 1832, Ann Eliza Cypher, b. July
15, 1806; d. Sept. 2, 1855. He was a merchant. He d. July 29, 1849. Res. New
York, N. Y.
3332. i. " MARTHA, b. March 6, 1S35; m. Oct. 7, 1S57, William P. Anthony,
b. July 22. I S3 1. He is a farmer; res. Macedon, N. Y. Ch. : i.
Florence Louisa Gay, b. Sept. 18, 1858; m. March 21, 1882 ;
address, Hillsdale, Mich. 2. George Leonard Anthony, b. March
19, i860; d. April 16, 1877. 3. Anna Owens, b. Nov. 29, 1861; m.
Dec. I, 1886; address, Hillsdale, Mich. 4. Charles William
Anthony, b. Jan. 22, 1864; m. May 10, 1891; address, Jonesville,
Mich. 5. G. Benton Anthony, b. Jan. i8, iS66; m. Feb. 10, 1893;
address, Macedon, Wayne county, N. Y. 6. Eugene Anthony,
b. Dec. 25, 1867; address. Canton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
7. Ansel M. Anthony, b. Oct. 16, 1874; address, Macedon,
SAMUEL AUGUSTUS FIELD.
See page 560.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 561
Wayne county, N. Y. 8. Lena Anthony Webber, b. Oct. i8,
1870; m. Aug. 4, 1897; address, Rochester, Monroe county,
N. Y. <). Frank E. Anthony, b. Dec. 26, 1879; address. Mace-
don, Wayne county, N. Y.
3333. ii. CHARLES EDGAR, b. Dec. 12, 1839; m. and res. Moulton, Iowa.
3334. iii. GEORGE WILLIAM, b. June 8, 1842; m. Elizabeth M. Lloyd.
1788. JOHN COLES FIELD (Joseph C, William, Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Dutchess county,
N. Y., Aug. 18, 1795; m. in Sullivan county, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1821, Lydia A.
Ketchum, b. July 16, 1802; d. April 3, 1869. He d. Monticello, N. Y., March 18,
1876. Res. Monticello, N. Y.
3335. i. MARIE LOUISE, b. March 2, 1822; m. Sept. 27, 1842, Rufus
Lombard Howard. He was b. Oct. 30, 181 8; d. June 27, 1896;
she res. 251 Delaware avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Ch. : i. Gibson
Field Howard, b. Aug. 22, 1844, Buffalo; d. April 12, 1875. 2.
Maria Ophelia Howard, b. Jan. 3, 1847, Buffalo; d. April 22,
1849. 3. Herbert Soper Howard, b. April 16, 1851, Buffalo; d.
Aug. 20, 1853. 4- Grace Howard, b. March 3, 1853, Buffalo; d.
Aug. 15, 1853. 5. Harriette Cornelia Howard, b. June 22, 1854,
Buffalo; d. May 13, 1874. &• Rufus Hungerford Howard, b. May
6, 1863, Buffalo; d. Jan. 21, i86g.
3336. ii. LYDIA OPHELIA, b. July 4, 1824; m. June 5, 1844; she d. Oct.
24, 1891.
3337. iii. JOSEPH COLES, b. Jan. 19, 1827; m. Emilie C. Ely.
3338. iv. CORNELIA ANTOINETTE, b. Nov. 25, 1839; m. April 6, 1854,
Shepard; res. 319 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
3339. v. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 13, 1837; d. June 17, 1867.
1789. PHILLIP SPENCER FIELD (Joseph C, John Van W., Samuel, Benja-
min, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. New York,
Dec. 12, 1797; m. Jan. 6, 1820, Sally Hoyt, b. Nov. 17, 1804; d. May 31, 1837. He
was a lumberman. He d. Sept. 29, 1863. Res. Stevens Point, Wis.
3339>^-2- i- CHARLOTTE A., b. Sept. 29, 1821; m. Bates; res. Rhine-
lander, Wis. Ch. : 1. Frances M. ; res. Rhinelander, Wis.
3339/^-3- ii- SARAH M., b. Jan. 6, 1824; d. Sept. i, 1855.
3339^-4. iii. JOHN E., b. June 20, 1826; d. April 5, 1862.
3339/^-5- iv. WILLIAM H., b. April 19, 1828; m. Lena S. Fisher and Sally M.
Risley.
3339 >i-6. v. WALTER OSCAR, b. Sept. i, 1836; d. July 9, 1864.
3339/^-7- vi. MARIAN M., b. Sept. 6, 1832; res. Storey, Neb.
3339>|-8. vii. PHILLIP A., b. May i, 1857; d .
3339II-9. viii. CAROLINE D., b. July 11, 1834; res. Rhinelander, Wis.
1790. ALEXANDER FIELD (Joseph C, John Van W., Samuel, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Dutchess county,
N. Y., Oct. 29. 1799; m. there Eliza Cook Marshall, b. Feb. 10, 1802; d. Sept. 8,
1863. He was a farmer. He d. October, 1873. Res. Dutchess county, N. Y. , and
Winston, Mo.
3339X. i. HARRIET ELIZA FELCH.
3339-2. ii. AMANDA H. WHITMAN.
3339-3. iii. CHARITY L., b. Sept. 7, 1828; d. June 6, 1879; ™- Nov. 3, 1848,
in Racine county. Wis., Peerlee Baker, b. Riitland county, Vt.,
562 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Dec. I, 1818; res. Oshkosh, Wis. Ch. : i. Jerome Marshall, b.
Aug. 22, 1853; m. Jan. 11, 1883, Res. 150 East Irving street, Osh-
kosh, Wis. 2. Rollin Field, b. Oct. i, 1858; m. March 2, 1887,
Martha Ellen Grant, b. Feb. 25, 1858. He was formerly city clerk
at Stevens Point, Wis. ; now res. 1326 Colorado avenue, Colorado
Springs, Col. 3. Arlina Charity, b. Jan. 11, 1867; not married;
150 East Irving street, Oshkosh, Wis. 4. Ellen Maud, b. Sept.
4, 1872; not married; 150 East Irving street, Oshkosh, Wis.
3339-4-
IV.
HEJNRY A.
3339-6.
V.
KATE.
3339-7.
vi.
AUGUSTA.
3339-8-
viii.
ADDIA.
3339-9.
ix.
CHARLES A.;
3339-IO-
X.
WILLIAM.
3339-11.
xi.
CORNELIA C.
killed in Civil war in battle of Perry ville.
, b. April 13, 1833; m. in Rochester, Wis., Jesse
Blackburn, b. Dec. 28, 1823; d. Dec. 24, 1S60. She res, Mabel,
Mo. Ch..: I. John A. Blackburn, b. Jan. 14, 1852; m. Feb. 20,
1879; postoffice, Mabel, Mo. 2. Franklin Blackburn, b. Sept.
14, 1855. 3. Frank H. Blackburn, b. Feb. 8, 1857; m. Oct. 27,
1881 ; postoffice, Mable, Mo. 4, Lillian J. Blackburn, b. April
19, i860; m. Rigdon Strong, Sept. 22, 1880; postoffice, Mabel,
Mo.
Dates of births, deaths and marriages unknown. Present
names and addresses: Harriet Felch, Wilder, Minn.; Amanda
Whitman, Ferndale, Wash. ; Addia Dow, Elkpoint, S. D. ;
William Field, Beresford, S. D.
1793. THOMAS JEFFERSON FIELD (Joseph C, John vTan W., Samuel,
Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John. William), b. Sullivan
county, N. Y., May 21, 1804; m. at Marcellus, N. Y., in 1827, Louisa Antoinette
Chapman, b. in 1808; d. Nov. 19, 1870. He d. May 30, 1875. Res. Portage. Ind.
FRANCIS J., b. Jan. 10, 1830; m. Charlotte E. Selkirk.
ANTOINETTE LOUISE, b. September, 1833; m. April 11, 1853,
Justus Harmon; res. Wheeler, Ind.
ELISHA C, b. April 9, 1842; m. Mary Edith Jackman.
MARY LAURA, b. Sept. 23, 1852; m. in 189S, F. Chapin; res.
6341 Washington avenue, Chicago.
3343- V. EMELINE T., b. May 30. 1839; m. July, 1867, William Haw-
thorne; she d. Feb. 26, 1893. Ch. : i. Mattie, b. — — ; m.
Scofield ; res. Crissman Station, Ind.
3344. vi. EDGAR, b. ; d. young.
1797. WRIGHT FIELD (Hazard, John Anthony, Benjamin. Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Yorktown, N. Y., June 24, 1794;
m. Dec. 29, 1821, Phoebe Ann Drake, dau. of Caleb, b. Aug. 28, 1803. He d. Feb.
16, 1862. Res. New York, N. Y.
3345- i. REBECCA ANN, b. Dec. 26, 1822; m. Dec. 29, 1842, Vincent
Fowler; res. 161 Hudson avenue, Peekskill, N. Y.
3346. ii. ADELIA CAROLINE, b. Sept. 25, 1824; m. Jan. 12, 1843, Smila
J. Gage.
3347. iii. MARY LOUISE, b. July 30, 1826; m. Nov. 3, 1852, Jeremiah B.
Cronk.
3340.
1.
3341-
11.
3342.
iii.
3343.
IV.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 563
1803. BENJAMIN HAZARD FIELD (Hazard, John, Anthony. Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Field home, York-
town, N. Y., May 2, 1814; m. New York City, Jan. 19, 1838, Catherine Matilda Van
Cortlandt de Peyster, b. Oct. 2, i3i8; d. July 22, 1886.
Benjamin Hazard Field was born at Yorktown, Westchester county, N. Y.
Mr. Field was a descendant of an old and honorable English family, a brief history
of which is necessary to complete an obituary sketch of Mr. Field. Until the middle
of the sixteenth century the family name was spelled Feld, and after that Feild,
Feeld and Field, all sometimes terminating with an "e." From records in the
possession of the family it seems likely that the family is descended from the "de
la Felds." The prefix "de la" was dropped by many families in the fourteenth
century, in consequence of the wars with Finance having made it unpopular in
England. In the year 1068 Hubertus de la Feld, who is said to have accompanied
William the Conqueror into England, held lands in Lancashire which were granted
to him for military services. In the twelfth century John de la Feld appears on the
records as an owner of lands in the same county. The first appearance of the Fields
with the prefix "de la" in that neighborhood was in Yorkshire. Mr. Osgood Field
found the first authentic record of the family. It was dated 1480, and referred to
letters of administration granted to Katherine Feld, widow of William Feld, of
Bradford. The family was seated in Horton, Bradford county, a few years later.
Robert Feild, a descendant of this family, came to this country with his neighbor
and relative by marriage. Sir Richard Saltonstall, in the company organized in
1630, and settled in Watertown, Mass. He remained there for several years. Later
he moved to Newport, R. I., where his name appears in a list of citizens of 1638.
A number of citizens of Rhode Island, including Robert Feild, obtained in 1645 a
grant of land at Flushing and Hempstead, L. I. In 1657 Robert Feild signed the
remonstrance against the persecution of the Quakers. Anthony Field, the fourth
son of Robert Feild, was born at Flushing, L. I. Anthony Field moved to Harri-
son's Purchase, Westchester county, where seven sons and two daughters were born
to him. His third son, John Field, was the grandfather of Benjamin Hazard Field.
John Field was married at Jamestown, R. I., in 1763. His wife was the daughter
of William Hazard, of that place. They had sixteen children, of whom Hazard
Field, the father of Benjamin Hazard Field, was the oldest. Hazard Field by his
second wife, Mary Bailey, had three sons, Wright, Benjamin Hazard and Joseph.
Benjamin Hazard Field got his preliminary education under the parental roof
in Westchester county. His school work was finished at the North Salem Academy.
After completing his academic education, Mr. Field decided to begin a mercantile
life, and entered the office of his uncle, Hickson W. Field, in this city. In March,
1832, he became a member of the firm, and in 1838, when his uncle retired from
business, he assumed the management of the business. He married Catherine M.
Van Cortlandt de Peyster, a daughter of Frederic de Peyster, of this city. Miss de
Peyster was noted for her beauty. She was prominent in society, and was active
in religious and charitable work. They had two children, Cortlandt de Peyster
and Florence Van Cortlandt. In 1861 Mr. Field was joined in business by his son.
Four years later the firm name was changed to Cortlandt de P. Field & Co., the
elder Field remaining a silent partner. Mr. Field was always highly successful in
his business, which embraced almost every industry. He amassed a large fortune.
The death of Mr. Field ends a career of remarkable activity in philanthropic work.
He was most widely known for his activity and unselfish devotion in working for
the good of his fellow citizens. In this work he was most lavish in the expenditure
of his money and time. The best part of his life was given up almost entirely to
work for others. He was early identified with the St. Nicholas Society, of which
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he had been vice-president and president. The erection of the fireproof building of
the New York Historical Society was due largely to his efforts. In 1884 he was
elected a life member of the society. He was treasurer of the society for twenty
years, and has also been its president. In 1856 he was elected a life member of the
American Geographical Society. For several years he was a director of the Atlantic
Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mr. Field contributed largely to and was identi-
fied with every deserving charity in this city. In the cause of free education he spent
large sums of money.
To his efforts were largely due the erection of the Farragut monument in Mad-
ison Square, and the monument to the poet Halleck in Central Park. At the time
of his death Mr. Field was president of the Home for Incurables, New York Free
Circulating Library, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Field Home and the
Field Farm Company (limited). He was vice-president of the Bank for Savings,
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Sheltering Arms and the
Children's Fold. He was trustee or director of the Working Women's Protective
Union, Roosevelt Hospital, Greenwood Cemetery, American Museum of Natural
History, the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and
the Good Samaritan Dispensary. He had also been vice-president of the Society
Library and a director of the New York Dispensary.
At the time of his death he was a member of the New York Chamber of Com-
merce, Century Club, St. Nicholas Society, St. Nicholas Club, Executive Committee
of the New York Historical Society, and a large number of minor charitable organ-
izations. In his connection with all these organizations Mr. Field was always most
active and willing to stand the brunt of the work when any task was undertaken.
Mr. Field's unselfish labors for others, his fine presence and courtly, dignified
manner won for him a large number of friends. He was always prominent in the
best society, and was a life-long member of the Protestant Episcopal church. — New
York Tribune.
He d. March 17, 1893. Res, New York, N. Y.
3348. i. CORTLANDT DE PEYSTER, b. Dec. 28, 1839; m. Virginia
Hamersley.
3349. ii. FLORENCE VAN CORTLANDT, b. March 30, 1851; m. David
"Wolfe Bishop, of 13 Madison avenue, New York city, Sept. 28,
1869. Ch. : I. Cortlandt Field, b. Nov. 24, 1870. 2. David
Wolfe, Jr., b. Dec. 25, 1874.
1810. STEPHEN FIELD (John, John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William, William, John, John, William), b. Ferrisburgh, Vt., March 31, 1794; m.
Troy, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1825, Frances Bouton Kellogg, b. Norwalk. Conn., May 14,
iBoi; d. Montreal, Canada, March 22, 1829. He was a merchant. He d. at
Charges, New Grenada, Dec. 14, 1850. Res. Montreal, Canada.
3350. i. FRANCIS KELLOGG, b. March 13, 1829; m. Frances A. Burr.
1818. WALTER FIELD (John, John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert.
William, William, John, John, William), b, March 26, 1809; m. Jan. 3, 1832, Mel-
vinah Truesdell, b. Sept. 27, 1815. Res. Panama.
'3351. i. E. FRANCES, b. 1833; m. July 31. 1S56, Henry Kerner.
1821. LEONARD HUGGEFORD FIELD (Daniel B., John, Anthony, Benja-
min, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Feb. 9, 1798;
m. January, 1817, Margaret Clement. He d. Jan. 26, 1828. Res. Yorktown, N. Y.
3352. i. DANIEL B., b. Nov. 10, 1817; d. unm., Havana, Nov. 10, 1838.
3353. ii. JAMES ROBERT, b. March 30, 1820; d. Dec. 28, 1833.
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3354. iii. OSCAR SEAMAN, b. Nov. 28, 1823; m. Louisa F. Weigand.
3355. iv. JULIET REQUA, b. Aug. 7, 1826; m. March 18, 1847. Cyrus H.
Fountain, son of Dr. James, of Jefferson Valley, Westchester
county, N. Y. For many years the family resided in Jackson,
Mich., at 318 ist street. Mrs. Fountain was esteemed as a
woman of rare attainments and unusual kindness of heart, going
about in her quiet, unassuming way, scattering bits of sunshine
here and there, ever ready to assist the poor and needy. She
passed her girlhood amidst the best of home influences, and was
a devout Christian and member of the Unitarian Society. She
died Sept. 5, 1887.
Mr. Fountain died quite suddenly after being stricken with
paralysis. He was for many years identified with the business
interests of Jackson, and was held in high esteem by all who
knew him. He was born in Peekskill, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1S25, and
died in 1S90. He was educated at Williams College, and studied
medicine, but did not practice that profession, entering at once
into the drug trade. During the gold excitement in California in
1849 he made the trip via the Isthmus. Returning, he went to
Michigan and engaged in milling with his brother at Manchester,
but did not long remain, returning soon across the plains to the
Pacific coast. While in Utah he was elected a member of the
territorial legislature. When the war broke out he returned to
Jackson, Mich., and enlisted in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry,
and was soon promoted to first lieutenant for conspicuous brav-
ery. In 1864, on account of ill-health, he was obliged to resign,
but re-enlisted again in the Eighth Michigan Cavalry and served
until the war closed. Returning to Jackson, he was superintend-
ent of public works, chief of police, and overseer of the poor. He
left three children— Mrs. P. S. Stewart, of Detroit, Mich. ; Mrs.
George H. Porter and Leonard J. Fountain, of Jackson.
1823. JAMES HARVEY FIELD (Daniel B.. John, Anthony, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. May 24, 1803; m.
Jeanne Charlotte Victorie Dubourg, dau. of Francis, of New Orleans, La. Res.
New Orleans, La.
MICHAEL JAMES, b. Nov. 27, 1831; d. Feb. 21, 1846.
MARIE ANGELIQUE ADELE, b. Jan. 25, 1833; d. unm. 1856.
WILLIAM EMILE GASQUET, b. 1836; m. Louise Aglea Requa.
EDWARD GASQUET, b. Sept. 15, 1S37; m. Adaline Bard
Elmendorf.
1833. WILLIAM H. FIELD (William B., John, Anthony, Benjamin, An-
thony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. ; m. Margaretta
Day. Res. in New York.
3360. i. HELEN, b. .
3361. ii. WILLIAM H., b. ; m. Schmidt.
1834. HON. MAUNSELL BRADHURST FIELD (Moses, John, Anthony,
Benjamin, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Peekskill,
N. Y., March 26, 1822; m. Jan. 7, 1846. Julia Stanton, of Stockbridge, Mass.,
dau. of Daniel and Julia (Stanley). Maunsell B. Field entered Yale College
in 1837, and graduated in 1841 with the highest honors of his class; delivering the
3356.
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3358.
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valedictory on that occasion. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1847, and
practiced for a few years in connection with the Hon. John Jay. Not having much
taste for law, and being, on the other hand, fond of travel, he gave up the practice
of his profession and went abroad. While in Europe he was secretary of legation
for a time in Paris under Judge John Y. Mason, and later connected witft the Span-
ish legation under Pierre Soule. Was president of the American Commission at the
Universal Exhibition there in 1855. On this occasion he received from the emperor,
Louis Napoleon, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. In 1861 he was assigned to the
United States deputy sub-treasurership in the city of New York, and afterward
was appointed by President Lincoln assistant secretary of the United States Treas-
ury, a post which he held for some years, but resigned in 1865, as his health broke
down under the terrible strain which his duties brought upon him during the war.
Shortly after, he was made one of the collectors of internal revenue of the fourth
New York district at New York, but resigned this post after a while in 1869, on
being offered a district judgeship there, which offer he accepted. Judge Field was
in early life a Democrat, but on the second election of President Lincoln voted
with the Republicans. Judge Field wrote a volume of reminiscences, and a novel
called "Adrian; or, Among the Clouds of the Mind," conjointly with his friend,
G. P. R. James (New York, 1852). He also translated two or three works from the
French, of which language he was thoroughly master, '"Memoirs of Many Men and
Some Women" (1874), small volume of poems (1869). His memoirs, which were
entertaining reminiscences of his sojourn abroad, were widely circulated.
He d. Jan. 24, 1875. Res. New York.
3362. i. MAUNSELL BRADHURST, b. Oct. 21, 1848; m. Louise Moore
Legee.
3363. ii. HICKSON WOOLMAN, b. July 14, 1850.
3364. iii. JULIAN OSGOOD, b. April 23, 1852; Merton College, Oxford,
England.
3365. iv. CLAUD STANLEY, b. Feb. 23, 1856; d. March 21, 1857.
1835. OSGOOD FIELD (Moses, John, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony, Robert,
William. William, John, John, William), b. Nov. 14, 1823; m. Oct. 7, 1880, Kath-
arine Roxana Parker, dau. of Milton Day Parker, of Utica, N. Y. He was born
Nov. 14, 1823, at his father's house, 482 Broadway, in the city ot New York. Both
of his parents died when he was about ten years old. After some private tuition at
home, he was sent to the school of the Rev. Mr. Huddart, in his native town, which
enjoyed a great reputation at that time for English literature, Latin and Greek.
After a few years he left this establishment for that of the brothers Peugnet, who
were graduates of the Polytechnic School of France and had been officers under
Napoleon, having settled in New York"atter his downfall. Especial attention was
paid by them to the higher branches of mathematics and modern languages, and
while with them, he acquired a knowledge ot French and Spanish. Shortly after
leaving school, he sailed for Europe in the spring of 1842. While there he made
the usual European tour, visiting England, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland
and Italy. As there were no ocean steamers at that time and very few railroads,
he crossed the Atlantic in a sailing packet and did most of the journeying on land
by coach, or other vehicle. He returned to New York in the autumn after seven
months' absence. He remained at home till the latter part of 1843, when he left
for New Orleans by way of the Ohio and Mississippi, stopping for some days on
the way at Cincinnati and St. Louis, the latter being considered at that time "the
Far West." After a stay of several weeks at New Orleans, he embarked for
Havana, and remained in Cuba nearly two months, returning to New Orleans,
FIELD GENEALOGY. 667
where he spent another fortnight or so, and 'then home. He had only been back a
month or two when his eldest brother, who had been in bad health, was recom-
mended by his physician to make a trip to Europe, and as it was not thought advis-
able that he should go alone, he decided to accompany him. They made a tour
through England and to Paris, where his brother was so much better that he left
him there and returned to New York after an absence of five months. He now felt
it was desirable that he should settle himself by taking up some profession or other
occupation, and his cousin, Benjamin H. Field, having made him an offer to join
him in his business of a commission merchant in New York, with a share of the
profits, he accepted it, and the arrangement continued for four years. When it
expired, he decided to found a similar house in London, which he did in 1849. He
soon had commercial relations not only with many of the principal cities of his own
country, but also with most of the European States and the East and West Indies.
He retired from business in 1877, having acquired a competency. He traveled much
during the next few years, and besides visiting the countries he had already seen,
he made a tour in Russia, Sweden and Denmark. In 1880 he married in London,
Katharine Roxana, daughter ot Milton Day Parker, Esq., of Utica, N. Y. Partly
on account of his wife, who suffered from attacks of bronchitis in cold weather,
they passed the following winter in Egypt, where they ascended to the second cata-
ract of the Nile, and the following one at Cannes. They spent the third winter
after their marriage in Rome. Both his wife and himself had cousins residing
there, and partly on this account and partly because the climate suited them and
they found the life agreeable, they decided to make the place their home. They
accordmgly took and furnished an apartment in the Palace of Prince Colonna,
where they have passed since then the seven colder months of the year, and the
remaining five in Switzerland, Germany, France or England.
Mr. Field has always been greatly interested in genealogical and historical sub-
jects. While residing in this country and in England he contributed many articles
to historical magazines relating to the genealogy of the Field family. Many of the
articles were contributed to the New England Historic and Genealogical Register,
published in Boston. The author of this work is greatly indebted to Mr. Field for
the history of the family prior to its settlement in America. While residing in
London he had a most extensive search instituted, and spent thousands of dollars
in the compilation and publication of his work, much of which is given in this
volume with Mr. Field's permission.
Res. Rome, Italy, Plazzo Colonna, s. p.
1836. FRANKLIN CLINTON FIELD (Moses, John Anthony, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Aug. 5, 1825; m,
March 18, 1861, Mary Cunningham, dau. of William, d. Oct. 4, 1869; m., 2d, Jan.
30, 1872, Elizabeth Cooke, dau. of Geo. Fitch, of New York. Res. New York.
3366. i. LOUISA CLINTON, b. Nov. 25, 1872.
1839. MOSES AUGUSTUS FIELD (Moses, John, Anthony, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. April 15, 1831; m.
March 16. 1854, Fanny Pearsall Bradhurst, dau. of Samuel, of New York. Res.
New York, N. Y.
3367. i. FANNY PEARSALL, b. Dec. 26, 1854; d. Sept. 16, 1866.
3368. ii. WM. AUGUSTUS, b. July 24, 1856; d. Sept. 15, 1866.
3369. iii. EDWARD PEARSALL, b. June 20, 1858; m. Anna Tailer Tows-
end.
3370. iv. CLINTON OSGOOD, b. Nov. 6, 1859.
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3371. V. MARY, b. Nov. 20, 1861; m. 1899, Henry Wilmerding Payne, son
of Rev. John William Payne.
At the home of the bride's mother at noon there was a quiet
wedding, when Miss Mary Field, daughter of the late M. Augus-
tus Field, was rnarried to Mr. Henry Wilmerding Payne, son of
the late Rev. John William Payn^, who for many years was resi-
dent in Rome, Italy. There were present at the marriage cere-
mony only immediate relatives and a limited number of intimate
friends of the pair, about seventj'-five in all. The Rev. Dr. David
H. Greer, rector of St. Bartholomew's church, officiated at the
marriage ceremony, which took place in the drawing-room of
the bride's home before a temporary altar, behind which were
palms and floral decorations, white and pink roses predominat-
ing. There were no bridesmaids or ushers. The bride was
escorted to the altar by her brother, Mr. Augustus Bradhurst
Field, and was given away by her mother. Mr. Leonard. S. R.
Hopkins was best man. The bridal gown of heavy while satin
was severely plain, the waist made high at the neck, and the skirt
slightly en traine. The veil of beautiful point applique was held
in place by a crescent of diamonds, one of the bridegroom's gifts,
and the bouquet was of lilies of the valley and fresh orange blos-
soms. The bride also wore a necklace of pearls and a brooch of
solitaire diamonds, gifts of the bridegroom. After the marriage
ceremony and congratulations a wedding breakfast was served
by Sherry, the bride and bridegroom and several near relatives
being seated at a round table. After a brief wedding trip, Mr.
and Mrs. Payne will sail for Europe, where they will travel for
several months. — New York Herald.
3372. vi. MAUNSELL BRADHURST, b. Nov. 21, 1863; m. Beadle-
ston. She is a daughter of Mr. Alfred N. Beadleston, and is very
wealthy in her own right.
The wedding gown will be an elaborate affair with quantities
of costly lace, and the pretty bride is sure to look lovelier than
ever on her wedding day. Mr. Field is one of the best known
young men in the fashionable set, and is a member of one of the
oldest New York families. He is a son of the late Mr. M.
Augustus Field and a grandson of the Hon. Samuel Osgood, the
first postmaster-general of the United States. On his mother's
side he is connected with the Bradhurst family, who years ago
owned the Monico Villa and estate, the latter extending from
river to river. Mr. Field is a brother of Mr. Augustus Bradhurst
Field and of Miss Mary Field. — New York Newspaper.
3373. vii. AUGUSTUS BRADHURST, b. Feb. 6. 1866. He belongs to the
New York State Society Sons of the Revolution through Samuel
Osgood, who was private in Capt. Peter Talbot's company. Col.
Lemuel Robinson's regiment, Massachusetts militia, "Lexington
alarm;" brigade major. Massachusetts militia, 1775; member
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775-76; aide-de-camp to
Maj.-Gen. Artemas Ward, July 20, 1775, to April 23, 1776; rep-
resentative Massachusetts General Court, 1776, 1779-84; mem-
ber Massachusetts Senate, 1780; member Continental Congress,
1780-84.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 569
3374. viii. THOMAS PEARSALL, b. July 31, 1868. He belongs to the New-
York State Society Sons of the Revolution through Samuel
Osgood, who was private in Capt. Peter Talbot's company. Col.
Lemuel Robinson's regiment, Massachusetts militia, "Lexington
alarm;" brigade major, Massachusetts militia, 1775; member
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775-76; aide-de-camp to
Maj.-Gen. Artemas Ward, July 20, 1775, to April 23, 1776; rep-
resentative Massachusetts General Court, 1776, 1779-84; member
Massachusetts Senate, 1780; member Continental Congress,
1780-84.
1840. WILLIAM HAZARD FIELD (Moses, John, Anthony, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Peekskill, N. Y. ,
Aug. 5, 1833; m. Oct. 14, 1863, Augusta Currie Bradhurst, dau. of Samuel. Had.
Feb. 3, 1888. Res. New York, N. Y.
3375. i. MARY PEARSALL, b. July 10, 1865; unm. Res. 8 West Thirty-
seventh street, New York city.
3376. ii. WILLIAM BRADHURST OSGOOD, b. Sept. 16, 1870, in Geneva,
Switzerland. Res. 8 West Thirty-seventh street, New York city.
He belongs to the New York State Society Sons of the Revolu-
tion through Samuel Osgood, who was private in Capt. Peter
Talbot's company, Col. Lemuel Robinson's regiment, Massa.
chusetts militia, "Lexington alarm;" brigade major, Massachu-
setts militia, 1775; member Massachusetts Provincial Congress,
1775-76; aide-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Artemas Ward, July 20, 1775,
to April 23, 1776; representative Massachusetts General Court,
1776, 1 779-1 784; member Massachusetts Senate, 1780; member
Continental Congress, 1780-84.
1841. HICKSON WOOLMAN FIELD (Hickson W., John, Anthony, Benja-
min, Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. New York,
N. Y., Aug. II, 1823; m. July 17, 1845, Mary Elizabeth Bradhurst, dau. of John
Maunsell Bradhurst, of Harlem, N. Y. Res. Rome, Italy, Plazzo Raspoli.
3377. i. ELIZABETH HICKSON, b. April 14, 1846; m. March 30, 1870.
Salvatorre Brancaccio, Prince of Triggiano, Prince of Bitetto,
Marquis of Naples. His full name is Salvatorre Carlo Felice
Corrado Gasparo Baldasasse Melchiorre Supo. Prince Bran-
caccio, Prince of Triggiano, Duke of Lustra and Pontelaudolfo,
Marchese Bajada, etc., born at Naples, Italy, July 10, 1842, son
of Duke Carlo, b. 1812; d. Aug. 25, 1868, Chevalier hon de'l O, de
Malta. The Princess Brancaccio is prominent in the court circle,
and bears the title of "Dame d'Honneur" to her Majesty, Queen
Marguerite. She was of New York, and beautiful as a young
girl. In middle life she is still handsome, and has the airs
and manners of a princess born. Her interests do not extend
outside of her family and the court circle. She is happy in hav-
ing married her daughter to Prince Massimo, who bears one of
the most illustrious names of Rome, the family inhabiting the
feudal palace for many centuries, and claiming to trace their
descent from the praetor, Fabius Maximus. It is a curious fact
that of all the American women who have married Europeans of
title, only one has accepted a courtly office within the gift of the
sovereign of her adopted country. The exception is the Duchess
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of Brancaccio. The duchess is an intimate friend of Queen Mar-
guerite, and gave up her beautiful Naples residence to be near
her majesty. Marguerite of Savo}^ endeavored to make room in
her immediate entourage for the sprightly American years ago,
when she first entered Roman society. The duke, being a
thorough royalist, favored the proposal, but the quondam Miss
Field objected to becoming "a lady in waiting." So the position
of "dame du palais," which involves no menial duties, even from
an American standpoint, was created for her benefit. Their chil-
dren are: i. Carlo Hickson Maria Salvatorre, b. Rome, Itsily,
Dec. 29, 1870. 2. Maria Eleonore Vittoria Felice Candida Eliza-
beth, b. Rome, Italy, Feb. 19, 1875; m. there April 29, 1895,
Prince Francesco Massimo, Prince d'Arsoli. On the occasion of
her marriage. Princess Eleonore Brancaccio wore a number of the
jewels of Queen Marie Antoinette, which are now in the hands of
the family of the bridegroom, the young Prince Massimo. The
latter has royal Bourbon blood in his veins, for his mother is a
step-sister of the late Comte de Chambord, acknowledged as
King Henry V. of France by the legitimists. She is the issue of
that second marriage which the widowed Duchesse de Berry con-
tracted with her Neapolitan chamberlain, the Marquis Lucchessi-
Palli, a union which, it may be remembered, brought a some-
what ridiculous conclusion upon the rising which she had headed
in France against King Louis Philippe in favor of her eldest son,
the Comte de Chambord. Let me add that the old Princess
Massimo presents a most marked physical resemblance to the late
French pretender, and has inherited ail the peculiar facial char-
acteristics of the house of Bourbon. But it is not only with the
latter that the young princess will become connected by her mar-
riage with Prince Massimo, for the latter's elder brother married
some time ago Princess Eugenie Bonaparte, a niece and god-
daughter of Empress Eugenie, while old Prince Massimo himself
is a son of Princess Marie of Savoy and a near relative, therefore,
of King Humbert and Queen Marguerite. In fact, there is no
patrician house in Rome that has made so many matrimonial
alliances with royal and imperial families as that of Massimo,
which claims to be the most ancient family in Europe, tracing its
descent in an unbroken line back to Quintus Fabius Maximus,
the conqueror of the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Prince
Massimo holds the hereditary office of postmaster-general to the
pope, and is the recognized head of the old black, or clerical,
patrician society in Rome; whereas the Brancaccios may be
regarded as forming part of the opposite camp, the princess, nee
Field, being a ladj^ in waiting to Queen Marguerite. Her hus-
band's title is very ancient, the rank of prince having been
conferred in the year 1391, and that of duke three centuries
ago.
"As stated above, the Massimo family is very ancient. They
are Catholics and^one of the oldest Roman families, which, tradi-
tion says, descend from the Maximi. They acquired possession
of Savelli-Palombara by the marriage of Camillo Francesco
Massimo (born about 1750, d. about 1800) with Barbara (died
FIELD GENEALOGY. 571
1826), daughter and heiress of Savelli-Palombara. The branches
below descend from Camillo(fcorn 1801).
First Branch.— Residence, Rome, Palace Massimo; author,
Camillo Massimiliano. died May 7, 1840; Prince d'Arsoli
(Province of Rome, June 27, 1826), Prince Lancellotti, 1865. acqui-
sition of the seigneurie of Rovino and of Anticoli-Corrado (Prov-
ince of Rome), succession from the house Colonna di Sciarra,
July 3, 1872; Prince Camillo Carlo Alberto Massimo, Roman
prince and baron; Prince d'Arsoli, born at Rome, Dec. 3, 1836,
son of Prince Camillo Vittoria Emanuele, born Aug. 14, 1803; d.
April 6, 1873, and of his first wife Marie Gabrielle, nee Princess
of Savoie-Carignon, born Sept. 18, 1811; m. Oct. 11, 1827; d.
Sept. 10, 1837; succeeded his father; married at Brunnsee, Styria,
June 21, i860, to Francesca Lucchesi Palli, dei Principi di Cam-
poJranco, born Oct. 12, 1836. Ch. :
1. Princess Maria Gabrielle, b. at Rome, May 26, 1861 ; m.
at Rome, June 21, 1885, to Roberto, Count Zileri dal Verme
(Parma).
2. Prince Francesco. Prince d'Arsoli, b. at Rome, Sept. 17,
1865; m. at Rome, April 29, 1895, to Eleonore Brancaccio, b. Feb.
19, 1875, daughter of Salvatorre, Prince Brancaccio. Son: Prince
Leone, b. at Rome, Jan. 25. 1896.
3. Prince Fabrizio, Prince of Roviano and Duke d' Anticoli-
Corrado, b. at Rome, Nov. 23, 1868; m. at Venice, Feb. 27, 1897,
to Beatrix, Princess of Bourbon ; AltRoy, b. at Rome, Aug. 20,
1871, by the second marriage of the father with Giacinta, n6e
della Porta-Rodiana, b. Feb. 18, 1821; m. Oct. 2, 1842; d. March
26. iSgS.
(a) Prince Filippo Massimiliano Massimo, Prince Lancellotte, b.
at Rome, Nov. 15, 1843; m. at Rome, Feb. 22, 1865, to Elizabetta
Aldobrandini, b. July 13, 1847. dau. of Camillo, Prince Aldobran-
dini. Ch. : i. Prince Guiseppe, b. at Rome, Nov. 19, 1866; m.
at Frascati, Oct. 14, 1889, Lesa Pio Aldobrandini, b. July 29,
1871, dau. of Pietro, Prince di Sarsina. Ch. i. : Princess Anna, b.
at Frascati, July 13, 1890. 2. Princess Maria, b. at Frascati, July
13, 1890. 3. Prince Fillipo, b. at Rome, Feb. 6, 1892. 4. Princess
Francisca, b. at Rome, June 18, 1893. 5. Prince Massimiliano, b.
at Rome, March 5, 1895. 6. Princess Carolina, b. at Frascati, June
14. 1873.
(b; Princess Cristina, b. at Frascati, June 14, 1873. (c) Maria
Pia, b. at Rome, July 26, 1875. (d) Prince Luigi, b. at Frascati,
July 29, 1881. (e) Prince Lauro, b. at Frascati, Oct. 10, 1883. (f)
Princess Rufina. b. at Frascati, Sept. 25, 1886. (g) Prince Pietro,
b. at Frascati, Oct. 17. 1888.
3. Marcantonio Gerardo Giulio Marino Maria Bacolo Cesare
Rupilo, Duke of Brancaccio, b. in Rome. Italy, May 29, 1879.
As stated above, this family is very ancient. They are Cath-
olics, and have always resided in Italy. The Feudal house of
Naples is said to have issued from Burrhus Brancassius, living
about the year 1000. Count of Campagna and of Castiglione
(Province of Saterne. and Marquis of Montesilvano (Province of
Teramo), 1645. Title confirmed in Rome. June 2, 1870, Duke de
572 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Pontelandolfo (Province of Beneven], 1630; Principe de Ruffano
(Province of Leccoe), Dec. 10, 1734. The two branches following
descended from the two sons of the Principe Nicola Maria.
First Branch. — Prince di Ruffano, residence Naples, author
The Prince Nicola, b. 1805; d. April 2, 1863. Ch. : i. Gerardo
Giuseppe Carlo Bacolo Lupo Brancaccio, Prince of Ruffano,
Marguis de Rivello and S. Ruffacle, Baron of Sorbo, etc, b. at
Naples, Italy, Oct. 30, 1837, son of Nicola and Amelie, nee Gysin
(b. 181 5: m. 1836; d. May 22, 1872); m. at Paris, France, May 28,
1862, Antoinette, Countess of Fayeres (b. at Paris, in 1844; d.
August, 1874). Ch. : (a) Nicola Marquis de Revello, b. at Naples,
Italy. Dec. 8, 1864. Captain in 41st regiment of Italian in-
fantry, (b) Maria, b. at Naples, March 12, 1867; m. there Oct.
20, 1895, Edwarde Talamo. (c) Marguetta, b. at Vevey, March
II, 1869; ra. Feb. 3, 1898, Marquis Filiasi; an officer of the
Italian cavalry. 2. Marianna, b. Naples, May 15, 1839; m. there
March 24, 1850, Marcello Mastsilli, Duke of Gallo, Naples.
Second Branch. — Prince Brancaccio, residence Rome, Palace
Brancaccio and Chateau de San Graegario, author. Carlo Brancac-
cio (b. 1812; d. Aug. 25, 1868); Neapolitan title of Prince of Trig-
giano (Province of Baridelle Puglie). Title inherited from the
house Filomarino, May 9, 1838, confirmed in Rome, Italy, Feb.
18, 1876. Prince Brancaccio, title Italian, Rome, March 2, 1879.
He was the father of Prince Brancaccio the husband of Miss
Elizabeth Hickson Field. The brothers and sisters of Prince
Brancaccio, Jr., were:
(a) Caterina, b. at Naples, Jan. 30, 1839; m. at Naples in i860,
Fiancesco Borgia de Varona y Balazar (d. 1874), General (Naples).
(b) Rosa, b. at Naples, July 3. 1840; m. at Naples, Oct. 25,
1868, Carlo di Basogno Marquis di Casaluce (d. Feb. 28, 1890),
(Naples).
(c) Clementina, b. at Naples, Sept. 20. 1843; m. at Naples, June
20. 1873, Francesco Marquis di Suca-Presta (Noci, prov. of Bari).
(d) Guiseppe, b. at Naples, May 5, 1851 (Naples).
(e) Marino, b. at Naples, Dec. 18, 1852; m. at Naples, May 11,
1892, Olga Caraciolo, of the Duchy of Castellusio, b. August,
1872.
(f) Aspreno, b. at Naples, Oct. 17, 1855 (Naples).
(g) Maria, b. at Naples, Sept. 19, 1859 (religieuse).
Prince Brancaccio, Jr.'s, mother was Princesse dowager Feli-
cita Carmela, b. at Naples, Feb. 15, 18 17, daughter of the late
Prince Giacomo Filomarina dei Principi di Procca d'Aspo; m. at
Naples, April 25, 1838, Carlo Prince Brancaccio, principe of
Triggiano, who d. Aug. 25. 1868; m., 2d, at Naples, Oct. 25,
1873, Girolamo Ruffo, Prmce of Spinoso, and d. June 25, 18S8. —
Almanac de Gotha.
3378. ii. MARY ELEANOR, b. Aug. 7, 1S56; d. at Leghorn, Italy, Dec.
20, 1865.
1S44. ANTHONY FIELD (Anthony, Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Addison county, Vermont.
Aug. 15, 1808; ra. Franklm county, Vermont, Mary A. Hathaway, b. 1815; d. Oct.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 573
3382.
n.
3383-
iii.
3384.
IV.
3385.
V.
3386.
vi.
3387.
vii,
25, 1880. He was a farmer and stock raiser. He d. Dec. 19, 1878. Res. Washing-
ton, 111.
3379. i. FRANKLIN, b. April 8, 1S40; m. Sarah M. Van Camp and Mary
A. Guigerick.
1845. STEPHEN FIELD (Anthony, Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony.
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. , Vermont; m. .
Res. Vergennes, Vt. •
3380. i. LUTHER, b. . Res. Vergennes, Vt.
1850. RALPH FIELD (Gilbert, Anthony, Anthony, Beniamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. New York State, in 1797; m,
in Smithville, Ontario, in 1822, Bethiah Hill, b. 1798; d. 1884. He d. in 1858. Res.
Smithville, Ontario.
3381. i. RALPH, b. in 1828; m. Hannah Johnston.
ELEANOR JANE, b. ; m., but d. s. p.
JACOB M., b. April 12, 1825; m. Janette Laidlaw. ]
GILBERT C, b. Jan. 2, 1831; m. Emma Lydia Cook.
MARY B., b. ; m. Adams.
GEORGE H., b. .
ANN, b. ; m. Bridgman.
1855-2. THOMAS FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Ferrisburgh, Vt., April 14,
1804: m. Elizabeth Rogers, b. June 8, 1816; d. Jan. 9, 1854; m., 2d. Abigail Har-
rington, b. Feb. 16, 1831; d. June 3, 1899. He was a very successful farmer,
accumulated $60,000. He d. Aug. 10, 1878. Res. Ferrisburgh, Vt.
3387-2. i. MARY, b. June 12. 1839; d. Nov. 23. 1840.
3387-3- ii- ANN E., b. Dec. 16, 1841; m. Harrison Dean, of Cornwall, Vt.
Five children.
3387-4. iii. BENJAMIN THOMAS, b. June 19, 1855; m. Minnie S. LaDuke.
3387-5. iv. ORVILLE CLARK, b. March 25, 1861; m. Sept. 6, 1882. Hattie
Burrough. Res. Vergennes, Vt.
1855-4. GEORGE FIELD (Benjamin, Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John. William), b. Ferrisburgh, Vt, Aug. 26,
1802; m. there March 19, 1835, Sylvania Walker, b. March i, 1810; d. March 25,
1848. He d. April 6, 1862. Res. Ferrisburgh, Vt.
3387-6. i. JANE. b. Aug. 12, 1836; m. Nathan Lee, of Lincoln, Vt. They
had one son, George, who m. Miss Thomas, of Burlington, Vt.
They had one dau. who d. at six j'ears of age. The father is
also deceased.
3387-7.' ii. JOHN, b. October, 1838; d. in 1850.
3387-8. iii. WALKER B., b. Feb. 26, 1840: m. Carrie E. Higbee. She
was b. in 1838; d. in 1899. Ch.: i. Cora, b. m 1863; living;
m. Burton Kent, of Panton, Vt, where they now reside. They
have two young children, Bruce and Ross. Occupation, farming.
2. Nellie, b. 1865; d. 1896; m. Fred Allen, of Panton, Vt
They had one child who d. in infancy. 3. Park, b. in 1872;
d. in 1888. 4. Charlie Field, b. 1876; living; m. Ida Cushman,
of Ferrisburgh, Vt They had one child, Calla Lilla, b. 1899. 5.
John; d. at age of three years. 6. Guy, b. in 1879; unm. ; living.
3387.9. iv. MARTHA, b. April, 1842; d.
3387-10. V. BENJAMIN, d. in infancy.
574 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1855-21. GEORGE FIELD (George, Anthony, Anthony, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, Wilham, William, John, John, William), b. Sunderland, Vt, May 12, 1791;
m. Waltham, Vt., Sally Pier, b. 1793; d. Nov. 29, 1879. He d. Oct. 18, 1864. Res.
Vergennes, Vt.
3387-11. i. MARY ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 30, 18x6; m. in 1839, Daniel Kimball.
She d. Oct. 4, 1844. He was b. Littleton, Mass. ; d. Clarendon,
Vt, November, 1886. Was a farmer. Ch. : i. George Field
Otis, b. Feb. 18, 1841 ; m. March 6, 1862, Roxey C. Champion;
d. Dec. 16, 1893; m., 2d, April 30, 1895, Eva C. Scovel, b. Feb.
11,1858. He is a farmer. Res. Vergennes, Vt. Ch. : (a) George
Field Kimball, b. May 17, 1863. (b) Charles Pier Kimball, b.
Dec. 30, 1866; d. June 3, 1883. (c) Mary Abigail Kimball, b.
March 28, 1868. Now Mrs. J. B. Powers, Newton Center, Mass,
George Field Kimball's address is Gales Ferry, Conn.
3387-12. ii. SARAH JANE, b. ; m. Mayo. She d. s. p. in 1846.
1862. NATHAN FIELD (Isaac, Solomon, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. New York, April 20,
1782; m. 1804, Susan Knox, dau. of John, of North Salem, N. Y., b. Nov. 2, 17S3;
d. March 20, 1866. He d. Jan. 2. 1864. Res. South East. N. Y.
3388. i. CLARISSA, b. Nov. 21, 1804; m. Joseph Ganung and Ephraim
Bedell. She d. April 11, 1881. Res. Carmel, N. Y.
3389. ii. ANSON, b. Nov. 2, 1806; m. Huldah Ambler.
3390. iii. SARAH, b. Feb. 17, 1809; m. April i, 1838, Joseph Hobby. She
d. Sept. 23, 1890. Res. Carmel.
3391. iv. MARIA, b. Oct. 7, 1811; m. October, 1834, Abram Kniffin. She
d. March 5, 1880. Res. Carmel.
3392. V. MARINDA. b. Oct. 7, 1811; m. Alotson Dean, of Carmel. She d.
Oct. 10, 1898. Res. Carmel.
3393. vi. THOMAS, b. July 2, 1814; m. March 4, 1868, Mary Travis, b. 1827.
He d. s. p. Aug. 30, 1889.
3394. vii. ISAAC, b. Oct. 18, 1817; d. Oct. 24, i8i3.
3395. viii. BETSEY ANN, b. Oct. i, 1819; m. Feb. 26, 1837, Nathan Lane
,, . Austin, of Carmel, N. Y.
3396. ix. ' NANCY JANE. b. Oct. i, 1819; m. Sept. 26, 1839. Cyrus Ryder,
of South East, N. Y. Res. Danbury, Conn.
3397. X. LYMAN, b. April 24, 1822; m. Kesiah Ann Ellis.
3398. xi. ISAAC, b. May 6, 1825; m. Henrietta Kent and Martha Knapp.
1865. SOLOMON FIELD (Stephen, Solomon, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John), b. March 31, 1799; ™-
Dec. 10, 1828, Sally Ann Ganung, dau. of Edward and Sally (Delavan), of North
Salem, N. Y., b. Oct. 26, 1809; d. July 12, 1889. He d. Jan. i, 1870. Res. South
East, N. Y.
3399. i. URIAH, b. July 3, 1830; m. Mary A. Everitt.
.3400. ii. JULIA ELIZABETH, b. April 8, 1832; m. May 28, 1851, Jonathan
Fowler Frost, b. April 13, 1823; d. Dec. 6, 1889, of North Salem.
Res. Delavan. Wis.
3401. iii. ANN MARY, b. April 12, 1834; m. Dec. 28, 1852, Jeremiah H.
Mabie, son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Gifford), of Patterson, N.
Y. He was a capitalist. He d. Aug. 31, 1867, and she m. Jan.
27. 1869, Chester Wright Phillips, of Delavan, Wis., who was b.
^ Dec. 23, 1833, and d. Aug. 26, 1878. She resides Delavan, Wis.
JOSEPH E. FIELD.
See page 575.
MRS. GEORGIA L. CARTER AND CHILD.
See page 583.
EDWIN WILKINS FIELD
See page 588.
JOHN HAMPDEN FIELD, SR.
See page 591.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 575
Ch. : I. Marie Antoinette Mabie, b. Aug. 19, i860; m. April 15,
1897, Daniel E. La Bar. P. O., Delavan. Wis. 2. Joshua Field
Mabie, b. Jan. 26, 1S64; d. Dec. 14, i863, Delavan, Wis. 3.
Elizabeth Frost Mabie, b. June 12, 1866; m. June 26,* 189 — ,
Edward Craig Roberts. P.O. address. Riverside, Fairfield, Co.,
Conn. 4. Ernest Field Phillips, b. Nov. 8, 1S69, Delavan, Wis. 5.
Huldah Ann.b. Nov. i, 1873; d- Nov. 7, 1873. 6. Chester Wright
Phillips, b. Sept. 7, 1874. P. O. address, Delavan, Wis.
1876. SELAH FIELD (Joseph, Elnathan, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, \Yilliam, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. May 24, 1805 ;
ra. March 31, 1838, Ruth Ann Burch, b. Nov. i6, 1818. He d. Sept. 29, 1889. Res.
Mill Plain, Conn.
3402. i. GEORGE, b. April 7, 1839; m. Sarah Cornelia Lyons.
3403. ii. EGBERT BURCH, b. Oct. 27, 1842; m. Lavinia C. Mead.
1880. ISAAC THOMPSON FIELD (Joseph, Elnathan, Joseph. Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William. Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. Dec.
9, 1812; m. Oct. 9, 1845, Mary Ann Brush, dau. of John Piatt and Polly Brush
(Brush), b. Nov. 3, 1819; d. Dec. 7, 1876; ra., 2d, Julia Maria Booth. He d. March
23, 1895. Res. Danbury, Conn.
3404. i. JOHN BRUSH, b. Aug. 11, 1846; m. March 21, 1867, Jane Ann
Shepard, b. May 11, 1846; d. Dec. 31, 1891. He d. s. p. Feb. 20,
1870. Res. Brewster, N. Y.
3405. ii. MARY JANE, b. Oct. 20, 1848; d. Jan. 18, 1875.
3406. iii. WILLIAM RUNDLE, b. Nov. 19, 1850; m. Elizabeth Raymond.
3407. iv. LUCY, b. March 12, 1854; m. June 3, 1873, Byron P. Risley, son of
Henry and Ellen (Cole), of Hamilton, N. Y., b. April 15, 1845.
Res. Hamilton, N. Y. Is a farmer. Ch. : i. John T. Risley,
b. Feb. 14, 1875; occupation, insurance. 2. Mary J. Risley, b.
Nov. II, 1877. 3. Field A. Risley, b. Jan. 26, 1884.
1883. WILLIAM FIELD (Joseph, Elnathan, Joseph, Benjamin, Anthony,
Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b. April 21, 1819;
m. April 22, 1840, Mary Ambler, dau. of Benjamin, of Danbury, Conn., b. July 9
1820. He d. Jan. 27. 1844. Res. South East, N. Y.
3408. i. MARY JANE, b. Nov. 6. 1843; d. April 12, 1844.
1885. JOSEPH ELNATHAN FIELD (Joseph, Elnathan, Joseph, Benjamin,
Anthony, Robert, William, Christopher, John, Christopher, John, William), b.
March 3, 1S23, Ridgefield, Conn. ; m. April 9, 1848, Julia Ann Cole, dau. of Curtis
and Mary (Sturges), of Weston, Conn., b. March 17, 1823. He was a farmer. He
d. Dec. I, 1895. Res. Stepnay, Conn.
3409. i. MARY DELIGHT, b. Dec. 16, 1850; m. Nov. 2, 1869, William
Smith Wheeler. Res. Shelton, Conn. He was b. Nov. 11, 1849.
Is a grocer. Ch. : i. Charles, b. Feb. 22, 1871 ; d. March, 1885.
3410. ii. JAMES COLEY, b. 1854; m. Mary Piatt and Minnie Cutter.
3411. iii. ANNIE JULIA, b. Oct. i, 1861; m. Oct. 15, 1891, Herbert Waldo
Wright, b. Nov. 24, 1864. Res. Newtown, Conn. He is a farmer.
Ch. : I. Lucie F., b. April 5, 1894. 2. Joseph Field, b. June 5,
1897.
1887. BENJAMIN L FIELD (John B.. Benjamin, Jeremiah, John. Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. May 15, 1792, Bound Brook,
676 FIELD GENEALOGY.
N. J.; m. New Market, N. J., Feb. 3, i8ig, Sarah Dunn, b. Dec. ig, 1796; d. April
2, 1883. She was a direct descendant on her father's side of Edward Fuller, who
came over in the Mayflower, in 1620. On her mother's side she descended in a
direct line from Vincent Runyon, the Huguenot.
Benjamin L Field lived all of his life in Middlesex county, below Bound Brook,
where his ancestor, John Field, purchased the large tract of land in 1695, It has
now passed into the possession of his son, John B. Field. He was greatly respected
by everybody, and was called by many "Good Uncle Benny." He and his wife
united upon confession of their faith, August, 1822, with the Presbyterian church
of Bound Brook, N. J. He was an elder in the said church thirty-eight years. He
and his wife lived together sixty-four years. He died in the old homestead, June
3, 1S84, aged ninety-two years. Res. Bound Brook, N. J.
3412. i. ASA RUNYON, b. April 30, 1820; d. Oct. 8, 1854.
3413. ii. PHEBE ANN, b. Nov. 17, 1821; m. Feb. 5, 1840, John Vermeule
Clanson, b. May 14, 1816; d. July 6, 1894. She resides Bayard
St., New Brunswick, N. J. Ch. : i, David Smalley Clanson,
b. April 5, 1841. 2. John Voorhees Clanson, b. June 15, 1843; m.
June 22. 1881, Ellen Augusta North, b. June 2, 1856. He d. May
24, 1890. He (John Voorhees Clanson) corporal, enlisted
Aug. 30, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; served call for nine
months; mustered out of service July 6, 1863. Was appointed
corporal Sept. 15, 1862. in company C of the Twenty-eighth Reg-
ulars of New Jersey Volunteers. 3. Benjamin Field Clanson, b.
Aug. 17, 1848; m. Oct. 25, 1870, Anna Amelia Marsters, b. Dec.
20, 1849. Ch. : (a) Benjamin Marsters Clanson, b. Dec. 27, 1875.
(b) Mary Sillcocks Clanson, b. Aug. 8, 1877. (c) Jennie Wood-
worth Clanson, b. July 11, 1880. (d) Ella Amelia Clanson, b. May
6, 1882; d. April 20, 1885. (e) Rebecca Hull Clanson, b. April
3, 1885. (f) Katie Fisher Clanson, b. Oct. 26, 1886. (g) Voorhees
« Clanson, b. June 11, 1891; d. June 22, 1891. (h) Albenia Fugle
Clanson, b. June 2, 1893. 4. Ella Vermeule Clanson, b. July 27,
1857; d. Aug. 6, 1896. 5. Mary Elizabeth Field Clanson, b. May
6, 1895; m. Aug. 28, 1878, Alfred Conver Garland, b. Jan. 27,
1859. Ch. : (a) Albert Manchester Garland, b. June 7, 1879.
(b) Minnie Olive Garland, b. March 7, 1881. (c) Stella Garland,
b. Oct. 5, 1882. (d) Jennie W^eir Garland, b. June 23, 1884. (e)
Grace Garland, b. Nov. 22, 1885. (f) Kate Conover Garland, b.
Sept. 26, 1887. (g) Frank Robb Garland, b. Aug. 29, 1889.
(h) Loren Bragdon Garland, b. Jan. 15,1891. (i) Fred Field Gar-
land, b. Sept. 30, 1892. (j) Margaret Anna Garland, b. June 8,
1894.
3414. iii. RACHEL RUNYON, b. Aug. 6, 1823; d. June 2, 1870; m. April
15, 1852, John Pyatt Randolph, b. March 21, 1815: d. 1899.
Ch. : 1. Sarah Runyon Randolph, b. Sept. 7, 1854. Res. Plain-
field, N. J.
3415. iv. MARGARET VAN NEST, b. April 16, 1825; d. Sept. 12, 1826.
3416. V. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 20, 1827; m. Dec. 14, 1852, George
W. Winson. Res. Bound Brook, N. J. He d. 1898. Ch. : (i)
William Winsor, b. March 6, 1854; m. Sept. 9, 1896, Sarah A.
Beach.
3417. vi. JOHN B., b. Nov. 28, 1828; m. Mary Ellen Van Doren.
3418. vii. JOEL DUNN, b, Oct. 12, 1830; m. Elizabeth De Graw.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 577
3419. viii. JANE FITZ RANDOLPH, b. Sept. 23, 1832; m. April 10, 1853.
Thomas Eastburn MacDonald. b. March 3, 1829, in New Bruns-
wick, N. J. He was the son of Richard MacDonald, whose
father, George MacDonald, was a prominent lawyer in Somer-
ville, N. J. He was a son of Major Richard MacDonald,
of Somerville, N. J., who served in the Revolutionary war.
They had six children. She resides at 172 East Front street,
Plainfaeld, N. J. Ch. : i. Mary Whitt MacDonald, b. July 23. 1854 ;
m. April 30, 1874, James Moses, b. in County Tyrone, Ireland.
Res. Spring Lake Beach, N. J. Ch. : (a) Laura MacDonald
Moses, b. May 18, 1875. (b) Ethel Revere Moses, b. March 3,
1878. (c) Vera MacFarland Moses, b. July 29, 1880.
Extract from the Trenton Times, May 16, i8gi. published in
Trenton, N. J.: "Mr. James Moses has been one of the most
successful business men in this city. Starting alone in boyhood
at the potters' trade, he has by his own efforts, climbed the lad-
der of success and achieved fame and fortune. He is a compara-
tively young man, only forty-four. He was born near Omagh,
County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1847, his parents being of Scottish
descent. In 1864 he came to this country, having less than $50 in
his pocket after paying his passage. He went to work immedi-
ately in the Glasgow Pottery, Trenton N. J., at the wages of
the average ware-room boy, which were little more than sufficient
to pay his board. He remained with the Glasgow Pottery eleven
years, serving in different capacities. April 21, 1875, he purchased
the Mercer Pottery. It is now one of the largest potteries in this
city. Whatever Mr. Moses is to-day, he owes solely to his own
efforts. One prmciple he laid down when he came to this coun-
try, and rigidly followed, was this: That whatever his wages or
income, he would keep his expenditures a little below it, so that
every year he was saving something. There are two distin-
guishing traits in the character of Mr. Moses, one is his conscien-
tiousness in everything he does, and the other is, his cool perse-
verance. At the present time (1899) Mr. Moses is president of the
Mercer Pottery Company ; president of the Villa Park Improve-
ment Company, and president of the Spring Lake Electric Light,
Heat and Power Company. He is a Republican and protection-
ist, but not a politician. He is a member of the Presbyterian
church."
2. Sara Ann MacDonald. b. Aug. i, 1858. 3. Elizabeth
Brokaw MacDonald, b. May 11, 1861; d. May 16, 1863. 4.
Charles Field MacDonald, b. Oct. 27, 1864; m. Dec. 4, 1895,
Martha Emily Marceron. 5. Henry Baldwin MacDonald, b.
Dec. 8 1870. 6. Ella Bertha MacDonald, b. May 31, 1873.
3420. ix. CATHERINE VAN NEST. b. Nov. 16, 1834; d. your>g.
3421. X. CAROLINE VAN NEST, b. Nov. 27, 1836; m. Nov. 10, 1858,
Peter Wortman Garretson, b. Nov. 29, 1834. They had five chil-
dren. Res. South Bound Brook, N. J. Ch. : i.. James T. Gar-
retson, b. Oct. 26, 1859; m. June 11, 1884, Emma T. Barclay, b.
July 17, 1863. Ch.: (a) Florence Field Garretson, b. Aug. 10,
1885. (b) Lester Wortman Garretson, b. May 28, 1887. (c)
James Harold Garretson, b. June 28, 1889. 2. Anna Field Gar-
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retson, b. Feb. ii, 1865; m. Feb. 11, 1885, William Merril Staats,
b. March 27, 1862. Ch. : (a) Helen Matilda Staats, b. May 18,
1887. (b) Kattileen Merril Staats, b. Nov, 25, i8go. (c) Caroline
Field Staats, b. Jan. 7, 1895. 3. George W. Garretson, b. Sept.
4, 1867. 4. Caroline E. Garretson, b. April 30, 1870. 5. Jane A.
Garretson, b. Oct. 20, 1871.
3422. xi. ESTHER DUNN, b. Jan. 30, 1839; m. Oct. 26, 1865, Jacob Van
Deventer Smith, b. May 5, 1838, and had seven children. Res.
Weston, N. J. Ch. : i. Anna Maria Smith, b. Aug. 24, 1866.
2. Ella Field Smith, b. Nov. 4, 1867; m. Oct. 21, 1896, Charles
Augustus Stryker. Ch. : (a) Esther Stryker, b. February, 1899.
3. Sadie Belle Smith, b. July 26, 1869. 4. Frank Harold Smith,
b. Jan. 5, 1871. 5. Augustus Van Deventer Smith, b. July 15,
1872. 6. Arthur Remsen Smith, b. April 30, 1876; d. Jan. 6,
1897. 7. Henry Field Smith, b. Jan. 16, 1882.
3423. xii. ELLEN VOORHEES, b. Oct. i, 1841; m. Jephtha Stelle Runyon,
b. August, 1842; d. Feb. 5, 1872. Ch. : i. Edgar Jephtha
Runyon, b. Oct. 11, 1865; m. Jan. 10, 1893, Ida V. Gaston. Ch. :
(a) Margaret Gaston Runyon, b. Nov. 23, 1893. (b) Helen Field
Runyon, b. April 30, 1896; d. Feb. 25, 1897. 2. Lillian De Etta
Runyon, b. Sept. ^^ 18, 1870; m. Nov. 10, 1892, Rev. George Elliot
Gillespie, b. Aug. i, 1867. Ch. : (a) Ellen Lillian Gillespie, b.
July II, 1894. (b) John Runyon Gillespie, b. July, 1898. Ellen
Voorhees Field (Runyon) m., 2d, Walter Burrows, M. D., b. Feb.
28, 1829, and had three children. Res. 138 Chilton street, Eliza-
beth, N. J. Ch. : (c) Walters Field Burrows, b. Aug. 29, 1879.
(d) Willard Samuel Burrows, b. April 26, 1881. (e). Elliott
Ogil Burrows, b. Sept. 6, 1883.
1893. RICHARD H. FIELD (Hendrick. Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony.
Robert. William, William, John, John, William), b. Lamington, N. J., Sept. 16,
1783; m. in 1804, Sarah Van Dervoort, b. Nov. 19, 1783; d. June 19, 1868.
Richard H Field, son ot Hendrick, purchased a farm adjoining that of his
father at Lamington, and lived there with his family until his death, 1876, aged
ninety-three years. The farm is now owned and occupied by his son, Gabriel.
He d. June 27, 1876. Res. Lamington, N. J.
3424. i. GABRIEL, b. May 2, 1808; m. Anna Maria Luce.
3425. ii. HENRY, b. Feb. 25, 1805; m. Ann Kline.
3426. iii. HANNAH, b. Oct. 10, 1811; m. Staats, and d. March 29,
1883.
3427. iv. MARGARET C, b. Feb. 8, 1815; m. Nov. i. 1833, John T. Van
Derveer. He was b. Dec. i 1806; d. 1S67. She d. July 25, 1883.
He was a farmer. Res. North Branch, N. J. Ch. : i. Tunis
Van Derveer b. Aug. 8, 1834. P. O. address, 245 Union street,
Jersey City, N. J. 2. Richard F. Van Derveer, b. Aug. 4, 1836;
d. Jan. 28, 1887, 3. James D. Van Derveer, b. Feb, 9, 1838; m.
Feb. 12, 1868, Esther J. Van Nest. P. O.. North Branch, N. J.
He is a physician. Ch. : (a) Abram Van Nest Van Derveer, b.
Nov. 4, 1868. (b) John Ten Eyck Van Derveer, b. June 5, 1875.
(c) Frank Marion Van Derveer, b. March 19, 1877. P. O., North
Branch, N. J. 4. Sarah E. Van Derveer, b. April 5, 1840; d.
; ' Feb. 8, 1890. 5. Samuel G. Van Derveer, b. Nov. i, 1844; d.
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Aug. 21, 1876. 6. William Field Van Derveer, b. June 17, 1848;
d. May 5, 1869. 7. John Q. Van Derveer, b. March 13, 1854; d.
June 24, i38o; ra. Julia Robinson, now dead; left one child,
Adah, now living at Watkins, N. Y. 8. Mary J. Van Derveer,
b. June 16, 1S55; d. May 14, 1883; rn. William J. Voorhees; left
no offspring.
3428. V. ELIZABETH, b. March 27, 1818; m. Jan. 9, 1840, Robert Craig,
b. March 10, 1815; d. Dec. 22, 1892. Shed. July i, 1890. Ch. :
I. Richard Field Craig. Res. New Germantown, N. J. 2.
Sarah E. Craig. Res. Clinton, N. J. 3. Gertrude P. Craig;
d. . 4. Henry Field Craig. Res. New Germantown, N. J.
5. Margaret V. Craig (Waldron). Res. New Germantown, N. J.
6. Anna B. Craig (Skillman). Res. New Germantown, N, J.
7. Mary L. Craig (Dunham). Res. Somerville, N. J. 8. Robert
Craig. Res. New Germantown, N. J. 9. William, b. May 21,
1841; m. Feb. 13, 1872, Mary W. Dawes, b. May 30, 1844. Is a
farmer and justice of the peace. Res. New Germantown, N. J.
Ch. : (a) Jonathan Dawes Craig, b. Oct. 23, 1875. (b) William
Warren Craig, b. June 5, 1883. (c) Edith Field Craig, b. July
15, 1885; now married. All living at New Germantown, N. J.
3429. vi. WILLIAM R., b. Feb. 14, 1821; m. Sarah Elizabeth Kline; d.
Sept. 12, 1892.
1899. WILLIAM FIELD (Hendrick, Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony,
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Lamington, N. J., April 9, 1791;
m. at Piscataway, Jan. 14, 1814, Catherine Manning, b. March 16, 1795; d. Feb. 17.
1818; m., 2d, at White House, N. J., May 11, 1831, Sarah Farley Van Deventer, b.
Feb. I, 1808; d. Sept. 15, 1873. Was a farmer. He d. Dec. 27, 1880. Res. Lam-
ington, N. J.
3430. i. JOHN W., b. March 4, 1815; d. unm. at St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 15,
1837.
3431. ii. CATHERINE, b. Oct. 5, 181 7; m. June 14, 1837, John Vescelius;
d. May 8, 1890, at Fairmount. N. J. Ch. : i. Caroline Webb
Vescelius, b. April 4, 1839; m. Amos Fisher. Res. Washington,
N. J. 2. William Austin Vescelius, b. May 24, 1841; m. Phebe
Dancer. Res. Rahway, N. J. 3. Hiram Vescelius, b. Oct. 24,
1843; m. Mary Miller. 4. Mary Adeline Vescelius, b. Dec. 28,
1845; m. Albert Hardy; d. 5. Emma Gertrude Vescelius, b.
May 8, 1849; m. Jacob Philhower. Res. Califon, N. J. 6.
George Vescelius, b. Feb. 6, 185 1; m. Jane Eick. 7. Jane Field
Vescelius, b. June 20, i8!i5;"m. Fred N. Jenkins. Res. Wash-
ington, N. J.
3432. iii. JANE, b. Feb. 22, 1832; m. Nov. 29, 1855, William M. Cornell.
Res. Roycefield, N. J. Ch. : i. Nancy E. Cornell, b. March 17,
1857: d. May 4, 1857.
3433. iv. PHEBE MARIA, b. Nov. 26, 1833; unm. Res. North Branch,
N.J.
3434. v. HENDRICK (or HENRY), b. Nov. i, 1835; unm. Res. North
Branch, N. J. A farmer.
3435. vi. WILLIAM VAN DEVENTER, b. March 19, 1837; unm. Res.
North Branch.
' 3436. vii. HANNAH, b. Feb. 3, 1839; unm. Res. North Branch.
3437. viii. SARAH ANN, b. July 18, 1842; unm. Res. North Branch.
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34^8. ix. MARTHA AUGUSTA, b. April 21, 1845; m. Jan. 17. 1877, James
S. Weldon, s. p. Res. Lamington, N. J.
3439. X. JOHN W., b. Oct. 20, 1847; ra- Ida I, Holmes.
3440. xi. HARRIET, b. Nov. 14, 1850; unm. Res. North Branch.
1900. MICHAEL FIELD (Hendrick, Richard, Jeremiah. John, Anthony,
Robert, William, William. John. John, William), b. Lamington. N. J. ; m. there
Mary Lowe. She d., aged eighty-three, at Burnt Mills, N. J. He d. aged forty-
three. Res. North Branch. N. J.
3441- i. HANNAH, b. Feb i, 1832; m. Feb. 17, 1853, Isaac Hummer, b.
Oct. 25, 1822; d. Jan. 24, 1891. at High Bridge, N. J. He was a
mineralogist and mining engineer. Ch. : i. Ernest Augustus
Hummer, b. Nov. 29. 1858; d. March 10, 1883. No children.
2. Anna Elizabeth Hummer, d. Aug. 27, 1861. Cannot tell date
of birth. 3. Mary Adelaide Hummer, b. May 2, 1S57; m. Dec. 9,
1876, John S. Cramer, b. June 15, 1846. He is a hotel proprietor.
Res. High Bridge, N. J. Ch. : (a) Frank Hummer Cramer, b.
May 29, 1883. (b) Sarah Jane Beekman Cramer, b. March 29,
1885; d. Oct. I, 1887.
1903. CAPT. RICHARD L FIELD (Jeremiah, Richard, Jeremiah, John.
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John. John, William), b. Lamington, N. J.,
Sept. 12, 1785; m. Dec. 22, 1808, Mary Kline, b. April 17, 1791; d. Jan. 16, 1869.
Was a farmer.
Richard I. Field married Mary Kline, dau. of Jacob Kline, justice of the peace.
New Germantown, Hunterdon county, a sister of Jacob Kline, some years treasurer
of the state of New Jersey and director in the old State Bank at New Brunswick
when in its highest state of prosperity. He, Richard I. Field, purchased a farm
adjoining that of his father at Lamington; was elected captain and after receiving
his commission served several years as a cavalry officer in Somerset county; after-
wards, 1826. moved with his family and located on the part of the old homestead
near Bound Brook, set apart for Richard R. Field, born in 1755. by his father,
Richard Field, Sr., and at that time owned and occupied by him. Richard I. Field
here lived the remainder of his days, raising a large family. Died in 1871, eighty-six
years of age, revered and beloved.
"Primogeniture being now unknown in this country, instances are not frequent
where land descends from father to son for successive generations. In addition to
the usual necessity ot dividing estates, too often the heir to homestead lands is quite
wanting in that love and reverence for ancestral acres that distinguishes people of
an older country. It is pleasant to be able to record and make honorable mention
of so rare a preservation of a family property as that of Benjamin M., Benjamin B.,
John K., and John B. Field, who now own and occupy 500 acres of land fronting on
the river, a short distance below Bound Brook. Theirs is one of the few instances
in New Jersey ot persons being able, in walking over their lands, to feel the proud
consciousness of overlooking a broad territory that has been theirs and their ances-
tors' for nearly 200 years. The New Jersey forefather was John Field, who, on Dec.
14, 1695, purchased 1,055 acres ot land, fronting the Raritan for two miles and a
half, extending about three-quarters of a mile inland, and commencing about one
mile below Bound Brook. He came from Long Island, where he was born in 1659,
being the grandson of Robert Field, born in 1610, who, it is supposed, came to Rhode
Island with Roger Williams. Robert with fifteen associates obtained, in 1645, from
Gov. William Kieft, of New Netherland, a patent for a large area of land on Long
Island, embodying the present location ot Flushing. The New Jersey ancestor
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was fifth in descent — in the direct line —from the famous astronomer, John Field,
born in 1525, who introduced the Copernican system in England. While living in
London, m 1556, he published the first English astronomical tables on the basis of
the new discoveries. In recognition of this service he received from the Crown a
patent authorizing him to bear a crest on his family arms. His son Richard
became chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, and was the author of several religious works.
The Fields trace their descent from Hubertus de la Feld, who held lands in the
County of Lancaster, England, in the third year of the reign of William the Con-
queror. The name, in the old English, was written "Feld," and is merely the past
participle of the verb to fell. Field-land is opposed to wood-land, and means land
where the trees have been felled. When such land is spoken of by such old authors
as Gower, Chaucer, and others, it is always written "feld:" "In Woode, in Feld or
Cittee, Shall no man steale in nowise."
John Field purchased his Raritan lands in 1695 from Benjamin Clarke, who
inherited the property from his father — also named Benjamin. The senior Clarke,
who died in i68g, arrived in Perth Amboy in 1683, securing headlands for himself,
his son and eight others. He is said to have built a house near the junction of
Market and Water streets, where he established New Jersey's first stationery and
book store. In a letter to Scotland, in March, 1685, Charles Gordon writes:
"Neither are we altogether destitute of Books and Clergy, for George Keith, who
arrived three weeks since, with others — (they were all winter in Barbadoes) — have
brought mathematics, and Benjamin Clarke a Library of Books to sell; so you may
see New Perth begins to be founded upon Clergy." Clarke was a Quaker, and we
may judge him a stiff-necked one after reading the following extract from the old
book of records of the Society of Friends:
"At the monthly meeting held in Amboy, the thirteenth of the fifth month, 1687,
the friends appoynted to speak to Benjamin Clerk, brought his answer, which was,
that he would not come to meeting because Governor Lawry called him a divil (as
he sayes) wherewith friends not being satisfied desires George Keith and John
Barclay to speak to him again."
Many of these ancestral acres have been the homestead lands of Fields from
that day to this. At the time Johannes rode through this domain the original estate
was owned and occupied by the grandsons of John Field, as follows: Jeremiah,
born in 1713, who lived on the farm lately owned by Stephen Voorhees, and whose
stone dwelling is still extant; John, born in 1714, who lived on what was lately
known as the Oliver farm in a stone house still standing, which has inscribed on
the west wall the date 1743, and the initials J. F. ; Michael, born in 1723, who lived
on the mill property lately owned by Louis Clark; Benjamin, born in 1735, who
lived on the farm now owned by Benjamin M. Field, in a frame house still stand-
ing, the newer portion of which is inscribed with the date 1761, and the initials
B. F. ; and Richard, born 1726, who lived on the farm latelyowned by John D. Field.
His house is still standing its corner-stone being marked with the date 1710 and
the initial F. ; it is thought, however, that this stone was taken from the original
house of the first purchaser, John Field, which stood a few hundred yards away,
its foundations and cellars still plainly visible.
You may wonder at so prolonged a narrative of these Fields and their property.
It should have an interest to the descendants of Johannes, from the fact that the
two families are in this wise connected: Jeremiah Field, born in 1753, married
Jane, daughter of Capt. Jacob Ten Eyck, of Revolutionary fame. He settled in
Bedminster township, purchasing on Feb. 6, 1790, from Daniel Heath a farm of
103 acres, fronting on the Lamington river. Here Richard J. Field was born in
1785, who on Dec. 22, 1808. married Mary Kline, born April 17. 1791, she being the
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FIELD GENEALOGY.
granddaughter
ter of Johannes
He d. May
3442. i.
3443- ii-
3444. 111.
3445. iv.
of Jacob Kline, and his wife, Veronica Gerdrutta, the eldest daugh-
Noelich." — Mellick's History of an old house.
6, 1871. Res. North Branch, N. J.
JEREMIAH R., b. Dec, 16, 1809; m. Margaret Wool Telfair.
PHEBE MARIAH, b. Nov. 18, 1811; m. June 13, 1833, Henry
Cornell Brokaw. He was b. Oct. 2, 1809; d. Piscataway, N. J.,
Nov. 29, 1872. Shed. March 8, 18S9. Ch. : i. Mary Jane, b.
April 9, 1834; m. April 28, 1853, Abraham Smalley. Three chil-
dren. Res. Bound Brook. 2. Elizabeth Smock, b. Oct. 27. 1835;
m. Nov. 22, 1854, George McDonald. Four children. Res.
New Brunswick, N. J. 3. Catherine Van Nest, b. March 13,
1839; ™- Arthur Manning. Res. New Market, N. J. 4. Rachel
De Puy. b. Oct. 13, 1841; m. Baldwin. Res. New Bruns-
wick, N. J. 5. Richard Henry, b. Feb. 5, 1848; m. Nov. 24.
t88o, Estelle P. Schurtz, b. May i, 1858. Res, Bound Brook,
N. J. 6. Isaac Newton, b. Jan. 2, 1S50; d. unm.
JACOB KLINE, b. Jan. 13, 1814; m. Rebecca G. Stewart.
JANE, b. March 16, 1816; m. Nov. 22, 1838, Henry H. Garretson.
She d. Dec. 16, 1857. Ch. : i. JohnG., b. Nov. 4, 1839; d. Sept.
20, 1841. 2. Richard Field, b. Dec. i, 1841 3. John Remson,
b. Feb. 7, 1844; m. Jennie Winsor. Res. Somerville, N. J. 4.
Jeremiah Field, b. March 24, 1846; m. Katie Sharp. 5. Mary
Jane, b. Oct. 4, 1850; m. James Auten. 6. Rachel Mariah, b.
Nov. 7, 1853.
RICHARD R., b, March 8, 1818; m. Margarette B. Miller,
BENJAMIN McDowell, b. May i, 1820; m. Ellen M. Field.
RACHEL DE PUY, b. June 3, 1823; m. Jan. 13. 1847, James
Polhemus. She d. May 12, 1871.
JOHN KLINE, b. Dec. 27, 1825; m. Lucinda Whitehill.
ISAAC NEWTON, b. May i, 1828; m. Mary Dutcher.
PETER WORTMAN, b. Nov. 7, 1830; m. Helen Shipman.
WILLIAM BOYD, b. Sept. 16, 1834; m. Harriet E. Boyd.
REV. JACOB TENERICK FIELD (Jeremiah, Richard, Jeremiah,
John, Anthony, Robert, .William, William, John, John, William), b. Lamington,
N. J., Oct. 31, 1787; m. March 6, 1811, Rachel De Pue.
Jacob T. Field, born at Lamington, was educated for the gospel ministry. He
married Rachel De Pue, of Pompton, N. J., and was pastor of the church at that
place. He also preached in Pennsylvania and died there.
He d. in Pennsylvania, 1866. Res. Pompton and Belvidere, N. J.
3453. i. DE PUE, '.b. . After finishing his education and preparing
for the practice of law, made a tour to the west; was taken sick
in the state of Illinois and died there.
1905. MICHAEL TEN YOKE FIELD (Jeremiah, Richard. Jeremiah, John,
Anthony, Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Lamington, N. J.,
Oct. 14, 1789; m. March 9, 1814, Francis Traphagen, b. April 10, 1797; d. Feb. 11,
1890. He was a carpenter and farmer.
Michael T. Field was born near Lamington, Somerset county , he married Fannie
Traphagan. They first settled near Baskinridge, Somerset county; sold out and
bought a farm at Whilehouse Station, Hunterdon county, Redington township,
N. J., about the year 1831 ; lived and died there. They raised twelve children.
He d. Aug. I, 1871. Res. Whitehouse, N. J.
3446.
V.
3447-
VI.
3448.
vii.
3449-
viii
3450.
IX.
3451-
X.
3452.
XI.
1904.
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FIELD GENEALOGY. 583
3454. i. JEREMIAH H., b. Jan. 2, 181 5; m. Mary A. Welsh.
3455. ii. RACHEL D., b. July 29, 1816; d. in infancy.
3456. iii. JACOB T., b. April 30, 1S18; d.
3457. iv. RICHARD, b. May 14, 1820; d. 1897. Res. Fairview, 111.
3458. V. JOHN T.. b. April 11, 1822; d. i8qo. Res. Fairview. 111.
3459. vi. DAVID T., b. May 23, 1824; m. 1880. A dau. is Mrs. Nettie Vogel.
Res. 1335 North 50th street, Philadelphia, Pa.
3460. vii. JANE T. E., b. May 26. 1826; m. Oct. 17, 1850, Dr. J. N. Lowe.
Res. Milford, N. J. Ch. : i. Georgina L., b. July 28, 1851; m.
Oct. 29, 1878, Henry Carter. Res. 1207 Chestnut street, Phila-
delphia, Pa. Ch. : (a) Helene, b. June 2, 1882. (b) Lloyd Car-
roll, b. May 20, 1884. 2. Mrs. Edith Appleate. Res. Catasanqua,
Penn. 3. Mrs. Kate Rigle. Res. Brooklyn, N. Y. 4- Mrs.
Anna J. Dalrymple. Res. Trenton, N. J. 5- Judson Lowe.
Res. Milford, N. J. Mrs. Carter was for several years on the
stage, and the following very flattering notice is taken from a
New Jersey paper: "In public, as well as private circles. Miss
Lowe is graceful, brilliant, with a presence of exquisite refine-
ment and perfect repose of manner, that bespeaks a nature ideal-
istic, spirituelle, having a voice charming in its irreproachable
sweetness and purity of intonation. To her music seems a
natural language, and through it she becomes the interpreter of
the deepest, tenderest, and truest emotions of the human heart;
and no one who has ever listened to her pure voice, her sympa-
thetic style, simple truth and eloquence of manner, whether in
song or declamation, will fail to recall often and long that win-
ning personality which shines through all her personations.
Through her readings is evinced a strong emotional and intellec-
tual organization, exquisitely artistic withal, and give evidence
of the highest dramatic talent. Her stage presence is remark-
ably elegant and graceful — her taste is purely aesthetic; her ges-
tures the perfection of grace and true to thought ; pronounced by
judges to be marvels of excellence, and gems of art for one so
young, and to compare favorably with older dramatists whose
reputation is world-wide.
3461. viii. SAMUEL M., b. Sept. 4, 1828; d. Feb. 11, 1890; m. Res. West
Pittston, Pa. Several children.
3462. ix. ELIZABETH M. D., b. July 10, 1830; m. Dec. 8, 1852, William
Cortelyou. Res. Briggsville, 111. He was b. May 29, 1826. Is a
farmer. Ch. : i. Emma, b. Aug. 25, 1853. 2. Fannie, b. Nov.
23, 1859. 3- Abram, b. Jan. 26, 1862. 4. Lyman, b, Jan. 26,
1865. Abram Cortelyou, Memphis, Mo. Lyman Cortelyou,
Abingdon. 111. Emma Simonson, Hannibal. Mo. Fannie Bailey,
Briggsville, 111.
3463. X. HENRY T., b. Aug. 5, 1832; d. 1878. Three children. Res.
White House, N. J.
3464. xi. MICHAEL M.. b. Dec. 3, 1834; m. Mary A. Veech.
3465. xii. FRANCES PENYEA T., b. March 15. 1837; m. Nov. 28, 1878,
Henry McCauley, s. p. He d. Aug. 20, 1890. Res. Milford, N. J.
3466. xiii. JACOB DEPUE, b. Aug. 22, 1840; d. 1873 in Chicago. Res.
North, Branch, N. J.
3467. xiv. GEORGE L., b. Nov. 23, 1845; m. Henrietta Lewis.
584 FIELD GENEALOGY.
1906. JEREMIAH FIFLD (Jeremiah, Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony,
Robert, William, Wi' ,am, William, John, John, William), b. Feb. 2, 1792; m. Feb.
6, 1830, Martha Longstreet. He had several children, sons, one of whom is now a
practicing physician in one of the cities in New Jersey. He d. in 1870. Res. New
Jersey.
1910. HON. JOHN D. FIELD (Dennis, Richard, Jeremiah, John, Anthony,.
Robert, William, William, John, John, William), b. Bound Brook, N. J., 1804; m. .
John D. Field transferred his residence (the old homestead) in the year 1864, to
a member of his family, soon afler^becoming a citizen of New Brunswick, N. J. He
served his county, Middlesex, with credit for two years, 1844-45, in the state legis-
lature; held the office of Freeholder, 1862, and was trustee of the Presbyterian
church at Bound Brook about nineteen years.
Res. New Brunswick, N. J.
1916. JOHN FIELD (Isaac, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Dec. 18, 1774, England; m. there
July 26, 1S16, Mumford. He d. Aug. 15, 1841. Res. Bishops Stratford,
England.
3468. i. WILLIAM, b. June 16, 1S17; m. C. Wright.
1918. HENRY CROMWELL FIELD (Henry, John, John, Thomas, Henry,
John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. London, England, June
27, 1785; m. Anne Gwinnel.
Henry Cromwell Field succeeded to his father's professional position in New-
gate street, and became chairman of the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries'
Company. His personal tastes took an artistic turn, and led to his becoming an
occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Shortly before his death he was pre-
paring, in co-operation with the chaplain of Charterhouse, a book in illustration of
that establishment. It was whilst in the discharge of his duty as resident med-
ical officer there that his death occurred instantaneously in 1840. He was buried
in the vault of Charterhouse chapel. He married his cousin, Anne, daughter of
Thomas Gwinnel.
He d. May 6, 1840. Res. London, England.
1919. BARRON FIELD (Henry, John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. England, Oct. 23, 1786; m. there
Carncroft. He was a lawyer and miscellaneous writer, second son of Henry
Field, by his wife, Esther, daughter of John Barron. Through his father's intimate
connection with Christ's Hospital, and through the fact that his brother, Francis
John Field, was a clerk in the India office, he became acquainted with Charles
Lamb; had a large share in^his affections, and was admitted a member of that dis-
tinguished cluster of literary men which included Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt
and Leigh Hunt. He was entered in the books of the Inner Temple on June 20,
1809, and was called June 23, 1841, At this period of his life he supported himself
by literature. He contributed several essays to Leigh Hunt's Reflector (18 11), and
among his compilations was an analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries. His most
lucrative engagement was that of theatrical critic to the Times. He had sufficient
influence with the proprietors to procure the place of parliamentary reporter for
Thomas Barnes, and the recruit ultimately obtained the position of editor.
Field appreciated English poetry, both ancient and modern; his fondness for
Wordsworth's writings was especially marked, and Mr. J. Dykes Campbell possesses
a copy of Wordsworth's poems (1815-20, in 3 vols.), which contains Field's book-plate
and elaborate variorum readings in his handwriting. He contributed to the Quar-
FIELD GENEALOGY. 585
terly Review, for iSio. an article on Dr. Nott's ecLubn of ^Terrick, and he made a
close study of the dramatic works of Heywood. When he Had realized the preca-
rious character of literary work and his want of success in the law of England, he
secured for himself the post of advocate-fiscal at Ceylon, and then of judge of the
Supreme Court at New South Wales and its dependencies. He embarked at Graves-
end Aug. 2S, iSi6. with his wife, whom he had just married, and anchored in
Sydney harbor Feb. 24, 1817. His stay in the colonies lasted nearly seven years.
He took ship for England Feb. 4, 1S24, and landed at Portsmouth June i3. Several
articles, including narratives of the incidents on these voyages, were contributed
by him to the London Magazine (1822-25), and the journals of his voyages were sub-
sequently included in the appendix of the Geograi>hical Memoirs on New South
Wales. His discharge of his legal duties in New South Wales was marred by some
drawbacks. His diligence and professional skill were generally recognized, but he
was paid by fees, and this exposed him to the charge, an unjust charge as is
acknowledged, of encouraging litigation to augment his income. A more serious
error appeared in his readiness to embark in the party squabbles of the colony,
which exposed him to the obloquy of his opponents; and when he retired from the
presidency of the supreme court the complimentary address of the lawyers did not
represent every shade of public opinion. An address which Field delivered to the
Agricultural Society of New South Wales, as its president, on July 3, 1823, provoked
a printed letter "in refutation of the groundless assertions put forth by him to the
prejudice of Van Die men's Land," by a colonist named Thomas Kent, who claimed
a residence of ten years in the latter colony. Field's intimacy with Charles Lamb
is twice shown in the "Essays of Elia. " He was the friend with the initials of "B.
P.," who accompanied Lamb and his sister on their visit to "Mackery End in Hert-
fordshire," and to him when resident at Sydney was addres.sed under his initials
the essay entitled "Distant Correspondents." Field returned "plump and friendly,
and be resumed his practice at the bar, but was again driven, through want of busi-
ness into applying for a legal position in the colonies. His next appointment was
to the chief-justiceship at Gilbraltar, where Benjamin Disraeli called on him in
1830, and has left a disparaging account of his manners. He is pronounced "a bore
and vulgar, a Storks without breeding; consequently I gave him a lecture on canes,
which made him stare, and he has avoided me ever since — a noisy, obtrusive, jar-
gonic judge, ever illustrating the obvious, explaining the evident, and expatiating on
the commonplace," but these harsh expressions of the young man of fashion must
be contrasted with the liking of friends, like Crabb Robinson, who had seen many
classes of men. Some years later Fieid returned home and withdrew from the
active duties of his profession. He died without issue at Meadfoot House, Torquay,
April II, 1846. His widow, Jane, daughter of Mr. Carncroft, died at Wimbledon,
in 1878, aged eighty-six. In Lamb's opinion she was "really a very superior
woman," and on her return from Gilbraltar he honored her with an acrostic.
Field's analysis of Blackstone's "Commentaries," which was published in 1811,
was frequently reprinted, and so lately as 1878 was included in an edition of Black-
stone's which was published by George Sharswood at Philadelphia. The year after
he was called to the bar he issued, under the disguise of "By a Barrister," a little
pamphlet of "Hints to Witnesses in Courts of Justice," 1815, which contained some
practical advice on the advantages of answering clearly and directly the questions of
counsel. His "First Fruits of Australian Poetry," consisting of two pieces entitled
"Botany Bay Flowers" and "The Kangaroo," was printed for private distribution
in 1819, during his residence at Sydney, and was reviewed by Charles Lamb in
Leigh Hunt's Examiner, of Jan. 16, 1820, the review being printed in R. H.
Shepherd's "Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Lamb" (1875), pp. 768-9, and in
38
686 FIELD GENEALOGY.
"Mrs. Liecester's School," etc. (Cauon Ainger's ed.), pp. 135-7. On his return to
England, in 1825, he edited a volume of "Geographical Memoirs on New South
Wales, by various hands." In the main portion of this work were comprised two
articles by him (i) "On the Aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land,"
pp. 195-229; (2) "On the Rivers of New South Wales," pp. 299-312, but the appendix
contains six more of his papers, including the narratives of his voyages and the
"First Fruits of Australian Poetry," the latter being slightly augmented since their
first appearance. His prose passed muster, but his verse did little credit to his liter-
ary abilities, and exposed him to an epigram with the obvious taunt that they were
the products of a "barren field." Another legal tract of his composition was passed
through the press in 1828; it was called "A Vindication of the Practice of not
Allowing the Counsel for Prisoners Accused of Felony to make Speeches for
them."
After his final settlement in England he edited for the Shakspeare Society (i)
The "First and Second Parts of King Edward IV. Histories," by Thomas Hey wood,
1842; (2) "The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, to which is appended the Latin
play of "Richardus Tertius," by Dr. Thomas Legge, 1844; (3) "The Fair Maid of
the Exchange, a Comedy," by Thomas Hey wood; and "Fortune by Land and Sea,
a Tragic Comedy," by Thomas Hey wood and William Rowley, 1846. The study of
Heywood's writings was Field's chief pleasure, and it was his intention to have
completed the publication of all his works and to have written his memior. He
prefixed an introduction, signed "B. F.," to the "Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux,
a Swindler and Thief, now transported to New South Wales for the second time
and for life." which originally appeared in 1819, was included in Hunt and Clarke's
series of autobiographies (vol. xiii for 1827), and was reissued in 1830. Field wrote
in the Reflector numerous pieces (signed with three daggers), of which the most
remarkable are the communications from a "Student of the Inner Temple," consist-
ing of anecdotes on bench and bar; he contributed a short but excellent memoir of
Charles Lamb to the "Annual Biography and Obituary" of 1836, and he wished to
undertake a life of Wordsworth, but the poet begged him to refrain. Three letters
to him are among Lamb's correspondence; one from him to Leigh Hunt is printed
in the latter's correspondence, and he is occasionally mentioned in Crabb Robin-
son's "Diary," which also contains (iii. 246-8) one ot his letters to Robinson, written
from Torquay in 1844.
He d. s. p. April 11, 1846. Res. England.
1920. FRANCIS JOHN FIELD (Henry, John, John, Thomas, Henry, John,
John. John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b March 22, 1790, in England;
m. in 1841, Anne Barron. He held in the India House the office of Accountant-
General, and was the last of that title. He married, in 1841, Anne, daughter of
Edward Barron, of Northiam, in Sussex. Charles Lamb, in one of his letters to
Bernard Barton, while humorously recording his neglect of some of the details of
social life, says: "All the time I was at the East India House 1 never mended a
pen. When I write to a great man at the court end, he opens with surprise upon a
naked note such as Whitechapel people interchange, with no sweet degree of envel-
ope. I never enclose one bit of paper in another, nor understood the rationale of
it. Once only I sealed with borrowed wax, to set Sir Walter Scott a-wandering,
signed with the Imperial quartered arms of England, which my friend Field bears
in compliment to his descent in the female line from Oliver Cromwell. It must
have set his antiquarian curiosity upon watering." (Talfourd's Life and Letters of
Lamb.) He d. Nov. 5, 1857. Res. 88 Chester 'Place, Regents Park, London,
England.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 587
1926. JOHN FIELD (Oliver, John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John, John,
Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. England, Nov. 2, 1794: m. July 15, 1824,
G. M. Knows. Res. in England.
3469. i. OLIVER AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 19, 1826; m. M. A. Eagleson.
3470. ii. OTHER children.
1930. HENRY WILLIAM FIELD (John, John, John, Thomas, Henry, John,
John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. March 23, 1803. He was for
fifty-one years an able servant of the Crown at the Royal Mint, and about twenty-eight
years ago (1872) retired to his estate of Minster Lodge, on the banks of the Thames,
near Teddington. He entered the mint at the age of sixteen, at the time of Lord
Marlborough's Mastership, and assisted at the great recoinage then in progress.
The chemical skill which he inherited from his father eventually found fuller scope
when, in 1850, he succeeded to the office of Queen's Assay-Master (an ancient apijel-
lation subsequently disused). This was also the period of Sir John Herschell's
appointment to the Mastership, marking an economical crisis in the history of that
establishment, which was long remembered as "the revolution of '51."
In the laboratory Mr. Field was ever Sir John's able auxiliary, more especially
when it was resolved to establish and apply more incontrovertible tests to the qual-
ity of bullion devoted to coinage. The scientific details of Mr. BMeld's new system
of working the essays cannot here be displayed, it must suffice to say they received
Herschell's emphatic approbation. A parting message, which came from his old
friend many years after, will form a suitable voucher. "I am suffenng," says Sir
John, "under an attack of bronchitis, which iias lasted me all the winter, so exces-
sively severe that I can hardlj' hold the pen, which must excuse the brevity of this,
and being now in my eightieth year, I can hope for no relief. I shall retain, how-
ever, to the last a pleasing recollection of aid and support I received from you dur-
ing the period of my administration ot the mint. As I know you will believe me
ever my dear sir, yours most truly, J. F. W. Herschell." Mr. Field, in 1840, mar-
ried Anna, daughter of T. Mills, of Coral Hall, Chelmsford, and Vicar of Hellions,
Bumpstead, Essex.
He died June 9, 1888.
3471. i. MARY HESTER KATHE.RINE, b. Feb. 16. 1841; m. 1864,
Arthur Evershed, M. D., of Ampthill, and had issue seven chil-
dren.
3472. ii. CATHERINE ANNE RUSSELL, b. April 6, 1842; m. 1866, Wil-
liam H. Snelling, Esq., of the Admiralty, of Ashton Lodge, Sel-
hurst, and has issue.
3473. iii. HARRIET ELIZABETH PRYE, b. Sept. 6, 1843; m. T. G.
Johnson.
3474. iv. FRANCES ANNA CLYFFE, b. April 2, 1847.
3475. v. HENRY CROMWELL BECKWITH, of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, Curate of St. Judes', Liverpool, b. June 21, 1850; m.
Annie Woodhans.
3476. vi, LETITIA ELIZA; m. 1876, Ralph Thomas, of Doughty street,
solicitor, and has issue.
3477. vii. MINNIE, d. 1878.
1934. SAMUEL PRYOR FIELD. M. A. (John, John, John, Thomas, Henry,
John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Royal Mint, London,
England, Oct. 18, 1816; m. Holy Trinity church, London, Jan. 13, 1859, Jane
Elizabeth Pierson, b. Feb. 12, 1828. He was so devoted to the study of ecclesias-
tical architecture that he lavished much of his income in restoring the church
588 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3479-
11.
3480.
111.
3481.
iv.
3482.
V.
3483-
vi.
3484.
vii.
fabrics successively under his care. By bis wife, Jane, daughter of Admiral Sir W.
H. Pierson, of Langton, Hants, he bad four children. He d. Oct. i, iSyS. Res-
Herts, England.
3477j<- i- BERTHA, b. Oct. 14. 1861; m. July, 1889, L. Deane. Res. Dor-
chester House, Park Hill, Coeshalton, Surrey, England.
3477K- ii- OLIVER, b. May 13, 1863. Res. New York.
3477K- iii- MAUD, b. July, 1865; d. January. 1885.
3477K iv. CYRIL, b. Dec. 20, 1859; ™- Violet Westgarth.
1935. EDWIN WILKINS FIELD (William. John. John, Thomas, Henry.
John, John, John. Richard, William. William. Thomas), b. Leamington, England.
Oct. 12, 1804; m. in 1830 Mary Sharpe, niece of Samuel Rogers, the poet, and had
one son, b. Aug. 5, 1831; named Rogers, after his great-uncle. Mr. Field m., 2d,
in 1833, Letitia, dau. of Robert Kinder, Esq., of London, who d, in 1890, aged
eighty-five. She became the mother of seven children.
3478. i. BASIL, b. 1834, successor to his father. He m. and has two daugh-
ters, Mirtle and Daisy.
ALLAN, b, Dec. 6, 1S35; m. Miss Phillips.
WALTER, b. 1837. an eminent landscape and genre painter; m..
Mary Jane Cookson. dau. of W. Strickland Cookson, solicitor.
MARY. b. 1839.
GRACE, b. 1841.
SUSAN, b. 1843.
EMILY, b. 1845.
LIFE OF EDWIN WILKINS FIELD.
If Edwin Field was not a statesman in the popular sense, he was the stimulat-
ing agent in bringing about many reforms for which professed statesmen have
reaped the credit. Yet neither was he a law-reformer only ; he was a man of
unbounded sympathies, and his Cromwellian energy was combined with versatile
capacity. Born at Leam, near Warwick, Oct. 12, 1804, and educated at his father's
school, he was articled March 19. 1821, to Taylor and Roscoe, of Kings Bench Walk.
in the Temple. He was admitted attorney and solicitor in the Michaelmas term,
1825. He joined his fellow-clerk, William Sharpe, to form the firm of Sharpe &
Field, in Broad street, Cheapside. but in 1835 Taylor, who was then alone, took
Sharpe and Field into partnership with him. The office of the firm was long in
Bedford Row, but was subsequently removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields. "I remem-
ber as if it were yesterday," says he in afterlife, "my good old father's wistful look
as he left me there. That look has stood me in fast stead many a time since. " His
first action in life was to repay that father the expenses incurred in his outsetting.
The father refused, but the pious dexterity of the son continued to fulfill the inten-
tion. This generous impulse was the animus which pervaded all his subsequent
schemes. His object was to make the practice of the law square with consciences
as upright and scrupulous as his own. To become a law-reformer was therefore with
him a moral necessity, and to see those reforms carried to a triumphant issue was
but the fair reward of one who thought it more heroic to abolish abuses than to run
away from them. His first essays in the Legal Observer had reference to the law
respecting marriages abroad between English subjects within the prohibited
degrees. This was in 1840; but his grand attack during the same year was directed
against the Court of Chancery, and the Six-Clerks and Sworn Clerks Office in par-
ticular. Lords Brougham and Cottenham had begun to clear the ground, but the
crisis was not precipitated until Mr. Field led the public voice. Details cannot be
enlarged on here, but the judgment of contemporaries may establish the verdict.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 589
Spence, in his "Equity Jurisprudence." says: "To Mr. Field's exertions. enforced
by Mr. Pemberton, the Court of Chancery, is in great part indebteded for the late
improvements." John Wainewright, formerly one of the sworn clerks, and later
(1879), taxing-master, says in a letter written since Mr. Field's death, that his friend
was "the first person who practically brought about. this change." And Robert
Bagley Follett, also a taxing-master, says: "I always considered the abolition of
the Six- Clerks Office due to E. W. Field."
The removal of one monster grievance ensures the fall of many parasitical insti-
tutions. In 1844 Field was in communication with the Board of Trade, on the sub-
ject of a winding-up act for joint-stock companies. The act of 1848 substantially
embodied the proposals contained in a draft bill laid before the legal adviser of the
Board of Trade on April 27, 1846, by Field and his friend, Rigge, who had formerly
been in his office. His views on the question of legal remuneration were practically
embodied in the act of 1870. Mr. Field had abundance of work before him ; but
success had now energized his arm and inspired his friends with confidence. After
the year 1840 there was scarcely a Royal Commission or Parliamentary Committee
on Chancery reform or general legal questions before which he was not called upon
to give evidence. Extracts from the list of his published writings may serve as an
index to his subsequent services. Thus, in the Westminster Review, February,
1843, we have: "Recent and Future Law Reforms," "Judicial Procedure a Single
and Inductive Science;" in the Law Review, August, 1848. "Comparative Anatomy
of Judicial Procedure." reprinted in the New York Evening Post. Mr. Field also
wrote papers, etc., "On the Right of the Public to form Limited Liability Partner-
ships, and on the Theory. Practice, and Costs of Commercial Charters," "On the
Roots and Evils of the Law," "Economical Considerations on the Autocracy of the
Bar, and on the System of Prescribed Tariffs for Legal Wages." A paper was
read by him at Manchester in 1857, entitled, "What Should a Minister of Justice
Do?" one before the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association, held in London,
1859, "On Legal Medical and other Professional Education." He had also some cor-
respondence with C. G. Loring, the eminent American advocate, "On the present
relations between Great Britain and the United States," and "On the Property of
Married Women," published in the Times.
Brought up among the English Presbyterians, Mr. Field was not disposed to sit
down quietly under the partial legislation which was still enforced against Unita-
rians under cover of the notorious Lady Henley case, and accordingly, by the
Dissenters Chapels Bill of 1844, he upset that legislation forever. This is quickly
told, but the struggle while it lasted was arduous, and to many appeared hopeless.
Even his constant friend and ally, Crabb Robinson, despaired of attacking en-
trenched orthodoxy, but a band of resolute men, who for many months sat on the
question, de die in diem, had at length a long conference with the Minister Sir
Robert Peel, Mr. Field acting as spokesman. Sir Robert, though a political op-
ponent, promptly undertook to make it a government measure; while the elaborate
historical argument with which ]Mr. Gladstone swayed the Commons on that occa-
sion was mainly furnished by Mr. Field.
It was Field's belief that few schemes would more tend to simplify and quicken
legal operations than the concentration of all the courts of justice and offices ot the
law into one building. For thirty years before the passing of the Courts of Justice
Building Act of 1865. he had urged the measure; and when at last a Royal Com-
mission was issued to obtain and approve a plan upon which the new Courts should
be built, it was natural that her Majesty should appoint "her trusty and well-beloved
Edwin W. Field to be the secretary to the commission." For the arduous duties in
this capacity, extending over three years, embracing a thorough mastery of the
590 FIELD GENEALOGY.
details of the vast fabrics, preparing instructions for the competing architects, and
drawing up elaborate reports, Mr. Field refused all remuneration. But the firm of
which he was the head, were appointed by the Board of Works solicitors for acquir-
ing the new site ; and under his vigorous superintendence a very short time sufficed
to clear the ground for an architectural pile, which are not complete without some
artistic memorial of the enthusiastic secretary.
He was an ardent lover of nature, and of the pictorial renderings by which true
poetry alone can apprehend her. Much of the interest which as a member of the
Council of University College, he took in that institution, assumed this form, as
shown in his co-operating with Henry Crabb Robbinson in the formation of the
Flaxman Gallery, and the establishment of the Siade School of Art, in all which, as
well as in the legislation which from time to time he put into motion for the further-
ance of art and its professors, his advice and assistance were spontaneous. "No
labor," says he, "that I can ever give on this subject will repay the obligations I
am under to art and artists for a great deal of the pleasure of my life. I reverence
art. I look upon it as one of the divinest gifts of our nature. Develop a love of
art in every way. It will give you new eyes wherewith to draw in and make part
of yourself the very beauty of nature and new, undreamt-of capacities for enjoying
it. It will assuredly improve and elevate your character. Accustomed as he was
to be consulted in matters of taste it awoke no suspicion when Mr. T. Cobb, one of
his former clerks, asked him one day what painter he would recommend under the
following circumstances: A number of clerks in a London office had subscribed to
get the portrait of their master executed in the best style, and it was thought they
could not have a better adviser than Mr, Field. After a little further explanation
he replied: "Watson Gordon is your man." "But, sir," said Cobb, "Sir Watson
paints only in Edinburgh, and we doubt whether his sitter would consent to travel
so far." "Then," rejoined Mr. Field, "tell the young men to drag him there. He
ought to be proud of such a request." In due time Mr. Field was himself requested
to go to Edinburgh and sit to Sir Watson Gordon for a painting to be presented to
Mr. Field. "Congratulate me," he wrote to Crabb Robinson, "a hundred of my
old clerks have subscribed to have my portrait painted — men 1 have tyrannized over,
bullied — taken the praise from, which they really had earned — who knew every bit
of humbug in me — no sense of favors to come. Regard from such a body is worth
having." The picture is now at the family residence at Squire's Mount, Hamp-
stead, with the names of the hundred subscribers displayed on the frame. Another
characteristic likeness is preserved in a picture painted by his son Walter, a river
scene, in which Mr. Field, together with part of his family, is represented in the
enjoyment of one of his favorite pursuits — that of boating on the Thames. It
has been said of him, that "not Izaac Walton loved his favorite river more than
Mr. Field loved the Thames." Like the painter. Turner, he described in its varied
aspects suggestive material for boundless poetry ; and in order fully to drink in
its influences, he took for holiday purposes a lease of the Mill House, Cleve, near
Goring. Yet the Thames became the disastrous scene of his death. On July 30,
1 871, the boat in which he was sailing with two of his clerks, was upset by a gale
of wind. One of the party, named Ellwood, as well as Mr. Field himself, was a
swimmer; the third, who could not swim, was the sole survivor. And all that
this survivor could recollect about the affair was that he had at first gone down,
but afterwards found himself supported by his two friends, who held on to the
boat, and were making for the shore; that eventually Mr. Ellwood sank, and soon
afterwards Mr. Field also. Five days later, at the Highgate Cemetery, Edwin
Field was laid in a vault, next to that in which sleeps his friend, Henry Crabb
Robinson. His age was sixty-seven. The above facts are derived from "A
FIELD GENEALOGY. 591
Memorial," drawn up by his friend, Thomas Saddler, Ph. D., and published by
Macmillan, in 1872, abounding with anecdotes and details of a highly interesting
nature, but far too copious for adoption in this place. It may also be here stated
that notices of the various members of the Field family will be found scattered up
and down the biographies of Crabb Robinson, Serjeant Talfourd, and Charles
Lamb. .
1937. JOHN HAMPDEN FIELD (William. John, John, Thomas, Henry,
John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Leamington, England,
June 16, 1807; m. Feb. 6, 1S47, Eliza Newton, b. May 3, 1832. Res. 829 50th street,
Chicago. He was a portrait artist. He d. November, 1863. Res. Toronto, Canada.
3485. i. JOHN HAMPDEN, b. Sept. 13. 1849; m. Mary A. Parks and
Rebecca Breadon.
3486. ii. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 2, 1847; m. Martha Glenn. Ch. : John,
Emily, Mary, Edward. Res. no St. Antoinne street, Montreal,
Canada.
3457. iii. ALFRED, b. 1S51; m. AUie Brooks and Tracy Baker. He d
s. p. Hammond, Ind.
3458. iv. LOUISA ALICE, b. May 30, 1852; m. 1868 Thomas Welch. Res.
New York City. Ch. : i. Harry, b. Jan. 10, 1876. 2. Walter,
b. Oct. 22, 1878.
3489. v. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 3, 1853; m. Oct. 22, 1877, David
Franklin Nesbitt, b. Aug. 24, 1849. ^^s. Alleghany, Pa., 1909
St. Clair Terrace. Is a mechanical engineer. Ch. : i. Freder-
ick Sydney, b. Feb. 8, 1885.
3490. vi. ANNA L., b. Aug. 30, 1859; m. 1877, Stephen P. Cooney. Res.
New York City. Ch. : i. Charlotte Field.
3491. vii. LUCY F., b. Dec. 3, 1863; m. Sept. 17. 1881 Charles Elmer Hill,
b. Indiana, Aug. 30, i86r. Ch. : i. Charles E., Jr., b. June 17,
18S2. Res. 829 50th street, Chicago, 111.
3492. viii. ROBERT SIDNEY, b. Dec. 13, 1865; d. June 12, 1882.
1939. FERDINAND EMANS FIELD (William, John, John. Thomas,
Henry, John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Leamington,
England, June 16, 1810; m. in 1859, . He was a merchant. He d. in
1885. Res. Birmingham, England.
3493. i. MARY, b. October i860.
3494. ii. ELIZABETH, b. in 1862.
3495. iii. WILLIAM, b. in 1863.
3496. iv. LUCY, b. in 1866.
3497. v, OLIVER, b. in 1865; m. Minnie Camie.
1941. ALGERNON SYDNEY FIELD (William, John, John, Thomas,
Henry, John, John, John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Leamington,
England, Feb. 22, 1813; m. July 7, 1846, Sarah Martin, b. Oct. 22. 1814.
Algernon Sydney Field, son of the Rev. William Field, of Learn, near War-
wick, and a descendant of the Protector Oliver Cromwell, was born on Feb. 22, 1813,
more than two years before the battle of Waterloo, and is now at the age of nearly
eighty-seven years, a vigorous and active man in mind and body. He has lived a
stirring and active life, has witnessed many great changes in the course of it, and
now enjoys a calm and peaceful old age, surrounded by many relations and friends,
and possessing the confidence and respect of the whole of his native county of
Warwick.
592 FIELD GENEALOGY.
Born at a time when railways were unknown, when telegraphs were unheard
of, and telephones and Atlantic cables were things of the distant future,
nothing is more interesting than to hear him recount some of his early exper-
iences, ot traveling as an outside passenger on a winter's night on a stage coach
before "railway rugs" had been thought of; of journeying to London by post
chaise by night, transacting a long day's work in London, and posting down to
Warwickshire all the next night ; of seeing the streets of Warwick illuminated for
the first time with that then wonderful new light, "gas;" and many similar stories
of the good old days. He was articled at an early age to his brother, Edwin Wil-
kins Field, a solicitor of London, and soon to become known as one of the ablest of
London lawyers, and largely instrumental in getting the Law Courts — the Royal
Palace of Justice — established in the Strand against the then existing Temple Bar.
Old London Bridge was still standing when Sydney Field was an articled pupil,
and many a time he undertook the hazardous feat of "shooting the bridge" in a
wherry when the tide was at full flood. The water of the Thames was then so pure
that he and his young companions used regularly to bathe in it in the early summer
mornings. He well remembers attending a lecture at Leamington by a somewhat
celebrated scientist, Dr. Lardner (a contributor to the first edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Brittanica), when the lecture proved "conclusively" that it was impossible
that a steamship should ever be able to steam across the Atlantic! It may be men-
tioned that the engines of the "Great Western," the first steamship to cross the
Atlantic, were built by the firm of Messrs. Maudesley Field & Co., ot which Mr.
Sydney Field's cousin, Joshua Field, was a member.
On the completion of his studies in London, Sydney Field, in the year 1S34,
commenced practice as a solicitor in the then small but fashionable and quickly
growing town of Leamington, near his native town of Warwick. His abilities, his
energy, and his sterling character quickly secured him a large and successful prac-
tice; in 1841 he was appointed clerk to the justices of the Kenilworth Division of
Warwickshire, an important post that he held with much credit till the year 1877,
when he was succeeded by his son. In 1846 he married Sarah Martin, of Edgbas-
ton, Birmingham, a descendant of the old Royalist family of the Rouses of Rous
Lench in Worcestershire, by .whom he had three sons and two daughters, and in
1852 he removed to the charming new house he had built at Blackdown Hill, near
Leamington, where he and his wife still reside.
For some years past Mr. Sydney Field has taken no active part in politics, but
in his earlier life he was an enthusiastic Whig, and acted as political agent for the
Earl of Camperdown (then Lord Duncan), and twice for Sir Robert Hamilton Bart;
in their candidatures as member of Parliament for Warwickshire.
Mr. Field is most widely known as the able and most efficient clerk of the peace
of Warwickshire, the highest position to which a country solicitor can hope to
attain. To this post he was appointed in the year 1874, by the Lord Lieutenant of
the county. Lord Leigh ; and to the important duties of the office have since been
added, by the county government act of 1888, the duties of clerk to the county
council. That the subject of this memoir has performed all the arduous work that
these offices entail with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the county
authorities was amply demonstrated by the enthusiasm shown at a large and repre-
sentative gathering of county magistrates and members of the county council in the
county hall at Warwick, July 13, 1S96, when they took the occasion of the celebra-
tion of Mr. and Mrs. Field's golden wedding to present them with a magnificent set
of silver-gilt bowls and spoons, accompanied with an illuminated address setting
forth their appreciation of his practical wisdom, ripe experience, full legal knowl-
edge, sound judgment, and unvarying industry. Lord Leigh (the Lord Lieu-
■PTJBL,1C
ALGERNON SYDNEY FIELD.
See page 592.
BLACKDOWN HILL.
Near Leamington, Warwickshire, England, the residence of Algernon Sydnej- Field.
LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES OF BLACKDOWN HILL.
Near Leamington, Warwickshire, England, the residence of Algernon Sydney Field.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 593
tenant of the county), Mr. Dickins (the deputy chairman of Quarter Sessions and
of the county council, in the unavoidable absence of the chairman), and the Marquis
of Hertford, spoke in highly complimentary terms of Mr. Field's work. The cere-
mony was one not easily forgotten by those present, and was not only an evidence
of friendly feeling but a recognition of the public services which Mr. Field has
rendered to Warwickshire in the course of his long and useful life.
On March 14, 1885, Mr. Field suffered a heavy and irreparable loss in the death,
at Santa Barbara, Southern California, of his eldest son, William, a young man of
singular charms both of mind and person who had a happy facility of endearing
himself with all those with whom he came in contact. His two remaining sons,
Edward and Henry, he took into partnership in 1876 and 1877. in his practice a^
solicitor at Leamington, where Mr. Field is still occasionally to be seen, being now
by several years the senior practicing solicitor of England.
Res. Leamington, England.
3498. i, MARGARET, b. April i, 1847; m. April, 1S70, James Samuel
Beale.
3499. ii. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 23. 1848; m. Sept. 22, 1S77, Constance Johnson ;
d. March 14, 1885.
3500. iii. EDWARD, b. May 21, 1850; m. Beatrice Maude Ogilvie Riach.
3501. iv. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 2, 1852; m. Nov. 16, 1886, Edwin
Clifford Beale.
3502. V. HENRY, b. Dec. i, 1853; m. Dec. 28, 1882, Margaret Alicia Went-
worth Bickmore.
1942. ALFRED FIELD (William, John, John. Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. Leamington, England, July 21, 1814;
m. July 2, 1842, Charlotte Errington, b. July 26, 1818; d. May 12, 1880; m., 2tl,
October, 1882, Margaret Burt; d. July i, 1893.
Alfred Field, born at Learo, Leamington; was the son of the Rev. William
Field, of Learn, Leamington, England, who was the grandson of John Field, of
Newgate, who married Ann Cromwell, great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Crom-
well, the protector. He was a merchant in Birmingham, England, and New York.
He lived for sixteen years of his life in New York City, where he married an Eng-
lish lady, who had emigrated to America. He was always very much interested in
the Abolitionist cause, and in the days of the John Brown riot, though taking no
active part, he concealed weapons in his warehouse for those who were interested
and taking an active part. Amongst his most intimate friends were Frederick Law
Olmstead, the well-known landscape gardener, and William CuUen Bryant, the poet
— the families continuing intimate friendship with both these families at the present
time. He went to England to live in 1853, though he continued some time after
that to make frequent visits to to the United States, always retaining a very active
interest in the affairs of this country. He was for some years chairman of tbe
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and in this capacity, when visiting the United
States in the year 1867, he acted as a deputation from the Birmingham Chamber of
Commerce to various American cities, and was received, together with his family,
by President Andrew Johnson. He had much to do with the supply of wire for the
first Atlantic cable, which he arranged in conjunction with his friend, Cyrus W.
Field. He was always very much interested in English politics, though not taking
a very prominent part, — he was justice of the peace for the Borough of Warwick.
He lived at the old family home, Leam, Leamington, where he received frequent
visits from his American friends when they were in England. He was twice mar-
594 FIELD GENEALOGY.
ried; first, in 1842, to Miss Errington, then living in New York, and second, in 1883,
to Miss Burt, of London.
He d. May 25, 1884. Res. New York. N. Y., and Leamington, England.
3503. i. ROSA, b. New York, N. Y., April 5, 1847; m. in Warwick, Eng-
land, Feb. 18, 1882, Dr. Henry Rayner, b. Nov. 7, 1841. Res.
Upper Terrace House, Hampstead, London, England. Ch. : i.
Rosa Mary Rayner, b. Dec. 12, 1882. 2. Arthur Errington Ray-
ner, b. Nov. 5, 1883. 3. Edwin Cromwell Rayner, b. Feb. i, 1886.
3504. ii. FANNY CHARLOTTE, b. August, 1856; d. September, 1857.
3505. iii. HENRY CROMWELL, b. Jan. 17, 1853; m. Ruth Ceilings.
1946. HORACE FIELD (William, John, John, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William, Thomas), b. March 21, 1823, Leamington, Eng-
land; m. October, i860, Christina White, of Glasgow. Hed. in 1879. Res. London,
England,
3506. i. HORACE, b. ; m. in 18S7, Mary Campbell.
3507. ii. ANNA MARY, b. .
1948. JOHN FIELD (John, Benjamin, Isaac, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. May 19, 1771, England; m. M. Clark. He d.
Sept. g, 1841. Res. in England.
CAROLINE, b. in 1800; m. S. Milne.
MARY ANN, b. in 1802.
MARIA, b. in 1804.
FREDERICK, b. ; d.
SARAH, b. in 1808.
WILLIAM, b. in 1810.
MARTHA CLARK, b. in 1812; m. Handy. She d. Aug. 23,
1855.
1949. ISAAC FIELD (John, Benjamin, Isaac, Thomas, Henry, John, John,
John, Richard, William, William), b. May 15, 1777, England; m. April 3, 1817, B.
Gray. Res. in England.
3515. i. JOHN CHILD, b. in 1818; d. in 1S31.
3516. ii. ELIZABETH, b. in 1820: d. in 1820.
1950. DR. JAMES FIELD (John, Benjamin, Isaac, Thomas, Henry, John,
John, John, Richard, William, William), b. in England, July 5, 1783; ra. M. Sea-
ward. Res. England.
3517. i. JAMES SEAWARD, b. April 8, 1813; m. Kate Ford.
1951. JOSHUA FIELD, F. R. S. (John, Benjamin, Isaac, Thomas, Henry,
John. John, John, Richard, William, William), b. England, Nov. 2, 1786; m.
October, 1827, M. Evans. Res. England.
3518. i. JOSHUA, b. Dec. 29, 1828; m. E. L Evans.
1959. DANFORTH CLARK FIELD (Edward, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer.
Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Edward and
Abigail (Piatt), b. in Killingworth, Conn., Sept. 23, 1805, where he resided and d.
Nov. 29, 1890. He m. May 12, 1830, Lucretia, dau. of Michael Griswold, b. March
10, 1808; d. Jan. 18, 1877. Res. Killingworth and Branford, Conn.
3519. i. CYNTHIA JULIETTE, b. April 6, 1831; m. James S. Ludding-
ton, of New Haven, Conn.
3520. ii. JOHN RANDOLPH, b. Nov. 29, 1832.
3521. iii. MICHAEL GRISWOLD, b. June 29, 1834; m. Augusta E. Rossiter.
3508.
3509.
11.
3510.
lU.
35".
IV.
3512.
V.
3513.
VI.
3514-
vu.
FIELD GENEALOGY. 695
3522.
IV.
3523-
V.
3524-
VI.
3525-
vii.
3526.
viii.
3527.
IX.
3528.
X.
3529-
IX.
3530.
xu.
GEORGE CARROLL, b. March 6, 1836; m. Sarah J. Dowd.
CHANCELLOR WILBUR, b. Aug. 23. 1838.
EDMUND IRVING, b. Jan. 9, 1840; m. Louisa D. Dudley. He
d. Sept. i3, 1862.
DAVID DEFOREST, b. Feb. 24. 1841 ; d. Oct. 18, 1869. '
STILLMAN K. WIGHTMAN. b. Nov. 17, 1842.
JAMES RANDALL CLARK, b. July 12, 1844.
RALPH ExMERSON, b. June 9, 1846; d. Aug. 3, 1846.
SENORITTA VIOLETTA, b. Dec. 23. 1847; d. June 29. 1849.
HARRIET MARIA, b. March 23, 1849; m- May 29, 1873, Elmon
W. Hurst. Res. Rock Island, 111.
3531. xiii. MARY LOUISA, b. April 29. 1854.
i960. EDMUND MARVIN FIELD (Edward. Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer,
Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Edward and
Abigail (Piatt), b, in Killingworlh, Conn., May 15, 1808; d. Dec. 8, 1865. Hem.
Aug. 16, 1835, Mary R., dau. of Woodward and Mary (Conklin) Dudley, of Killing-
worth; d. March 5. 1839; m., 2d, July 3, 1843, Ann Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and
Elvira (Holmes) Dudley, of Killingworth, b. Oct. 20. 1823; d. Feb. 22, 1886. Res.
Killingworth, Conn. *
3532. i. EMMA CAROLINE, b. Oct. 6, 1836; m. Alden L. Fowler; m.,
2d, Charles Burke ; d. September .
3533. ii. MARY ELIZABETH, b. June 2. 1845; m. April 18, 1875, Elbert
B. Potter, of North Guilford, Conn. She d. July 27, 1892. He
was b. March i, 1849. Ch. : i. Elbert E.. b. Jan. 16, 1880. 2.
Anna E., b. Sept. 12, 1883.
3534. iii. HELEN EUGENIE, b. April 4, 1847; m. June 4, 1865, George
Rose, of Durham, Conn. He was b. April 19, 1845. Is a mer-
chant. Res. Douglas, Kans. Ch. : i. George Herbert Rose,
b. May 15, 1867; d. July, 1892. 2. Harriet Cordelia Rose, b.
May 14, 1873; d. Dec. 2, 18S0. 3. David Eugene Rose, b. Nov.
2. 18S1 ; still living.
3535. iv. ELVIRA LUCINDA, b. Oct. 22, 1848; m. Charles J. Rose, of
North Branford, Conn; d. Jan. i, 1870. She resides North Bran-
ford, Conn.
EDWARD MINNOTT, b. Jan. 10, 1851.
GEORGE DUDLEY, b. Feb. 28, 1853.
FLORENCE AUGUSTA, b. Feb. 8, 1855; m. Oct. 19, 1879, John
Andrews. Res. Branford, Conn.
3539. viii. HARRIET ELIZA, b. Jan. 30, 1857; m. June 6, 1880, Stanley
Hall.
3540. ix. FREDERICK HOLMES, b. June 20, 1859; m. Mary H. Dibble.
1971. FREDERICK FIELD (James, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of James and Sarah (Stev-
ens), b. in Madison, Conn., in 1807, where he resided until his death, in 1891. He
m. Feb. 10, 1834, Lucy A., dau. of William and Mabel (Murray) Bishop, of Madison,
b. 1811; d. 1887.
3541. i. MARY ELIZA, b. Nov. 20, 1837; m. Oct. 9, 1859, Justin Willard.
3542. ii. JANE ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 3, 1841; m. Levi W. Brown.
3543. iii. NEWTON FREDERICK, b. Nov. 9, 1843; m. Adelaide Huntley.
Res. Madison, Conn.
3544. iv. SARAH ANN, b. June 30, 1849; m. 1865, Samuel L. Conklin. He
353b.
v.
3537.
VI.
3538.
Vll.
f;96 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3548.
11.
3549-
111.
3550.
iv.
3551.
V.
3552.
VI.
3553.
Vll.
3554.
Vlll.
was a farmer; was b. Dec. 11, 1833; d. Nov. 9, 1892. She m.
1899, Lovell Johnson. Res. Madison, Conn. Ch. : i. Richard
Darwell Conklin, b. July 19, 186S. 2. Mary Eveline Conklin, b.
April II, 1871. Mrs. Hammick. Res. Berlin, Conn. 3. Nellie
Elizabeth Conklin, b. Oct. 4, 1876. Mrs. Page, Guilford, Conn.
3545. v. LUCY EMELINE, b. April 19. 1849; m- Dec. 2, 1871, Walter
Paige. She d. July, 1878.
3546. vi. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, b. Sept. 10, 1852; m. Etta F. Landon.
1972. SAMUEL FIELD (James, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of James and Sarah (Stevens),
b. in Madison, Conn., in 1814, where he resided. He was a stone mason and d.
Dec, 22, 1891. He m. May 10, 1832, Susan Maria, dau. of Samuel and Polly (Dee)
Norton, of Madison, b. Jan. 27, 1815. She d. Aug. 29, 1897.
3547. i. ELLEN SARAH, b. Oct. 12, 1832; m. June 12, 1851, David B.
Allen, of Northampton, Mass. Res. Madison, Conn.
SAMUEL JAMES, b. July 21, 1834; m. Julia A. Bates.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 26, 1836; d. March 20, 1873.
OSMER FRANCIS, b. Nov. '28, 1838. He enlisted in Company
, regiment, Connecticut volunteers, and d. from disease con-
tracted in the army at New Orleans, Oct. i, 1863.
JONATHAN NELSON, b. March 11, 1841 ; d. March 11, 1842.
EVELINE MARIA, b. March 13, 1842; d. Nov. 3. 1847.
CATHARINE ISABEL, b. Aug. 21, 1844; d. Sept. 10, 1852.
JONATHAN NELSON, b. Nov. 23, 1847; m. Emily Maria
Hustis.
3555. ix. CARLTON SHERLOCK, b, March 26, 1850; m. March 14, 1878,
Julia Updyke Graves, b. Feb. i, 1849. Res. s. p., Guilford,
Conn.
3556. X. CATHERINE ISABEL, b. Jan. 30, 1853; m. George B. Miller.
Res. 554 Elm St., New Haven, Conn.
3557. xi. EMILY MEHITABLE, b. July 25, 1S55; d. Oct. 8, 1855.
1973. KIRTLAND FIELD (James, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of James and Sarah (Stev-
ens), b. in Madison, Conn., in 1816, where he resided. He m. Nov. 2, 1841, Frances
E., dau. of Dr. Griiifiths; d. Feb. 4, 1847.
3558. i. KIRTLAND, b. June 15. 1844.
3559. ii. EDMUND FRANKLIN, b. June i. 1845-
3560. iii. FRANCIS ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 18, 1846.
X978. JULIUS BUELL FIELD (Julius, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechar-
iah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Julius and Julia
(Buell), b. in Madison, Conn., Jan. 30, 1824. He removed to Pittsfield, 111., where
he resided. He m. June 2, 1850, Mary Ann Ives, of Wallingford, Conn.
3561. i. ALPHONZO L., b. .
3562. ii. ALBERT BRADLEY, b. .
3563. iii. HERBERT, b. .
3564. iv. CHARLES, b. .
1980. MARTIN L. FIELD (Martin, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah.
.Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Martin and Sarah
(Buell), b. in Madison, Conn., August, 1810; d. July 13, 1858. He m. Nov. 24, 1830,
Betsey, dau. of Jeremiah and Buell, of Madison. She m., 2d, July 31, i865»
FIELD GENEALOGY. 597
3565.
1.
3566.
ii.
3567-
iii.
3568.
iv.
356Q.
V.
Joseph B. Wilcox, of Madison. She d. May 17, 1879. Res. Madison and Killing-
worth, Conn.
DANIEL BUELL, b. Feb. 9. 1835.
RACHEL HELEN, b. 1836; m. June 9. 1855, Charles H. Sey-
mour, of Winsted, Conn; d. 1867.
THANKFUL ELIZABETH, b. July 16. 1848; m. 1866,
Stevens.
l^RANCES MATILDA, b. August. 1852; m. 1869, Zeno Evarts.
FRANKLIN PIERCE, b. May 8, 1854; d. Dec. 18, 1859.
1983. ANDREW M. FIELD (Martin, Samuel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Martin and Sarah
(Buell), b. in Madison, Conn., in 1819; d. November, 1854. He m. Elizabeth San-
ford, of Fairhaven, Conn. Res. Madison, Conn.
1985, DAVID DUDLEY FIELD (John, Daniel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechar-
iah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. Litchfield, Conn., 1791;
m. Feb. 25, 1819, Martha Henry, b. 1796; d. Feb. 2, 1861. He d. July 3, 1865.
Res. New Haven, N. Y.
3570. i. HENRY, b. Jan. ir, 1820; d. Aug. i, 1826.
3571
3572
3573
3574
3575
iq86
ii. NORVIA, b. Nov. 11, 1821; d. Oct. 14, 1822.
lii. PLATT, b. Sept. 8. 1823: d. Aug. 9, 1851.
iv. JOSIAH v., b. July 8, 1825; d. July 30, 1825.
V. CHARLES S., b. Feb. 21, 1828; m. Hester Ann Goodrich.
vi. OSCAR HENRY, b. April 17, 1831: m. Mary Smith.
DEACON ISAAC NEWTON FIELD (Daniel, Daniel, Samuel, Eben-
ezer. Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), b. New York
State, Oct. 21, 1807; m. in Clyde, January, 1831, Martha Fay Wood, b. Nov. 21,
1806; d. July, 1868; m., 2d, Orpha L. Collins, b. March, 1835; d. July 7, 1894.
Isaac Newton Field, b. Oct. 21, 1807, in New York State; ra. Jan. 20, 1831, at
Clyde, N. Y., Martha Fay Wood. In 1836 he moved to Ypsilanti, Mich., where
he organized the Baptist church and was made deacon for many years. Four
children were born. In 1855 he moved to Davenport, Iowa, His wife d. July 16,
1868. In 1872 he m. Orpha Louise Collins and had one child, About 1879 he moved
to Des Moines, Iowa, and d. there.
He d. Des Moines, Iowa, March 27, 1888. Res. Clyde, N. Y.
3576. i. ELIZABETH ALDRICH, b. Aug. 10, 1833; m. Sept. 5, 1853,
Henry Tilden, b. Sept. 24, 1832. Ch. : i. Newton Henry m.
Mary E.Taylor. Ch. : (a) Annie Bell; d. (b) Ida May. (c)
Edna Josephine: d. (d) Henry Irving, (e) Elizabeth Ethel,
(f) Reed Emory. (g) Lloyd John. 2. Winfield Scott, m. Rosa
Doud. Ch. : (a) Rosa Elizabeth, (b) Earl Winfield. (c) Paul
3. Irving Ellsworth, unm. 4. Elbert Grant. , m. Adah . Ch. :
(a) Fern Beatrice, (b) Bruce. Res. 219 8th Av., s. e. Minneap-
olis, Minn. 5. Josephine Elizabeth; unm.
3577. li. MARY LOUISA, b. May 26, 1835; m. Sept. 5, 1853, Dr. Henry
Franklin Dodge. Res. Golden, Col. He was b. Rochester,
N. Y., Sept. 27, 1827; d. Davenport, Iowa, May 29, 1875; was a
dentist. Ch. : i. Henry Newton Dodge, b. July 7, 1854; d.
July 15, 1854, Manchester, Mich. 2. Fannie Fay Dodge, b.
Sept. 25, 1856; d. July 28, 1857, Davenport, Iowa. 3. Charles
Field Dodge, b. Aug. 8, 1864; d. Aug. 26, 1866, Davenport, Iowa.
598 FIELD GENEALOGY.
4. Minnie Belle Dodge, b. June 4, 1869, Davenport, Iowa; m.
Aug. 4, 1897, at Golden, Col., Rev. Frederic Lewis Krueger.
P. O., New Windsor, Col.
3578. iii. FRANCES MARIA, b. Sept. 19. 1841; m. Oct. 25. 1859, ^^oo-
Matt Parrott. Res. Waterloo, Iowa. He was b. May 11, 1837.
Was publisher with his sons, W. F. and L. G., of the Waterloo
Daily Reporter and Iowa Stale Reporter. Ch. : i. William
Field Parrott, b. July i, i860. 2. Louis Gilbert Parrott, b. Dec.
2. 1863. 3. James Sears Parrott, b. June 27, 1875. 4. Kate, b.
Aug. 7, 1878; d. Aug. 19, 1878.
(Special to the Chicago Times-Herald.)
Waterloo, Iowa, April 22, 1900. — ^Matt Parrott, of Waterloo,
former state senator and lieutenant-governor, president of the
National Editorial Association and one of the foremost men of
Iowa for more than twenty 3'ears, died of Bright's disease last
night at Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone in the hope of
regaining his health.
The end was not unexpected. Mr. Parott had been failing for
several months. Early in the winter, upon the advice of his
physician, he tried the water cures at Colfax and later at Eureka
Springs, Ark. Four weeks ago he came home from Eureka
Springs and was then taken to the sanitarium at Battle Creek,
but the ravages of the disease could not be checked.
Mr. Parrott was a native of New York, having been born in
Schoharie county, May 11, 1837. He learned the printer's trade
in his native town and when a young man came West, and worked
in several cities in eastern Iowa, and for some time was an
employe in the office of the Chicago Democrat, conducted then
by John Wentworth.
In 1869 he came to Waterloo and purchased an interest in the
Iowa State Reporter, a weekly Republican paper, which he
edited since that date, and which is now a part of the daily edition
published by himself and his sons, William, Louis and James.
In municipal affairs he was prominent and served three terms
as mayor of the city, being elected twice without opposition. He
was elected state binder of Iowa in 1878, and was re-elected, serv-
ing until 1 88 5. In 1885 he was elected to the State Senate from
the district composed of the counties of Blackhawk and Grundy,
and was chosen for a second term in 1889.
After his second term as State Senator had expired Mr. Parrott
became the Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, and
received the highest vote cast for any candidate on the ticket,
being elected with a plurality of 65,000 votes. During his term
as Lieutenant-Governor two sessions of the Legislature were
held, one of them being the special session, called in 1897, for
revision of the laws of the state. Mr. Parrott was a popular
presiding officer of the Senate, always fair and courteous in his
treatment of the members and conducting the business in an
eminently satisfactory manner. His only reverse in politics was
when he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for
Governor in 1897. He was the leading candidate up to the hour
FIELD GENEALOGY. 599
of the convention, but was defeated by Governor Shaw for the
nomination.
Mr. Parrott had been for several years a member of the State
and National Editorial Associations, and at the time of his death
was president of the latter, having been unanimously elected at
the meeting held at New Orleans, last February. He planned
last summer to spend a portion of the present year in Europe, and
had made all arrangements for the trip abroad when he was
taken sick. Early in March he was appointed by Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson as the representative of the United States
government to investigate the agricultural conditions of France.
Many messages of condolence have been received, including
telegrams from Senator Allison and Speaker Henderson.
Frances M. Field, youngest daughter of Isaac Newton and
Martha Fay Field, born in Ypsilanti, Mich., Sept. 19, 1841; was
educated at State Normal School in that place; married Matt
Parrott, in the city of Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 25, 1859; removed
to Anamosa, Iowa, where Mr. Parrott was publishing a news-
paper, the Anamosa Eureka ; lived there three years, when she
moved to Morris, 111., remaining but a few months, and then
going again to Davenport, Iowa, where she lived six years. In
February, 1869, removing to Waterloo, where she now resides.
She is a communicant of Christ Episcopal church. Three sons
and one daughter were born to Mr. and Mrs. Parrott. The
davighter died in infancy. The sons, William Field, Louis Gil-
bert and James Sears, were associated with their father in
the firm of Matt Parrott & Sons, publishers Daily Iowa State
Reporter and blank book manufacturers and printers.
3579. iv. NEWTON MILES, b. Dec. 11, 1873; unm. Res. Lake City, Iowa.
1998. GEORGE FIELD (John, Joareb, Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah, Zech-
ariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of John and Ruth (Munger), b.
in Madison, Conn., in 1800; d. Oct. 9, 1863. He m. Aug. 9, 1830, Mary, dau. of
Amasa Leete, of Madison. Res. Madison, Conn.
3580. i. OSWELL WARREN, b. Dec. 4, 1830; d. in hospital at Staten
Island, N. Y., May, 1849.
3581. ii. RODOLPHUS LEETE, b. July 4, 1832; m. Mary S. Way.
358a. iii. ELIZA ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 6, 1834; m. David W. Atwater, of New
Haven, Conn.
3583. iv. GEORGE FLORENTINE, b. April 14, 1837; drowned Dec. 19,
1865.
3584. V. MARTHA JANE, b. Dec. 29, 1S38; m, Jan. 5, 1872, George W.
Caldwell, of Cape Ann, Mass.
3585. vi. MARY FRANCES, b. Oct. 25, 1841; m. July 19, 1862, Frederick
W. Snow; m., 2d, 1867, Horatio H. Lane.
3586. vii. GEORGE, b. Oct. 27, 1843; drowned Dec. 20, 1865.
2004. PHILANDER MUNGER FIELD (John, Joareb, Samuel, Ebenezer,
Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of John and
Ruth (Munger), b. in Madison, Conn., Jan. 6, 1818; d. April i, 1890. He m. Jan.
9, 1841, Eunice Louise, dau. of Edmund Leete, of Madison, b. Dec. 8, 1819; d.
April 26, 1894. He was a farmer. Res. Madison, Conn.
600 FIELD GENEALOGY.
3588.
11.
3589.
111.
3590.
iv.
3591-
V.
3587. i. FANNY MARILLA, b. Oct. 14. 1841; m. Dec. 6, i860, Edgar
Moody; d. Sept. 2, 1S61.
MARY JANE. b. March 31. 1844; d. May 19, 1894.
JOHN PHILANDER, b. May 27. 1849: m. Annie Louisa Miller
and Hattie Amelia Cook.
WILLIE MUNGER, b. April 26, 1854: m. Eunice A. Cook.
A DAUGHTER, b. July 23, 1858; d. young.
2008. JOSEPH DEMETRIUS FIELD (Joareb, Joareb, Samuel. Ebenezer.
Zechariah, Zechariah John, John, Richard, William, William), b. East Guilford,
Conn., Sept. 10, 1S08; m, July 31, 1834, Mrs. Eliza Strieker, dau. of Samuel and
Lois (Smith). Was a gunsmith. \yas in the Mexican war. He d. April 13, 1850.
Res. Bethel and Bronson. Mich.
359iX- i- SALLY ANN. b. May 9, 1835; m. July 3, 1856, at Bronson, Mich.,
Cyrus Jerome Keyes, son of Samuel and Mary Keyes. Ch. : i.
Ella Lunett, b. May 11, 1857; m. Nov. 3, 1875, Frederic D.
Brown. 2. Gertrude Inez, b. Aug. 10, 1859; m. Jan. 26, 1881,
Charles J. Noyes.
3591 >^. ii. PHEBE LOUISA, b. March 8, 1838 (changed name to Ida Louisa);
m. March 8. 1856, Zelotes H. Mather (Company M, 5th Michigan
cavalry; wounded at battle of Gettysburg; d. at Frederick. Md.,
Aug. 9, 1862). Ch. : I. Andrew J. Martin, b. ; removed Aug.
' 3, 1868; to Huntsville, Ala., in 1870. 2. Minnie Maud, b. Nov.
4, 1858; m. Oct. 17, 1876, Lewis Hall. Reside at Tuscumbia,
Ala.
3591%'. iii. WILLIAM, b. May 7. 1841; d. Feb. 14, 1841.
3592. iv. HENRY DEMETRIUS, b. May 24. 1842; m. Mary Ann Staco.
3592X. V. DARWIN WILLSON. b. March 27. 1846; m. Medora Jane
Barton.
3592^. vi. EUNICE AUGUSTA, b. Jan. 14, 1850; m. June 25, 1876, Augustus
Pixley, b. Oct. 18, 18 — . Res. Bronson, Mich. Ch. : i. Fanny
Eliza, b. Jan. 6, 18 — .
2015. LAURENCE ALEXANDER FIELD (Jedediah. Luke, Samuel. Ebene-
zer, Zechariah, Zechariah, John, John, Richard. William, William), b. Madison,
Conn., in 1821. He was drowned May 6, 1874. Was a builder. He m. Dec. 24,
1845, Delia F., dau. of Galen Dowd, of Madison, b. March 11, 1826; d. May 7,
1 88 1. Res. Madison, Conn.
3593. i. BENJAMIN DOWD. b. Jan. 27. 1847; m. Mary A. Finn and Lilla
E. Page.
3594. ii. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, b. July 12, 1854. Res. Bridgeport, Conn.
2016. THOMAS S. FIELD (Jedediah, Luke. Samuel, Ebenezer, Zechariah,
Zechariah, John, John, Richard, William, William), son of Jedediah and Rebecca
(Bradley), b. in Madison. Conn., April 5, 1824. He m. Nov. 16, 1847, Juliette, dau.
of^Houston Wilcox, of Madison. Res. Madison. Conn.
3595. i. FREDERICK W., b. Feb. 5, 1849; m. Imogene D. Miner.
3596- ii- FRANK SUMNER, b. Jan. 27. 1855.
3597. iii. GEORGE CLEVELAND, b. Feb. ro. 1858; m. Blanche Vander-
berg.
2021, ELLIOTT BRADLEY FIELD (Jedediah, Luke, Samuel, Ebenezer.
Zechariah. Zechariah, John. John. Richard. William, William), son of Jedediah and
Rebecca (Bradley), b. in Madison, Conn., June 18, 1835. He d. July 9, 1888. He
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